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oapen-20.500.12657-860622023-12-13T02:30:24Z Chapter 7 Manufacturing legislative dominance Washida, Hidekuni Quantitative; UMNO; Barisan Nasional; Mahathir; Najib bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB Regional studies This chapter explores how the BN had transformed the limited pool of mobilized votes into legislative dominance by tactical gerrymandering and malapportionment. Through the systematic analyses of an originally constructed GIS database of electoral boundaries, this chapter reveals that the optimal gerrymandering strategy under authoritarian party dominance deviates from the conventional wisdom of crack and pack. Specifically, the BN had cracked its supporting base and diffused opposition votes without packing. Moreover, the chapter also demonstrates that wide discretion over mapmaking enabled the leaders to selectively overrepresent their party’s supporting base. It also considers the unexpected negative consequences of redistricting. 2023-12-12T09:58:43Z 2023-12-12T09:58:43Z 2023 chapter 9781138634510 9780367585112 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86062 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781315206752_10.4324_9781315206752-7.pdf Taylor & Francis Distributive Politics in Malaysia Routledge 10.4324/9781315206752-7 10.4324/9781315206752-7 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 55a172a4-c9cc-435f-867f-b3366517a7be 9781138634510 9780367585112 Routledge 33 open access
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This chapter explores how the BN had transformed the limited pool of mobilized votes into legislative dominance by tactical gerrymandering and malapportionment. Through the systematic analyses of an originally constructed GIS database of electoral boundaries, this chapter reveals that the optimal gerrymandering strategy under authoritarian party dominance deviates from the conventional wisdom of crack and pack. Specifically, the BN had cracked its supporting base and diffused opposition votes without packing. Moreover, the chapter also demonstrates that wide discretion over mapmaking enabled the leaders to selectively overrepresent their party’s supporting base. It also considers the unexpected negative consequences of redistricting.
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