State of Malaysia

Edmund Terence Gomez is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. He has also held appointments at University of Leeds, UK, Murdoch University, Australia and Kobe University, Japan. He has authored and edited a number of books including Malaysia’s Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and Profits (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Chinese Business in Malaysia: Accumulation, Ascendance, Accommodation (Curzon, 1999), Political Business in East Asia (Routledge, 2002) and Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity (Routledge Curzon, 2004).

• Introduction: politics, business and ethnicity in Malaysia: a state in transition? 1 Testing Malaysia’s pseudo-democracy 2 Transethnic solidarities, racialisation and social equality 3 The Internet, reformasi and democratisation in Malaysia 4 Political crisis and reform in Malaysia 5 Real change? Elections in the reformasi era 6 Governance, affirmative action and enterprise development: Ownership and control of corporate Malaysia 7 Privatisation, patronage and enterprise development: liberalising telecommunications in Malaysia 8 Islamisation, patronage and political ascendancy: the politics and business of Islam in Malaysia

'This volume represents an incisive and well-argued collection of essays on terminal Mahathirism.' - Asian Affairs