
好步是怎样成为奥步的?
作者:冀居·谢 有一天,王子突然想到一个高明的主意,要解决选民不够冷静、理智的问题,就是在选举的前一天来个冷静日,那么一定就会再选出太子党来。这事他就交给众臣去三读 通过,大臣们也兴致勃勃地裁制新衣准备出席鼓掌通过礼,而民间已经开始筹备庆祝大会,因为从此以后,王国的臣民将会过着理智美满的幸福生活…… 周殊钦在西班牙港发出的新闻稿这样写道:『李显龙总理宣布定国会选举和民选总统选举投票日前一天为“冷静日”,以让选民在候选人停止竞选活动之后,有平静的一天来思考投票决定。』——其实这只是身为总理的一个建议或者提案,还有待国会的通过。周殊钦大概没有看过有些国家的首相或总理虽然有很好的政策,但碍于国会不通过的情况下,面临倒台危机的事儿,所以才会选用“宣布”这种打雷都打不掉的字眼。 民主社会的立法程序,虽然一党独大的情况下可以让他们玩弄于股掌间,但是吃相也不能太难看。世界上很多事物不是说单有个良好的动机就能够通过去执行的。这就好比电影审查制度,用意当然是过滤不好的、败坏道德的东西,但是一刀切的审查制度,只反映审查者的审美观或者道德观,对于很多人是不公平的。所以才会折衷出现分级制,由“把关”变成“建议”,让大家可以自由去选择。 最近Mr...

Singapore’s bilingual policy: a success or setback?
By Nicholas Tan Long regarded as the crux of Singapore’s financial, political and national success, the bilingualism policy has come under the limelight recently, all thanks to Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s apology for his mistakes in the policy. When the policy was meted out four decades ago, Mr Lee said: “if we were monolingual...

“Cooling-off” day for voters to reflect “calmly” on their decisions or for the PAP to do last minute campaigning?
OPINION With elections looming around the corner, the ruling party is again making use of the power of its incumbency to change the rules of the game and shift the goal-posts in order to "engineer" another electoral result which will ensure their continued political hegemony. In other modern democracies, the best result a political...
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