Power sharing in a divided nation mediated communalism and new politics in six decades of Malaysia's elections
This book argues that Malaysia's electoral politics have historically been premised on a hybridized model of communalism and consociationalism. Beyond this it posits a newer idea of power sharing based on the dynamic and transformative practice of mediated communalism through six decades (1952-...
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Singapore
ISEAS Yusof Ishak institute
2016
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Table of Contents:
- The imperative of mediated communalism
- The electoral system : origin, rationale and critique
- Consociation and the electoral process, 1952-55
- The path-dependent rise and demise of the Alliance, 1959-69
- The National Front's rise in the elections of 1974 and 1978
- Mediating communalism through party capitalism : The elections of 1982, 1985, 1990 and 1995
- Reformasi and new politics : Constituting an alternative coalition in the 1999 General Election
- The opposition's breakthrough : The leap from 2004 to 2008
- Electoral impasse of dual-coalition politics in 2013
- Transitions of coalition politics circa 2016
- Conclusion : The desiderata of ethnic power sharing.