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Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State

By Syed Farid Alatas

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1997
ISBN
033371105X, 9780333711057
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12696838 bytes)
Pages
248\247
Time added
2015-08-12 13:14:18

Description

The fact that the Malaysian state has managed to maintain a relatively democratic regime, while an authoritarian regime came to power in Indonesia has never been the focus of historical and comparative analyses despite certain cultural, social, and historical affinities between these two countries. This book takes a look at contrasting class structures and alliances, elite cohesion, state strength, as well as differences in political challenges to the state in order to understand two different paths to post-colonial state formation.

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