Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore

While the economic miracle of Singapore is widely known the ideas that haveunderpinned it remain to be documented and critically examined. The singlepolitical p... » 

While the economic miracle of Singapore is widely known the ideas that haveunderpinned it remain to be documented and critically examined. The singlepolitical party that has governed Singapore over the past three decades ofnationhood has successfully developed different ideas at different times toorganize the multiracial population into a relatively unified people who strivecollectively to transform their own material conditions.This is the first book critically to analyse the evolution and succession ofthe above ideas within changing circumstances. In particular the author chartsthe rise of Asian communitarianism a set of ideas consecrated explicitly asa national ideology. In contrast to foreign critics who readily seedevelopments in Singapore as evolving phases of an unchanging authoritarianregime the writer a Singaporean himself sees them as an attempt to develop aparticular form of antiliberal democratic polity by a highly ideologicallyconscious political elite. «