Political leadership in Singapore : transitional reflections amidst the politics of bifurcation

• Main Author: Chong, Alan Chia Siong
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Leadership; Political Power; DRNTU::Humanities::General
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89513; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47100
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore’s politics post-2011 is increasingly exhibiting symptoms of a bifurcation into two broad ‘paradigms’. Assuming that the result of the 2011 General Elections, when the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) garnered only 60.1 per cent of the vote — its lowest since fully competitive elections b...