LEADER 03653nam 22005292 450 001 9910808978403321 005 20170608080559.0 010 $a981-4695-42-4 024 7 $a10.1355/9789814695428 035 $a(CKB)3710000000908910 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789814695428 035 $a(OCoLC)960977416 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56010 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5124078 035 $a(DE-B1597)491912 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789814695428 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5124078 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11464899 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000908910 100 $a20161007d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPower sharing in a divided nation $emediated communalism and new politics in six decades of Malaysia's elections /$fJohan Saravanamuttu$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aSingapore :$cISEAS Yusof Ishak institute,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 323 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017). 311 $a981-4695-43-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface / $rSaravanamuttu, Johan -- $tAbbreviations and Glossary -- $t1. The Imperative of Mediated Communalism -- $t2. The Electoral System: Origin, Rationale and Critique -- $t3. Consociation and the Electoral Process, 1952-55 -- $t4. The Path-Dependent Rise and Demise of the Alliance, 79 1959-69 -- $t5. The National Front's Rise in the Elections of 1974 and 111 1978 -- $t6. Mediating Communalism through Party Capitalism: The Elections of 1982, 1985, 1990 and 1995 -- $t7. Reformasi and New Politics: Constituting an Alternative Coalition in the 1999 General Election -- $t8. The Opposition's Breakthrough: The Leap from 2004 to 2008 -- $t9. Electoral Impasse of Dual-Coalition Politics in 2013 -- $t10. Transitions of Coalition Politics circa 2016 -- $t11. Conclusion: The Desiderata of Ethnic Power Sharing -- $tbibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aElections$zMalaysia 606 $aCommunalism$zMalaysia 607 $aMalaysia$xPolitics and government 615 0$aElections 615 0$aCommunalism 676 $a320.9595 700 $aSaravanamuttu$b J$g(Jayaratnam),$01600659 712 02$aISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808978403321 996 $aPower sharing in a divided nation$93923850 997 $aUNINA