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Authors: Edmund Terence Gomez
ISBN-13: 9780415339148, ISBN-10: 0415339146
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book provides an overview of the current state of Malaysia, looking at political developments and at governance, and discussing the impact of ethnicity, patronage and the reform movement.
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Preface and acknowledgements | ||
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Introduction : politics, business and ethnicity in Malaysia : a state in transition? | 1 | |
1 | Testing Malaysia's pseudo-democracy | 29 |
2 | Transethnic solidarities, racialisation and social equality | 49 |
3 | The internet, reformasi and democratisation in Malaysia | 79 |
4 | Political crisis and reform in Malaysia | 105 |
5 | Real change? Elections in the reformasi era | 130 |
6 | Governance, affirmative action and enterprise development : ownership and control of corporate Malaysia | 157 |
7 | Privatisation, patronage and enterprise development : liberalising telecommunications in Malaysia | 194 |
8 | Islamisation, patronage and political ascendancy : the politics and business of Islam in Malaysia | 229 |
Index | 253 |