Ahmad-Norma PERMATA

Ahmad-Norma PERMATA is a political scientist interested in the intersections between religious piety and the pragmatism of political competitions. He is working mostly with new-institutional and cognitive theories, in understanding the way actors adjust their religious commitments and self interest calculations to proceed morally sound AND self interestedly advantageous political behaviours. He published his studies on how religiously conservative groups became politically pragmatic after internalising the incentive systems of democratic institutions and rules of the game (2008, 2010,2016). He is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Boston University working on how religion has become a political commodity being played by both religious AND secular actors

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