Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore

The economic success of Singapore has established the country as a model for other nations. Yet until now the ideas behind this accomplishment have not been critically examined. Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore fills this gap. The book outlines the policies the ruling party has adopted over the past three decades. It charts the government's move away from Western concepts towards the evolution of 'Asian democracy'. The author analyses this anti-liberal democracy and the government's motives for repackaging cultural heritage into a national ideology of Asian communitarianism. This book avoids the polarization that has tended to characterise texts on Asian governments. It neither concentrates on a history of authoritarian repression nor unequivocally praises the regime but critically examines its political success. As such it provides a new and balanced account to the student of Singapore politics

Authoritarianism · Communitarianism · Democracy · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · asia · Communautarisme · Community development · History · politics and government · Singapore

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• Social Work Advocacy in Singapore

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• Textual Construction of a Nation

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• The Politics of Location in Southeast Asia

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• Rethinking Resurgent Christianity in Singapore

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• Reinscribing Orientalism

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• Regulation of Religion and Granting of Public Holidays

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• Sociology in Singapore

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• Burdens’ and ‘handicaps’ in Singapore’s language policy

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• The Reform Agenda for Madrasah Education in Singapore

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• Fostering Social Cohesion and Cultural Sustainability

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• Foreigners in our homes

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• Spaces of silence

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• Narratives and Governance

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• "Reading the "Singlish Debate

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• Skeuomorphic Domestic Television’s Analog Divide

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• Globalisation and the changing nature of the state in East Asia

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• Working against globalisation

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• Cruising, space and surveillance

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• It's purely mutual respect”

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• Stretching out the categories

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• Electoral Innovation in Competitive Authoritarian States

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• Media representations of camera sexual voyeurism in Singapore

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• Reproduction, discipline, inequality

  Open Access•J Greener, Eve Yeo•Global Social Policy•2022

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• Drivers of migration policy reform

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• Language Planning in Singapore

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• Multicultural carnivals and the politics of the spectacle in global Singapore

  D P S Goh•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2013

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• Drawing from Grotowski and beyond

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• Non-liberal parables for the Millennium

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• Life is not complete without critique

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• Doing” cultural studies

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• Autogenous culture as political form

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• Woman' as boundary

  Nirmala Srirekam Purushotam, Nirmala Purushotam•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2002

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• Commercially arranged marriage and the negotiation of citizenship rights among Vietnamese marriage migrants in multiracial Singapore

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• Historical trajectories and lost heritage of early Chinese schools in Singapore – case study of Yeung Ching School in ‘Chinatown

  Jingyi Qu, Chee Meng Wong•Asian Ethnicity•2019

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• Chinese privilege in politics

  Humairah Zainal, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah•Asian Ethnicity•2021

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• State approaches towards managing ethnic diversity in Myanmar and Malaysia

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• A politics of accommodation

  Lenore Lyons•International Feminist Journal of…•2005

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• E-government in a corporatist, communitarian society

  Open Access•Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Milagros Rivera‐Sánchez et al.•New Media & Society•2006

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• Raising Successful Children

  Kristina Göransson•Canberra Anthropology•2015

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• Immigration and the National Narrative

  Open Access•Norman Vasu, Damien D Cheong•The Copenhagen Journal of Asian…•2014

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• Liberal Arts for Asians

  Petrus Liu, Colleen Lye•Interventions•2016

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• Politics of Language in Contemporary Singapore Cinema

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• Managing the complexities of race

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• Of prince charming and male chauvinist pigs

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• Managing minorities in competitive authoritarian states

  Walid Jumblatt Abdullah•Indonesia and the Malay World•2016

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• Governing as gardening

  Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, B Turner et al.•Citizenship Studies•2013

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• Blood donors, development and modernisation

  David Reubi•Citizenship Studies•2010

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• Silent citizenship

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• Public intervention, private aspiration

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• Challenging the developmental state

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• Homonationalist discourse as a politics of pragmatic resistance in Singapore's Pink Dot movement

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• Allied educators (learning and behavioural support) in Singapore's mainstream schools

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• The Changing Face of Sport and Physical Education in Post-Colonial Singapore

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• Back Regions’ and ‘Dark Secrets’ in Singapore

  Terence Chong, Terence Tai‐leung Chong•Space and Polity•2010

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• Compliant Singaporean Christians? State-Centred Christian Responses to Covid-19 in a Single-Party Dominant State

  Open Access•Joshua Dao Wei Sims, Joshua Dao Wei Sim•Studies in World Christianity•2020

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• The limits of democratizing interest representation

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• Sanitizing ethnicity

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• Going to the ground (or AstroTurf)

  Meredith L Wei•Democratization•2017

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• Classifying political regimes revisited

  Steffen Kailitz•Democratization•2013

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• For the Good of The Nation

  Open Access•Michelle M Lazar•Nations and Nationalism•2001

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• Perspectives on the study of culture and international politics

  Lawson, Stephanie Lawson•Asia-Pacific Review•1999

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• Law, State Control, and Women's Movements

  Lynette J Chua•Asian Journal of Women s Studies•2008

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• Believing in Equality

  Lenore Lyons•Asian Journal of Women s Studies•1999

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• Inventing a Moral Crisis and the Singapore State

  Kuah Khun Eng•Asian Journal of Women s Studies•1997

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• Confucian Masculinity

  Open Access•Adelyn Lim•Men and Masculinities•2021

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• Reporting Public Opinion in Singapore

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