Malaysia's resilient pseudodemocracy

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-57

  Case, William ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0035586717     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2001.0004     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 15.
2. Richard Gunther, Jakarta Post, 27 August 1998.
3. Larry Diamond, "Preface," in Larry Diamond, Juan J. Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, eds., Democracy in Developing Countries: Asia (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1989), xviii.
4. Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), 137.
5. Huntington specifies this "zone" as $1,000-3,000 per-capita GNP during the mid-1970s. Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave, 62-63. In 1978, Malaysia's per-capita GNP, measured in terms of purchasing power parity, was $1,937.
6. See Lucian Pye, Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985), ch. 9.
7. Guillermo O'Donnell, Counterpoints: Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999), 180-82.
8. Ibid., 182.
9. Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave, 9.
10. Diamond, Developing Democracy, 228.
11. Only avowedly leftist parties have been systematically blocked, with the Parti Sosialis Malaysia recently denied registration three times.
12. The Sun (Kuala Lumpur), 30 November 1999, 2.
13. Personal attendance at the 2000 UMNO General Assembly and extensive discussions with local journalists and delegates, Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur, 10-14 May 2000.
14. Sec "Mahathir Settles in for Long Haul," The Australian, 17 July 2000, 9.