Singapore Changes Guard: Social, Political and Economic Directions in the 1990s

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Garry Rodan
Longman Cheshire, 1993 - Nationalism - 209 pages
The book takes an interdisciplinary approach; provides a comprehensive survey of important changes in Singapore's contemporary social, political and economic life; examines issues such as the emergence of the middle class and its significance for political change; the problems of transcending the early phase of industrial and economic success through export-oriented strategies; and the economic role of the state in a maturing economy; provides analysis of contemporary forms and uses of ideology, including the adoption of an official national ideology, the use of development models, and the political significance of media images; and gives close attention to the prospects for political liberalisation as a result of the leadership transition.

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the presidency the leadership
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The corporatist management of ethnicity in contemporary
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the establishment of a National Ideology
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