The Malaysian Bureaucracy

The Malaysian Bureaucracy
Author: Abdullah Sanusi bin Ahmad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003
Genre: Bureaucracy
ISBN:

Examines the role, progress and development of the Malaysian public service. It traces the development of the bureauracy since Independence till today.

The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life

The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life
Author: Maznah Mohamad
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9811520933

This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia. It elaborates on how elements of theology, sacred space, resources, and their interactivity with secular instruments such as legislative, electoral, and new social technological platforms are all instrumentally employed to consolidate a divine bureaucracy. The book makes the point that religious social movements and political parties are only few of the important agents of Islamisation in society. The other is the modern and secular state structure itself. Weber’s legal rational bureaucracy or Hegel’s ethical bureaucracy predominantly characterises a modern feature of governmentality. In this instance an Islamic bureaucracy is advantageously situated not only within an ambit of modernity and therefore legality, but divinity and therefore sacrality as well. This positioning gives religious state agents more salience than any other form of bureaucracy leading to their unquestioned authority in the current contexts of societies with Muslim majority rule. One of the requisites of this condition is the homogenisation of Islam followed by ring-fencing of its constituents. The latter can involve contestations with women, other genders, ‘secular’ Muslims, non-Muslims as well as dissenting Muslims with their differing truthful ‘Islams’.

Bureaucracy and Rural Development in Malaysia

Bureaucracy and Rural Development in Malaysia
Author: Gayl D. Ness
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520361407

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Public Management and Governance in Malaysia

Public Management and Governance in Malaysia
Author: Noore Alam Siddiquee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135107327

The past two and a half decades have seen major transformations in public sector management and governance across the globe. This book examines the ways public sector management and governance in Malaysia has changed and is changing under contemporary reform models. Chapters are written by well-established scholars and academics with intimate knowledge in their respective fields, and provide a thorough and insightful analysis of the reform trends and developments on a range of topics. These include performance management, compensation reforms, public budgeting, accounting and reporting, privatisation and public-private partnership, e-government, managing ethics and accountability, local government and inter-governmental relations. While the book surveys the topics that are central to public sector management and governance, it also focuses on the nature of reforms and changes that were introduced, as well as the forces that have shaped their design and implementation process, and the initial impacts and results. Overall, the book provides students and scholars of Politics and Southeast Asian Studies with a greater appreciation and deeper understanding of the recent developments and current trends of public sector management.

Government and Society in Malaysia

Government and Society in Malaysia
Author: Harold Crouch
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501733907

The Malaysian political system incorporates a mix of democratic and authoritarian characteristics. In this comprehensive account, Harold Crouch argues that, while they may appear contradictory, the responsive and the repressive features of the system combine in an integrated and coherent whole. Consistently dominated by the Malay party UMNO, which represents the largest ethnic group, the Malaysian government requires the support of its Chinese, Indian, and East Malaysian minorities to retain control. The need to appeal to a politically and ethnically divided electorate restrains the arbitrary exercise of power by the ruling coalition. As a result, the government responds to popular aspirations, particularly since a split in the dominant Malay party in the 1980s. Yet it also controls the electoral process, ensuring victory in all national elections. Communal, social, and economic factors have all contributed in rather ambiguous ways to shaping the Malaysian political system. Communal tensions, change in the class structure, and the consequences of economic growth have generated pressures in both democratic and authoritarian directions. The government has been remarkably stable despite sharp ethnic divisions and, Crouch suggests, it is unlikely to move swiftly toward full democracy in the near future.

What Motivates Bureaucrats?

What Motivates Bureaucrats?
Author: Marissa Martino Golden
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2000-10-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0231106971

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Democracy in Malaysia

Democracy in Malaysia
Author: Khoo Boo Teik Khoo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136825088

Analyses discourses pertinent to democratic politics in Malaysia, including the political elite's interpretation of 'Asian values' and 'Asian democracy', contending Islamic views on democracy, the impact of developmentalism on political culture, and the recovery of women's voice in everyday politics.

The Politics of Administration

The Politics of Administration
Author: Mavis Puthucheary
Publisher: Kuala Lumpur ; New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1978
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

A revision of the author's thesis, University of Manchester, 1973.