In late November 2022, Malaysia held its general election. The landmark result brought longtime opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to power, although leading a complex coalition. Dr. Meredith Weiss discusses what happened on election day, and the result's implications throughout the region.
Meredith Weiss is a Professor of Political Science and director of Rockefeller College’s Semester in Washington Program. She has published widely on social mobilization and civil society, the politics of identity and development, electoral politics and parties, institutional reform, and subnational governance in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Malaysia and Singapore. Her books include The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Southeast Asia (Cornell, 2020); and the co-authored Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, forthcoming). Current projects include collaborative studies of urban governance and public goods delivery, civil society in Southeast Asia, pandemic governance, and of democratic representation and political elites in Southeast Asia; and a monograph on Malaysian sociopolitical development.
