Introduction : challenges for the New Guard and directions in the 1990s / Garry Rodan -- Political innovation in Singapore : the presidency, the leadership and the party / James Cotton -- The coporatist management of ethnicity in contemporary Singapore / David Brown -- Deconstructing values : the establishment of a national ideology and its implications for Singapore's political future / John Clammer -- The growth of Singapore's middle class and its political significance / Garry Rodan -- Staging crises : media and citizenship / David Birch -- Foreign models in Singapore's development and the idea of a Singaporean model / Jean-Louis Margolin -- Responding to global challenges : the changing nature of Singapore's incorporation into the international economy / Cheah Hock Beng -- Singapore's industrial relations in the 1990s / Chris Leggett -- (cont.) Economic foundations of Singapore's security : from globalism to regionalism? / Amitav Acharya and M. Ramesh -- Planning for the future : the welfare system in a new phase of development / Mukul G. Asher -- The public sector in contemporary Singapore : in retreat? / Linda Low -- The domestic bourgeoisie : how entrepreneurial? how international? / Catherine Paix.