Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GW.TS FS.E Chua / College 6e - Englisch	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

VERLAGSTEXT: / In Liberalism Disavowed, Beng Huat Chua examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore since the nation's expulsion from Malaysia and formal independence as a republic in 1965. The People’s Action Party, which has ruled Singapore since 1959, has forged an independent non-Western ideology that is evident in various government policies that Chua analyzes, among them multiracialism, public housing, and widespread social distributions to the citizenry. / Singapore is prosperous and peaceful, it’s highly advanced on various metrics of economic development, it has a great deal of regional influence, it is home to sophisticated industries and a large financial service sector, and it features what are by Western standards unusually low levels of social inequality. Paradoxically, however, it is no beacon of political liberalism. Chua sets forth ample evidence that the dominance of the People’s Action Party is based on a combination of economic success and media control, limits on public protests, libel suits against political opponents, and severely curtailed civil liberties. / /

 

AUS DEM INHALT: / Contextualizing Singapore I : against hegemonic American liberalism / Contextualizing Singapore II : establishing democracy in post Second World War Asia / Cold War state formation in Singapore / Liberalism disavowed / Disrupting private property rights : national public housing program / Disrupting free market : state capitalism and social distribution / Governing race : state multiracialism and national security /