Table of Contents

1. What is Remarkable about Singapore? 2. How Singapore Became Independent: Lee Kuan Yew and the People's Action Party (PAP) 3. Locations of Power: The state and the government 4. The People's Action Party: The structure and operation of a dominant party 5. Ideology of the Leaders and for the Populace 6. Economic Policy for an Independent Singapore 7. Supplying Social Services to the People 8. The Dictates of Ethnicity: Language policy, education and self-help 9. The Successors: Leadership trends in the PAP 10. Authoritarian aspects of PAP rule 11. Elections, Electoral Innovation, and the Opposition 12. The Growth of Civil Society 13. Deterence and Diplomacy 14. Singapore in the Future

About the Author

Diane K. Mauzy is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. R.S. Milne is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Reviews

"Singapore's combination of policy dynamism, political authoritarianism and economic prosperity is regarded as paradoxical by many social scientists. Mauzy and Milne, in this comprehensive, judicious and informed volume, have done more to explain this paradox than any of their predecessors. "James Cotton, Australian Defense Force Academy."
"Diane Mauzy and RS Milne should be congratulated for having written this excellent book on politics in Singapore. It is in the same class as Michael Leifer's book on Singapore's Foreign Policy. "Tommy Koh, Director, The Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore."