Soft Authoritarianism in Malaysia and Singapore

Issue Date October 1996
Volume 7
Issue 4
Page Numbers 103-17
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About the Author

Gordon P. Means is professor emeritus of political science at McMaster University in Canada and the author of Malaysian Politics: The Second Generation (1991). The present essay is a revised version of a paper presented in Washington, D.C., at a March 1996 conference on “Democracy in East Asia” sponsored by the International Forum for Democratic Studies and the Japan Institute of International Affairs.

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