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Malaysia's State Formation
Author | : Abdillah Noh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781003320548 |
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"Tracing Malaysia's political economy since 1800, Abdillah Noh argues that it has been substantially path-dependant based on choices made by the British colonial administration. Focusing mainly on two major groupings in Malaysia's political economy - the Malays and Chinese Malaysians - Noh demonstrates that British policies engendered two processes. First, a less-than-full-retrenchment of Malay political dominance by preserving Malay de jure power and, second a less-than-full incorporation of new actors in Malaya's political economy. Such decisions to preserve Malay de jure power alongside half-hearted measures at incorporating non-Malays' economic and political presence created communities with mutually exclusive institutions that increasingly compete for access to political, social and economic resources. He thus reasons that Malaysia's state formation - and the consequent consociational logic - is not a contrived act that was hatched at the point of its independence. Rather, it is the result of deep institutional processes that are centred on the idea of path dependence, self- reinforcement mechanism, timing and sequence. A valuable read for scholars of Malaysian history and politics, as well as for scholars of postcolonial state formation and public policy more broadly"--