Prashant Waikar, a research analyst with the Malaysia Programme at RSIS, wrote in his commentary that the ease at which a civil service transitions to work with a new government is particularly complicated in countries which have had lengthy periods of one-party rule. So, will the civil service cooperate with the new government? There is no straightforward answer, but a few trends are worth discussing.  Should political leaders seek to implement new policies that civil servants disagree with, one can expect them to fall back on red tape to slow down policy development and execution, and thus bring reforms to a halt.