Theory And Practice Of Elite Governace In Singapore

Singapore is a typical country that pursues elitism,and is also the world's most reinforcement on elite governing.Elitism has become an important part of the cultural values of Singaporeans.The unique international and domestic environment of Singapore for the implementation of the elite statecraft provides the ideal and reality.Singapore's international relations,especially with neighboring countries are so strained that Singapore is facing with an isolated position.Coupled with the country in the early days,a thousand of things waiting to be done and the extremely poor domestic available natural resources,the country is likely to be fragmented.In the context of distance restraints,to survive more economically and efficiently,Lee Kuan Yew's team can only enable the political elite to take charge of the country instead of weaker ones in the reality of the situation.Elite governance is that entrust the elite who is well-educated with certain specialized knowledge or expertise to the important position of the professional fields,especially the government in order to achieve the purpose of effective governance of the country.The leadership of Singapore form their unique elite governance theory through the early stage of the theory and policy,which the leadership cite a variety of political and economic theory to make the elite theory more persuasive,and confirms the development of elite governing.After frequent lobby,the elite theory ultimately becomes the strategy endorsed by the people.From then on,the elite governance begins to play its effectiveness to promotes young Singapore safety and quickly.Singapore's elite governance reflects by elite selection,governance and elimination.Singapore's talent resources are limited.Therefore,Lee's government decides to attract elite combined with local education and abroad introduction.To ensure that people access to the executive department are elites,public service selection standards are almost harsh.On the other hand,the scientific selection indeed ensures that people entering the government agencies are high-quality elite.The government of Singapore is a clean,fair,efficient and dedicated government.In both policy formulation and implementation process,the advantage of elite government shows obviously.However,with the development of the times,Singapore's elite governance has been under the impact of the various aspects.Now Government's elite recruiting appears in trouble.Elites are increasingly difficult to obtain the people's approval.The image of the political elite in the public is not as tall and convincing as the old generation of leaders.With the thought of democracy in Singaporeans' mind,they produce resistance to the political elites' authoritarian.Since all the reasons above,elite governance in Singapore has been disturbed and challenged.These challenges propose new tasks to the government,and it'll also promote the political elites continuing improvement of the theory of Governing.