Why do some authoritarian regimes topple during financial crises, while others steer through
financial crises relatively unscathed? In this book, Thomas B. Pepinsky uses the …

Political scientists tend to draw a sharp distinction between personalized and
institutionalized patterns of rule and to assume that personalization indicates low levels of …

Protest and Possibilities explores the pursuit of political reform in Malaysia, an illiberal
democracy, and contrasts coalition-building and reform processes there with those of …

For more than 40 years, the New Economic Policy and its successor programs have shaped
Malaysia's socioeconomic development and the allocation of political power. The original …

Regional institutions in the Asia-Pacific have been of limited efficacy. Asian members of
organizations such as ASEAN and APEC have insisted that these institutions not infringe …

Some scholars have argued that youth apathy in politics arises from an interpretation based
on conventional electoral politics. Other scholars have studied unconventional political …

This article uses a case study of public human resource management (HRM) in Malaysia to
explore policy 'transferability', proposed as a refinement of Dolowitz and Marsh's policy …

The chapter reviews intra-elite feuding in the leading Malay-based political parties in
Malaysia, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and Parti Islam se-Malaysia …

Multiculturalism has a series of quite different foundations according to the historical
trajectory within which it is situated. Ethnicity acquires a different meaning corresponding to …

It is commonly assumed that greater enforcement of Syariah [Islamic law] is the result of
growing Islamism in civil society and/or the state. This article investigates the most burning …