Description
We hope Singaporeans will find the contents of the book useful as they head into the General Election and beyond!
Contents
1. The 25 Most Important Issues Facing Singapore in 2024
2. Singaporeans Speak: The Top 5 Most Important Issues Facing Singapore in 2024
3. Why is the Cost of Living So High? Part 1: Understanding the PAP Government’s Economic Model
4. Why is the Cost of Living So High? Part 2: What is the PAP doing about the Cost of Living?
5. Why is the Cost of Living So High? Part 3: Inequality in Singapore
6. The Contradictions of Public Housing in Singapore
7. Do Singaporeans Own or Lease or Rent Their HDB flat?
8. Cost vs. Care: Understanding the Trade-Offs in Singapore’s Healthcare System
9. The ‘Traditional’ Family as a Technology of State Control in Singapore
10. The Political Economy of Race in Singapore: Unpacking the PAP’s Race-based Approaches
About the Editor
Thum Ping Tjin (“PJ”) is Founder of New Naratif, a movement to democratise democracy in Southeast Asia. He is an award-winning writer, Rhodes Scholar, Commonwealth Scholar, Olympic athlete, and the first Singaporean to swim the English Channel. His work is on Malayan nationalism and decolonisation and, more broadly, Southeast Asian governance and politics. He has a doctorate in history from Oxford, where he was also a fellow between 2014 and 2022. His most recent work is Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore: The Malayan Generation, 1953-63 (Routledge, 2024).
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