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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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Category Archives: Public Administration
PM Muhyiddin Yassin’s resignation signals UMNO’s back in driver’s seat
This was first published on Channel NewsAsia on 16 August 2021, here. KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin submitted his resignation letter to the King on Aug 16 (Monday) which the latter accepted, but the political impasse has still … Continue reading
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
Posted in Federalism, Health, Public Administration
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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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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
What actually happened at the 28th April NSC meeting?
I am trying to reconstruct what transpired at the National Security Council meeting on 28th April, which was chaired by the Prime Minister and attended by all states’ Menteris Besar and Chief Ministers. Were the states consulted? Did they know … Continue reading
Infusing federalism into public health decision-making
First published on Malaysiakini here on 5 May 2020. The federal government’s decision to ease the movement control order (MCO) from May 4 to 12 was abruptly announced just three days earlier, on Labour Day. Almost immediately, the Sarawak and … Continue reading
