| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
As a biggest modern Musleem organization, Muhammadiyah has long experienced in
the changing political system in Indonesia from authoritarian regime to procedural
democracy. This research tries to explore the grass root Muhammadiyah's elite in direct
regent election contestation. Mix-research method was employed with combining
quantitative and qualitative analysis. All respondends of Muhammadiyah's Village
Board were selected from three regencies, Bantul, Gunungkidul and Sleman in
Yogyakarta Province as a capital of Muhammadiyah organization. This findings is
contrary with Muhammadiyah electoral behavior at national level with three internal
characteristics - a tendency to avoid partisan politics, independent rational investigation
and divided elitesl. However, in the election of local leaders (direct election),
Muhammadiyah's electoral behavior is characterized with partisan politics, collective
action and unified elites,
Keywords: Muhammadiyah, electoral behavior, partisanship, elite, partisan politics,
democracy. | en_US |
