ABSTRACT
Singapore is a highly successful dominant party state in which the façade of elections is legitimised by relatively high levels of average and median income. Despite having a low corruption index perception rating (7, according to TPI, on a scale of 175) (Transparency International 2015b), Singapore’s oligarchy benets nancially from its functional one party status, while there is little separation between the party and the state or the executive and the judiciary. The state and its dominant party, the People’s Action Party (PAP), employ a compromised judiciary to hobble the viability of likely political opposition. Singapore has also developed a sense of dynastic politics, as manifested in the political leadership of Lee Hsien Loong, who was groomed to eventually succeed his father, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
