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Civil Disobedience and Cyber Democracy

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the emergence of civil disobedience in Malaysia specifically in the era of Abdullah Badawi, and its impact upon the democratization process. The whole analysis in this paper is qualitative and derived from two types of data which is primary and secondary data....

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Main Authors:	Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Othman, Zaheruddin, Ahmad, Zalinah, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Fitri, Ajis, Mohd Na'eim, Ngah, Kamarudin, Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus
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Published:	Richtmann Publishing Ltd 2017
Subjects:	JA Political science (General)
Online Access:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31483/1/MJSS%2008%2004%202017%2009-16.pdf https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31483/ https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/mjss
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spelling	my.uum.repo.314832024-11-12T13:24:46Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31483/ Civil Disobedience and Cyber Democracy Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah Othman, Zaheruddin Ahmad, Zalinah Abdul Rahman, Mohd Fitri Ajis, Mohd Na'eim Ngah, Kamarudin Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus JA Political science (General) The purpose of this paper is to analyze the emergence of civil disobedience in Malaysia specifically in the era of Abdullah Badawi, and its impact upon the democratization process. The whole analysis in this paper is qualitative and derived from two types of data which is primary and secondary data. The analysis shows that civil disobedience arose due to three factors, namely the government's failure to fulfill its promise to reform, Mahathir’s criticism against Abdullah Badawi's leadership, and the government failure to handle racial issues. Consequently, Barisan Nasional (The National Front) government failed to gain two-thirds majority of the parliamentary seats in the 2008 general elections and at the same time lost five states to the opposition. In 2013 general election the result remain the same which is government failed to gain two-thirds majority of the parliamentary seats. Furthermore, even though the emergence of civil disobedience failed to create a change of government, it however has been able to give birth to cyber democracy and create awareness among Malaysians to pursue the process of democratization Richtmann Publishing Ltd 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by_nc https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31483/1/MJSS%2008%2004%202017%2009-16.pdf Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah and Othman, Zaheruddin and Ahmad, Zalinah and Abdul Rahman, Mohd Fitri and Ajis, Mohd Na'eim and Ngah, Kamarudin and Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus (2017) Civil Disobedience and Cyber Democracy. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 8 (4). pp. 9-16. ISSN 2039-9340 https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/mjss
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spellingShingle	JA Political science (General) Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah Othman, Zaheruddin Ahmad, Zalinah Abdul Rahman, Mohd Fitri Ajis, Mohd Na'eim Ngah, Kamarudin Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus Civil Disobedience and Cyber Democracy
description	The purpose of this paper is to analyze the emergence of civil disobedience in Malaysia specifically in the era of Abdullah Badawi, and its impact upon the democratization process. The whole analysis in this paper is qualitative and derived from two types of data which is primary and secondary data. The analysis shows that civil disobedience arose due to three factors, namely the government's failure to fulfill its promise to reform, Mahathir’s criticism against Abdullah Badawi's leadership, and the government failure to handle racial issues. Consequently, Barisan Nasional (The National Front) government failed to gain two-thirds majority of the parliamentary seats in the 2008 general elections and at the same time lost five states to the opposition. In 2013 general election the result remain the same which is government failed to gain two-thirds majority of the parliamentary seats. Furthermore, even though the emergence of civil disobedience failed to create a change of government, it however has been able to give birth to cyber democracy and create awareness among Malaysians to pursue the process of democratization
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title	Civil Disobedience and Cyber Democracy
title_short	Civil Disobedience and Cyber Democracy
title_full	Civil Disobedience and Cyber Democracy
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title_full_unstemmed	Civil Disobedience and Cyber Democracy
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publisher	Richtmann Publishing Ltd
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url	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31483/1/MJSS%2008%2004%202017%2009-16.pdf https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31483/ https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/mjss
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