Malaysia's 14th General Election and UMNO’s Fall

Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman is Assistant Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Malaysia’s 14th General Election and UMNO’s Fall: Intra-Elite Feuding and the Pursuit of Power (Edmund Terence Gomez and Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman); 1: Democratization in an Age of Authoritarianism: Theorizing Malaysia’s GE14 (William Case); 2: Elite Contestations, Politics of Reform and New Voting Dynamics of Peninsular States in GE14 (Johan Saravanamuttu); 3: Elite Feuds, Patronage and Factions: UMNO’s demise (Sri Murniati); 4: Electoral boundaries in Malaysia’s 2018 Election: Malapportionment, Gerrymandering and UMNO’s Fall (Kai Ostwald); 5: ‘10 Years Under Pakatan is Better Than 50 Years Under UMNO/BN’: Pre-Electoral Conflict and Campaign Rhetoric in Selangor (Elvin Ong); 6: A Tale of Intra-Malay Elite Feuds in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya (Prashant Waikar); 7: Gambling on Grievances: Melaka in GE14 and After (Amalina Anuar and Chan Xin Ying); 8: Bangsa Johor: Factions, Feuds and Fall of UMNO (Rashaad Ali); 9: Penang: Victory by Support or Defeat by Chance? (Chan Xin Ying); 10: The Battle for Perak (Iskandar Dzulkarnain Ahmad Junid); 11: Parties versus Personalities in Kedah Politics: Unstable and Hung State Assembly in Kedah’s GE14 (Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani); 12: The Green Tsunami in Terengganu: The Re-Emergence of Parti Islamse-Malaysia (Wan Rohilla Ganti); 13: Intra-Islamist Elite Competition in Kelantan (Najwa Abdullah); Bibliography; Index