Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus by Donald Low PAPERBACK

Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus\nby Donald Low\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Donald Low\nTitle: Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political structures: democracy\nPublisher: NUS Press\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9789971698164\nISBN-10: 9971698161\nRRP: \u00A320.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nSingapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a degree of pol.