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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Meredith Weiss\, 
 (Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Rockefeller College of Publ
 ic Affairs & Policy)\, who will discuss Malaysia's dominant-party system.\
 n\nThis Gatty Lecture will take place at the Rockefeller Hall 374. Lunch w
 ill be served. For questions\, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.\n\nAbout the
  Talk\n\nMalaysia’s 15th general election in November 2022 decisively en
 ded the country’s dominant-party system. What might take its place\, how
 ever\, remains hazy—how competitive\, how polarized\, how politically li
 beral\, and how stable an order might emerge will take some time to become
  clear. The opposition Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope)\, having secured
  a plurality of seats\, but with a sharply pronounced ethnic skew\, formed
  a coalition government with the previously dominant\, incumbent Barisan N
 asional (National Front) and smaller\, regional coalitions. This settlemen
 t resolved an immediate impasse\, but relied upon obfuscation of real prog
 rammatic\, ideological\, and identity differences\, raising questions of l
 onger-term durability or results. Examining this uncertainty suggests thre
 e broad queries\, with resonance well beyond Malaysia. The first is the fr
 agmentation and reconsolidation of Malaysian party politics\, and how part
 y dominance transforms or falls. The second is the extent to which its dom
 inant party defined or confirmed Malaysia as electoral authoritarian\, and
  whether we should consider it still to be so. And the third is what possi
 bilities Malaysia’s apparent party-system deinstitutionalization opens u
 p for structural reform beyond parties. Does the deterioration of that sys
 tem—more than simply the previous dominant party’s electoral loss—cl
 ear the way for more far-reaching liberalization? All told\, Malaysia’s 
 incremental dismantling of its dominant-party system does not also spell t
 he end of electoral authoritarianism. Party and party-system deinstitution
 alization leave the system in flux\, but illiberal reconsolidation is as p
 lausible as progressive structural reform.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nMeredit
 h L. Weiss is Professor of Political Science in the Rockefeller College of
  Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany\, State University of
  New York (SUNY). In four books—most recently\, The Roots of Resilience:
  Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Southeast Asia (Cornell\, 2020)
 \, and the co-authored Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political M
 achines in Southeast Asia (Cambridge\, 2022)—numerous articles\, and a d
 ozen edited or co-edited volumes\, she addresses issues of social mobiliza
 tion\, civil society\, and collective identity\; electoral politics and pa
 rties\; and governance\, regime change\, and institutional reform in South
 east Asia\, especially Malaysia and Singapore. She is the inaugural Direct
 or of the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) and co-edits the Camb
 ridge Elements series on Southeast Asian Politics & Society.
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LOCATION:Rockefeller Hall\, 374
SUMMARY:Decline and Fall of Malaysia’s Dominant-Party System
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 s_dominant-party_system
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