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Author : Heng Chee Chan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (779 download)
Download or read book The Role of Intellectuals in Singapore Politics written by Heng Chee Chan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bilveer Singh
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811243409
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Understanding Singapore Politics (Second Edition) written by Bilveer Singh and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Singapore Politics, Second Edition, aims to present a structural-functional understanding of politics in Singapore. This textbook provides a foundational knowledge of Singapore's politics by discussing key topics including the country's history, political and party systems, role of parastatal organisations, nation building, political leadership, electoral politics, hot-button national issues and the role of Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore politics. Recommended for anyone who has an interest or a stake in the island republic, this introductory text provides insights on what drives, shapes and influences Singapore's politics and explains the political behaviour of Singaporeans.
Author : Airlangga Pribadi Kusman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811301557
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Vortex of Power written by Airlangga Pribadi Kusman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of intellectuals and governance processes in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Focusing on East Java, the author argues that intellectuals have played an increasingly direct and practical role in the exercise of governance at the local level of Indonesian politics. The book provides insights into how the collaboration between intellectuals and local politico-business elites has shaped good governance and democratic institution-building, validating power structures that continue to obstruct political participation in the country. In addition, the book also delves into the contribution of local intellectuals in resolving the contradictions between technocratic ideas and governance practices, in the interest of local elites. Empirical studies included in the book add to the broader literature on the social role of intellectuals, highlighting their role as not just defined by their capacity to produce and circulate knowledge, but also by their particular position in concrete social and political struggle. The author also explores the manner in which relationships between intellectuals, business and political elites and NGOs in local political and economic practices, intersect with national-level contests over power and resources.
Author : Sebastian Veg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549407
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Minjian written by Sebastian Veg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people. In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.
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Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811204861
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Insights On Singapore's Politics And Governance From Leading Thinkers: From The Institute Of Policy Studies' Singapore Perspectives written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives conference series co-published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific. Contributed by the who's who of Singapore's government, business and academia circles, they provide diverse viewpoints over state-society relations, governing principles, electoral politics, foreign policy, among other important issues.Will consensus or contest secure Singapore's future? Should pragmatism be retained as Singapore's governing philosophy? What if the nation-state is no longer the key organisational unit of the international community? What if Singapore has to choose between China and the United States? What if Singapore becomes a two- or multi-party system? This volume explores a range of possible answers to these questions and more.
Author : Natalie Lee San Pang
Publisher : Singapore Perspectives
ISBN 13 : 9789811225727
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Singapore Perspectives: Politics written by Natalie Lee San Pang and published by Singapore Perspectives. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in other societies, Singapore's politics can be described either in terms of the political parties that have competed for power over the course of its history, or in terms of the citizens who have defined our polity and have driven our democratic processes. Naturally, as Singaporeans have become better informed and more engaged in fashioning their own future, the nature of the contest among the political parties has also shifted.This book is a collection of speeches presented at Singapore Perspectives 2020 by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat, as well as Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing. It also features speeches and discussions by public intellectuals and civic leaders. Each speaker presents a perspective on their 'experience' of politics, both in the traditional sense of elections and governance as well as beyond those formal structures.
Author : Airlangga Pribadi Kusman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9789811301544
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Vortex of Power written by Airlangga Pribadi Kusman and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of intellectuals and governance processes in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Focusing on East Java, the author argues that intellectuals have played an increasingly direct and practical role in the exercise of governance at the local level of Indonesian politics. The book provides insights into how the collaboration between intellectuals and local politico-business elites has shaped good governance and democratic institution-building, validating power structures that continue to obstruct political participation in the country. In addition, the book also delves into the contribution of local intellectuals in resolving the contradictions between technocratic ideas and governance practices, in the interest of local elites. Empirical studies included in the book add to the broader literature on the social role of intellectuals, highlighting their role as not just defined by their capacity to produce and circulate knowledge, but also by their particular position in concrete social and political struggle. The author also explores the manner in which relationships between intellectuals, business and political elites and NGOs in local political and economic practices, intersect with national-level contests over power and resources.
Author : K. J. Ratnam
Publisher : Penerbit USM
ISBN 13 : 9674610839
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Intellectuals, Creativitiy and Intolerance (Penerbit USM) written by K. J. Ratnam and published by Penerbit USM. This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Emeritus Dato’ K.J. Ratnam is a political scientist who received his higher education at the University of Malaya (B.A. 1956), the University of British Columbia (M.A. 1958) and the London School of Economics (Ph.D. 1960). He was Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Singapore before taking up the position of Foundation Dean of the School of Comparative Social Sciences at Universiti Sains Malaysia (then University of Penang) in 1970. He subsequently held the posts of Director of the Centre for Policy Research, Dean of Graduate Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Development. He was conferred the title of Professor Emeritus in 1993. Professor Emeritus Dato’ K.J. Ratnam has been an active researcher and has published extensively on topics ranging from Malaysian politics and race relations to social science development, political sociology, education, R&D planning and science and technology policy. In January 2003, he was appointed to the University’s newly-created Tuanku Chancellor Chair of Science and Technology Policy and Development. Professor Emeritus Ratnam is now retired and lives in Kuala Lumpur.
