Tag: multiethnic democracy
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Interethnic Vote Pooling, Institutional Frailty, and the Malaysian Elections of 2018
[Editor’s Note: This is the second entry in our symposium on “Constitutional Implications of the Malaysian Tsunami.” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University In the early 1950s, as Malaya was approaching independence, the British decided to conduct the first elections ever held in the country at the town council level,…