| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 東南亞學系 === 105 === Studies on People’s Action Party (PAP) in Singapore proved that PAP can maintain the regime in the long term, and it also obtains the most voters’ support due to the national economic achievements. Besides, political elites of Singapore convince that internal stability and security are important reasons for prosperity.
The beginning of the Dominion to Singapore, PAP promoted “Anti-Vice” positively to reform the public order and good morals since 1959. After Singapore independence, PAP would like to get the support from middle class through making the rules in order to have a stable social discipline. Moreover, PAP made Singapore as an ideal target for International Business. There has been a long period of PAP dominance by an authoritarian regime. In Parliament, passing resolutions is always from an absolute majority. In the past, the government disciplined citizens with moral policies for making a social stability. Times change, technological progress and globalization which make the government to face the choices of moral policies and national interests.
The paper employs comparative historical research methods according to Singaporean media and newspapers as the main sources. Also, examining the changes of the regulations on the western pop-music and gambling policies in Singapore, even explore how the government respond to citizen’s doubt while policies are changing. By analyzing two moral polices, the results of this study revealed that the government always dominate the policies strongly with “paternalistic” characteristics. On the other hand, when the government faces the facts, it can effectively adjust the policy with a more tolerant attitude than the past. Obviously, in terms of the domestic social stability, the economic development should be the priority to the surviving strategies from the government.
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