新加坡反腐倡廉的经验及启示

新加坡虽为一小国,但通过自己的实践摸索出一套适合自己并行之有效的反腐倡廉机制,那就是:制度生廉、监督督廉、教育倡廉、高薪养廉。通过学习和借鉴新加坡的反腐倡廉经验,对建立中国特色的反腐倡廉体系具有重要的理论与现实意义。     

Militarizing civilians in Singapore: preparing for ‘Crisis’ within a calibrated nationalism1

The Singaporean polity has created the ‘militarized civilian’. This policy phenomenon beckons the question: How is this cross-fertilization carried out in Singapore's civil–military relations? Militarization is in the first sense meant to inculcate a calibrated dual personality within the civilian whereby being an effective soldier requires indulging in simulated military suffering as a badge of pride; at the same time, the citizen soldier has to believe that military and civilian values are perfectly interchangeable and contribute equally to the maintenance of peace. In a second sense, militarization is equally about permanently ritualizing sacrifices for a communitarian defence. We argue that while mostly successful, militarization also produces the tension arising from the need to appear pugnaciously vigilant while avoiding the casualties that must logically arise from heightened simulated combat. This tension is explained through two dimensions of ongoing crises: the parameters of a politically dramatized National Service ritual; and the constant propaganda of geopolitical dangers threatening the Republic.     

中国知识分子观念中的李光耀图谱

在亚洲以及西方的许多人看来,新加坡与李光耀不可分割,甚至将两者等同。这种观念是否同样流行于中国的知识分子群体?本文所关注的自1963年至2013年有关于李光耀和新加坡的学术文章给出了否定答案。这些学术文本是中新关系领域活跃的中国知识分子群体对于李光耀的观念的载体。对它们的定量统计结果和具体内容解析显示:中国学者对于李光耀的解读并不必然固囿于新加坡的国家框架内,在他们的认知中,李光耀和新加坡的非重合部分呈现出远为丰富和重要的意义。中国知识分子观念中的李光耀图谱不仅勾画了李光耀和新加坡的故事,更折射出中国自身发展的变迁和其精英阶层思考的演进。     

2014年新加坡:政治、经济与外交

2014年,新加坡政府在大选前推出系列改善民生的措施,加大社会发展支出,为大选积极备战;经济方面,受外部经济放缓影响,新加坡国内经济增速整体放缓,同比增长2.9%,政府推出措施推动产业转型,鼓励本土企业拓展海外市场;外交方面,新加坡依旧表现活跃,继续加强区域内及与中美合作关系,同时拓展、深化与其他大国/地区的多边合作。     

试析菲律宾和新加坡的“多官方语言”现象及语言政策

菲律宾和新加坡历史上曾经分别是美、英两国的殖民地,所以英语在这两个国家得到了一定的发展与传播。美、英的殖民统治结束后,因为各种原因,英语在菲律宾和新加坡的政府机关和上层社会仍然被继续使用。目前在宪法中明确规定使用英语和民族共同语作为官方语言的东南亚国家只有菲律宾和新加坡。本文分析菲律宾和新加坡的“多官方语言”的现象,并解释了造成其语言现状的历史原因,比较了其语言政策的相同之处。     

流寓异乡兼照两地--新加坡华侨邱菽园与新加坡早期的"流寓文学"

本文探讨了邱菽园"流寓文学""心属故地、兼照两地以及华文本土化"的特点,论证了邱菽园文学个案对新加坡早期"流寓文学"、新加坡华文文学史的价值.     

State-owned enterprises,state capitalism and social distribution in Singapore

State-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds have ‘insured’ Singapore's domestic economy against financial crisis and restructuring interventions from multilateral institutions, engendered elite cohesion and political stability, binding middle class employees to the political system. This essay analyses paths by which the Singapore government established state-owned enterprises and transformed them into global enterprises. It also examines how sovereign wealth funds contribute to government social expenditure without increasing taxes. Such redistribution through state capitalism resonates with the People's Action Partys social democratic origins, inviting comparisons with contemporary developments in Chinese state-capitalism.     

The “thinning” blueline: a Bourdieuian appreciation of police subculture

The notion of a recalcitrant “police subculture” is pervasive in the literature on policing, often invoked to explain many of the ills linked to police misconduct and corruption. This article argues that the failure of reform efforts is the result of interventionist strategies which had sought to change police subculture “head-on” without a corresponding change in the structural conditions in which the policing role is so located, and that these efforts, theoretically, have been informed by a conceptualisation of police subculture as homogenous, monolithic, and static. Using the Bourdieuian concepts of the “habitus” and “field”, the view of a “recalcitrant” subculture will be challenged in this article. Using the Singaporean experience as a case in point, it will be shown how changes in the field of policing can bring about changes, intended or otherwise, in the occupational habitus of the police: refashioning the informal repository of knowledge guiding police work.     

The Malay Community: Voting Trends and Issues

Abstract

This article attempts to analyse the reasons for the Malay community’s seeming support for the People’s Action Party (PAP) government in Singapore, in spite of online discontent that was expressed towards the party immediately prior to the elections. The article makes three main arguments: first, that the reasons explaining the community’s support for PAP are similar to other Singaporeans, such as the death of founding leader Lee Kuan Yew and the risk-averse nature of the electorate; second, that institutional impediments exist with regard to the community that heavily favour the government; and third, that the main opposition party, the Workers’ Party, has not been able to present itself as a viable alternative to PAP for the community in terms of either quality of candidates or ideas for governance.     

统合主义下的新加坡劳资协调机制

上世纪七十年代以来,新加坡劳资关系一直保持平和状态,这主要得益于新加坡统合主义背景下的劳资政三方合作。该国建立了以政府为主导、以工会为主体的劳资协调机制,其中政府通过人事参与以及政策支持领导和控制工会,工会则通过参与三方协商,推动集体谈判以及兴办合作社等方式增进劳工福利,支持和拥护政府政策。同时,新加坡劳资争议处理的法律体系、协调机构和调解程序的完备,也促进了该国劳动关系的和谐稳定。