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...

Understanding Singapore Politics is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. This introductory text looks at the...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

"An inspiring collection of interviews with respected Singapore civil society activists. Not only do we hear how they came to be, why they do what...