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March 8 : Eclipsing May 13 / Ooi Kee Beng, Johan Saravanamuttu, Lee Hock Guan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (164 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789812308962
  • 9789812308979
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.2473
LOC classification:
  • KNE171 .E97 2008
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Charts -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- 1. The Opposition’s Year of Living Demonstratively -- 2. A Tectonic Shift in Malaysian Politics -- 3. The Ethnic Voting Pattern for Kuala Lumpur and Selangor in 2008 -- Postscript: Anwar’s Path to Power goes via Permatang Pauh -- Index
Summary: For a whole generation of Malaysians, no proper closure to the traumas of the racial riots of May 13, 1969 has been possible.But then came March 8, 2008 The surprising results of the General Election on that special day have started eclipsing the fears linked for so long to that spectral night forty years ago. All the three researchers from ISEAS who each authored separate chapters for this book were in different parts of Malaysia monitoring its 12th General Election during the thirteen days ofcampaigning. Their analyses provide new insights into the phenomenon that Malaysians now simply refer to as “March 8”.Ooi Kee Beng scrutinizes in detail the electoral campaign in the state of Penang, Johan Saravanamuttu studies the case of Kelantan state and the elections in general, while Lee Hock Guan examines changes in the voting pattern in the Klang Valley.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Charts -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- 1. The Opposition’s Year of Living Demonstratively -- 2. A Tectonic Shift in Malaysian Politics -- 3. The Ethnic Voting Pattern for Kuala Lumpur and Selangor in 2008 -- Postscript: Anwar’s Path to Power goes via Permatang Pauh -- Index

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For a whole generation of Malaysians, no proper closure to the traumas of the racial riots of May 13, 1969 has been possible.But then came March 8, 2008 The surprising results of the General Election on that special day have started eclipsing the fears linked for so long to that spectral night forty years ago. All the three researchers from ISEAS who each authored separate chapters for this book were in different parts of Malaysia monitoring its 12th General Election during the thirteen days ofcampaigning. Their analyses provide new insights into the phenomenon that Malaysians now simply refer to as “March 8”.Ooi Kee Beng scrutinizes in detail the electoral campaign in the state of Penang, Johan Saravanamuttu studies the case of Kelantan state and the elections in general, while Lee Hock Guan examines changes in the voting pattern in the Klang Valley.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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