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Democratic Theory 2016

December 7, 2017

Voting with your ‘Like’: Investigating democratic values in the community of Facebook

Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1835 that in the transition from aristocracy to democracy, the…

YZ S December 7, 2017

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Contemporary Egalitarianism 2017

No Egalitarianism Without Environmental Egalitarianism

D C K H December 4, 2017
Democratic Theory 2017

The Special Assistance Plan: Singapore’s own bumiputera policy

Zhuo Tee December 7, 2017
Democratic Theory 2017

The Need for Environmental Democracy

D C K H December 7, 2017
Contemporary Egalitarianism 2017

Streaming in Singapore: Is Mere Evolution in Education Enough for Equality?

S C H Y December 6, 2017
Contemporary Egalitarianism 2017

Singapore, A Luck Egalitarian Society?

C Z H December 4, 2017

At Yale-NUS College, we are thinking about ideals of equality and democracy, and how they relate to practice, in Singapore and in the wider world.

This website showcases our reflections.

Articles were originally submitted as course papers for Professor Sandra Field’s classes Contemporary Egalitarianism and Democratic Theory.

The Equality&Democracy project has been made possible through the support of a Teaching Innovation Grant from the Yale-NUS Centre for Teaching and Learning: ‘Applying Political Philosophy to Real World Cases’.

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