Politics

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

The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authoritarian or "hybrid" regimes―Singapo...

Synopsis"Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blend of comfort and central control, where people have m...

Malaysia's stunning 2018 election brought down a ruling party that had held power since independence in 1957, marking the first regime change in th...

It is said that the duty of public servants is to 'speak truth to power' - to give honest, sound and sometimes unpopular advice to political leader...

Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, was the Institute of Policy Studies' 2016/17 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. Th...

This book examines the staying power of the People's Action Party, a political party that has governed Singapore since June 1959. A political titan...

The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world and are keen to know which parts...

Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that unde...

Kumar Ramakrishna Revisionist" or "alternative" historians have increasingly questioned elements of the Singapore Story - the master narrative of...

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

As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leaders after the death of Lee Kuan Yew and its 2015 general election ...

Survivors of Operation Spectrum—the alleged Marxist conspiracy—speak up in this volume. For many of them, this is the first time that they cast the...

In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the way the People's Action Party has f...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why? In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that dif...

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

Ho Kwon Ping The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in 2014. It is part of the S R Nathan Fellowship ...

Income inequality has become a global phenomenon. Rapid technological advancement and an expanding global workforce will continue to place huge pre...

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