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The Street and the Ballot Box: The Bersih Movement, 2018 Election, and the Implications for Malaysian Politics

Drawing on Malaysia’s Bersih movement and the 2018 election, Dr. Lynette Ong’s latest book, The Street and the Ballot Box: Interactions between Social Movements and Electoral Politics in Authoritarian Contexts, illustrates how a broad-based social movement that champions a widely shared grievance can mobilize across social cleavages and unite elites and society. Such a movement contributes to cohesion of opposition coalition, which is crucial for regime change. She will draw the implications of Bersih for the state of Malaysian politics since 2018.

Featuring:
Dr. Lynette H. Ong
Associate Professor of political science,
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy,
University of Toronto

Dr. Dan Slater
Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Director & Professor of Political Science,
University of Michigan

Dr. Satu P. Limaye (Moderator)
Vice President, East-West Center &
Director, East-West Center in Washington


This seminar will be on-the-record and recorded on both Zoom and YouTube.

Mar 14, 2022 09:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)