Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus - Softcover

Low, Donald; Vadaketh, Sudhir Thomas

 
9789971698164: Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9971698161 ISBN 13: 9789971698164
Verlag: NUS Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Donald Low is Associate Dean for executive education and research at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

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Verlag
NUS Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9971698161
ISBN 13 
9789971698164
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
233
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