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Biography
Edward Aspinall is a Professor in and Head of the Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He researches politics in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, with interests in democratisation, ethnicity, and clientelism, among other topics. He has authored four books, Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2005), Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2009), Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2019, co-authored with Ward Berenschot), and Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Networks in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2022, co-authored with Meredith L. Weiss, Allen Hicken and Paul D. Hutchcroft), and co-edited twelve others. He has also published about ninety journal articles and book chapters, most on aspects of Indonesian politics, and is the co-series editor of the Asian Studies Association of Australia’s Southeast Asia Publications book series with National University of Singapore Press, and of the Southeast Asian Politics and Society Elements series published by Cambridge University Press.
Career Highlights Lecturer in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Sydney, 2003-2005; Lecturer in Indonesian studies, University of New South Wales, 1997-2001; Co-Winner of of the Asian Studies Association of Australia's Mid-career Researcher Prize for Excellence in Asian Studies (2010) for Islam and Nation; Member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; Awarded a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (2012). Elected President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia in 2018.
Research interests
Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics; democratisation; social movements, nationalism and ethnic conflict; patronage and clientelism.
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- Comparative Government and Politics
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
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Network (past 5 years)
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Political Representation in Indonesia
Aspinall, E., Fossati, D., Muhtadi, B. & Warburton, E.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian National University (ANU)
21/06/23 → 20/06/26
Project: Research
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Village democracy in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Aspinall, E., Baker, K., Hicken, A. & Wiltshire, C.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Indonesia Project Phase V
Resosudarmo, B., Aspinall, E., Atmosukarto, I., Bessell, S., Bexley, A., Burke, P., Cribb, R., Dong, X., Kartaadipoetra, F., Lewis, B., McCarthy, J., Mietzner, M., Munira, L., Nisa, E., Resosudarmo, I. A. P., Tapsell, R., Warburton, E., White, S. & van der Eng, P.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
31/10/22 → 30/06/26
Project: Research
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A New Wave of Youth and Student Activism in Asia
Aspinall, E. & Weiss, M.
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
1/06/23 → 16/10/23
Project: Research
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Supporting the rules-based order in Southeast Asia (SEARBO)
Hutchcroft, P., Aspinall, E., Cheesman, N., Dressel, B., Erskine, T., Farrelly, N., Fealy, G., Kenny, P., Mietzner, M., Tapsell, R., Travouillon, K. & White, S.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
8/11/18 → 15/10/21
Project: Research
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Buying Brokers: Electoral Handouts beyond Clientelism in a Weak-Party State
Hicken, A., Aspinall, E., Weiss, M. & Muhtadi, B., 2022, In: World Politics. 74, 1, p. 77-120Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Buying Brokers Electoral Handouts beyond Clientelism in a Weak-Party State
Hicken, A., Aspinall, E., Weiss, M. L. & Muhtadi, B., 2022, In: World Politics. 74, 1, p. 77-120Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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One War, Many Battles: COVID-19 in Urban Southeast Asia
Weiss, M., Hutchcroft, P., Hicken, A. & Aspinall, E., 2021, In: Contemporary Southeast Asia. 43, 1, p. 1-7Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Parties as pay-off seekers: Pre-electoral coalitions in a patronage democracy
Hendrawan, A., Aspinall, E. & Berenschot, W., 2021, In: Electoral Studies. 69Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Roundtable: Global Pandemic, Local Politics: COVID-19 in Urban Southeast Asia
Weiss, M., Hutchcroft, P., Hicken, A. & Aspinall, E., 2021, In: Contemporary Southeast Asia. 43, 1, p. 1-89Research output: Contribution to journal › Article