“Ink Me”: A Representation of Transparency in Election Administration
The Malaysian Election Commission has to present itself as fair, transparent and competent in its preparations for elections. Malaysia recently went through its twelfth general election, and while the Election Commission was busy with its preparations, it also had to be seen to be neutral in its t...
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| author | Li, Lean Mohd Don, Zuraidah |
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| description | The Malaysian Election Commission has to present itself as fair, transparent and competent in its
preparations for elections. Malaysia recently went through its twelfth general election, and while the Election
Commission was busy with its preparations, it also had to be seen to be neutral in its treatment to all
Malaysians, including the contesting parties. This paper shows how the Election Commission was
represented by the media in the days following the announcement of the general election. Besides that, the
analysis is also focussed on the strategies used by the Election Commission to present themselves more
credibly and transparent to all the relevant parties and voters concerned. The study uses the technique of
critical discourse analysis to analyse a corpus of articles taken from The Star from 13 February to 7 March
2008.
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| spelling | um.eprints-31792014-12-16T06:15:35Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/3179/ “Ink Me”: A Representation of Transparency in Election Administration Li, Lean Mohd Don, Zuraidah J General legislative and executive papers JF Political institutions (General) The Malaysian Election Commission has to present itself as fair, transparent and competent in its preparations for elections. Malaysia recently went through its twelfth general election, and while the Election Commission was busy with its preparations, it also had to be seen to be neutral in its treatment to all Malaysians, including the contesting parties. This paper shows how the Election Commission was represented by the media in the days following the announcement of the general election. Besides that, the analysis is also focussed on the strategies used by the Election Commission to present themselves more credibly and transparent to all the relevant parties and voters concerned. The study uses the technique of critical discourse analysis to analyse a corpus of articles taken from The Star from 13 February to 7 March 2008. 2010-02-26 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.um.edu.my/3179/1/Ink_Me.pdf Li, Lean and Mohd Don, Zuraidah (2010) “Ink Me”: A Representation of Transparency in Election Administration. In: Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Humanities, Historical and Social Sciences (CHHSS 2010), 26-28 February, 2010, Singapore. (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | J General legislative and executive papers JF Political institutions (General) Li, Lean Mohd Don, Zuraidah “Ink Me”: A Representation of Transparency in Election Administration |
| title | “Ink Me”: A Representation of Transparency in Election
Administration |
| title_full | “Ink Me”: A Representation of Transparency in Election
Administration |
| title_fullStr | “Ink Me”: A Representation of Transparency in Election
Administration |
| title_full_unstemmed | “Ink Me”: A Representation of Transparency in Election
Administration |
| title_short | “Ink Me”: A Representation of Transparency in Election
Administration |
| title_sort | ink me a representation of transparency in election administration |
| topic | J General legislative and executive papers JF Political institutions (General) |
| url | http://eprints.um.edu.my/3179/1/Ink_Me.pdf |
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