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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saravanamuttu, Johan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. The imperative of mediated communalism
  • 2. The electoral system : origin, rationale and critique
  • 3. Consociation and the electoral process, 1952–55
  • 4. The path-dependent rise and demise of the alliance, 1959–69
  • 5. The national front's rise in the elections of 1974 and 1978
  • 6. Mediating communalism through party capitalism : the elections of 1982, 1985, 1990 and 1995
  • 7. Reformasi and new politics : constituting an alternative coalition in the 1999 general election
  • 8. The opposition's breakthrough : the leap from 2004 to 2008
  • 9. Electoral impasse of dual-coalition politics in 2013
  • 10. Transitions of coalition politics circa 2016
  • 11. Conclusion : the desiderata of ethnic power sharing.