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Singapore Relations Between State and Society
By the late 1980s, Singapore's leaders generally agreed
that
the extensive economic and social transformation achieved
after
independence required a changed pattern of relations
between the
government and society. Government policies and practices
devised
to deal with the much simpler economy and less educated
and
prosperous citizenry of the 1960s were becoming
increasingly
ineffective in the 1980s. The major issues were economic,
involving
debate over the optimal form of government involvement in
the
economy, and political, centering around highly
contentious
questions of the limits of government efforts to regulate
the lives
of citizens and to suppress dissent and criticism.
Data as of December 1989
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