Malaysia

First Published in 1974. Throughout this title two interweaving and interacting themes are apparent. One is the changes resulting from the increasingly important role of politics and politicians in states which until 1963 had been colonies. Politics is, as it were, superimposed on administration. The other is the impact of the Federal Government. From 1963 onwards Sarawak and Sabah were changing because they were "new states". A short bibliography includes a section on Malaya/Malaysia, which is necessary because this book studies a rather unusual form of the problem of political development as Sarawak and Sabah are not independent countries.

R.S> Milne Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia. K.J. Ratnam School of Comparative Social Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysi

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Federalism and Nation-Building; Chapter 3 Political Parties; Chapter 4 The Sabah State Election of 1967 and Sarawak State Election of 1969-70; Chapter 5 The Politics of Manoeuvre and Negotiation; Chapter 6 Administration in the Field: Local Government Councils: Development Machinery; Chapter 7 Strategies, Styles and Resources of Politics; Chapter 8 Political Development in the Borneo States;