China's obsession with Singapore: Learning authoritarian modernity

Pacific Review

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 433-455

  Ortmann, Stephan ^a   Thompson, Mark R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

authoritarianism; China; governance; ruling ideology; Singapore model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901018881     PISSN: 09512748     EISSN: 14701332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2014.909522     Document Type: Article

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