Politics

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Description About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Book Cover Design) Look inside the book   |   Get the e-book "A ...

Description About the Author Look inside the book    |    Get the Rational Conversations bundle Activist and journalist Kirsten Han examines th...

Description About the Author Look inside the book     |    Get the Rational Conversations bundle Former Nominated Member of Parliament Kuik Shi...

Description About the Editors Look inside the book "You need a very small space to have sex.""The co-driver is there to slap the driver when he...

Description About the Author Look inside the book     |    Get the Rational Conversations bundle Award-winning poet and playwright Alfian Sa'at...

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2016 (English Non-Fiction) 3rd Prize Winner of Popular Readers' ...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book "Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blen...

Description Praise About the Author Shorlisted for the 2020 Singapore Book Awards (Best Non-Fiction) Look inside the book        Get the Chiam ...

Description About the Author Look inside the book    |    Get the Rational Conversations Bundle Activist and vice president of Transient Worker...

Description About the Authors The 2020 General Election results have raised expectations that Singapore will transition to a more competitive d...

Description About the Author As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leaders after the death of Lee Kuan Y...

Description This book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singa...

Description Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role ...

Description About the Authors From January 2021, author Woon Tai Ho started to meet PN Balji for breakfast every Monday morning. What began as ...

Description About the Authors Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is ...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (81 KB)Lecture 1: Politics and Governance (261 KB) The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was la...

Description About the Author In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the wa...

Description Lim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for...

Description What are the issues which one would consider important for a country? This is a question most citizens would ask as they head into ...

Description About the Editor The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in variou...

Description About the Author It is said that the duty of public servants is to 'speak truth to power' - to give honest, sound and sometimes unp...

Description The People's Action Party (PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in ...

Description About the Author This book examines the staying power of the People's Action Party, a political party that has governed Singapore s...

Description The fields of special needs education and disability in Singapore have witnessed significant changes and developments especially du...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (106 KB)Lecture I: Hunting Black Swans and Taming Black Elephants: Governance in a Compl...

Description Key Features On 10 July 2020, Singapore held its 18th general elections in history and the 13th since independence in 1965. As in ...

Description About the Author One of the pivotal figures in the modern history of Southeast Asia, Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015. ...

Description About the Editor From independence in 1965, Singapore has experienced a meteoric rise to a modern developed city-state. What is les...

Description About the Author The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world...

Description Contents Singapore and India established diplomatic relations in August 1965. However, their ties date as far back as the 10th cent...

Description The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship benefits from the author's many years of experience as a serial entrepreneur. By mapping hi...

Description Mahadeva, the founding secretary-general of the Singapore National Union of Journalists (SNUJ), suddenly found himself in the news ...

Description Throughout the history of mankind, the rise of societies, whether civilizations, nations, or communities, has been a story of human...

Description About the Editors Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many ...

Description About the Author These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years....

Description The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore's central bank and integrated financial regulator. As a central bank, MAS pr...

Description About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...

Description Praise About the Author The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why? In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many...

Description About the Editors Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore’s first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore’s first ind...

Description About the Editor Income inequality has become a global phenomenon. Rapid technological advancement and an expanding global workforc...

Description About the Author Understanding Singapore Politics, Second Edition, aims to present a structural-functional understanding of politic...

Description About the Editor Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Acti...

Description The year 2019 marks Singapore's Bicentennial milestone since the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore in 1819. It was in an...