8 March
Eclipsing May 13
Publication Year: 2008
Published by: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Cover
Title Page, Copyright PAge
Contents
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pp. v-
List of Tables and Charts
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pp. vii-viii
Foreword
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pp. ix-
Sensing that great changes were approaching in Malaysia, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) decided in early 2008 to focus on the snap general elections that Premier Abdullah Badawi had called for March 8....
Acknowledgements
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pp. xi-
In producing this book, we incurred more debts of gratitude to more people than can be named on this single page. Fieldwork would not amount to much if all the special people that we met during the elections campaign had not...
About the Authors
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pp. xiii-xv
Introduction
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pp. 1-5
A nation trudges along by securing symbolic events, iconic periods and defining personages as pillars for its central storyline. This acquired storyline goes backwards and forwards at the same time, generating common concepts...
1. The Opposition's Year of Living Demonstratively
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pp. 6-32
It is quite impossible to deny that Malaysia’s 12th General Elections of March 8, 2008 is a watershed in the country’s history. The significance of that day is monumental in ways that analysts are still discovering months after the fact....
2. A Tectonic Shift in Malaysian Politics
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pp. 33-79
It was puzzling for many why Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who won by a landslide in 2004, should call a snap general election for March 8, 2008, a whole year ahead of the end of his five-year term. Much of...
3. The Ethnic Voting Pattern for Kuala Lumpur and Selangor in 2008
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pp. 80-121
Five months before the March 2008 General Election, Bersih,1 frustrated by the BN government’s refusal to act on their demands, organized a demonstration to protest against gerrymandering, voter fraud practices, rampant irregularities...
Postscript: Anwar's Path to Power goes via Permatang Pauh
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pp. 122-126
On August 26, 2008, former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim managed to do what the snap general elections earlier that year had stopped him from doing. He succeeded in returning to the Dewan Negara (Lower House of Parliament) after an...
Index [Includes Image Plates]
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pp. 127-131
E-ISBN-13: 9789812308979
Print-ISBN-13: 9789812308962
Page Count: 131
Publication Year: 2008
Edition: 1
