TY - BOOK AU - Hwang,In-won TI - Personalized politics: the Malaysian state under Mahathir SN - 9789812301857 (pbk.) U1 - 959.5054 PY - 2003/// CY - Singapore PB - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies KW - Mahathir Mohamad, KW - Malaysia KW - Ethnic relations KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government N1 - Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Australian National University) under title: Changing conflict configurations and regime maintenance in Malaysian politics; List of tables. - Foreword by Harold Crouch. - Acknowledgments. - Glossary. - 1. Introduction. - 2. The origins and patterns of conflict in Malaysia. - 3. Regime maintenance through consociational bargaining. - 4. Regime change towards UMNO dominance. - 5. Towards Mahathir's personal dominance. - 6. Politics in the 1990s: Regime change or regime consolidation. - 7. The rise of new politics and challenges to the Mahathir regime. - 8. Whither Malaysia? - References. - Index. - About the author ER -