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Managing the Malaysian economy after the watershed GE 2008

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dc.contributor.authorLopez, Greg
dc.contributor.authorAbdul Kareem, Mohamed Ariff
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-05T11:03:55Z
dc.date.available2018-11-05T11:03:55Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractOn 8 March 2008 (GE 2008) Malaysians unexpectedly delivered a stunning blow to Malaysia's long-standing ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (BN), at the twelfth general election. Although it won the election, BN lost its psychologically important two-thirds majority in parliament which allows it to change the Federal Constitution at will. The blow was all the more devastating as the Anwar Ibrahim-led informal coalition of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR/People's Iustice Party), Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Parti Se-Islam Malaysia (PAS/Pan Islamic Party of Malaysia) managed to form state governments in almost all states in the developed western parts of Peninsular Malaysia with citizens of the two most industrialised states (Selangor and Penang), as well as Kedah and Perak, joining Kelantan (the poorest state on the peninsula) on the opposition side. BN was also wiped out almost entirely from the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur with the opposition winning ten of the eleven parliamentary seats. All of these suggest that urbanites had deserted BN in droves.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLopez, Greg & Abdul Kareem, Mohamed Ariff. (2018). Managing the Malaysian economy after the watershed GE 2008. In Greg Lopez & Bridget Welsh. (Eds.), Regime resilience in Malaysia and Singapore (pp. 187-203). Selangor, Malaysia: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9789672165064
dc.identifier.urihttps://ikr.inceif.edu.my/handle/INCEIF/2978
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherStrategic Information and Research Development Centreen_US
dc.rights2018. Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
dc.sourceSEDONA
dc.subjectGeneral Election 2008 (GE 2008)en_US
dc.subjectMalaysiaen_US
dc.subjectEconomyen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.titleManaging the Malaysian economy after the watershed GE 2008en_US
dc.typeChapter in Booken_US
dlc.maintopicConventional finance
dlc.subtopicEconomics
dspace.entity.typePublication
ikr.doctypeScholarly Works
ikr.licenseAvailable in physical copy only
ikr.topic.maintopicConventional financeen_US
ikr.topic.subtopicConventional financeen_US
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