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Governing Global-City Singapore - Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew (Paperback)
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Governing Global-City Singapore - Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew (Paperback)
Series: Politics in Asia
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This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in
Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is
today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew (LKY)
future. First, it discusses the question of political leadership,
electoral dominance, and legislative monopoly in Singapore's
one-party dominant system and the system's durability. Second, it
tracks developments in Singapore's public administration,
critically analysing the formation and transformation of
meritocracy and pragmatism, two key components of the state
ideology. Third, it discusses developments within civil society,
focusing in particular on issues related to patriarchy and
feminism, hetero-normativity and gay activism, immigration and
migrant worker exploitation, and the contest over history and
national narratives in academia, the media, and the arts. Fourth,
it discusses the People's Action Party (PAP) government's efforts
to connect with the public, including its national public
engagement exercises that can be interpreted as a subtler approach
to social and political control. In increasingly complex
conditions, the state struggles to maintain its hegemony while
securing a pre-eminent position in the global economic order. Tan
demonstrates how trends in these four areas converge in ways that
signal plausible futures for a post-LKY Singapore.
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