Did Urbanization or Ethnicity Matter More in Malaysia's 14th General Election?/ (Record no. 40925)

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Personal name NG Jason Wei Jian
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Title Did Urbanization or Ethnicity Matter More in Malaysia's 14th General Election?/
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jason Wei Jian Ng, Gary John Rangel and Elsa Phung Yet Chin
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
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Summary, etc. This article focuses on identifying the variable which has the highest predictive power in predicting electoral behaviour. To do this, we apply a tree-based machine learning technique to data from Malaysia's 14th General Election. We find that constituencies' urbanization level has the most significant predictive power in determining vote share. Ethnicity, a long-touted variable of significance, plays a secondary role. Moreover, these predictors' marginal effects on the vote share are highly complex, non-linear and difficult to pick up by conventional regression methods. Other explanatory factors do not exhibit significant predictive qualities of electoral behaviour, although the extant literature has shown them to have important causal relationships. As our analysis reflects the significant predictive power of urbanization in predicting voting behaviour, we caution against the haste to dismiss its relevance in the Malaysian context.
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Bulletin Heading MALAYSIA, POLITICS
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Topical term or geographic name entry element URBANIZATION
General subdivision ETHNICITY
-- MALAYSIA
-- 14TH GENERAL ELECTION
-- SOUTHEAST ASIA
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Personal name RANGEL Gary John
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Personal name CHIN Elsa Phung Yet
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Main entry heading Contemporary Southeast Asia :
Related parts Vol. 43, No. 3, December 2021, pp.461-495 (19)
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/845142">https://muse.jhu.edu/article/845142</a>
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