We Singaporeans are very Concerned: The Citizens’ Agenda 2025
- Description
- About the Editor
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New Naratif ran The Citizens’ Agenda to survey Singaporeans on this question:
In your opinion, what issues do you consider important to Singapore and think that the candidates in the upcoming General Election should talk about as they compete for your vote? Please give as much detail as possible.
This book is the culmination of The Singapore Citizens’ Agenda. You will find analyses of the data gathered, as well as the articles that we produced to explain and analyse the top issues.
Contents:
- The 25 Most Important Issues Facing Singapore in 2024
- Singaporeans Speak: The Top 5 Most Important Issues Facing Singapore in 2024
- Why is the Cost of Living So High? Part 1: Understanding the PAP Government’s Economic Model
- Why is the Cost of Living So High? Part 2: What is the PAP doing about the Cost of Living?
- Why is the Cost of Living So High? Part 3: Inequality in Singapore
- The Contradictions of Public Housing in Singapore
- Do Singaporeans Own or Lease or Rent Their HDB flat?
- Cost vs. Care: Understanding the Trade-Offs in Singapore’s Healthcare System
- The ‘Traditional’ Family as a Technology of State Control in Singapore
- 10. The Political Economy of Race in Singapore: Unpacking the PAP’s Race-based Approaches
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Thum Ping Tjin (“PJ”) is Founder of New Naratif, a movement to democratise democracy in Southeast Asia. He is an award-winning writer, Rhodes Scholar, Commonwealth Scholar, Olympic athlete, and the first Singaporean to swim the English Channel. His work is on Malayan nationalism and decolonisation and, more broadly, Southeast Asian governance and politics. He has a doctorate in history from Oxford, where he was also a fellow between 2014 and 2022. His most recent work is Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore: The Malayan Generation, 1953-63 (Routledge, 2024).
Cover Type: Paperback
Year Published: 2025
Size: 210mm x 148mm
Language: English