Is Malaysian democracy backsliding or merely staying put?

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-11-21 DOI:10.1177/20578911221136066

M. Weiss

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Observers proclaimed Malaysia's first-ever transfer of federal power through elections in 2018 as marking a democratic transition, only to see in the reversal of that change two years later evidence of backsliding. I argue instead that these concepts lack nuance: we should not read too much into a change of leadership. At best, the electoral-authoritarian regime wobbled; it neither transitioned convincingly in 2018 nor qualified as backsliding per se in 2020. That said, the regime has been edging toward liberalization, but less in the electoral sphere than in civil society and prevailing norms.

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马来西亚的民主是倒退还是原地踏步?

观察人士宣称，2018年马来西亚首次通过选举移交联邦权力，标志着民主转型，但两年后这一变化发生逆转，证明了倒退。相反，我认为这些概念缺乏细微差别:我们不应过度解读领导层的变化。在最好的情况下，选举专制政权摇摇欲坠;它既没有在2018年令人信服地转型，也没有在2020年达到倒退的标准。也就是说，这个政权一直在逐渐走向自由化，但在选举领域不如在公民社会和主流规范方面。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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