Can youth save Malaysia's democracy?

• Main Author: Weiss, Meredith L.
• Other Authors: -
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165604
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In 2019, Malaysia passed a bipartisan constitutional amendment that lowered the country’s voting age from 21 to 18, setting in train a dramatic expansion of the electorate and downward tilt in the median voter age. Malaysian youth are, on average, both fairly well informed and politically aware, and...