Bridget Welsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4383375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bridget Welsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bridget |
| FAMILY NAME | Welsh |
| SIGNATURE | WELSH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Regime Resilience in Malaysia and Singapore
Sabah from the Ground: The 2020 Elections and the Politics of Survival
Sabah's 2020 election was Malaysia's pandemic election. While attention has centred on the impact the election had on the increase of COVID-19, this collection brings together scholars, journalists and social scientists who were on the ground on Sabah to analyse what happened, why, and the broader implications of the outcome for Sabah and Malaysian politics. The book is the first in-depth study of a Sabah election. It is multidisciplinary, with a…
The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia by Meredith L. Weiss
Reviewed by: The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia by Meredith L. Weiss Bridget Welsh The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia, by MEREDITH L. WEISS, NUS Press/Cornell University Press, 2020, 271 pp. ISBN 9789813251212 Meredith Weiss's Roots of Resilience is essential reading for those grappling with two persistent questions about politics in Mala…
Saviour” Politics and Malaysia's 2018 Electoral Democratic Breakthrough: Rethinking Explanatory Narratives and Implications
In understanding Malaysia's surprise 14th General Election, this article argues for the need to rethink how we understand elections. We need to bring together macro socio-political forces with more micro-level evolving phenomena in the campaign, within political institutions, and in voting behaviour. Rather than buck international trends, Malaysia's sociopolitical conditions before the election – political polarisation, a rise of anger, increasin…
Special Issue Introduction: The 2018 Malaysian General Election: The Return of Mahathir and the Exit of Umno
In coming years, 9 May will be regarded a watershed moment in Malaysias political history; on the same level as the 13 May 1969 race riots. After 61 years of uninterrupted rule by the Malayan Alliance, and its successor, Barisan Nasional (BN), the governing coalition dominated by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and led by Malaysias sixth prime minister Najib Tun Razak lost the 14th General Election. In a devastating defeat, BN lost…
Clientelism and Control: PAP’s Fight for Safety in GE2015
This article looks at the reasons the People’s Action Party (PAP) secured its decisive victory in the 2015 general election. The discussion examines the impact of the campaign and pre-election period on voting behaviour. While the opposition’s performance before and during the campaign reactivated its core supporters, the PAP’s control of the political narrative, rejuvenation of its grassroots machinery and effective use of resources provided an …
Burma Votes for Change: Clashing Attitudes Toward Democracy
What does public opinion tell us about Burma’s longer-term prospects for democracy? The Asian Barometer Survey reveals contradictory attitudes regarding democracy and democratic values among the citizens of Burma
Singapore at 50: The Post—Lee Kuan Yew Era
The party Lee founded ... is grappling with the question of how to hold onto power in the face of a more diverse and demanding electorate and a less advantageous economic environment
Choosing China: Public perceptions of ‘China as a model’
This article examines East Asians and Chinese nationals who select ‘China as a model’ of development. The analysis looks at both macro and micro explanations to show that China's standing as a development model is not in sync with its status as a rising global and regional power. At the macro level, the focus is on country-level patterns, while the micro analysis is drawn from the third wave surveys of the Asia Barometer Survey data conducted fro…
Millennials and East Asia’s Democratic Future
This essay examines how millennials are shaping democracy in East Asia, drawing from the third wave of the Asia Barometer Survey (2010-2013). The essay looks at how millennials engage and participate in politics, their support for democracy and conceptualization of democracy and compares these factors to older cohorts. The findings show that millennials do participate and support democracy, but do so in paradoxical ways that differ from older gen…
Trauma and Triumphalism in Malaysia
[T]he incumbent forces have reformulated old strategies to deflect contenders for power while narrowing the political space for substantive reform
Divided or Together? Southeast Asia in 2012
Southeast Asian Affairs is the only one of its kind: a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected volumes of Southeast Asian Affairs have become a compendium documenting the dynamic evolution of regional and national developments in Southeast Asia from the end of the ‘second’ Vietnam War to the alarms and struggles of today. Over the years, the edi…
Malaysia’s Elections: A Step Backward
Despite losing the popular vote, Malaysia’s long-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) triumphed again in the country’s 2013 elections, disappointing an emboldened opposition that had high hopes after a strong performance in 2008. Why and how did Najib and the BN win? What do the answers to those questions mean for his government and for democracy in Malaysia? In many ways, the 2013 polls typify those of competitive authoritarian systems, in which incumbe…
Southeast Asia: Sources of Regime Support
