Breakthrough 2.0: Singaporeans Push For Parliamentary Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breakthrough 2.0: Singaporeans Push For Parliamentary Democracy write by Derek Da Cunha. This book was released on 2022-01-07. Breakthrough 2.0: Singaporeans Push For Parliamentary Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some six decades of socialisation by the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has ingrained in a majority of Singaporeans the instinct that it is not unusual to give up certain personal liberties for the greater good as long as the PAP State ensures the material well-being of Singaporeans. The general election of 2020 (GE2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic, put this social compact between the people and the State to the test. Significant job losses, wage cuts, and an erosion of personal wealth — due to measures to counter the pandemic — cut substantially into the PAP popular vote nationally, and resulted in an unprecedented 10 candidates from the opposition Workers' Party (WP) being elected to Parliament. GE2020 confirmed the trend from GE2011, when the WP first made a breakthrough, that Singaporeans will only accept a party in moderate opposition to the PAP. This narrative differs markedly from conventional wisdom.Breakthrough 2.0 explores the aforementioned phenomena. The book analyses critically the issues surrounding parliamentary elections in Singapore. It also focuses on issues not explored by many other observers, namely voter psychology; election processes; and, party branding. A comparative analysis of election practices and processes in other jurisdictions is also employed to determine where parallels can or cannot be drawn with the situation in Singapore.The author has had direct access to personalities across the political parties. Consequently, he utilises primary sources, supported by evidence, in sketching out backstories to events which exposes certain myths that were prevailing in social media in the months running up to GE2020.
Breakthrough
Breakthrough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breakthrough write by Derek Da Cunha. This book was released on 2012. Breakthrough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Singapore in the Malay World
Singapore in the Malay World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singapore in the Malay World write by Lily Zubaidah Rahim. This book was released on 2010-11-09. Singapore in the Malay World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new appraisal of their relationship offers groundbreaking new insights into the way in which the Malaysian and Singapore states see both themselves and each other.
Toward a Better Future
Toward a Better Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Better Future write by Fredriksen Birger. This book was released on 2008-04-18. Toward a Better Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Toward a Better Future' provides a comprehensive analysis of education development in Singapore since 1965, giving particular attention to the strategic management that has enabled Singapore to transform its education and training system from one similar to that of many Sub-Saharan African countries four decades ago into one of the world's best-performing systems. It is one of a pair of concurrently-published books presenting materials originally developed for a 2006 study tour to Singapore and Vietnam for senior education officials from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar, and Mozambique. The second book, 'An African Exploration of the East Asian Education Experience', presents five country studies, as well as regional, comparative analyses highlighting insights gained during the study tour and putting them in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa. Together, the two books aim to foster knowledge exchange between Sub-Saharan African and East Asian countries on good practices in the design and implementation of education policies and programs. By facilitating the cross-country fertilization of ideas between two regions with relatively limited contact in the past, these books fi ll a clear gap in the current literature on development practice in education.
Authoritarian Gravity Centers
Authoritarian Gravity Centers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authoritarian Gravity Centers write by Marianne Kneuer. This book was released on 2020-05-19. Authoritarian Gravity Centers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure. This book presents a conceptual model to understand, assess, and explain the promotion and diffusion of authoritarian elements. Employing a cross-regional approach, leading experts empirically test the concept of authoritarian gravity centers (AGCs), defined as "regimes that constitute a force of attraction and contagion for countries in geopolitical proximity." With an analysis extending across Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Asia, these AGCs are shown to be effective as active promoters (push) or as neutral sources of attraction (pull). The authors contend that the influence of exogenous factors, along with international and regional contexts for the transformation of regime types, is vital to understanding and analyzing the transmission of autocratic institutional settings, ideas, norms, procedures, and practices, thus explaining the regional clustering of autocracies. It is the regional context in which external actors can influence authoritarian processes most effectively. Authoritarian Gravity Centers is a vibrant and comprehensive contribution to the growing field of autocratization, which will be of great interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of comparative area studies, illiberalism, international politics, and studies of democracy.
