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What Can Democracies Learn From Dictatorships?

UCL Uncovering Politics

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The Importance of Meritocracy in Democracy

Singapore's civil service is much more meritocratic than that of the United States. There's nothing inimical to me about doing that in a democracy. And the irony is that actually of course serves democracies better I think in the long term even if we may appear as florotic at times or appear slow.

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