While the Singapore government has sought to construct the elected presidency as an institution critical to Singapore’s political system, the result in fact forces the institution to contradict itself. This paradox has important implications for politics in a post–Lee Hsien Loong Singapore.

Keywords:
People’s Action Party, Singapore presidential election 2017, state praxes, state discourse, post-Lee Singapore
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