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

• Main Author: R Kumaran
• Other Authors: Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia::Malaysia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138905
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...