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1st Edition

China's ‘Singapore Model’ and Authoritarian Learning

Edited By Stephan Ortmann, Mark R. Thompson Copyright 2020
224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores to what extent China has drawn lessons from Singapore, both in terms of its ruling ideology and through the policy-specific learning process. In so doing, it provides insights into the opportunities but also the challenges of this long-term learning process, focusing attention to how non-democratic regimes deal with modernization. The stellar line-up of international... Read more

Introduction: China’s Singapore Model and Authoritarian Learning

Stephan Ortmann and Mark R. Thompson

Part I Ideological Lessons

1. The Origins of the Singapore Fever in China: 1978-1992

Yang Kai and Stephan Ortmann

2. Misunderstanding Singapore: China’s Challenges in Learning from the City-State

Mark R. Thompson and Stephan Ortmann

3. The Singapore School - Technocracy or less

Michael D. Barr

4. Branding China: How Beijing Seeks to Improve its National image by learning from Singapore

Benjamin Tze Ern Ho

Part II Policy diffusion: Improving governance

5.  Singapore’s Role in China’s Reform Process: Sharing of Experiences under the Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation Framework

Lye Liang Fook

6. Cadre Training and Government-to-Government Collaborations: Governance Knowledge Transfer from Singapore to China

Wang, Ting-Yan

7. Singapore’s Social Welfare System and Its Influence on China

Wei Wei

8. Learning Local Lessons from Singapore in post-1978 China

Cao Yunhua

9. The "Singapore Fever" in China: Policy Mobility and Mutation

Kean Fan Lim and Niv Horesh

Conclusion

Stephan Ortmann and Mark R. Thompson

Biography

Stephan Ortmann is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Environmental Governance in Vietnam: Institutional Reforms and Failures (2017) and Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong (Routledge, 2010).

Mark R. Thompson is Head and Professor of Politics in the Department of Asian and International Studies as well as Director of the Southeast Asia Research Centre at the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Authoritarian Modernism in East Asia (2019) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Contemporary Philippines (2018).

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