The authors’ empirical analysis shows both commonalities and variations in the sources of regime support in Southeast Asian countries. Most regimes in the region draw political legitimacy from perceptions that their governance is effective and marked by integrity. These findings lend support to the argument that regime legitimacy—when it is won and when it is lost—is rooted in the output side of the political system. Yet delivering economic prosp…
Collective Violence in Indonesia
Since the end of Suharto's so-called New Order (1966-1998) in Indonesia and the eruption of vicious group violence, a number of questions have engaged the minds of scholars and other observers. How widespread is the group violence? What forms—ethnic, religious, economic—has it primarily taken? Have the clashes of the post-Suharto years been significantly more widespread, or worse, than those of the late New Order? The authors of Collective Violen…
Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore
N.A
Legacy of Engagement in Southeast Asia
This rich collection of essays explores the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations in Southeast Asia since 1945. Academics and practitioners trace three themes – transformations within Southeast Asian countries, the actors and processes that contributed to these changes, and new dynamics in foreign relations. These diachronic essays examine how engagement among Southeast Asians and between regional and outside actors have affect…
Local and National: Keroyokan Mobbing in Indonesia
From horrific accounts of men decapitated to “ordinary” accounts of stolen motorcycles, the routine beating and killing of alleged criminals by mobs ( massa ) has become common in Indonesia. This article examines the patterns of keroyokan —mobbing—from 1995 through 2004 in four provinces and highlights the temporal, spatial, and substantive variations of this phenomenon. Drawing from a database of provincial and local news clippings in Bali, Beng…
Malaysia at 50: Midlife Crisis Ahead
It remains to be seen whether Malaysia will continue on its historic path of avoiding ethnic conflict, promoting economic growth, and allowing political choice, albeit limited choice
Malaysia in 2004: Out of Mahathir's Shadow
During 2004, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi faced the difficult challenge of carving out his own brand of leadership, maintaining economic competitiveness, and redefining Malaysia abroad. This article assesses his success and argues that Abdullah has created a new identity but ironically made himself more politically vulnerable
Tears and Fears: Tun Mahathir ́s Last Hurrah
Amidst tears and apprehension about a future without a man who became synonymous with Malaysia for over a generation, Malaysia's fourth and longest-serving prime minister stepped down after a sixteen-month transition on 31 October 2003, making way for the tenure of his appointed deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Malaysia's new prime minister faces an extraordinary set of challenges, many of which were the direct result of his predecessor's twenty-tw…
Attitudes toward Democracy in Malaysia: Challenges to the Regime
Research Article| September 01 1996 Attitudes toward Democracy in Malaysia: Challenges to the Regime? Bridget Welsh Bridget Welsh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (9): 882–903. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645537 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Southeast Asia: Sources of Regime Support
The authors’ empirical analysis shows both commonalities and variations in the sources of regime support in Southeast Asian countries. Most regimes in the region draw political legitimacy from perceptions that their governance is effective and marked by integrity. These findings lend support to the argument that regime legitimacy—when it is won and when it is lost—is rooted in the output side of the political system. Yet delivering economic prosp…
Malaysia’s Elections: A Step Backward
Despite losing the popular vote, Malaysia’s long-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) triumphed again in the country’s 2013 elections, disappointing an emboldened opposition that had high hopes after a strong performance in 2008. Why and how did Najib and the BN win? What do the answers to those questions mean for his government and for democracy in Malaysia? In many ways, the 2013 polls typify those of competitive authoritarian systems, in which incumbe…
Saviour” Politics and Malaysia's 2018 Electoral Democratic Breakthrough: Rethinking Explanatory Narratives and Implications
In understanding Malaysia's surprise 14th General Election, this article argues for the need to rethink how we understand elections. We need to bring together macro socio-political forces with more micro-level evolving phenomena in the campaign, within political institutions, and in voting behaviour. Rather than buck international trends, Malaysia's sociopolitical conditions before the election – political polarisation, a rise of anger, increasin…
Burma Votes for Change: Clashing Attitudes Toward Democracy
What does public opinion tell us about Burma’s longer-term prospects for democracy? The Asian Barometer Survey reveals contradictory attitudes regarding democracy and democratic values among the citizens of Burma
Local and National: Keroyokan Mobbing in Indonesia
From horrific accounts of men decapitated to “ordinary” accounts of stolen motorcycles, the routine beating and killing of alleged criminals by mobs ( massa ) has become common in Indonesia. This article examines the patterns of keroyokan —mobbing—from 1995 through 2004 in four provinces and highlights the temporal, spatial, and substantive variations of this phenomenon. Drawing from a database of provincial and local news clippings in Bali, Beng…
