TY  - JOUR
T1  - Political Party’s Strongmen at Local Level: Blater Versus Lora in Political Arena
AU - , Jainuri AU - , Suryadi 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 8
SP  - 1353
EP  - 1359
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.1353.1359
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.1353.1359
KW  - Political party
KW  -local strongmen
KW  -democratic party
KW  -authority elite
KW  -implimentation
AB  - The study is to describe political party’s local elite in Malang, East Java. The researcher finds out
that there are variation, relation and interaction among elites. Blater a group of local strongmen and elite
oligarchy have done unfair practice of nepotism while lora another group of local strong men work together in
synergy with democratic elite to have access to power. In order to describe the dynamics of political party local
elites, the requirement to fulfill is research methodology that results in descriptive data in the form of words or
utterances from individuals or behavior being observed. Interview, focus group discussions and documentary
data are the data collection methods. The research’s findings are: the existence of political party strongmen
shows the capacity of individuals who have the authority to determine various contexts of power; in the context
of power, the existence of political party strongmen can limit as well as reduce the implementation of the political
party regulation in the internal dynamics of the local inner circle of political party and close relations depends
upon a symbiotic relationship and the expression of mutual interest between the strongmen blater and the
oligarchy so that patron-client relation takes place.
ER  -