Meredith L. Weiss is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA. She is the author of Student Activism in Malaysia: Crucible, Mirror, Sideshow (2011) and Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia (2006), and editor of several volumes, most recently Electoral Dynamics in Malaysia: Findings from the Grassroots (2014).

• Part I. Domestic Politics Overview 1. Elections in Malaysia: Voting Behavior and Electoral Integrity 2. Malaysian Political Parties and Coalitions 3. Malaysia’s Unexceptionalism: Like Elsewhere, Elites are Fractious 4. Islam, the State and Politics in Malaysia 5. Rise of Christian Political Consciousness and Mobilisation 6. Centralized Federalism in Malaysia: Is Change in the Offing? 7. Exporting the BN/UMNO Model: Politics in Sabah and Sarawak 8. Local Government in Urban Malaysia 9. Public Administration in Malaysia: Origins, Influences and Assessment 10. Social movements in Contemporary Malaysia: The Cases of BERSIH, HINDRAF and PERKASA Part II. Economics Overview 11. Malaysia’s Development Strategies: Governing Distribution-through-Growth 12. Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Malaysia: Juggling Economic Imperatives and Political Reality 13. Affirmative Action: Hefty Measures, Mixed Outcomes, Muddled Thinking 14. The Middle Class in Malaysia: Market Expansion, Consumption and Vulnerabilities15. Natural Resource Extraction and Political Dependency: Malaysia as a Rentier State 16. Rent-seeking and Money Politics in Malaysia: Ethnicity, Cronyism and Class 17. Labour In Malaysia: Flexibility, Policymaking And Regulated Borders 18. Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainable Development Policies 19. Rural Transformations 20. The Great Transformation: Urbanisation and Urbanism in Malaysia Part III. Social policy and social development Overview 21. Ethnicity and Identity Formation: Colonial Knowledge, Colonial Structures, and Transition 22. Marginalisation of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia 23. Civil Liberties in Contemporary Malaysia: Progress, Retrogression, and the Resurgence of ‘Asian Values’ 24. Educational Reforms in Malaysia: Towards Equity, Quality and Efficiency 25. ‘1 Care’ and the Politics of Healthcare in Malaysia 26. Interfaith Relations in Malaysia: Moving Beyond Muslims versus ‘Others’ .27. Culture and the Arts in Malaysia: Playing to Multiple Galleries 28. Filling in the Gaps: The Pursuit of Gender Equality in Malaysia 29. Sexual Citizenship in Conflict Part IV. International relations and security Overview 30. Foreign Policy Priorities 31. Malaysia’s Security Concerns: A Contemporary Assessment 32. Malaysia and the United States: A Maturing Partnership 33. Malaysia-China Relations: Three Enduring Themes 34. Issues and Challenges in Contemporary Malaysian–European Relations 35. Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Malaysia

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