TY - BOOK AU - SIM Soek-Fang TI - Hegemonic authoritarianism and Singapore: economics, ideology and the Asian economic crisis PY - 2006/// KW - SINGAPORE KW - POLITICAL THEORY KW - SOUTHEAST ASIA KW - HEGEMONY KW - GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS N2 - Suggests that Gramsci's theory of hegemony (that is: hegemony as non-coercive leadership over a coalition of allied social forces [Oxford companion to politics of the world, 1993]). offers a better explanation of the political systems of east and southeast Asian countries than those suggested by contemporary theories of authoritarianism. Uses the example of Singapore to illustrate the argument ER -