Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus Giovanni Boccaccio or hang coins or bells

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Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus Giovanni Boccaccio or hang coins or bellsThe Singapore polity is changing profoundly and probably irrevocably. The consensus that the PAP government constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a degree of