Overview
- 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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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.
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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
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Political and Policy Context
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Media and Political Communication
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Legal and Constitutional Context
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Editors and Affiliations
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.
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