PESTLE Analysis
Politics
The political power is extremely centralized in the government and it is a bureaucratic
country. Although the elections are being held often, the offices are mostly assigned
instead of elected. The government put efforts in communicating the decisions and policies
to the public instead of gathering their opinion. The reason of that is after the
“Depoliticize” the power structure in 1965, the government is convinced by a concept that
a city state without natural resources, if keeping the political centralized and narrow, the
economic and political stability are maintained. The Peoples Action Party dominated the
Singaporean politics since the independence from leaving the Federal of Malaysia in 1965.
Singapore is classed as a “Hybrid” country by the Economist intelligent unit because
Singaporean politics is a mixture of bureaucracy and democracy. Also Freedom House
rank Singapore as “partly free”. Western democracies considered the Singaporean
government is closer to bureaucratic instead of democratic or illiberal and procedural
democratic. Some people considered Singaporean government to be social democratic that
listens to the opinions and feedback on policies and lawmaking process instead of purely
according to the will of government. However some of the policies consist of socialism,
for example; the free education and government owned public housing. These policies help
the dominance government controlled the local economics and majority of real-estate.
However, Singapore is famous for its anti- corruption policies which also are an attraction
to foreign investment. Singapore is ranked the least corruption country in Asia and the
cleanest country in the world by the Transparent International. The World Banks
governance indicators also ranked Singapore highly rule on laws, control of corruption and
government effectiveness, however the political openness and human rights are lacking.
Also there were huge questions and responses about the salaries of Prime Minister in
Singapore. The Prime Minister received a rise in salaries of 60% which equals to $400,000
US Dollars higher than the United States President. The response from government
defined this is the tool of preventing the corruption and governing efficiency to ensure
Singaporean image as a world-class government.
The Singaporean government is being actively involved in economy activities. Also the
government has monopolized or semi-monopolized certain industries like: real estate
which makes the power of government affect the profitability.
Although the economy is growing rapidly and increase of opportunities of: trade, citizen
education level is increased and the society is more complex and the policies so governing
of PAP (People Action Party) is being questioned. The prediction of Singapore Politic will
