Taming the political beast

comments     Sim Kwang Yang     Published     Updated

Any political party in Malaysia is a strange political beast.

The system of party politics evolved out of the rise of democracy in Europe and North America in the 19th century. Any group of people with an eye on power in the newly emergent nation-state can form a political party.

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