Editors:
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)
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Front Matter
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Political and Policy Context
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Front Matter
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Media and Political Communication
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Legal and Constitutional Context
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Authoritarianism & Singapore
- Developmental State & Singapore
- Democratisation in Singapore
- Governance in Singapore
- Singapore
- Social Policy in Singapore
- Welfare in Singapore
- Authoritarian Modernity in East Asia
- Colonialism in Singapore
- Social Policy Reform in Singapore
- Populist Managerialism in Singapore
- Intra-Party Dynamics in the People’s Action Party
- Pluralism and Political Activism in Singapore
- Singapore Governance Model
- Media Policy & Singapore
- Governing Authoritarian Law in Singapore
- democracy
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Lily Zubaidah Rahim
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College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Michael D. Barr
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in Singapore's Developmental State
Editors: Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Michael D. Barr
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1556-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1555-8Published: 25 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1556-5Published: 06 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 329
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Politics, Asian Economics, Democracy, Development and Social Change