Interview with Meredith Weiss on Money, Media, Machinery…and Again, Mahathir

Meredith Weiss is Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She has published widely on political mobilization and contention, the politics of identity and development, and electoral politics in Southeast Asia. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the resilience of electoral-authoritarian politics in Malaysia and Singapore and a collaborative study of “money politics” in Southeast Asia.