Social Engineering in Singapore: Social Policy, State Making and the Quest for Economic Success

by Wijeysingha; Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780415338752
• ISBN10: 0415338751
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2051-02-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This new study relates the Singapore experience to wider debates about, and theories of, social policy, and shows how the overall strategy, and the social policy parts of it, have been remarkably successful.Social Engineering in Singapore demonstrates how, from independence in 1959 onwards, social policy in Singapore, which has provided a range of excellent benefits in the areas of housing, healthcare, education and social security, has in fact been a key part of a larger overall project in state building and economic growth undertaken by Singapore's ruling People's Action Party. 

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. The Instrumental Rationality of Social Policies: The Theoretical Framework 4. Colonial and Geopolitical Factors in the Development of Singapore's Political Economy 5. The Evolution and Maintenance of Singapore's Poltical Economy Since Independence 6. The Role of the PAP's Social and Political Ideology in the Social Policy Framework 7. The Function of State Social Policies in the Political Economy: Labour, Housing and Education 8. The Function of State Social Policies in the Political Economy: Public Healthcare, Social Security and Demographic Manipulation 9. The Political Economy of State Social Policies in Singapore 10. Conclusion