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Political Legitimacy and Housing

Singapore's Stakeholder Society

By: Beng-Huat Chua

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Political Legitimacy and Housing

Singapore's Stakeholder Society

By: Beng-Huat Chua

Singapore's successful public housing programme is a source of political legitimacy for the ruling People's Action Party. Beng-Huat Chua accounts for the success of public housing in Singapore and draws out lessons for other nations. Housing in Singapore, he explains in this incisive analysis, is seen neither as a consumer good (as in the US) nor as a social right (as in the social democracies of Europe). The author goes on to look at the ways in which Singapore's planners have dealt with the problems of creating communities in a modern urban environment. He concludes that the success of the public housing programme has done much for Singapore.

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195

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

1134705980

ISBN 13

9781134705986

Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore

By: Beng-Huat Chua

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Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore

By: Beng-Huat Chua

This original, balanced account presents a critical examination of the last three decades of political success in Singapore. It provides an invaluable insight into the life of the regime for both students and lay readers.

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262

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Psychology Press

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0415164656

ISBN 13

9780415164658

Liberalism Disavowed

Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore

By: Beng Huat Chua

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Liberalism Disavowed

Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore

By: Beng Huat Chua

In Liberalism Disavowed, Beng Huat Chua examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore since the nation’s expulsion from Malaysia and formal independence as a republic in 1965. The People’s Action Party, which has ruled Singapore since 1959, has forged an independent non-Western ideology that is evident in various government policies that Chua analyzes, among them multiracialism, public housing, and widespread social distributions to the citizenry. Singapore is prosperous and peaceful, it’s highly advanced on various metrics of economic development, it has a great deal of regional influence, it is home to sophisticated industries and a large financial service sector, and it features what are by Western standards unusually low levels of social inequality. Paradoxically, however, it is no beacon of political liberalism. Chua sets forth ample evidence that the dominance of the People’s Action Party is based on a combination of economic success and media control, limits on public protests, libel suits against political opponents, and severely curtailed civil liberties.

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228

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Cornell University Press

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ISBN 10

1501713450

ISBN 13

9781501713453

Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping

By: Chua Beng Huat

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Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping

By: Chua Beng Huat

One of the cliches that Singaporeans hold most dear is that their lives are a pursuit of the five c's: cash, cars, condominiums, credit cards, and club memberships. Over the last thirty years, Singaporeans have become accustomed to ever-increasing levels of consumption. Singapore's PAP government has 'delivered the goods', and this is recognized as a prime reason for its legitimacy. But what is the culture of this consumption? What does shopping say about Singapore society?

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278

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Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

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9971697270

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9789971697273

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Political Legitimacy and Housing

Political Legitimacy and Housing

Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore

Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore

Liberalism Disavowed

Liberalism Disavowed

Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping

Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping

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