Aligning Media Policy with Executive Dominance

Cherian GEORGE

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1556-5_10

Aligning Media Policy with Executive Dominance

Cherian GEORGE^*

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Department of Journalism

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This chapter describes Singapore’s media system, with an emphasis on features that help account for its resilience. It argues that the path blazed by Lee Kuan Yew found a third way, in between liberal democratic media freedoms and the classic authoritarian model characterised by nationalisation of mass media, routine blocking and filtering of online political speech and routinised human rights abuses against writers and artists. Singapore’s policies have instead centred on co-optation of media and artistic elites and calibrated coercion of dissenters. The overriding goal has been to preserve the system of executive dominance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in Singapore's Developmental State
Editors	Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Michael D. Barr
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	219-232
Number of pages	14
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811315565
ISBN (Print)	9789811315558
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1556-5_10
Publication status	Published - 7 Feb 2019

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