Resistance without ideals : explaining the Pakatan Harapan vote in the 2018 Malaysian federal election amongst overseas Malaysian youth

This paper seeks to analyse if the vote for the Pakatan Harapan (PH), amongst overseas Malaysian youth was an anti-Najib vote or a vote for the values of the PH. This paper asserts that the vote for the PH was merely an anti-Najib vote and will lead to democratic backsliding, using Democratic Transi...

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Main Author: R Kumaran
Other Authors: Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1389052020-05-13T12:43:09Z Resistance without ideals : explaining the Pakatan Harapan vote in the 2018 Malaysian federal election amongst overseas Malaysian youth R Kumaran Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah School of Social Sciences walid@ntu.edu.sg Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia::Malaysia This paper seeks to analyse if the vote for the Pakatan Harapan (PH), amongst overseas Malaysian youth was an anti-Najib vote or a vote for the values of the PH. This paper asserts that the vote for the PH was merely an anti-Najib vote and will lead to democratic backsliding, using Democratic Transition Theory (DTT). Firstly, the history of Malaysian politics from independence to present and the existing literature on DTT will be surveyed. Thereafter, through qualitatively analysing interview narratives, three reasons that support the hypothesis were derived: a). Differing notions of justice, b). The limited appeal of PH ideology beyond its stronghold states and c). The underdeveloped PH overseas party machinery relative to the Barisan Nasional’s. I conclude with the inevitable backsliding of Malaysia, alluding to the 2020 constitutional crisis and deriving lessons for DTT and researching overseas Malaysian youth. Key Words: Malaysian General Elections, Democratic Transition Theory, Diaspora politics Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Global Affairs 2020-05-13T12:43:08Z 2020-05-13T12:43:08Z 2020 Final Year Project (FYP) https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138905 en HAa19_29 application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
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Resistance without ideals : explaining the Pakatan Harapan vote in the 2018 Malaysian federal election amongst overseas Malaysian youth
description This paper seeks to analyse if the vote for the Pakatan Harapan (PH), amongst overseas Malaysian youth was an anti-Najib vote or a vote for the values of the PH. This paper asserts that the vote for the PH was merely an anti-Najib vote and will lead to democratic backsliding, using Democratic Transition Theory (DTT). Firstly, the history of Malaysian politics from independence to present and the existing literature on DTT will be surveyed. Thereafter, through qualitatively analysing interview narratives, three reasons that support the hypothesis were derived: a). Differing notions of justice, b). The limited appeal of PH ideology beyond its stronghold states and c). The underdeveloped PH overseas party machinery relative to the Barisan Nasional’s. I conclude with the inevitable backsliding of Malaysia, alluding to the 2020 constitutional crisis and deriving lessons for DTT and researching overseas Malaysian youth. Key Words: Malaysian General Elections, Democratic Transition Theory, Diaspora politics
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title Resistance without ideals : explaining the Pakatan Harapan vote in the 2018 Malaysian federal election amongst overseas Malaysian youth
title_short Resistance without ideals : explaining the Pakatan Harapan vote in the 2018 Malaysian federal election amongst overseas Malaysian youth
title_full Resistance without ideals : explaining the Pakatan Harapan vote in the 2018 Malaysian federal election amongst overseas Malaysian youth
title_fullStr Resistance without ideals : explaining the Pakatan Harapan vote in the 2018 Malaysian federal election amongst overseas Malaysian youth
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