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Australia, the ‘Marshall experiment’ and the decolonisation of Singapore, 1955–56 / Benvenuti, Andrea

Benvenuti, Andrea	Journal Article
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2012.

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As decolonisation gathered pace in Southeast Asia, Singapore became a source of considerable concern to the Robert Menzies government. Britain's hold on its colony appeared increasingly precarious as political turbulence gripped the island. With a predominantly Chinese population, Singapore was considered susceptible to communist China's propaganda and subversion. By relying on previously classified Australian and British diplomatic documents, this article sheds light on the Australian approach to Singapore's political and constitutional development between 1955 and 1956 and, in so doing, it hopes to make a contribution to a better understanding of Australia's policies in a rapidly decolonising Southeast Asia.

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Australia ; Singapore ; Southeast Asia ; Britain ; China's Propaganda ; Chinese Population ;
Political Turbulence

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ID: 118499

Myanmar: militarised democratic landscape / Singh, Mohinder Pal

Singh, Mohinder Pal	Journal Article
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2013.

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Poverty ; Military ; China ; India ; Southeast Asia ; Myanmar ;
Future ; National League for Democracy ; Political Turbulence ; Democratic Landscape ; Ethnic Problems ; General Elections - 2010

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UK Governance: from Overloading to Freeloading / Woodward, Richard

Woodward, Richard	Journal Article
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The UK's ongoing political turbulence has prompted a reprise of debates from the 1970s when many concluded the country was ungovernable. Then, the most influential diagnosis conceptualised the UK's governance problem as one of ‘overloading’ caused by the electorate's excessive expectations. This article argues that these accounts overlooked another phenomenon besieging UK governance during this period. This phenomenon was freeloading: the withering of government capacity deriving from the ability of actors to enjoy the benefits of citizenship without altogether contributing to the cost. In the interim, these problems have become endemic, not least because of the unspoken but discernible policy of successive governments to turn the UK into a tax haven. High‐profile scandals involving prominent individuals and corporations, plus the failure to clamp down on them have reinforced the perception that the UK's political system is geared towards the rich and the powerful at the expense of the marginalised majority.

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Political Turbulence ; UK Governance

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