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Recent Posts
- Malaysia’s Budget 2026: Fiscal Reform or Fragility?
- What We Don’t See is Harming Our Children: The Smartphone Blackhole
- The 2025 PKR Party Election: Feuding, Factionalism and the Future of the People’s Justice Party
- Increasing Government Efficiency in Malaysia through a New Act
- Mahathir Mohamad at 100: Monumental Achievements, Mixed Legacies
Tricia’s Writing Archives
BBC World Questions Panel: Can Malaysia emerge as a mature democracy?
Malaysia’s Future: Reform, Economy & Global Challenges ft. Dr Tricia Yeoh | Episode 67 (Are We OK?)
The Future of Federal-State Relations | BERNAMA World
Kunjungan Xi Jinping ke Asia Tenggara: Implikasi ekonomi dan politik untuk Malaysia
Data and Democracy Keynote Speech by Dr Tricia Yeoh (IDEAS)
Tricia Yeoh on bottom up accountability I OTT Conference 2024 Keynote Address | Barcelona, May 2024
IDEAS 7th Liberalism Conference: Closing Address by Dr Tricia Yeoh, CEO of IDEAS
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In the fight against COVID-19, what can states do?
This article first appeared on Malaysiakini here, on 14 July 2021. As the country continues to battle Covid-19, several states have attempted to take matters into their own hands. For example, as of July 13, the Sabah and Sarawak state … Continue reading
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Will Pakatan Harapan’s Hold on Selangor Continue?
This was published as a Trends by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in January 2021, and the full publication can be accessed here. Executive Summary • When the Pakatan Harapan (PH) federal government fell inFebruary 2020, PH also lost control over … Continue reading
Posted in Federalism, General Politics, Selangor
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State Governments and the 2021 Emergency: Unfettered Powers at the Centre
This commentary was first published on Fulcrum, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s commentary website, here on 22 January 2021. On 12 January, the Agong and the Prime Minister separately announced that the former had approved an Emergency Declaration for Malaysia that took … Continue reading
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Don’t derail EU-Malaysia trade relations because of palm oil biofuel
This article was first published in The Edge Malaysia here on 22 December 2020. Malaysia recently agreed to join and ratify the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which was welcomed and celebrated after many years of long negotiations. However, one … Continue reading
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Federal-State Relations under the Pakatan Harapan Government
This was published as a “Trends” by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute Singapore, at which I am a Visiting Research Fellow (July to December 2020) in October 2020. The full publication can be accessed here. Executive Summary • On 9 May … Continue reading
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The Rise and Fall of State Governments in Malaysia: Institutions, Constitutions and Political Alignment
This piece was published as a “Perspectives” by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute Singapore, at which I am currently a Visiting Research Fellow (July to December 2020), on 11 September 2020. The full publication can be accessed here. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • The … Continue reading
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Federal-state friction amid Malaysia’s dual political and pandemic plight
This was first published on New Mandala on 12 August 2020 here. This is a short version that summarises the key thrusts of the larger report that can be found here. This article (and the corresponding report) is part of … Continue reading
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Federalism and the COVID-19 Crisis: State-Federal Tensions Arise in Malaysia
I have been using the Forum of Federations website quite a bit in my research, so very pleased to have written this piece for their “Federalism and the COVID-19 Crisis” series for Malaysia. This was first published on the Forum … Continue reading
The Political Economy of Federal-State Relations: How the centre influences resource distribution to the periphery
IDEAS has just released my policy paper, which can be downloaded here. The media statement released together with the paper is pasted below. IDEAS: The federal government must distribute resources fairly, regardless of political affiliation KUALA LUMPUR, 14 MAY 2020: … Continue reading
Reporting on the Reporters (in August Man Magazine)
Thank you August Man Magazine for including me in its feature in conjunction with World Press Freedom Day on 3 May. The full piece can be found on its website here. They also kindly sent me a PDF version of … Continue reading
