Creating Cadres: Mobilization, Activism, and the Youth Wing of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, PAS

Since the 1999 general elections, when it emerged with the most impressing performance in Malaysian political history, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, or PAS, has elicited significant scholarly attention. This has resulted in the production of a wealth of information about the party’s origins and evolution. Yet, while most observers of Malaysian politics note that, next to UMNO, PAS is the most organized and well-resourced political party in the country, there remains a dearth of knowledge about the internal workings of PAS, and specifically, how the party developed, maintained and mobilizes its impressive machinery. This paper aims to unpack the puzzle of the nature of PAS’s mobilization by studying the party’s youth wing (also known as PAS Youth). Through the conceptual framework of resource mobilization theory and a detailed study of milestone events in the party’s recent history, the paper argues that the youth wing has played a pivotal role in defining the party’s identity as well as its political triumphs. At the same time, however, its integral role within PAS has meant that the challenges confronting the parent party have undoubtedly rebounded upon them as well.

製造幹部：動員、行動主義與泛馬來西亞伊斯蘭黨（PAS）青年翼

自從以馬來西亞政治歷史上最令人印象深刻的表現在1999年的大選中脫穎而出後，泛馬來西亞伊斯蘭黨（PAS）就引起了大量的 學術關注。其結果是大量的關於該黨起源和發展的信息的產生。雖然多數馬來西亞政治觀察家注意到PAS是馬來西亞僅次於UMNO的最有組織最有資源的政黨， 關於PAS內部運作的信息仍然很缺乏，尤其是該黨是如何發展、維護和調用其高效的政治機器的。本文旨在通過研究該黨青年翼（也叫PAS青年）而解開PAS 動員的實質這一迷團。以資源調動理論為理論框架，通過對該黨最近歷史上的重要事件進行詳細的研究，本文認為，青年翼在定義黨的身份以及該黨的政治凱旋中扮 演了重要角色。但同時，它在PAS中不可或缺的角色也意味著其母黨所面臨的挑戰也毫無疑問地投射到了他們身上。