...apparatus enhance legitimacy and perpetuate its iron-rule of the city-state. At the same time, they are also often puzzled by the seemingly apolitical nature of public policy debates and the apparent lack of activism amongst independent associational/civil groups in an increasingly middle-class society. In order to put together meaningful answer for that puzzle, one has to re-look history, and ask more questions: Were there non-state activities in relation to the British colonial administration and the newly elected government? What kind of relationships existed between them? How did associational and civil groups relate to one another? Did they have a common strategy to influence policy outcome? How effective were they as interest groups? At what stage in Singapore's history were these associational groups...

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