Nominated Member Of Parliament Scheme The Are Unelected Voices Still Necessary In Parliament A Collection Of Perspectives And Personal Reflections By Nmps

Author : Anthea Indira Ong
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811258473
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nominated Member Of Parliament Scheme, The: Are Unelected Voices Still Necessary In Parliament? - A Collection Of Perspectives And Personal Reflections By Nmps written by Anthea Indira Ong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although more than 30 years have passed since the Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) scheme was introduced in 1990, it remains controversial and poorly understood today.Have NMPs raised views that elected MPs — on both sides of the House — could or did not? Have they kept voters away from the Opposition, or been a bulwark of loving critics in the midst of a parliamentary supermajority?In this first book devoted to the NMP scheme, former NMP Anthea Ong brings together 19 colleagues past and present to discuss their experiences in office, from the Population White Paper to the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act, and what being appointed has meant to them personally.In exploring the workings and impact of the NMP scheme, the contributors hope this book will invite Singaporeans to consider how their NMPs should and must represent them, aside from their elected representatives. And in doing so, ask: What sort of Parliament does Singapore, as an evolving society, deserve?

Author : Anthea Indira Ong
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789811258947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nominated Member of Parliament Scheme, The: Are Unelected Voices Still Necessary in Parliament? - A Collection of Perspectives and Personal Reflection written by Anthea Indira Ong and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although more than 30 years have passed since the Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) scheme was introduced in 1990, it remains controversial and poorly understood today. In this first book devoted to the NMP scheme, former NMP Anthea Ong brings together 19 colleagues past and present to discuss their experiences in office from the Population white paper to the Protection from online falsehoods and manipulation act, and what what being appointed has meant to them personally.

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ISBN 13 : 9814475408
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Dynamic Governance written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cherian George
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ISBN 13 : 9789811147791
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Singapore, Incomplete written by Cherian George and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leaders after the death of Lee Kuan Yew and its 2015 general election triumph, Cherian George considers the unfinished business of political liberalisation and multicultural integration. Singapore, Incomplete is a collection of personal reflections about the country's underdeveloped political culture and structure. "Ours is a middle-aged country with a maturing economy--but a political system that treats us like children," he argues. George calls for more open "rules of engagement" that will protect and celebrate a diversity of ideas and beliefs. He critiques Singapore's culture of fear, the lack of political transparency, and governmental groupthink." -- from publisher web site.

Author : Catherine Paradeise
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789048179404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book University Governance written by Catherine Paradeise and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education reforms have been on the agenda of Western European countries for 25 years, trying to deal with self governed professional bureaucracies politically weakened by massification when an emerging common understanding enhanced their role as major actors in knowledge based economies. While university systems are deeply embedded in national settings, the ex post rationale of still on-going reforms is surprisingly uniform and “de-nationalized”. They promote (1) the “organizational turn” of universities, to varying extent substituting collegial loosely coupled entities by “integrated, goal-oriented entities deliberately choosing their own actions (and therefore open to differentiation), that can thus be held responsible for what they do” (2) the diversification of stakeholders, supposedly offering solutions to problems as various as the democratisation of universities, the shrinking of State budget resources and the diversification of university missions offering answers to changes in the making and in the use of science. When it comes to accounting for these reforms, two grand narratives of public management share the floor. NPM implies a strengthening of the capacity of the core State to direct public services organizations through management by objectives and results or contractualization, assessment, evaluation and. “Governance” focuses on “network-based” governance systems, where coordinating power and control are collectively shared between the major ‘social actors or partners’ at all levels of the decision-making system. Our results suggest that all higher education systems under study were more or less transformed according to both these narratives. It is therefore needed to understand how they combine or create contradictions. This leads us to test a third neo-weberian model. This model reaffirms the role of the State, of representative democracy, (central, regional and local), of public law (suitably modernized), preserves the idea of a public service with a distinctive status, culture and terms and conditions. It shifts from an internal orientation to bureaucratic rules towards an external orientation in meeting citizens’ needs and wishes by means of standardization of work processes and their products, based on a distinctive public service and a particular legal order survived as the foundations beneath the various packages of modernizing reforms. This book traces the national dynamics of public policies, organizational design and steering tools in seven European higher education and research systems, using these narratives to interpret and test the actual changes and the degree of national specificities and European convergence. This book is not a sum of national chapters like other presumably comparative. It does not intend to tell once again the story of the transformation of the relationships between the state and universities. It tries to use Higher education system to discuss issues on state intervention and steering and more generally the NPM, governance and neo-weberian models in a specific field. Furthermore, this book intends breaking the walls between specialists in higher education and specialist in public management and research policy. This well rooted division of labour is less that ever justified as the university mission in research (fundamental, applied, strategic) is underscored by commentors and reformers themselves. For that reason, we have chosen to observe the consequences of the dynamics of public policies, organizational design and steering tools on two specific issues related to the development of research training and organizing within universities: the transformation of research funding on the one hand and the expansion of graduate studies and doctoral schools on the other.

Author : Shiao-Yin Kuik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789814845021
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of a People written by Shiao-Yin Kuik and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Carson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315514273
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigative Journalism, Democracy and the Digital Age written by Andrea Carson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretically grounded and using quantitative data spanning more than 50 years together with qualitative research, this book examines investigative journalism’s role in liberal democracies in the past and in the digital age. In its ideal form, investigative reporting provides a check on power in society and therefore can strengthen democratic accountability. The capacity is important to address now because the political and economic environment for journalism has changed substantially in recent decades. In particular, the commercialization of the Internet has disrupted the business model of traditional media outlets and the ways news content is gathered and disseminated. Despite these disruptions, this book’s central aim is to demonstrate using empirical research that investigative journalism is not in fact in decline in developed economies, as is often feared.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032082622
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Change in Singapore written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a ceremonial position modelled after the constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom, the office of the President of Singapore was transformed from an appointed to an elected one in 1991. As the head of state, but not the head of government, the elected President was to have additional discretionary powers involving the spending of financial reserves, appointment of high-ranking public servants, and certain ministerial powers to detain without trial. In 2016, a constitutional commission was convened to consider further reforms to the office and the elections process. This book explores Singapore's presidency, assessing how well it has functioned, discussing the rationales for an elected presidency, and evaluating the constitutional commission's recommendations for reforms, including the need for minority representation in the office. In doing so, the book provides important reflections on how the constitutional reform process raises crucial questions about the rule of law and the practice of constitutionalism in Singapore.

Author : Sun Sun Lim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401774412
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobile Communication and the Family written by Sun Sun Lim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. While mobile communication diffuses through Asia at a blistering pace, families in the region are also experiencing significant changes in light of unprecedented economic growth, globalisation, urbanisation and demographic shifts. Asia is therefore at the crossroads of technological transformation and social change. This book analyses the interactions of these two contemporaneous trends from the perspective of the family, covering a range of family types including nuclear, multi-generational, transnational, and multi-local, spanning the continuum from the media-rich to the media have-less.

Author : Anthea Indira Ong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789811194122
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Shades of Love written by Anthea Indira Ong and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: