The State of Malaysia
Subtitle: ethnicity, equity, and reform
By: edited by Edmund Terence Gomez.
Contributors: Gomez, Edmund Terence.; Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: RoutledgeCurzon Malaysian studies series ;; 1
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Malaysia.; Islam and politics -- Malaysia.; Malaysia -- Politics and government.
Description: "This book provides an overview of the current state of Malaysia, looking at political and economic developments and at governance, and discussing the impact of ethnicity, patronage and the reform movement. Apart from discussing issues such as Islamisation and identity transformations within Malaysian society, it reviews policies like privatisation and provides an examination of business enterprise, exploring how control of 'corporate Malaysia' is interlinked with political developments. This study's primary focus is an analysis of why the reform movement failed to secure substantial support in the late 1990s even though many Malaysians then appeared ready to hold the government accountable for its poor record of a democratic and transparent form of governance.

This volume also assesses the likelihood of change as a result of the retirement of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Published in association with Malaysia Social Science Association (MSSA)."
Table of contents: title: Politics, business, and ethnicity in Malaysia: a state in transition? / Edmund Terence Gomez; title: Testing Malaysia's pseudo-democracy / William Case; title: Transethnic solidarities, racialisation and social equality / Sumit K. Mandal; title: The internet, reformasi and democratisation in Malaysia / Jason P. Abbott; title: Political crisis and reform in Malaysia / Claudia Derichs; title: Real change?: elections in the reformasi era / Bridget Welsh; title: Governance, affirmative action and enterprise development: liberalising telecommunications in Malaysia / Lorraine Carlos Salazar; title: Islamisation, patronage and political ascendancy: the politics and business of Islam  in Malaysia / Kikue Hamayotsu.