1. Introduction: Authoritarian Governance in Singapore’s Developmental State.- 2. Singapore and the Lineages of Authoritarian Modernity in East Asia.- 3. Independence: The Further Stage of Colonialism in Singapore.- 4. Albert Winsemius and the Transnational Origins of High Modernist Governance in Singapore.- 5. Social Policy Reform and Rigidity in Singapore’s Authoritarian Developmental State.- 6. New Politics and Old Managerialism: Welcome to the New Normal.- 7. Intra-Party Dynamics in the People’s Action Party: Party Structure, Continuity and Hegemony.- 8. The Growing Challenge of Pluralism and Political Activism: Shifts in the Hegemonic Discourse in Singapore.- 9. PAP Vulnerability and the Singapore Governance Model: Findings from the Asian Barometer Survey.- 10. Aligning Media Policy with Executive Dominance.- 11. Pragmatic Competence and Communication Governance in Singapore.- 12. Legislating Dominance: Parliament and theMaking of Singapore’s Governance Model.- 13. Governing Authoritarian Law: Law as Security.- 14. Conclusion: Democratising Singapore’s Developmental State.
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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