Study On The Relationship Between The Singapore People’s Action Party And The Grassroots Organizations

In modern countries, the relationship between the political party and the grassroots organizations is an important factor to a country’s political development and social stability. The Singapore People’s Action Party (PAP) and Singapore can make such remarkable achievement, it is closely related to the development of the relationship between the PAP and the grassroots organizations. At the beginning of the PAP come into power, facing the historical problems, the political struggle, the social governance. The PAP strengthens its leading role to the grassroots organizations. At the same time, the grassroots organizations start to play the role of a bridge between the PAP and the people. The lead model, promotes’the one party dominance’ in Singapore, strengthens the PAP controls the society, makes the grassroots organizations ’politicized’. The grassroots organizations strengthen the PAP ruling position by propaganda policy, absorbing public opinion, developing individuals, integration ethnic groups. Since1990s, with the economic and social structural changing, the power of the opposition political party strengthening, the democratization impacting. The lead model face challenges. Facing the challenges The PAP keeps opening. Promoting the relationship between the PAP and the grassroots organizations turns to mutual cooperation. Specifically, the PAP transforms its governance theory and protrudes the grassroots organization’s Non-governmental position. And the grassroots organizations constantly strengthen social role. Understanding the historical evolution of the relationship between the PAP and the grassroots organizations, is contributing to help us to understand the success of the PAP and the success of the Singapore. From the perspective of the relationship between the PAP and the grassroots organizations, analyzing the people’s action party is an innovation of this paper.My paper mainly includes the following four parts. The first part describes the PAP leads the grassroots organizations. Discussing the historical evolution of the PAP leads the grassroots organizations. Analyzing the expression of the PAP leads the grassroots organizations. And the influence to the PAP, the Singapore society and the grassroots organizations. The second part describes the grassroots organization’s role to the PAP. Analyzing the grassroots organization’s role in the PAP getting and consolidating ruling status. The third part describes the changing of the relationship between the PAP and the grassroots organizations. Discussing the lead mode faces challenges. And analyzing the relationship between the PAP and grassroots organizations turn to mutual cooperation. At the end of the paper, introducing the success experience of the relationship between the PAP and the grassroots organizations, which may provide some reference for our country and some post-develop countries to deal with the relationship between the political party and the grassroots organizations.