| Summary: | There are some academicians who conducted research on the emergence of new parties
in the post-reform of Indonesia. Their approach generally uses a sociological approach.
There is also that use a comparative approach (comparative perspective). Those
approaches are less satisfactory to explain the establishment of political parties in postreform
of Indonesia. This thesis will present a new perspective which is more
satisfactory in view on the emergence of political parties in post-reform of Indonesia. In
this research, author analyzes the emergence of the Democratic Party in post-reform of
Indonesia by using rational choice approach. The results of this study show, the
Democratic Party was founded based on the decision of the founders when they
calculate the significant of potential supports for the new party and the main character to
be president and charges for support (voice), such as the cost of setting up the party and
campaign costs, cheaper than the use of voices when obtained voices have been
converted into seats. The decision of establishing a new party which also viewed by the
founder of the Democratic Party is cheaper and more profitable than the carrying Susilo
BambangYudhoyono, which has potential voters, backed by another party in the 2004
president election.
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