Managing Political Change in Singapore: The Elected PresidencyLam Peng Er, Kevin Tan The Singapore parliament's creation of an elected presidency in 1991 was the biggest constitutional and political change in Singapore's modern era. This multi-disciplinary study gathers papers from leading scholars in law, history, political science and economics to examine how political change is managed in Singapore. It is an authoritative addition to debates surrounding the management of political change in developing countries more generally. |
Contents
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constitutional developments | 52 |
choosing | 88 |
a public choice interpretation | 144 |
the political motivations | 167 |
reflections on the first presidential | 188 |
Postscript | 220 |
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Managing Political Change in Singapore: The Elected Presidency Kevin Tan,Peng Er Lam Limited preview - 1997 |
Managing Political Change in Singapore: The Elected Presidency Lam Peng Er,Kevin Tan Limited preview - 2013 |
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