Shared Responsibilities, Unshared Power: The Politics of Policy-making in SingaporeThe book offers a critical analysis of the political dynamics that shape Singapore's public policies. It suggests that policy-making in Singapore involves a complex process of interaction among political institutions and that the distribution of power among these institutions is hierarchical and precarious. Thus, the book argues, the contestation of political interests occupies a central position in these stratified interactions, and this has been largely responsible for the types of policies and their impact. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ANALYSING SINGAPORES PUBLIC POLICYMAKING | 8 |
Politics as Leadership as Directions | 25 |
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