Kenneth Paul Tan: 3 books
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Building a Global Policy School in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid growth of the eight-year-old Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), National University of Singapore, is a remarkable story that deserves to...
Governing Global-City Singapore
Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in...
Singapore
Identity, Brand, Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the lead in authoring the national narrative. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved...