
Power Sharing in a Divided Nation
Mediated Communalism and New Politics in Six Decades of Malaysia's Elections
Johan Saravanamuttu(Author)
ISEAS (Publisher)
Published on 30. December 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
323 pages
978-981-4695-43-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pasir Panjang
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
533 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4695-43-5 (9789814695435)
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Power Sharing in a Divided Nation
Mediated Communalism and New Politics in Six Decades of Malaysia's Elections
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Johan Saravanamuttu is former Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.