Power sharing in a divided nation
Subtitle: mediated communalism and new politics in six decades of Malaysia's elections
By: Johan Saravanamuttu
Contributors: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Publisher: ISEAS Yusof Ishak institute; ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9789814695435; 9789670960470
Subjects: Elections; Politics and government; Communalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-301) and index.

In English.
Table of contents: title: The imperative of mediated communalism; title: The electoral system : origin, rationale and critique; title: Consociation and the electoral process, 1952-55; title: The path-dependent rise and demise of the Alliance, 1959-69; title: The National Front's rise in the elections of 1974 and 1978; title: Mediating communalism through party capitalism : The elections of 1982, 1985, 1990 and 1995; title: Reformasi and new politics : Constituting an alternative coalition in the 1999 General Election; title: The opposition's breakthrough : The leap from 2004 to 2008; title: Electoral impasse of dual-coalition politics in 2013; title: Transitions of coalition politics circa 2016; title: Conclusion : The desiderata of ethnic power sharing.