Choosing China: Public perceptions of ‘China as a model’
This article examines East Asians and Chinese nationals who select ‘China as a model’ of development. The analysis looks at both macro and micro explanations to show that China's standing as a development model is not in sync with its status as a rising global and regional power. At the macro level, the focus is on country-level patterns, while the micro analysis is drawn from the third wave surveys of the Asia Barometer Survey data conducted fro…
Malaysia in 2004: Out of Mahathir's Shadow
During 2004, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi faced the difficult challenge of carving out his own brand of leadership, maintaining economic competitiveness, and redefining Malaysia abroad. This article assesses his success and argues that Abdullah has created a new identity but ironically made himself more politically vulnerable
Millennials and East Asia’s Democratic Future
This essay examines how millennials are shaping democracy in East Asia, drawing from the third wave of the Asia Barometer Survey (2010-2013). The essay looks at how millennials engage and participate in politics, their support for democracy and conceptualization of democracy and compares these factors to older cohorts. The findings show that millennials do participate and support democracy, but do so in paradoxical ways that differ from older gen…
Clientelism and Control: PAP’s Fight for Safety in GE2015
This article looks at the reasons the People’s Action Party (PAP) secured its decisive victory in the 2015 general election. The discussion examines the impact of the campaign and pre-election period on voting behaviour. While the opposition’s performance before and during the campaign reactivated its core supporters, the PAP’s control of the political narrative, rejuvenation of its grassroots machinery and effective use of resources provided an …
Attitudes toward Democracy in Malaysia: Challenges to the Regime
Research Article| September 01 1996 Attitudes toward Democracy in Malaysia: Challenges to the Regime? Bridget Welsh Bridget Welsh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (9): 882–903. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645537 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Attitudes toward Democracy in Malaysia: Challenges to the Regime
Research Article| September 01 1996 Attitudes toward Democracy in Malaysia: Challenges to the Regime? Bridget Welsh Bridget Welsh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (9): 882–903. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645537 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Tears and Fears: Tun Mahathir ́s Last Hurrah
Amidst tears and apprehension about a future without a man who became synonymous with Malaysia for over a generation, Malaysia's fourth and longest-serving prime minister stepped down after a sixteen-month transition on 31 October 2003, making way for the tenure of his appointed deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Malaysia's new prime minister faces an extraordinary set of challenges, many of which were the direct result of his predecessor's twenty-tw…
Malaysia in 2004: Out of Mahathir's Shadow
During 2004, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi faced the difficult challenge of carving out his own brand of leadership, maintaining economic competitiveness, and redefining Malaysia abroad. This article assesses his success and argues that Abdullah has created a new identity but ironically made himself more politically vulnerable
Malaysia at 50: Midlife Crisis Ahead
It remains to be seen whether Malaysia will continue on its historic path of avoiding ethnic conflict, promoting economic growth, and allowing political choice, albeit limited choice
Legacy of Engagement in Southeast Asia
This rich collection of essays explores the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations in Southeast Asia since 1945. Academics and practitioners trace three themes – transformations within Southeast Asian countries, the actors and processes that contributed to these changes, and new dynamics in foreign relations. These diachronic essays examine how engagement among Southeast Asians and between regional and outside actors have affect…
Local and National: Keroyokan Mobbing in Indonesia
From horrific accounts of men decapitated to “ordinary” accounts of stolen motorcycles, the routine beating and killing of alleged criminals by mobs ( massa ) has become common in Indonesia. This article examines the patterns of keroyokan —mobbing—from 1995 through 2004 in four provinces and highlights the temporal, spatial, and substantive variations of this phenomenon. Drawing from a database of provincial and local news clippings in Bali, Beng…
Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore
N.A
Collective Violence in Indonesia
Since the end of Suharto's so-called New Order (1966-1998) in Indonesia and the eruption of vicious group violence, a number of questions have engaged the minds of scholars and other observers. How widespread is the group violence? What forms—ethnic, religious, economic—has it primarily taken? Have the clashes of the post-Suharto years been significantly more widespread, or worse, than those of the late New Order? The authors of Collective Violen…
Trauma and Triumphalism in Malaysia
[T]he incumbent forces have reformulated old strategies to deflect contenders for power while narrowing the political space for substantive reform
Divided or Together? Southeast Asia in 2012
