The NEP and UMNO's political hegemony.

• Main Author: Choo, Jun Fei.
• Other Authors: Liow Chin Yong, Joseph
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia::Malaysia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/41788
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The New Economic Policy (NEP) was first implemented by the Malaysian government in 1971 as the principal policy response to the post-election racial riot between ethnic Malays and Chinese in May 1969. The racial conflict was largely caused by inter-ethnic resentment brought about by unequal distrib...