Power Sharing in a Divided Nation : : Mediated Communalism and New Politics in Six Decades of Malaysia's Elections / / Johan Saravanamuttu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Saravanamuttu, Johan,
• MitwirkendeR: Saravanamuttu, Johan,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- 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, 79 1959-69 -- 5. The National Front's Rise in the Elections of 1974 and 111 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 -- bibliography -- Index -- About the Author