Since early April I have written approximately 15,000 words on Malaysia’s 13th general election. That is the length of one and a half academic articles in the social sciences. It is about 1/4 of a decent sized academic book; as…
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 am back in Indonesia for a brief trip to meet with officials at various government and non-government agencies. As part of my first set of meetings, I met with officials from BPS, the Indonesian Central Statistics agency. On several…
I have long two Malaysia GE13 post-election posts up at the Monkey Cage. Check them out: Part I, Part II.
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…
Now that Prime Minister Najib Razak has dissolved Parliament, Malaysia’s elections are coming soon. Right now the two coalitions are in the process of nominating candidates for each electoral district. This process probably has no exact parallel anywhere else in…
There is an excellent discussion of Transparency in the Social Sciences at the Center for Effective Global Action. Anyone working with data in the social sciences should read and learn. I want to comment on one small bit that caught…
Malaysia’s 13th General Elections are coming soon. In anticipation of some exciting politics, I hope to produce a couple of election preview posts in the coming weeks. I’ll start off with some data from the 2008 elections, the March 8th…
In any theoretical discussion of contemporary Indonesian democracy, the term “oligarchy” occupies a central role. It has been the subject of at least two very fine and influential books, Oligarchy and Reorganising Power. In a new paper (PDF), I contrast pluralism…
