The state of Malaysia : ethnicity, equity, and reform / edited by Edmund Terence Gomez. - London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. - xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - RoutledgeCurzon Malaysian studies series. .

"Published in association with Malaysia Social Science Association (MSSA)."

List of illustrations. - List of contributors. - Preface and acknowledgements. - Abbreviations. - Introduction : politics, business and ethnicity in Malaysia : a state in transition? / Edmund Terence Gomez, - 1. Testing Malaysia's pseudo-democracy / William Case. - 2. Transethnic solidarities, racialisation and social equality / Sumit K. Mandal. - 3. The internet, reformasi and democratisation in Malaysia / Jason P. Abbott. - 4. Political crisis and reform in Malaysia / Claudia Derichs. - 5. Real change? Elections in the reformasi era / Bridget Welsh. - 6. Governance, affirmative action and enterprise development : ownership and control of corporate Malaysia / Edmund Terence Gomez. - 7. Privatisation, patronage and enterprise development : liberalising telecommunications in Malaysia / Lorraine Carlos Salazar. - 8. Islamisation, patronage and political ascendancy : the politics and business of Islam in Malaysia / Kikue Hamayotsu. - Index.

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Ethnicity--Malaysia.
Islam and politics--Malaysia.


Malaysia--Politics and government.

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