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 Former diplomat Bilahari Kausikan highlights t...

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

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 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 Some praise it as a national treasure. Others tag it as the people’s supermarket. Many simply call it “NTUC.” While NTUC FairPrice ...

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

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

Description About the Author The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authorit...

Description Praise After decades of overwhelming political domination by the People's Action Party (PAP), Singapore has entered a phase of poli...

Description About the Author For several decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international anomaly, combining an advanced, open ec...

Description About the Author In 2015, Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. This book covers the complex historical forces...

Description Praise About the Author Revisionist" or "alternative" historians have increasingly questioned elements of the Singapore Story - the...

Description About the Editors Malaysia's stunning 2018 election brought down a ruling party that had held power since independence in 1957, mar...

Description Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015 at the age of 92. This book, which was first published in 1998, tells the story of his li...

Description About the Author In this fully updated, third edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds new information following recent government ele...

Description About the Authors The People's Action Party's unbroken mandate to rule in Singapore rests in no small part on how it has explained ...

Description About the Author The history of communism in Malaya (including Singapore) almost coincided with the rise and fall of communism worl...

Description About the Editor In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about lib...

Description About the Authors The year 2021 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of the Cambodian Peace Agreements which ended the Ca...

Description About the Author Writer and politician Nik Nazmi has always been vocal in articulating his vision for a better Malaysia. This compi...

Description About the Author As Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary as a sovereign and independent country, what does it mean to be a Sin...

Description About the Author The third of the “Tom Plate on Asia” series, Yo-Yo Diplomacy compiles the compelling and insightful columns on Asi...

Description About the Author This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with busi...