Islamic Politics and Local Electoral Support in an Urban Setting

The Case of the Prosperous Justice Party

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210918.003How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Prosperous Justice Party, Islamic party, Urban area, Electoral support

Abstract

In this article, the author seeks to explain the relationship between the types of urban areas in Java and the patterns of electoral support for the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) in these areas in the local parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2019. The data in this article were obtained through three techniques, namely online interviews, use of secondary data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics, and literature studies. The results of this study show that based on the composition of their socio-political organizations, urban areas in Java can be arranged into three types, namely (1) dominated by one nationalist or traditionalist Islamic social-political organization, (2) dominated by two social-political organizations based on nationalism and traditionalist Islam or vice versa, (3) not dominated by one or more socio-political organizations, or in other words, tend to be fragmented. In areas dominated by one or two socio-political organizations, either nationalist or traditionalist Islam or a combination of the two, support for PKS tends to be low or moderate. Meanwhile, in regions with fragmented socio-political organizations, PKS tends to gain moderate or high electoral support.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Andi Rahman Alamsyah
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/18
TI  - Islamic Politics and Local Electoral Support in an Urban Setting
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education & Social Sciences (ICESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 12
EP  - 16
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210918.003
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210918.003
ID  - Alamsyah2021
ER  -