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POLITICS AND CHANGE IN SINGAPORE AND HONG KONG: Containing Contention. Routledge Contemporary Asia Series. By Stephan Ortmann. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvi, 228 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$130.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-415-55291-2.
The purpose of this book is to compare political development in Hong Kong and Singapore and to explain their different levels of "political contestation." It offers a political explanation for the higher level of "political contestation" in Hong Kong compared to Singapore. Scholarly studies comparing the two polities are scant and, in that sense, the book is a welcome contribution.
Much of the book is devoted to summarizing political developments in the two city states. The chapter on Singapore offers a...