Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword 1 A Defining Role for a New Malaysia Forgone? ix
4. Foreword 2 Learning from Sabah xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction Sabah Goes to the Polls 1
7. Part 1 Context
8. Chapter 1 Warisan Plus in Government: A Retrospective from the Campaign and Beyond 21
9. Chapter 2 The 1963 Malaysia Agreement: Pakatan’s Failed Restoration and Perikatan’s Fledgling Initiatives 39
10. Chapter 3 The Unemployment Problem during the Warisan Plus Administration 61
11. Chapter 4 Voices of Civil Society Organisations in Sabah Politics 83
12. Part 2 Narratives
13. Chapter 5 Incessant Political Narratives: Perilous Migrants and the Treacherous East 113
14. Chapter 6 Sabah’s Youth Talk Politics: Ethnic Identity, Illegal Migrants & Religious Freedom 133
15. Part 3 Campaigning
16. Chapter 7 Key Players in Sabah’s ‘Keroyok’ Politics 151
17. Chapter 8 ‘Don’t Jump, Time to Work’: The Political Maturity of Sabahan Digital Spaces Through the 2020 State Election 167
18. Chapter 9 Sabah Style amidst Uncertainty: Campaigning in the 2020 Sabah State Polls 189
19. Chapter 10 Undi Sabah: Igniting Youth Participation in Sabah’s Democracy 211
20. Part 4 Results
21. Chapter 11 A Holistic Society-Centred Analysis of the Sabah Election 2020 Results: Voters, Voting and Trajectories of Survival and Change 231
22. Chapter 12 Chinese Sabahans in the 2020 Sabah State Election 265
23. Chapter 13 Kadazan-Dusun Politics: The Persistence of Personality Politics, Patronage and Ethnonationalism 285
24. Chapter 14 Islam and Muslim Politics in Sabah’s 2020 State Election 305
25. Conclusion Sabah’s Covid-19 Election Aftermath: Beyond New (and Old) Political Alignments 329
26. Bibliography 349
27. List of Contributors 361