Pesona (Palsu?) Kebijakan Ekonomi Populis
Keywords:
populist,, economic,, campaign,, electionAbstract
In so many political ads in the period of Indonesia elections in 2009, socio-economic topic became one of the prominent issues. because it contains the promise of welfare of the people. The advertisements was then labeled as populist economic policies. The problem, in the debate about economic policy, especially in the Latin American context, what is recognizable as a populist economic policy does not seem exactly the same as the contents of the campaign that brought the party or the political elite here. In addition, the benefit of populist economic policies were not immune from controversy. Based on these things, this paper intend to look back on what is perceived as a populist economic policies and whether it is a kind of economic policies can address the needs of development and real democracy, or even just spreading the false charm.
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