In my last post, outlined an interpretation of the results of GE13 as reflecting primarily an urban-rural divide, an explanation that has in various ways been articulated as different or even competing with the ethnicity-based analyses that I have offered….
Loyal readers know that I have been selling the ethnic politics angle on Malaysian politics pretty hard. There is another perspective, though. That perspective is about UMNO’s dominance as a machine party in the rural areas, and it comes most…
I have long two Malaysia GE13 post-election posts up at the Monkey Cage. Check them out: Part I, Part II.
With elections just two days away, it’s time for me to wrap up this series of preview posts. It’s also time for me to answer the question that you’ve been waiting for me to answer: who’s going to win, BN…
Here is an index of my preview posts on Malaysia’s 13th General Elections. Results by party and ethnicity, GE12: Preview (1) Thoughts on GE13 in New Mandala: Preview (2) Head to head contests in GE12: Preview (3) East Malaysia and…
Malaysia’s Indian community has not fared well under BN rule. They are numerically fewer than the Malay and Chinese communities on the peninsula, and on the whole, Tamils and other South Asian communities have whole not enjoyed the fruits of…
Nomination Day was April 20: we now know the full list of candidates for all 222 parliamentary races and 505 state assembly races. Election Day is less than two weeks away now. Some very interesting analysis of the Nomination Day…
A new ruling by Malaysia’s Registrar of Societies on the Democratic Action Party‘s Central Executive Committee illustrates how electoral authoritarian regimes use the law as a tool of regime maintenance. Malaysia’s political regime is commonly understood by political scientists as…
In most states Malaysians will cast votes in two elections: for the Dewan Rakyat and for the Dewan Undangan Negeri. The former is the lower house of the federal parliament, and the latter is the state parliament. Sarawak is an…
Benedict Anderson has written a powerful essay that appears in the current edition of Asia-Pacific Journal entitled “Impunity and Reenactment: Reflections on the 1965 Massacre in Indonesia and its Legacy.” (I learned of it from Jeff Hadler, who just co-organized…
