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7 - Neoliberal “Good Governance” in Lieu of Rights: Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore Experiment

from Part II - Dewesternizing Tendencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2017

Monroe Price
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Nicole Stremlau
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Speech and Society in Turbulent Times
Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective
, pp. 114 - 130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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