Author : Michael Hill
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415100526
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore written by Michael Hill and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since independence in 1965 Singapore has strengthened its own national identity through a conscious process of nation-building and promoting the active role of the citizen within society. Singapore is a state that has firmly rejected welfarism but whose political leaders have maintained that collective values, instead of those of autonomous individuals, are essential to its very survival. The book begins by examining basic concepts of citizenship, nationality and the state in the context of Singapore's arrival at independence. The theme of nation-building is explored and how the creation of a national identity, through building new institutions, has been a central feature of political and social life in Singapore. Of great importance has been education, and a system of multilingual education that is part of a broader government strategy of multiculturalism and multiracialism; both have served the purpose of building a new national identity. Other areas covered by the authors include family planning, housing policy, the creation of parapolitical structures and the imporatnce of shared `Asian values' amongst Singapore's citizens.
Author : Kenneth Paul Tan
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971693770
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics written by Kenneth Paul Tan and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains discussions on Singapore's public rhetoric about liberalization and its association with the development of a creative economy, focusing on questions surrounding conservatism, national identity and values, civil society activism, and the societal role of the younger generation.
Author : C. Tremewan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349246247
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore written by C. Tremewan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The thesis presented here will not only change the way in which we understand contemporary Singaporean society and the relationship between the state and its citizens, but will also provoke a debate about the social costs of economic development in other parts of the world, and the future security of the island republic - increasingly a Chinese enclave in a Malay sea - in the twenty-first century.' - Peter Carey, Trinity College, Oxford This study examines the development of Singapore's complex system of social regulation in relation to the phases of its economic strategy and political transition. It focuses on the way social control works through public housing and welfare, education, parliamentary politics and the law. It draws out the implications of such comprehensive control for political conflict. Popular explanations for Singapore's success and its status as a model for other developing countries are brought into question.
Author : Stephan Ortmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135244677
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong written by Stephan Ortmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the changing pattern of contentious politics in the democratization process of the two city-states Singapore and Hong Kong. It explores the causal connections between popular contention and democratization by applying a multi-disciplinary approach, using theoretical insights from the political sciences, sociology and psychology. It argues that the differences in the strategies applied by the ruling elite in the city-states explain why members of the opposition were empowered or obstructed in challenging the government.
Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415330954
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Comparative Politics: The politics of Asia written by Howard J. Wiarda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beng-Huat Chua
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134809875
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore written by Beng-Huat Chua and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic success of Singapore has established the country as a model for other nations. Yet until now the ideas behind this accomplishment have not been critically examined. Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore fills this gap. The book outlines the policies the ruling party has adopted over the past three decades. It charts the government's move away from Western concepts towards the evolution of 'Asian democracy'. The author analyses this anti-liberal democracy and the government's motives for repackaging cultural heritage into a national ideology of Asian communitarianism. This book avoids the polarization that has tended to characterise texts on Asian governments. It neither concentrates on a history of authoritarian repression nor unequivocally praises the regime but critically examines its political success. As such it provides a new and balanced account to the student of Singapore politics.
Author : Timothy Cheek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021413
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History written by Timothy Cheek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of Chinese intellectuals across the twentieth century that provides a guide to making sense of China today.
Author : Merle Goldman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171091
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book China's Intellectuals and the State written by Merle Goldman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today’s intellectuals in China inherit a mixed tradition in terms of their relationship to the state. Some follow the Confucian literati watchdog role of criticizing abuses of political power. Marxist intellectuals judge the state’s practices on the basis of Communist ideals. Others prefer the May Fourth spirit, dedicated to the principles of free scholarly and artistic expression. The Chinese government, for its part, has undulated in its treatment of intellectuals, applying restraints when free expression threatened to get “out of control,” relaxing controls when state policies required the cooperation, good will, and expertise of intellectuals. In this stimulating work, twelve China scholars examine that troubled and changing relationship. They focus primarily on the post-Mao years when bitter memories of the Cultural Revolution and China’s renewed quest for modernization have at times allowed intellectuals increased leeway in expression and more influence in policy-making. Specialists examine the situation with respect to economists, lawyers, scientists and technocrats, writers, and humanist scholars in the climate of Deng Xiaoping’s policies, and speculate about future developments. This book will be a valuable source of information for anyone interested in the changing scene in contemporary China and in its relations with the outside world."
Author : Shakhar Rahav
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199386099
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China written by Shakhar Rahav and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history of cultural and political radicals based in China's most important hinterland city at this pivotal time, Wuhan. Current narratives of May Fourth focus on the ideological development of intellectuals in the seaboard metropoles of Beijing and Shanghai. And although scholars have pointed to the importance of the many cultural-political societies of the period, they have largely neglected to examine these associations, seeing them only as seedbeds of Chinese communism and its leaders, like Mao Zedong. This book, by contrast, portrays the everyday life of May Fourth activists in Wuhan in cultural-political societies founded by local teacher and journalist Yun Daiying (1895-1931). The book examines the ways by which radical politics developed in hinterland urban centers, from there into a nation wide movement, which ultimately provided the basis for the emergence of mass political parties, namely the Nationalist Party (Guomindang) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The book's focus on organizations, everyday life, and social networks provides a novel interpretation of where mechanisms of historical change are located. The book also highlights the importance of print culture in the provinces. It demonstrates how provincial print-culture combined with small, local organizations to create a political movement. The vantage point of Wuhan demonstrates that May Fourth radicalism developed in a dialogue between the coastal metropoles of Beijing and Shanghai and hinterland urban centers. The book therefore charts the way in which seeds of political change grew from individuals, through local organizations into a nation-wide movement, and finally into mass-party politics and subsequently revolution. The book thus connects everyday experiences of activists with the cultural-political ferment which gave rise to both the Chinese Communist party and the Nationalist Party.
