State of Malaysia

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-33357-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gomez, Edmund Terence

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: politics, business and ethnicity in Malaysia: a state in transition? 1 Testing Malaysia’s pseudo-democracy 2 Transethnic solidarities, racialisation and social equality 3 The Internet, reformasi and democratisation in Malaysia 4 Political crisis and reform in Malaysia 5 Real change? Elections in the reformasi era 6 Governance, affirmative action and enterprise development: Ownership and control of corporate Malaysia 7 Privatisation, patronage and enterprise development: liberalising telecommunications in Malaysia 8 Islamisation, patronage and political ascendancy: the politics and business of Islam in Malaysia

Über Autor(innen)

Edmund Terence Gomez is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. He has also held appointments at University of Leeds, UK, Murdoch University, Australia and Kobe University, Japan. He has authored and edited a number of books including Malaysia’s Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and Profits (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Chinese Business in Malaysia: Accumulation, Ascendance, Accommodation (Curzon, 1999), Political Business in East Asia (Routledge, 2002) and Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity (Routledge Curzon, 2004).