Analysis of the Influence of Direct Elections on Public Pragmatism

Abstract

Direct election in the local elections is actually a form of democracy that is currently being implemented in Indonesia. The realization of democracy is basically an effort to empower the role and participation of society related manifestation of their political and social rights which are constitutionally guaranteed. The medium of democracy and democratization through political participation mechanisms is expected to be able to provide multiple effects which are not only related to the increasing size of the public maturation level to the rights and obligations of politicalconstitution, but also the mechanism and system of direct elections (both presidential and local elections). Bargaining position of the society to determine a better future should be a necessity. Ironically, to give a reaction to the promises of the head candidates of these areas, the community also expects the benefits which are realized in the form of short-term participation which await a clear material rewards. As long as the candidates give the society money, they will participate in the campaign and after which the public will wait to see if another candidate dares to spend money as well (Trinanda, 2011). The attitude of pragmatism has become irony in the spirit of democracy in achieving the real purpose. Pragmatism ultimately becomes destructive and leads to its adherents to be inconsistent. The method used in this research is quantitative research method to find the relationship between the variables studied both the independent variable and the dependent variable. The purpose of this study is to describe, describe, and interpret the condition of the events that are happening in the context of the existing problems in the field. This research found the indicators derived variables of several theories about the concept of direct election and society Pragmatism. This study also used the pattern of deductive reasoning, where the observations were made and followed by hypothesis, data collection and hypothesis testing and final conclusions. To analyze the obtained data, the researcher used pearson correlation and regression analysis. The obtained data of the study showed that direct election is *Public Administration Department of Social Science, Faculty of State University of Manado, Indonesia important in social life. However, the issue of pragmatism is also considered as a serious problem during the direct election. Research results show that the relationship between the Direct Election and Pragmatism communities in areas of research conducted show the correlation value of 0.452 which means that the relationship is moderate. However, both of these variables showed significant value and linear. This confirms that any increase in variable elections (Local Elections Commission) will increase the pragmatic attitude of the people in the four areas studied. However, this study revealed that there was only 20.5% of implementation of local election affected public pragmatism in all four study sites.