Southeast Asian Affairs is the only one of its kind: a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected volumes of Southeast Asian Affairs have become a compendium documenting the dynamic evolution of regional and national developments in Southeast Asia from the end of the ‘second’ Vietnam War to the alarms and struggles of today. Over the years, the edi…
Malaysia’s Elections: A Step Backward
Despite losing the popular vote, Malaysia’s long-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) triumphed again in the country’s 2013 elections, disappointing an emboldened opposition that had high hopes after a strong performance in 2008. Why and how did Najib and the BN win? What do the answers to those questions mean for his government and for democracy in Malaysia? In many ways, the 2013 polls typify those of competitive authoritarian systems, in which incumbe…
Southeast Asia: Sources of Regime Support
The authors’ empirical analysis shows both commonalities and variations in the sources of regime support in Southeast Asian countries. Most regimes in the region draw political legitimacy from perceptions that their governance is effective and marked by integrity. These findings lend support to the argument that regime legitimacy—when it is won and when it is lost—is rooted in the output side of the political system. Yet delivering economic prosp…
Singapore at 50: The Post—Lee Kuan Yew Era
The party Lee founded ... is grappling with the question of how to hold onto power in the face of a more diverse and demanding electorate and a less advantageous economic environment
Choosing China: Public perceptions of ‘China as a model’
This article examines East Asians and Chinese nationals who select ‘China as a model’ of development. The analysis looks at both macro and micro explanations to show that China's standing as a development model is not in sync with its status as a rising global and regional power. At the macro level, the focus is on country-level patterns, while the micro analysis is drawn from the third wave surveys of the Asia Barometer Survey data conducted fro…
Millennials and East Asia’s Democratic Future
This essay examines how millennials are shaping democracy in East Asia, drawing from the third wave of the Asia Barometer Survey (2010-2013). The essay looks at how millennials engage and participate in politics, their support for democracy and conceptualization of democracy and compares these factors to older cohorts. The findings show that millennials do participate and support democracy, but do so in paradoxical ways that differ from older gen…
Clientelism and Control: PAP’s Fight for Safety in GE2015
This article looks at the reasons the People’s Action Party (PAP) secured its decisive victory in the 2015 general election. The discussion examines the impact of the campaign and pre-election period on voting behaviour. While the opposition’s performance before and during the campaign reactivated its core supporters, the PAP’s control of the political narrative, rejuvenation of its grassroots machinery and effective use of resources provided an …
Burma Votes for Change: Clashing Attitudes Toward Democracy
What does public opinion tell us about Burma’s longer-term prospects for democracy? The Asian Barometer Survey reveals contradictory attitudes regarding democracy and democratic values among the citizens of Burma
Saviour” Politics and Malaysia's 2018 Electoral Democratic Breakthrough: Rethinking Explanatory Narratives and Implications
In understanding Malaysia's surprise 14th General Election, this article argues for the need to rethink how we understand elections. We need to bring together macro socio-political forces with more micro-level evolving phenomena in the campaign, within political institutions, and in voting behaviour. Rather than buck international trends, Malaysia's sociopolitical conditions before the election – political polarisation, a rise of anger, increasin…
Special Issue Introduction: The 2018 Malaysian General Election: The Return of Mahathir and the Exit of Umno
In coming years, 9 May will be regarded a watershed moment in Malaysias political history; on the same level as the 13 May 1969 race riots. After 61 years of uninterrupted rule by the Malayan Alliance, and its successor, Barisan Nasional (BN), the governing coalition dominated by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and led by Malaysias sixth prime minister Najib Tun Razak lost the 14th General Election. In a devastating defeat, BN lost…
Sabah from the Ground: The 2020 Elections and the Politics of Survival
Sabah's 2020 election was Malaysia's pandemic election. While attention has centred on the impact the election had on the increase of COVID-19, this collection brings together scholars, journalists and social scientists who were on the ground on Sabah to analyse what happened, why, and the broader implications of the outcome for Sabah and Malaysian politics. The book is the first in-depth study of a Sabah election. It is multidisciplinary, with a…
The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia by Meredith L. Weiss
Reviewed by: The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia by Meredith L. Weiss Bridget Welsh The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia, by MEREDITH L. WEISS, NUS Press/Cornell University Press, 2020, 271 pp. ISBN 9789813251212 Meredith Weiss's Roots of Resilience is essential reading for those grappling with two persistent questions about politics in Mala…
Regime Resilience in Malaysia and Singapore
Political science (20 works) · Asian Studies and History (18 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (8 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Geography (6 works)