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The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in Singapore's Developmental State

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Editors:
  1. Lily Zubaidah Rahim

    1. Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Michael D. Barr

    1. College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

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  • Highlights the limitations of Singapore’s authoritarian governance model

  • Examines the relevance of the Singapore governance model for other industrialising economies

  • Elaborates on the structural pressures associated with Singapore’s particular locus within globalised capitalism that have fostered heightened social and material inequalities

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction: Authoritarian Governance in Singapore’s Developmental State

    • Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Michael D. Barr
    Pages 1-25
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  4. Political and Policy Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Social Policy Reform and Rigidity in Singapore’s Authoritarian Developmental State

      • Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Yeoh Lam Keong
      Pages 95-130
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    3. New Politics and Old Managerialism: Welcome to the New Normal

      • Michael D. Barr
      Pages 131-149
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    4. Intra-Party Dynamics in the People’s Action Party: Party Structure, Continuity and Hegemony

      • Walid Jumblatt Abdullah
      Pages 151-171
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    5. The Growing Challenge of Pluralism and Political Activism: Shifts in the Hegemonic Discourse in Singapore

      • Stephan Ortmann
      Pages 173-194
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    6. PAP Vulnerability and the Singapore Governance Model: Findings from the Asian Barometer Survey

      • Bridget Welsh, Alex H. Chang
      Pages 195-216
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  5. Media and Political Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Aligning Media Policy with Executive Dominance

      • Cherian George
      Pages 219-232
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    3. Pragmatic Competence and Communication Governance in Singapore

      • Terence Lee
      Pages 233-253
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  7. Back Matter

    Pages 321-329
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About this book

This book delves into the limitations of Singapore’s authoritarian governance model. In doing so, the relevance of the Singapore governance model for other industrialising economies is systematically examined. Research in this book examines the challenges for an integrated governance model that has proven durable over four to five decades. The editors argue that established socio-political and economic formulae are now facing unprecedented challenges. Structural pressures associated with Singapore’s particular locus within globalised capitalism have fostered heightened social and material inequalities, compounded by the ruling party’s ideological resistance to substantive redistribution. As ‘growth with equity’ becomes more elusive, the rationale for power by a ruling party dominated by technocratic elite and state institutions crafted and controlled by the ruling party  and its bureaucratic allies is open to more critical scrutiny.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Lily Zubaidah Rahim

  • College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Michael D. Barr

About the editors

Lily Zubaidah Rahim is an Associate Professor of Government & International Relations at the University of Sydney and a specialist in authoritarian governance, democratisation, ethnicity and political Islam. Her books include The Singapore Dilemma: The Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay Community, (1998), Singapore in the Malay World: Building and Breaching Regional Bridges (2010), Muslim Secular Democracy (2013), and The Politics of Islamism (2018). Lily Zubaidah is currently President of the Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA) and Vice-President of the Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies.

Michael Barr is an Associate Professor of International Relations in the College of Business, Government and Law at Flinders University. His books include Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs behind the Man (2000 ), Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and Nation Building (2008), The Ruling Elite of Singapore (2014) and Singapore: A Modern History (2018). He was Editor-in-Chief of Asian Studies Review from 2012-2017.


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