Malaysia is a democratic country?
No!
Malaysia may be better described as a (diminished) form of authoritarianism.
In a competitive authoritarian regimes, formal democratic institutions are widely viewed as the principal means of ob- taining and exercising political authority. Incumbents violate those rules so often and to such an extent, however, that the regime fails to meet conventional minimum standards for democracy. Examples include Croatia under Franjo Tudjman, Serbia under Slobodan Miloševiæ, Rus- sia under Vladimir Putin, Ukraine under Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, Peru under Alberto Fujimori, and post-1995 Haiti, as well as Albania, Armenia, Ghana, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, and Zambia through much of the 1990s. Although scholars have characterized many of these regimes as partial or “diminished” forms of democracy, we agree with Juan Linz that they may be better described as a (diminished) form of authoritarianism.4
Goggle the below to read on:
Elections Without Democracy
THE RISE OF COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM
Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way
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