Governing global-city Singapore : legacies and futures after Lee Kuan Yew / Kenneth Paul Tan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tan, Kenneth Paul, author.

Series:

Politics in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Singapore--Politics and government--21st century.

Singapore.

Physical Description:

ix, 193 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

"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 future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore's one-party dominant system and the system's durability. Secondly, 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. Thirdly, 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. Fourthly, it discusses the 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Singapore's dominant party system

Harnessing talent for a macho-meritocratic elite

Pragmatism and the neoliberal state

The patriarchal state's feminization of civil society

Gay activism, religious conservatism, and the policing of neoliberal crises

Moral panic and the migrant worker folk devil

Inventing and re-inventing the public

The Singapore story : censorship and nostalgia in the creative city

Imagining futures after Lee Kuan Yew.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138654891

1138654892

OCLC:

953387254