Malaysia Gets A Second Shot At Democratization Under Anwar – Analysis
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By Liam Gammon*
A big question in the wake of Malaysia’s 2018 election was whether the country had embarked upon a transition to democracy after the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition’s first-ever election defeat.
Over decades of BN rule Malaysia became a textbook case of so-called competitive authoritarianism — a system...