Review 4: Singapore's Authoritarian Capitalism Asian Values, Free Market Illusions and Political Dependency, by Christopher Lingle (1996)
Reviewed by:
Donald Zagoria,
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 75, No. 4, page 160, July/August 1996
"His book is an indictment of the "suffocating, authoritarian intervention in most aspects of life there." Although he does not deny that Singapore has become one of the great economic success stories of modern times, he argues that its political repression has exacted significant economic and political costs. He questions the long-term survival of the ruling part, the People's Action Party, and its capacity to sustain Singapore's economic growth."
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