Government-aided participation in planning Singapore

Soh, Emily; Yuen, Belinda

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2005.07.011

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“…The phrase “consultative authoritarianism” hasalready been applied to the regimes in Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam (He & Warren, 2011; Rodan & Jayasuriya, 2007). For example, in preparation of the 2001 city development Concept Plan, the government of Singapore allowed for an extended period of public consultation, including focus groups, online feedback channels, public discussion forums, and an open dialogue with the Minister for National Development (Soh & Yuen, 2006). Even the Saudi regime—considered quite closed by most governance metrics—now boasts various online e-participation portals for the purpose of “enabling citizens to participate in making all decisions and in formulating all development plans at all Government Agencies for the welfare of the whole Community” (“Saudi e-Government National Portal,” n.d.).…”

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Consultative Authoritarianism and Its Limits

Truex

2016

Comparative Political Studies

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Consultative authoritarianism challenges existing conceptions of nondemocratic governance. Citizen participation channels are designed to improve policymaking and increase feelings of regime responsiveness, but how successful are these limited reforms in stemming pressure for broader change? The article develops a new theoretical lens to explain how common citizens perceive the introduction of partially liberalizing reforms and tests the implications using an original survey experiment of Chinese netizens. Respondents randomly exposed to the National People’s Congress’ (NPC) new online participation portals show greater satisfaction with the regime and feelings of government responsiveness, but these effects are limited to less educated, politically excluded citizens.

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Consultative Authoritarianism and Its Limits

Truex

2016

Comparative Political Studies

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“…Singapore, despite being one of the most wired countries in Asia, is still characterized as having an underdeveloped and constrained civic society (Soh & Yuen, 2006). Still, in recent years, citizens of Singapore have actively utilized the Internet to voice their political opinions and organize public gatherings and protests (Skoric, Poor, Liao, & Tang, 2011).…”

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Do Facebook and video games promote political participation among youth? Evidence from Singapore

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Kwan

2011

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The importance of cultivating political engagement among youth has been widely discussed and its value for a well-functioning democratic society reaffirmed by numerous scholars. This study seeks to understand the relationship between the use of emerging platforms for online sociability and entertainment and political participation among young Singaporeans. Specifically, we focus on the intensity of Facebook use and frequency of video gaming, as well as more specific civic activities taking place on these platforms. The findings indicate that the intensity of Facebook use is related to both online and traditional political participation, while civic gaming is associated with online participation only. There is also evidence linking membership in civic/political Facebook groups with increased online participation. Lastly, although the results suggest that online participation may be an important driver of traditional political participation, the role of traditional media, particularly newspapers, should not be easily dismissed.

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“…This was followed by Singapore’s Climate Action Plan: A Climate-Resilient Singapore, for a Sustainable Future (Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources and Ministry of National Development, 2016). While the Singaporean government has been relatively proactive, civil society is widely seen as ‘underdeveloped and constrained’ (Sadoway, 2013; Soh and Yuen, 2006). This is a result of the mode of governing and institutional apparatus of the Singapore government, often categorised as a ‘soft authoritarian state’ (Hobson, 2006), which has limited the scope of civil society through a process of depoliticisation (Francesch-Huidobro, 2008; Lee, 2010).…”

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Towards a politics of urban climate responsibility: Insights from Hong Kong and Singapore

Fuller

2019

Urban Studies

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Cities are important sites for interrogating the social, scalar and spatial dynamics that underpin climate responsibility. To date, however, there is limited theoretical and empirical understanding about how discourses, practices and politics of climate responsibility might be enacted in the urban context. This gap is particularly significant in the Asia Pacific – a region characterised by high rates of economic growth and rapid urbanisation alongside extreme poverty and exposure to the effects of climate change. This article explores the politics of urban climate responsibility in two cities – Hong Kong and Singapore. Based on empirical research with NGOs, it considers if and how cities have a responsibility to act on climate change, how such responsibility may be configured within the city, and the role of international and regional dynamics in creating and maintaining climate responsibility. The article reframes the contested and contingent geographies of urban climate responsibility through the dimensions of attribution, production and spatialisation before drawing out implications for climate justice and resilience in the Asia Pacific region.

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Government-aided participation in planning Singapore

Cited by 22 publications

References 19 publications

Consultative Authoritarianism and Its Limits

Consultative Authoritarianism and Its Limits

Do Facebook and video games promote political participation among youth? Evidence from Singapore

Towards a politics of urban climate responsibility: Insights from Hong Kong and Singapore

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