Bridget Welsh is a Professor of Political Science at Ipek University (Turkey), Senior Research Associate of the Center for East Asia Democratic Studies, National Taiwan University (Taiwan), and Senior Associate Fellow of The Habibie Centre and University Fellow of Charles Darwin University (Australia). She specialises in Southeast Asian politics, with particular foci on Malaysia, Myanmar and Singapore. She is part of the core team of the Asian Barometer Survey. Her most recent book is an edited collection on Malaysia’s UMNO (forthcoming 2016).