1. Introduction / Kevin Tan and Lam Peng Er -- 2. The head of state in Singapore: an historical perspective / Huang Jianli -- 3. The presidency in Singapore: constitutional developments / Kevin Tan -- 4. The election of a president in a parliamentary system: choosing a pedigree or a hybrid? / Valentine S. Winslow -- 5. The elected president and the legal control of government: quis custodiet ipsos custodes? / Thio Li-ann -- 6. Chaining the Leviathan: a public choice interpretation of Singapore's elected presidency / Tilak Doshi -- 7. Singapore's first elected presidency: the political motivations / Hussin Mutalib -- 8. Notes from the margin: reflections on the first presidential election, by a former Nominated Member of Parliament / Chia Shi Teck -- 9. The elected presidency: towards the twenty-first century / Lana Peng Er
Summary
The Singapore parliament's creation of an elected presidency in 1991 was the biggest constitutional and political change in Singapore's modern era. This multi-disciplinary study gathers papers from leading scholars in law, history, political science and economics to examine how political change is managed in Singapore. It is an authoritative addition to debates surrounding the management of political change in developing countries more generally
