13 November 2015
Rethinking the haze and Indonesia
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Tiny and rich Singapore flails comically when it comes to Indonesia and the haze. For all its claims to being a diplomatic giant on the w...
07 October 2015
Singapore's popcorn democracy
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Every election, Singapore becomes popcorn democracy. Just look at its expert panellists.
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18 September 2015
Modelling the 2015 general election: numbers, outcomes... and theory?
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Singaporeans voted on 11 September 2015 and returned the People's Action Party to power with a supermajority and a 9.9% swing in its ...
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16 September 2015
Modelling the 2015 Singapore general election: theory and outcomes
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Singaporeans voted on 11 September 2015 and returned the People's Action Party to government with a supermajority and a 9.9% national...
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10 September 2015
Modelling the 2015 Singapore general elections V: Rational voter choices
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We at Illusio, having duly considered the facts and circumstances laid before us in the past 5 years and during the rally season, do here...
09 September 2015
Modelling the 2015 Singapore General Elections IV: The main opposition
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I introduced last week a voting model based on the idea of a dominant party system. Here at the end of the rally season, I've decided t...
Modelling the 2015 Singapore general elections III: The PAP campaign
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As expected, the People's Action Party's campaign consisted of silly references to SG50, the Legacy of the party, and playing the...
03 September 2015
Modelling the 2015 Singapore general elections II
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Despite expectations, the PAP hasn't run its LKY nostalgia campaign yet. But did you know the PAP has no viable campaign to run in ...
02 September 2015
Nomination day observations
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PAP supporters arriving at a nomination centre via chartered bus Picture courtesy of The Online Citizen Portions of this post were ...
31 August 2015
Modelling the 2015 Singapore general election I
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How much of a swing in the electorate would the opposition need to dethrone the PAP in 2015? In a very accessible article, Jeraldine ...
24 August 2015
Living with Myths X: Singaporean words and images
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Being a review of the final in a long, year-long series of seminars Singapore's Literary Myths Is a national literature a reflect...
18 August 2015
PAP upgrades its own Upgrading Carrot
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Uniquely Singapore inception Minilee is expected to dissolve parliament some time after the NDRS. Nevertheless, campaign season has a...
03 August 2015
Conversation with the Prime Minister: Just a conversation?
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How Minilee thought he'd appear on TV last night: as an FDR conducting a folksy fireside chat
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27 July 2015
Living with Myths IX: Cultural medallions, poverty, histories
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Being a review of the 9th in a year-long series of seminars Poor people don't like oats either Teo You Yenn is a sociologist w...
18 May 2015
Living with myths: Singapore pastoral
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Taiwan Review has published a few excerpts from Loh Kah Seng's new book, Squatters into Citizens . Followers of the Living with Myths ...
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03 May 2015
The Apothesosis of Lee Kuan Yew VI
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From Republic of Singapore to Republic of Nanyang In the midst of the political purges of Singapore’s early post-independence years, the P...
02 May 2015
The Apotheosis of Lee Kuan Yew V
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To boldly go... It is possible to typify the leadership of early Singapore and the PAP as a triumvirate consisting of Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Ke...
06 April 2015
Living with Myths VIII: Danger and Development
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Being a review of the 8th in a year-long series of seminars Openness and reform under the shadow of danger An authoritarian regime o...
30 March 2015
The Apotheosis of Lee Kuan Yew IV
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Lee Kuan Yew, the political realist and chameleon The pre-merger consensus in Singapore in the post-war decades was for a pan-Malayan ide...
23 March 2015
The Apotheosis of Lee Kuan Yew
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The Apotheosis of Washington, 1865 "Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is...
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