Bilveer Singh
Auteur van Understanding Singapore politics
Over de Auteur
Bilveer Singh is a Singapore citizen, an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore. He is concurrently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological toon meer University and the President. Political Science Association, Singapore. He received his MA and PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University. He has been lecturing on issues relating to Singapore's politics and foreign policy for more than 35 years. He researches and publishes on Comparative Politics and International Relations and some of his works include: Quest for Political Power: Communist Subversion and Militancy in Singapore, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2015; Politics and Governance in Singapore: An introduction, Second Edition, Singapore; McGraw-Hill Education Asia, 2012; Potties and Governance in Singapore: An Introduction, Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007. toon minder
Werken van Bilveer Singh
The Talibanization of Southeast Asia: Losing the war on terror to Islamist extremists (2007) 3 exemplaren
Civil-military relations in democratising Indonesia: The potentials and limits to change (1978) 3 exemplaren
Is the People's Action Party Here to Stay?: Analysing the Resilience of the One-Party Dominant State in Singapore (2019) 2 exemplaren
Unmasking Singapore's 2020 General Elections: COVID-19 and the Evolving Political Landscape (2021) 2 exemplaren
ASEAN, Australia and the management of the Jemaah Islamiyah threat (Canberra Paper No. 152) (2003) 2 exemplaren
ASEAN, the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone and the challenge of denuclearisation in Southeast Asia: Problems… (2000) 2 exemplaren
Succession politics in Indonesia : the 1998 presidential elections and the fall of Suharto (2000) 1 exemplaar
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Is the People's Action Party Here to Stay?… door Bilveer Singh
Badly written, shallow analysis and weak structure, and lacks substantive engagement with the relevant academic literature. Its main contribution is the quotation of large amount of primary sources. But the author does not seriously engage with the repressive elements of the PAP’s dominance or with the carefully crafted national narrative, instead arguing that the dominance stems from the PAP’s excellence and the Opposition’s mistakes. Large parts of actual analysis are not done by the author himself, but brought in through blockquoting others.… (meer)
Decent overview, although it could use better editing. However, it is rather government-friendly — mainly through what it does not discuss — and the last three chapters at times almost approach hagiography.
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- #335,831
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- 2.5
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- 35
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