ABSTRACT
The Singapore parliament's creation of an elected presidency in 1991 was the biggest constitutional and political change in Singapore's modern era. This multi-disciplinary study gathers papers from leading scholars in law, history, political science and economics to examine how political change is managed in Singapore. It is an authoritative addition to debates surrounding the management of political change in developing countries more generally.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
The election of a president in a parliamentary system
Choosing a pedigree or a hybrid?
1
chapter |44 pages
The elected president and the legal control of government
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
chapter |23 pages
Chaining the Leviathan
A public choice interpretation of Singapore's elected presidency
chapter |12 pages
Notes from the margin
Reflections on the first presidential election, by a former Nominated Member of Parliament
