InstitutionClaim Cited
Singapore
Between 1961 and 1972, a coalition around the People's Action Party, statutory boards, the NTUC, employers, and senior administrators joined export manufacturing, public land and housing, and wage coordination. Its capacity rested on both material delivery and the defeat of rival political and labor coalitions; the 2020 migrant-worker dormitory outbreak exposed the unequal membership boundary that the settlement left behind.
How did one coalition turn industrialization, housing, and labor peace into governing capacity, and what became difficult to see once that coalition also defined credible opposition?