Hong Kong, Singapore, and “Asian Values”: Governance That Works

China’s government looks to Singapore, the only country in the region to modernize without liberalizing, in hopes of finding the key to combining authoritarian rule with economic progress and “good…

A review of To Catch a Traitor in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison, by Francis T. Seow.

Do democracy and good governance necessarily go hand-in-hand? In most Southeast Asian countries, a gap exists between the two. How should we understand good governance in an authoritarian context? And…