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THE FIRST WAVE : JBJ, CHIAM & THE OPPOSITION IN SINGAPORE / LOKE HOE YEONG

By: Publisher: Singapore : Epigram Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 410 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789814845427
Other title:
  • JBJ, Chiam & the opposition in Singapore
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 320.95957
Contents:
Prologue -- Beginning of the wave (1981-1984) -- Besieged (1985-1989) -- Boom and bust (1989-1993) -- Plan B (1994-2011) -- Epilogue.
Summary: Based on extensive interviews and archival material, The First Wave tells the story of the opposition in Singapore in its critical first thirty years in Parliament. Democratisation has been described to occur in waves. The first wave of a democratic awakening in post-independence Singapore began with J. B. Jeyaretnam’s victory in the Anson by-election of 1981. That built up to the 1984 general election, the first of many to be called a “watershed”, in which Chiam See Tong was also elected in Potong Pasir. After their successes in 1991, the opposition began dreaming of forming the government. But their euphoria was short-lived. Serious fault lines in the leading Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) rose to the surface almost immediately after the opposition victories of 1991, and the party was wiped out of Parliament by 1997. The opposition spent the next decade experimenting with coalition arrangements, to work their way back to victory.
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Includes index

Includes bibliography pages : 396-401

Prologue --
Beginning of the wave (1981-1984) -- Besieged (1985-1989) --
Boom and bust (1989-1993) -- Plan B (1994-2011) --
Epilogue.

Based on extensive interviews and archival material, The First Wave tells the story of the opposition in Singapore in its critical first thirty years in Parliament.
Democratisation has been described to occur in waves. The first wave of a democratic awakening in post-independence Singapore began with J. B. Jeyaretnam’s victory in the Anson by-election of 1981. That built up to the 1984 general election, the first of many to be called a “watershed”, in which Chiam See Tong was also elected in Potong Pasir. After their successes in 1991, the opposition began dreaming of forming the government.
But their euphoria was short-lived. Serious fault lines in the leading Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) rose to the surface almost immediately after the opposition victories of 1991, and the party was wiped out of Parliament by 1997. The opposition spent the next decade experimenting with coalition arrangements, to work their way back to victory.

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