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Record Nr.

UNINA9910571730503321

Autore

Pannozzo Francesca

Titolo

Dal Terzo al Primo Mondo : Singapore: un esperimento di successo / / Francesca Pannozzo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Florence : , : Firenze University Press, , 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 pages)

Collana

Premio Cesare Alfieri «Cum Laude»

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Economic history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This volume offers an analysis of one of the most interesting contemporary political regimes, the Singapore 'case'. This extremely small island is devoid of natural resources and surrounded by two infinitely larger countries with feelings of hostility towards it. It represents an economic and political experiment which has given birth to a substantially authoritarian, hybrid and yet 'happy' regime, and which has started a rapid development process on whose results its legitimacy is based. Today, Singapore emerges in the world economy as the successful global city to which country leaders around the world look with admiration. However, its extraordinary economic successes have been explicitly accompanied by rather invasive and illiberal policies, thus posing a serious challenge to liberal and democratic Western political systems which, at present, are struggling to provide actual solutions for the same fields of intervention.