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Hard choices : challenging the Singapore consensus / Donald Low and Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, with contributions from Linda Lim and Thum Ping Tjin.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Low, Donald, 1973- author.
- Vadaketh, Sudhir Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political planning--Singapore.
- Political planning.
- Singapore--Politics and government.
- Singapore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a degree of political consensus that ordinary democratic arrangements cannot produce, and that the country's success requires a competitive meritocracy accompanied by relatively little income or wealth redistribution. But the policy and political conundrums that Singapore faces today are complex and defy easy answers. Confronted with a political landscape that is likely to become more contested, how should the government respond? What reforms should it pursue? This collection of essays suggests that a far-reaching and radical rethinking of the country's policies and institutions is necessary, even if it weakens the very consensus that enabled Singapore to succeed in its first fifty years.
- Contents:
- Endorsements
- Half title, full title, copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Limits of Singapore Exceptionalism
- Chapter 1: The Four Myths of Inequality in Singapore
- Chapter 2: How Land and People Fit Together in Singapore's Economy
- Chapter 3: Economic Myths in the Great Population Debate
- Chapter 4: Good Meritocracy, Bad Meritocracy
- Chapter 5: The End of Identity?
- Part 2: Policy Alternatives for Post-Consensus Singapore
- Chapter 6: What's Wrong with Singaporeans?
- Chapter 7: Adapting to our Population Challenges
- Chapter 8: Rethinking Singapore's Housing Policies
- Chapter 9: Beware the Inequality Trap
- Chapter 10: New Options in Social Security
- Part 3: Governance and Democracy: Past, Present &
- Future
- Chapter 11: The Old Normal is the New Normal
- Chapter 12: What Went Wrong for the PAP in 2011?
- Chapter 13: Governing in the New Normal
- Chapter 14: The Future of Democracy in Singapore
- Chapter 15: Liberal Ideas in the New Normal
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9971-69-831-5
- OCLC:
- 882423020
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