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The PAP’s Tightening Grip on Singapore
Published 2018
East Asia Forum, 28 September
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Singapore’s Elected Presidency Under Fire
Published 2017
Australian Outlook, 21 April
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Published 2015
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 29, 2, 113 - 115
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Singapore’s Vaunted CPF under Fire
Published 2014
Asian Sentinal, September 8
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A Rare Contentious Election in Singapore
Published 18/08/2011
Asia Sentinel
Singaporean concerns about rising inequality, public infrastructure pressures associated with foreign worker numbers and the scarcity of political accountability are now playing themselves out in what usually is a tame election for the country’s presidency, a mostly ceremonial post...
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Analyzing the Singapore Election: A Step on the Long Road to Political Pluralism?
Published 12/05/2011
Asia Sentinel
Hardly on a par with developments in North Africa and the Middle East in recent months, Singapore's 7 May general election is nevertheless significant in the struggle against the authoritarian rule of the People's Action Party (PAP)...
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Singapore Maneuvers in Response to Chee
Published 2008
Far Eastern Economic Review, December, 39 - 41
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Singapore’s founding myths vs freedom
Published 10/2006
Far Eastern Economic Review, 169, 8, 13 - 17
THE Singapore government hoped for significant returns when it invested approximately $85 million to host the September 2006 meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. And this seemed like a reasonable expectation. After all, the 16,000 delegates represented a captive audience to promote the Singapore’s finance and tourism industries.
What transpired, however, was a public-relations disaster for the ruling People’s Action Party. Singapore’s extensive curbs on political expression were to consume much of the international media attention before and during the meetings.
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Lion City baits mousy opposition
Published 05/2006
Far Eastern Economic Review, 169, 4, 11 - 17
ON May 6, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will lead the ruling People’s Action Party to the polls for the first time, as the city state conducts its 12th general election. Such is the dominance of the PAP, which secured 75% of the total valid votes at the last election in 2001, that there are really only two questions about the outcome: Will the opposition keep its two seats in the 84-member Parliament? And can Mr Lee replicate the PAP share of the vote achieved last time by his predecessor Goh Chok Tong?
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Capital punishment and civil society in Singapore
Published 2006
Asian Currents, January