Is the People's Action Party here to stay?: Analysing the resilience of the one-party dominant state in Singapore
About the author -- List of abbreviations -- List of tables - Acknowledgements -- Notable quotes - Preface -- Prologue: A fourth generation leader's view on one-party dominance in Singapore -- Introduction: Democracy, politics and the puzzle of dominance -- One-party dominance: a framework for analysis -- The Singapore political system -- Singapore's electoral history, 1948-2015 -- Seeds of the People's Action Party's hegemony: the importance of the 1955, 1959 and 1963 Legislative Assembly elections -- Singapore as a one-party dominant state: case study of the 2011 and 2015 General Elections -- Post-2015 General Elections developments (The Bukit Batok by-election and the 2017 Presidential Election) -- The 2018 Malaysian General Elections and the fall of the National Front Government: will there be a contagion-effect on Singapore? -- Post-Malaysian 2018 General Elections developments and Singapore's politics -- New issues and developments in Singapore as the pre-dominant PAP prepares for the forthcoming General Elections -- Explaining PAP's political dominance in Singapore's politics -- Consequences of Singapore as a one-party dominant state -- Conclusion: Will Singapore's one-party dominant system endure? -- Appendices. History of General Elections in Singapore, 1948-2015 ; Comments by PAP leaders on a one-party dominant state in Singapore ; Potential of coalition building among opposition political parties in Singapore ; Will the outcome of Malaysia's 2018 General Elections have an impact on Singapore?