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    The study does not involve the whole population of a Malay community in other constituency within Perak. Considering the limited sample which only focuses on the Malay majority Tambun constituency, it may not represent all Malay community in Malaysia.

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    FACTOR’S INFLUENCING THE MALAYS VOTES

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    MASTER OF HUMAN SCIENCES IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (MHSPS)

    RESEARCH PROPOSAL

    FACTOR’S INFLUENCING THE MALAYS TO VOTE DURING ELECTION


    AND THEIR SATISFACTION WITH THE CONDUCT OF THE 14th GENERAL
    ELECTION: A CASE STUDY AT TAMBUN PARLIAMENT, IPOH, PERAK

    PREPARED BY:
    (1) DR MOHD FUZI OMAR
    SUPERVISOR:
    (1) DR MOHD FUZI OMAR
    (2) DR SYAZA FARHANA
    CONTENTS
    INTRODUCTION

    STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

    OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

    RESEARCH QUESTIONS

    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

    LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

    THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF THE STUDY

    METHODOLOGY
    (A) INTRODUCTION
    (1) HOW TO LOOK AT MALAYSIA AS MULTICULTURAL COUNTRY?
    Ethnicity does played a vital role amongst the Malaysian people
     The sociopolitical context of Malaysia election – considering social factors as
    part of the voting behavior analysis
     Between ethnic attitudes and voting behavior – influences the political
    instability in Malaysia
     Eg Mat Jali Mohd Fuad et al (2011)
     Malays voters cared very much about which party won the election (ethnicity
    of the candidates)

    (2) PREVIOUS TAMBUN PARLIAMENTARY VOTING BEHAVIOR?


     Constituency reform in the GE-14 is the first political realignment in this
    constituency
     Candidates are coming from the same ethnicity background won (BN
    Candidates)
     Higher Malay population compared to Chinese and Indian (and others)
    Population of the Tambun
    Voters

    Malay Chinese
    Indian Others
    voters voters
    (12%) (2%)
    (64%) (22%)
    (B) STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

    Where Malaysia
    could finally move
    beyond its
    entrenched race
    based dominated
    political system?

    The problem of the


    Malay conservative
    mind? – the change
    only symbolic, not
    really a free will of the
    Malays?

    The change of the


    human rights?
    Toward more
    democratic country?
    Reason to choose social
    analysis?
    Subsequent analysis
    on the voting pattern
    will reveal the
    significant social
    factors played a
    significant role in
    changing political
    dynamics of the
    Malay It may reveal something
    voters.
    about the future political
    references within the
    circle of the Malay
    voters.
    (C) OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

    To identify the factors


    influencing the voting
    behavior among the
    Malay voters

    To analyze the levels of To study the people’s


    satisfaction influencing attitude toward conduct
    voting behavior during of election at Tambun
    election Parliament
    (D) RESEARCH QUESTIONS

    What were the factor


    analysis influencing the
    voting behavior in the
    GE14 among the Malay
    voters?

    What are the levels of


    What are the people’s
    satisfaction among
    attitude toward conduct
    Malay which affect their
    of election at Tambun
    voting behavior during
    Parliament?
    the election?
    (E) SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
    STUDY

    What occurrence
    can be taken out
    in five domains?
    Can identify about
    the patterns of the
    voting behavior in
    14th general election
    & the levels
    Underlying of of
    thoughts
    satisfaction
    the shifts? Perhaps these
    social factors that
    influenced Malay voting
    behavior were the
    product of the Malay
    feudal history?
    (F) LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

    The study does not involve the whole population of a Malay


    community in other constituency within Perak. Considering
    the limited sample which only focuses on the Malay majority
    Tambun constituency, it may not represent all Malay
    community in Malaysia.
    The study does not include the perception of the political
    affiliation of each person, but rather focuses on the social
    factors influencing the voting behavior during GE14.
    Following sociology interpretation of the voting behavior,
    the study does not intended to provide a definitive
    Theinterpretation
    identity of the. respondents in this study is not revealed.
    They are identified as Respondent 1, Respondent 2 and
    Respondent 3 etc in order to protect their confidentiality.
    This study is not to access respondent’s background, but
    rather identifying the factor analysis influencing the voting
    behavior among the Malay community in transition with the
    context of Tambun Parliament.
    (G) THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF THE
    STUDY

    (1) Using the sociological model of voting behavior (Colombian model)


     Assembled by Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson & William McPhee
     In their study – it shows that social context (the group affiliation) exercises main influences in
    the process of forming voters’ political options
     ‘people vote not only with their social group, but for it too’ (Lazarsfeld et al, 2004)

     This study is further classified into five different domains:


    (1) family domain,
    (2) friendship domain
    (3) print and new media domain
    (4) Religion domain
    (5) Economic domain;

    **and they are been connected as well by their satisfaction during the conduct of election.
    SOCIOLOGICAL MODEL OF VOTING
    BEHAVIOR

    SOCIAL
    LEVELS OF
    CONSTRUCT SATISFACTION
    (1) Family domain (1) Candidate’s
    (2) Friendship personality
    domain (2) Campaign
    (3) New and print period
    media domain (3) Polling station
    (4) Religion (4) Party manifesto
    domain (5) Media
    (5) Economic information
    domain

    VOTING BEHAVIOR OF THE MALAYS


    (H) METHODOLOGY

     SAMPLE POPULATION:
     300 participants
     Four age categories (ranging from 21-60 years old)
     Voters residing under Tambun Parliament focusing on two areas (Manjoi &
    Ulu Kinta)

     RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS
    Technique of data collection – giving respondents questionnaire, a set of
    questions
    56 quantitative questions
    Secondary sources (references) obtain from the published numerical data
     Online journals – to obtain secondary data (in the form of articles, books,
    proceedings, yearly reports and published academic papers)
     PILOT STUDY
    Tested the reliability using the Cronbach’s Alpha reliability test in SPSS
    application
    Taken about 50 respondents for the pilot study to test the reliability
     Cronbach alpha analysis shows about 0.8 above

     SAMPLING METHOD
    The members from the population will be selected accordingly to the
    convenience sampling (also known as availability sampling)
    Convenience sampling is a specific type of non-probability sampling method
    that relies on data collection from population members who are conveniently
    available to participate in study
    Distribute the questionnaires to the respondents at any public places such as
    retail shops, shopping malls, schools, night market and residences area
     METHOD OF ANALYSIS
    The data obtained from the SPSS will be analyzed using a factor
    analysis
    Factor analysis is used to investigate variable relationships
    Allows researcher to investigate concepts that are not easily
    measured directly by collapsing a large number of variables into a few
    interpretable underlying factors

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