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100 1 _aCROUCH Harold A
245 0 _aGovernment and society in Malaysia
260 _aIthaca, NY, USA:
_bCornell Univ. Press,
_c1996
300 _a266p.
520 3 _aProposes that the Malaysian political system displays democratic and authoritarian characteristics. Economic growth, large ethnic minorities, and a split in UMNO in the 1980s all provide tensions and pressures which government had been adept at balancing while retaining control of the electoral process.The author concludes that there is unlikely to be a move towards full democracy in the near future.
650 _aDEMOCRACY
650 _aGOVERNMENT
650 _aMALAYSIA
650 _aPOLITICS
650 _aSOCIETY
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