Governing Global-City Singapore

This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. The state struggles, in increasingly complicated conditions, to maintain its hegemony while securing a pre-eminent position in the global economic order. Tan demonstrates how a range of trends converge in ways that signal plausible futures for a post-LKY Singapore.

Kenneth Paul Tan is Associate Professor and Vice Dean at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

1. Singapore's Dominant Party System 2. Harnessing Talent for a Macho-Meritocratic Elite 3. Pragmatism and the Neoliberal State 4. The Patriarchal State's Feminization of Civil Society 5. Gay Activism, Religious Conservatism, and the Policing of Neoliberal Crises 6. Moral Panic and the Migrant Worker Folk Devil 7. Inventing and Re-inventing the Public 8. The Singapore Story: Censorship and Nostalgia in the Creative City 9. Imagining Futures After Lee Kuan Yew