Sivamurugan Pandian

Universiti Sains Malaysia | USM · School of Social Sciences

Albeit the ridiculous claim on the implementation of the Hudud in Egyptian society, the history of this demand failed due to several reasons. Crucially, the unqualified community. Besides that, the Islamist movements translated the understanding of the Islamic State prejudicially. In the meantime, the demand for implementations of the Islamic State...

“Slaughter the sheep” and “Cut down the tall trees”: two sentences that describe the origin of two genocides that occurred on African soil. Both Egypt and Rwanda witnessed two genocides that sent the countries backward. This paper examines the role of media socialisation that led the Rabaa genocide to occur in Egypt and the Rwandan genocide that to...

The investigation of extremism is likely to take a place after the occurrence of the occurrence. Few of the people that investigated the life of extremists understand how their life is completely influenced to shift them from ordinary citizens into extremists to cease the increase of extremism globally. Thus, this research examines the life of the...

To date, the collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood had brought sociological and political scholars to seek the reason behind the movement's collapse. Whilst some scholars assume that the collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood had ultimately led to the collapse of political Islam. Other scholars argue that the Muslim Brotherhood had governed Egypt for a ye...

Again, it's still unclear for sociological scholars, how Al-Qaeda socializes its cohorts based on abomination towards the West and the Arab regimes. This research paper focuses on the socialization process within Al-Qaeda through (Family, School, Peers and Media). Also, it argues that not all of those who join Al-Qaeda ostracized by their perspecti...

This paper examines the role of socialisation and its impact on the Iranian armed organisations, especially Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Basij and Al-Quds Force. This paper also examines the role of the Iranian school as an agent of socialisation beneath the secularism rule prior to the collapse of the Shah and currently beneath Islami...

Malaysia has long been regarded as an embodiment of tolera nt islam living in peaceful coexistence within a multicultural and multi-ethnic religious society. Tensions between the Malay majority and other religious groups have been rising especially in the last few years. This descriptive analysis provides explanations regarding the rise of ethnocen...

Malaysia's 13th General Election held on 5 May 2013 was one of the most exciting General Elections in Malaysia's political history. The result showed that the ruling party Barisan Nasional (National Front) or BN and the opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat (People's Alliance) or PR contested closely in the 222 Parliamentary seats. Although the resul...

Malaysia’s 13th General Election held on 5 May 2013 was one of the most exciting General Election in Malaysia’s political history. The result showed that the ruling party (National Front) and the opposition coalition (People’s Alliance) contested closely in the 222 Parliamentary seats. Although the results showed a rather status quo in favour of th...

This chapter analyzes the burgeoning role of new media in the Malaysian political sphere. The chapter descriptively analyzes the role of Sarawakreport.org, a blog formed by the former Prime Minister of the UK's (Gordon Brown's) sister in-law, Clare Rewcastle Brown, in an endeavor to challenge the Chief Minister of Sarawak in his incumbency. The gov...

In the 2006 Sarawak 9th state elections, BarisanNasional (National Front) fondly known as BN win with a landslide victory. A majority of 62 seats won against a total of 71 contested. Within 5 years, many changes occurred and BN had to face numerous issues which were used as a political tool by the opposition parties. On the other hand, the oppositi...

This paper investigates the importance of antecedents of customer loyalty such as customer satisfaction and service quality dimensions. It addresses whether the dimensions of service quality impacts customer satisfaction eventually leading to customer loyalty. The Structural Equation modeling technique was used in this analysis to determine custome...

Prior to 1999 Malaysia's general election, the elections had taken place in the years of 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1995. The election is a mechanism under democracy practices to make a choice via a voting process by registered voters in electing leaders with the ability to serve society as well as forming a government. Elec...

The 'protest vote' theory by Hirschman (1970) and Barry (1974) indicates the emergence of a probability would occur when the entity of an organization or elections failed to place their trust, they would instead choose to 'be silent-and-exit'. Voters may opt to not cast their votes and with that, relinquish their power and right in choosing their l...

This paper investigates the level of customer satisfaction among the customers who fly with Air Asia, a budget airline in Malaysia. The factors which investigated are the price offered, pre-flight services, customer relationship management, cabin environment and in-flight services. The independent variable is customer satisfaction. A quantitative a...

Democratic Action Party (DAP) has contested in all the General Elections since 1969. Between 1969 until 2004, DAP has its up and downs; reached its peak in the year 1986 when they won 24 seats in the Parliamentary level compared to the 2004 elections where they failed to attain more than 20 seats. Why did DAP decide to collaborate and join forces w...

Previous research on the internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) explored the relationship between adoption of global orientation and competitive advantage, management attitude, and international knowledge and experience. However, there was a difference in opinion between those arguing that there is a positive relationship betwe...

The first elections after independence was held in 1959 and since that general election until the 12th general elections in March 2008, the Alliance party later known as the National Front (BN) party in 1974 continued to administer the country with ongoing control in the Parliament level. Until the elections of 2008, for State Legislative Assembly...

Internationalization is recognized as a valuable strategy for organizations' growth and expansion; however little is known about the determinants of internationalization of SMEs in Malaysia, which is in a fast growing economy. In attempt to investigate the antecedents of internationalization, three key determinants are identified: the competitive a...

This paper explores Malaysia’s political culture emphasizing the political consensus achieved among various ethnic groups whose lifestyle, values and beliefs differ from one another. Given the Malaysian political culture which is very much fragmented, the forming of the Alliance, or National Front (NF), has not only helped reduce ethnic-based confl...

This paper examines the political and executive leadership in Malaysia, with reference to the fifth Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. The Prime Minister is an important autonomous actor, a leader of the government party who also manages public bureaucracy and utmost, Abdullah is seen as the leader of the people. Policy agenda depends on th...

Pada tahun 2007, Malaysia meraikan ulangtahun 50 tahun kemerdekaan. Sepanjang 50 tahun, banyak perubahan yang telah berlaku dalam sistem politik, ekonomi dan sosial negara. Barisan kepimpinan negara memastikan bahawa negara akan terus membangun sejajar dengan perubahan di peringkat global dan keupayaan untuk mentadbir dengan sendiri tanpabergantung...

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi presided as the Prime Minister on October 31, 2003; a smooth process of political exchange and transition for 16 months from former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, a statesman who had stood at the helm of the government for almost 22 years. After taking over the administration, Datuk Seri Abdullah introduce...

Artikel ini membincangkan mengenai pemikiran ‘Mahathirisme’ yang merupakan satu pengamatan terhadap perlambangan falsafah pemikiran politik Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. Istilah ‘Mahathirisme’ dicetuskan dari idea yang melihat keunikan pentadbiran Dr. Mahathir bersama falsafah dan cara pengurusan negara yang ingin dibawanya ke arah negara maju pada tah...