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		<title>On Transparency and the Expenses Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clean Wage System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Hsien Loong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministerial Salary Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teo Chee Hean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is certainly good to see that there has been a healthy debate over the salaries and renumerations of Singapore&#8217;s ministers. If you have not kept up with the news, Jeremy Chen&#8217;s summary of the recommendation by the Ee Commission and various political parties is a useful read (see:http://newasiarepublic.com/?p=35616).  Being transparent about salaries are computated (through a yearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1609&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great &#8220;Pay Drop&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gerard Ee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministers Salaries Singapore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ee Commission has finally released its report on Ministers&#8217; Salaries, with &#8220;substantial pay cuts&#8221; of up to 33-37% for the Prime Minister and his cabinet promised (see here: http://reviewcommittee2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/salaries-for-a-capable-and-committed-govt.pdf). The President is the heaviest hit, with a recommended cut of 51% to his S$3 million dollar salary. Unsurprisingly, Lee Hsien Loong has stated that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1602&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bersih 2.0 and Electoral Reform in Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://dlzj.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/bersih-2-0-and-electoral-reform-in-malaysia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics (Asia)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambiga Sreenevasan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bersih 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electoral Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysian Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Najib Razak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Elections in authoritarian or semi-authoritarian countries are different from those in established democracies. Some, including Stanford University&#8217;s Lisa Blaydes, see these elections as a tool for elite management, where elites are often competing for the distribution of rents and resources. Others, including Andreas Schelder, argue that such elections are permitted in order to present a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1585&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bloomsbury Experiment</title>
		<link>http://dlzj.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/the-bloomsbury-experiment-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics (Europe)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AC Grayling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New College of the Humanities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a standard tuition fee of eighteen thousand pounds a year, philosopher AC Grayling&#8217;s New College of the Humanities (NCH) will probably be the most expensive post-secondary college in the UK. The Bloomsbury based institution will take the form of a US style liberal arts college in order to provide a dedicated quality education in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1562&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is why we should have Proportional Representation</title>
		<link>http://dlzj.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/this-is-why-we-should-have-proportional-representation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 08:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GE 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics (Singapore)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSP. RP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proportional Representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SDA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As widely expected during GE 2011, the PAP has romped back to power with 81 seats out of 87. The Workers&#8217; Party has made huge gains in the polls, holding on to Hougang and capturing Aljunied in the process. All other parties have done significantly well, including the Singapore Democratic Party, whose overall vote percentage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1496&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End the PAP system of patronage</title>
		<link>http://dlzj.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/end-the-pap-system-of-patronage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 15:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics (Singapore)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clientelism in Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Yeo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godfather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lim Biow Chuan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May 7th General Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patronage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vivian Balakrishnan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wong Kan Seng]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 7th of May is only 24 hours away. As you all may know by now, there is a new invention of a &#8220;cooling off day&#8221; to &#8220;allow&#8221; voters some time to cool down and to &#8220;reflect&#8221; on the issues and choices. Come May 7th, Singaporeans may choose to elect more opposition members, or to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1490&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The crumbling world of the PAP&#8217;s house to house.</title>
		<link>http://dlzj.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/the-crumbling-world-of-the-paps-house-to-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GE 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics (Singapore)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House to House visits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Gomez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khaw Boon Wan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lui Tuck Yew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SDP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The election campaign so far has been characterized by the usual smear tactics, the shameful gutter reporting by the mainstream media (especially The New Paper and that of writer Melvin Singh), the expected bias of the mainstream media towards the People&#8217;s Action Party, and the regular misreading and twisting of words by PAP ministers. Despite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1470&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Note: Away, On Campaign</title>
		<link>http://dlzj.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/away-on-the-hustings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GE 2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will be away on the hustings between 27th April till 8th May. Sporadic analysis or any articles untl after the GE. In the meantime, please check out these following sites for alternative coverage: Kirsten Han&#8217;s Blog Rachel Zeng&#8217;s Blog The Online Citizen&#8217;s Election Website SgPolitics.net &#8211; http://www.sgpolitics.net Jacob69er Yawningbread (Alex Au) Don&#8217;t just read or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1466&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spare us your sob stories, Mr Lim</title>
		<link>http://dlzj.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/spare-us-your-sob-stories-mr-lim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lim Boon Heng]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Clegg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think we have our first bit of General Election wayang, oh, and this is coming from Lim Boon Heng, a man who&#8217;s not going to run for office. When responding to a question on group think at the introductory press conference for new candidates yesterday, the outgoing PAP minister broke into tears as he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1388&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The PAP&#8217;s broken system: The issue of talent</title>
		<link>http://dlzj.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/the-paps-broken-system-the-issue-of-talent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Icarus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chen Show Mao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Hsien Loong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore Electoral System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vincent Wijeysingha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workers' Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Hsien Loong dedicated a good part of last Tuesday evening at NUS selling this good old tale: the PAP is the best option for Singaporeans as we don&#8217;t have enough talent, a two party system is not workable for Singapore because it leads to ethnic parties and we just don&#8217;t have enough talent to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dlzj.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3545255&amp;post=1340&amp;subd=dlzj&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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