Download or read book Power Sharing in a Divided Nation written by Johan Saravanamuttu and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 (1952–2016) of electoral politics. The strategy of mediating communalism is critically explored throughout the book, serving to test its saliency as a distinct approach to power sharing in a social formation which is ethnically, religiously and regionally divided, yet has remained remarkably and tenuously integrated throughout Malaysia’s electoral history. The book delves into this question by narrating and theorizing the complexity of communal politics leading to the emergence of new politics which have attempted to put Malaysia on the track of further democratization. It is further implied that new politics has to work in tandem with mediated communalism to transcend the most deleterious effects of an ethnically divided society.
Download or read book Communalism and Electoral Politics in Peninsular Malaysia written by Abdul Malek Mohamad Hanafiah and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy Without Consensus written by Karl Von Vorys and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II the democratic systems adopted by states emerging from colonial rule have in some cases been abandoned and in others suspended or transformed. Two questions arise: Can democracy succeed in newly independent states dominated by communal cleavages? If so, what adjustments are necessary in Western models of democracy? Karl von Vorys contributes new answers by examining the political development of Malaysia, a country which has experimented with changes in the democratic model. He surveys the conditions under which democracy was established in Malaysia, considering the compromises made with communal groups. Particular attention is paid to the reconstruction of the political system after the race riots of May 1969, which the author observed at first hand. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Class and Communalism in Malaysia written by Wu Yin Hua and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power Sharing in a Divided Nation written by Johan Saravanamuttu and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 (1952-2016) of electoral politics. The strategy of mediating communalism is critically explored throughout the book, serving to test its saliency as a distinct approach to power sharing in a social formation which is ethnically, religiously and regionally divided, yet has remained remarkably and tenuously integrated throughout Malaysia's electoral history. The book delves into this question by narrating and theorizing the complexity of communal politics leading to the emergence of new politics which have attempted to put Malaysia on the track of further democratization. It is further implied that new politics has to work in tandem with mediated communalism to transcend the most deleterious effects of an ethnically divided society.
Download or read book Politics in a Plural Society written by R. K. Vasil and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Malaysia written by Charles T. Goh and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argument for the prohibition of political parties associated with racial/ethnic groups.
Download or read book Communal Violence in Malaysia 1969 written by Felix V. Gagliano and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communalism Law and State Power written by Marzuki Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communalism has been a central feature of Malaysian politics. Communal identity and competing communal interests formed the basis of Malaysia's "constitutional contract" agreed upon by leaders of major communal groups - Malays, Chinese and Indians - on the eve of independence in 1957. Contrary to the liberal notion of social contract, the communally-based constitutional contract had been tilted toward serving competing communal interests rather than promoting individual liberties. Continuing articulation of competing communal interests in post-independent Malaya, coupled with a communist threat, prompted the government to enact and enforce illiberal laws, aiming at maintaining national security and racial harmony in a communally-divided society. The courts too, recognizing the importance of state policies on ethnic relations, economic development and national security, legitimated illiberal statist legal meanings, which prioritized state power over individual freedoms. However, by the 1990s, the easing of ethnic tension and the end of the communist threat led to the questioning of the use of illiberal laws against political opponents and government critics. The trend in subjecting them to criminal and civil proceedings also raised concerns that the courts had been turned into one-sided political arenas to disgrace and humiliate political opponents and make oppositional political activities illegitimate. The criminal trials of former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim vividly illustrated the conduct of political trials in Malaysia. However, the politics of Reformasi, which began soon after Anwar's ouster from the government in September 1998, had promoted a non-communal vision of Malaysian politics and proliferated liberal legal meanings based on the liberal conception of rule of law, contesting the illiberal statist legal meanings. The government responded to this development by making "superficial" legal changes in politically less sensitive areas like women's rights and normal crime, while continued to maintain an illiberal legal structure in the politically highly sensitive areas like national security and ethnic relations. Progress toward greater government responsiveness in these areas however had been slow and halting. By the mid 2000s, tussles between the Islamic mainstream, which promoted the more conservative view of Islam and religious freedom, and the liberals, who promoted the more liberal understanding of the same, reinforced communalism and raised a specter of divisive communal politics. This in turn provided the government with justifications to maintain the illiberal legal structure on the grounds of maintaining religious and racial harmony. Despite the recent push for democracy and non-communalism, the politics of race, religion and repression continued to be a dominant feature of Malaysian politics.
Download or read book Malaysian Politics written by Gordon Paul Means and published by London : Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1976 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Culture and Communalism in West Malaysia written by Yoshiyuki Hagiwara and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communalism and the Political Process in Malaya written by K. J. Ratnam and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federal Factor in the Government and Politics of Peninsular Malaysia written by B. H. Shafruddin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the labyrinth of Centre-State relations in post-independence Peninsular Malaysia, focusing on four crucial components of the political structure--the Constitution, finance, administrative organization, and political parties.
Download or read book Communalism and the Political Process written by Ratna Naidu and published by . This book was released on 1975* with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Authoritarian Populism in Malaysia written by A. Munro-Kua and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socio-economic and political issues are dealt with selectively within a chronological historical framework, covering the dramatic colonial impact of 1940-60 until the present day. The state is examined from the point of view of social class as well as communalism, to explain the dominance of the ruling coalition over the 37 years since independence. The author argues that authoritarian-populism is the concept that best fits the apparent paradox of an enduring regime via the ballot box, and the extensive restrictions on the scope of democracy, particularly through the repressive apparatus of detention without trial. The underlying theme is a critique and explanation of Malaysia's human rights record.
Download or read book Democracy Without Consensus written by Karl Von Vorys and published by . This book was released on 1975* with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ethnopolitics of Elections written by Florian Bieber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume conceptualizes the dynamics underlying electoral politics in ethnically divided societies, providing empirical evidence and analysis of recent elections in such societies on a comparative and single-case basis, including case studies of Macedonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Malaysia, Singapore, Rwanda, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. Free and fair elections are one of the most fundamental characteristics of democratic systems. In ethnically divided societies, elections and the rules and regulations on which they are based assume special importance because they provide important levers to guarantee, or prevent, adequate representation of different communal groups in the key institutions of the state. Hence not only are elections contested vigorously, but also the electoral systems according to which they are conducted. This book was previously published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.
