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Introduction -- History -- Constitutional/legal changes -- Provisions and amendments -- Legislative procedures and powers -- Scheduling committee -- Committee system -- Inter-party caucus -- The nuclear power plant issue -- Legislative authority : an overview -- The 2001 elections -- Reform : micro or macro -- Conclusion

Since coming to power in 1959, (internal autonomy except for internal security and foreign policy) and full independence in August 1965, the People's Action Party (PAP) government has remained unswerving in its commitment to a market economy, albeit with substantial facilitating and participation in Singapore's political and economic system. (Asian Aff/DÜI)

Currently, all parties concerned with security in the Taiwan Straits prefer some type of equilibrium, though pressures from Beijing make this a stressful status quo for the Chen Shui-bian administration in the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROCT). The most recent presidential election day in Taiwan, March 26, 2000, resulted in the victory of the DPP candidate, Chen Shui-bian. Under Taiwan's first past-the-post system, the presidential candidate with the highest number of votes, Chen Shui-bian won 39,3 percent of the vote. James Soong, the former elected governor of Taiwan province, who left or was forced out of the then ruling Kuomintang (KMT) in 1999, won 36,84 percent of the vote, and in his race for presidency, the Vice President of the incumbent KMT, Lien Chan, garnered 23,1 percent of the popular vote. Chen Shui-bian was formerly inaugurated as President on May 20, 2000. This article considers relevant cross-Straits background developments and the efforts of the Chen Shui-bian administration to avoid military confrontation with the People's Republic of China (PRC) and to establish a dialogue with Beijing, which could provide benefits to both sides of the Taiwan Straits. This argument was addressed in President Chen's May 20, 2000 Inaugural Speech, which stressed regional peace and security as top policy goals. (Asian J Polit Sci/DÜI)

Public policy analysis generally stresses the proactive and the applied. The approach facilitates studying a proactive government pursuing fast-track development, committed to industrialization and producing goods and services for the global marketplace. A state-centric approach presumes a proactive, often interventionist government. This article describes two major policy efforts in Singapore today: 1. globalization; and 2. regionalization. Globalization was Singapore's self-entry into the international economy, with special reference to Western Europe, North America and Japan. Regionalization, or the projected second wing of Singapore's economy, has special reference to investment and joint ventures in Asia. The article analyses what the policy strategies are and what they are intended to accomplish or have achieved. (AJPS/DÜI, gekürzt)

Taiwan or the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROCT) is a critical case study of an economically successful civic authoritarian society that has moved through political liberalization towards full democracy. Political aspirations and social consciousness are generally mobilized with regard for continued economic prosperity and a concern for economic equity. Taiwan has passed through a series of identifiable liberalization thresholds which have culminated in highly competitive elections for a wide range of political offices. Local elections which began in 1950 led to a fully elected National Assembly and Legislative Yuan in the 1990s. The ruling Kuomintang has become an umbrella party competing vigorously for votes in order to remain in power. Thus far, the Kuomintang has remained largely in control of the liberalization progress. Fictions, money politics and gangsterism remain problems as a two-party system emerges. Today in Taiwan, the Kuomintang is the majority party rather than the dominant party. (AJPS/DÜI)