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Goh’s consensus politics of authoritarian rule
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Goh’s consensus politics of authoritarian rule

G. Rodan
Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong years in Singapore, pp.61-70
Institute of Policy Studies and NUS Press Singapore
2009
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Abstract

It would be overstating the case to depict Goh Chok Tong as having transformed the nature of authoritarianism in Singapore during his time as Prime Minister and leader of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) between 1990 and 2004. Yet Goh did significantly refine the regime through his “consensus politics”. Goh’s predecessor, Lee Kuan Yew, had presided over the systematic obstruction of political opposition and the decimation of civil society...

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