Singapore is an antipolis in which unquestionable political consensus is maintained by
authoritarian means. It is the actuality of the possible development of western democracies …

Singapore has been ruled by a single party, the People's Action Party, since its political
independence in 1965. The history of the party's rise to monopolistic parliamentary power …

Looking at Singapore from the vantage point of its political structure, little appears to have
changed in the past forty years since the People's Action Party (pap) first came to power. The …

The thesis presented here will not only change the way in which we understand
contemporary Singaporean society and the relationship between the state and its citizens …

The celebrated rapid economic development in Singapore has been accompanied by
growing authoritarianism under the leadership of the People's Action Party. This paper …

Singapore has changed dramatically in the last forty years, moving in the 1960s and 1970s
from domestic import substitution to low-cost exportoriented goods. Then in the 1980s …

In independent Singapore, the extensive grassroots sector has been linked with party-
political interests. The People's Action Party has relied on it for mass mobilisation and …

For analysts of political development, Singapore is an extremely frustrating case. The
economy is opened to global flows, thus highly influenced by external forces, in spite of the …

Singapore has its critics, but the city-state has achieved remarkable successes as a result of
the voluntary trade-off of certain political rights for economic and social progress. In …

Interpreting Singapore: Class or power? Page 1 The Pacific Review,Vol. 8 No. 3 1995: 558-63
Review article Interpreting Singapore: class or power? James Cotton Page 2 Review article …