13 Jan |
Governance in Singapore: What makes governance in Singapore different and how is it changing?
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Thomas Friedman (2011), “Serious in Singapore”, The New York Times, 29 January.
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“Go East, young bureaucrat”, The Economist, 17 May 2011.
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Gillian Tett (2013), “Thank you, Singapore”, Financial Times, 7 June. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/c7e99970-ce3c-11e2-a13e-00144feab7de.html#axzz2YbHcfoLt
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Lee Hsien Loong, Speech at the Parliamentary Debate on Civil Service Salary Revision, 11 April 2007.
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Donald Low (2011), “Governing in the new normal”, Straits Times, 9 September.
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20 Jan |
Principles of governance I: Vulnerability, Elite Governance and Meritocracy
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Francis Fukuyama (2013), “What is Governance?”, Centre for Global Development, Working paper 314, January.
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Henri Ghesqueire (2007), “Growth-Enhancing Institutions and Culture”, Singapore’s Success: Engineering Economic Growth, Singapore: Thomson, pp. 99-128.
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Michael Barr (2014), The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence, chapters 1-2.
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Garry Rodan (2006), “Singapore ‘Exceptionalism’? Authoritarian Rule and State Transformation, Asia Research Centre, Working Paper No. 131, May. http://wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/publications/wp/wp131.pdf
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Kenneth Paul Tan (2008), “Meritocracy and Elitism in a Global City: Ideological Shifts in Singapore”, International Political Science Review, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 7-27.
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Michael Sandel (2009), “The Case for Equality: John Rawls”, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to do?, Chapter 6.
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Conor Friedersdorf (2012), “The Cult of Smartness: How Meritocracy is Failing America”, The Atlantic, 14 June. (supplementary)
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Donald Low (2014), “Good Meritocracy, Bad Meritocracy”, Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus, Singapore: NUS Press (supplementary)
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27 Jan |
Case Study Discussion I: Public Housing
5.30-8.30pm: Visit to a public housing estate and dinner.
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3 Feb |
Principles of governance II: Economic Rationalism and Social Engineering
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Henri Ghesqueire (2007), “Pro-growth Economic Policies”, Singapore’s Success: Engineering Economic Growth, Singapore: Thomson, pp. 49-98
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John W. Thomas and Lim Siong Guan (2001), “Using Markets to Govern Better in Singapore”, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Research Working Papers Series
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Kenneth Paul Tan (2012), “The Ideology of Pragmatism: Neoliberal Globalization and Political Authoritarianism in Singapore”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 67-92.
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James C. Scott (1998), Seeing Like A State, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 1-8; 87-102, 132-146.
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10 Feb |
Fiscal Management in Singapore
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Donald Low (2010), “Fiscal Policy: Discipline with Discretion”, The Singapore Synthesis: The Government, The Market and Innovations in Public Policy, ed. Ravi Menon
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Youyenn Teo (2014), “Governance through Familialist Social Policies in Singapore”, TRaNS: Trans-Regional and –National Studies of Southeast Asia, October 2014, pp 1-21
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Bo Rothstein and Eric M. Uslaner (2005), “All for All: Equality, Corruption and Social Trust”, World Politics 58, no. 1, pp. 41-72.
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17 Feb |
Case Study Discussion II: Singapore’s Productivity Challenge
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21 Feb –
1 Mar |
Recess Week
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3 Mar |
Behavioural approaches to public policy: why and when might paternalism be justified?
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Ravi Menon (2011), “How Singapore uses Behavioural Economics”, Speech at the launch of Behavioural Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore, 9 November
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Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein and John Balz (2012), “Choice Architecture”, The Behavioural Foundations of Public Policy¸ ed. Eldar Shafir, Princeton University Press, pp. 428-439
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Cass Sunstein (2013), Simpler: The Future of Government, pp. 51-74, 100-126
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10 Mar |
Organisation Behaviour
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Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan (2001), Creative Destruction: Why Companies That are Built to Last Underperform the market – and How to Successfully Transform Them, chapters 1,3.
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John Kay (2012), “Why Sony did not invent the iPOD?”, Financial Times, 4 September. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7558a99e-f5ed-11e1-a6c2-00144feabdc0.html
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The Economist, “The last Kodak moment?”, 14 Jan 2012.
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Alex Au (2014), “Manpower director makes incredible claims about how well migrant workers are treated by ministry”, http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/manpower-director-makes-incredible-claims-about-how-well-migrant-workers-are-treated-by-ministry/
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Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulp8DHPJhoA
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Donald Low (2013), “Some Reflections on the Little India Riot” (supplementary).
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17 Mar |
Case Study Discussion III: Saving the CPF: Restoring Trust in Singapore’s Retirement Savings System
Guest Speaker: Kenneth Paul Tan
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24 Mar |
Public participation and the (changing) context I
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Kenneth Paul Tan (2012), “Singapore in 2011: A New Normal in Politics”, Asian Survey, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 220-226
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Michael Barr (2014), The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence, chapters 6, 7.
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Linda Y.C Lim (2013), “Singapore’s success: After the miracle”, Handbook of Emerging Economics, ed. Robert E. Looney, London and New York: Routledge
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Cherian George (2012), Freedom from the Press, chapter 8, NUS Press.
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31 Mar
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Public participation and the (changing) context II
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National Population and Talent Division (2013), “A Sustainable Population for a Dynamic Singapore: Population White Paper” http://202.157.171.46/whitepaper/downloads/population-white-paper.pdf
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Donald Low et al. (2013), “Economic Myths in the Great Population Debate”, Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus, Donald Low and Sudhir Vadaketh, Singapore: NUS Press
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Linda Lim (2013), “How Land and People Fit in Singapore’s Economy”, Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus, Donald Low and Sudhir Vadaketh, Singapore: NUS Press
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Alex Au (2013), “Population: Elemental Considerations”, http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/population-elemental-considerations-1/; http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/population-elemental-considerations-2/
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Alex Au (2014), “Khaw Finds Obedience School Meaningful”, https://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/khaw-finds-obedience-school-meaningful/
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Donald Low (2013), “Rethinking Singapore’s Housing Policies”, Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus, Donald Low and Sudhir Vadaketh, Singapore: NUS Press
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7 Apr
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What Next for Singapore? (Guest Speakers: Peter Ho, Manu Bhaskaran, Lim Siong Guan)
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Manu Bhaskaran et al. (2012), “Inequality and the Need for a New Social Compact”, background paper to Singapore Perspectives 2012. http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SP2012_Bkgd-Pa.pdf
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Ho Kwon Ping, “The Future of Singapore, Lecture I: Politics and Governance”, IPS-Nathan Lectures, http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/ips/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/IPS-Nathan-Lectures_Lecture-I-Politics-and-Governance-speech_201014_v2.pdf
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Michael Barr (2014), The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence, chapter 8
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14 Apr |
Student Presentations
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