Malaysia’s Resilient Pseudodemocracy

Issue Date January 2001
Volume 12
Issue 1
Page Numbers 43-57
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While many of the world’s pseudodemocracies have lately made the transition to “unadulterated” democracy, Malaysia and its leader, Mahathir Mohamad, have successfully bucked this trend.

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