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Social Studies

Leadership Is Key

Governance is more than just a set of institutional arrangements to ensure the effective functioning of society. Many countries have democratic elections, separation of powers and systems to hold their bureaucracies accountable to the legislature but they are not necessarily well governed. Effective systems of governance are necessary but the key is the quality of leadership that resides in all the institutions of governance. In fact, quality institutions of governance follow naturally from good leadership.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

David Marshall: Singapore's First Chief Minister




Marshall rose to prominence in the late 1940s as a brilliant young criminal lawyer whose eloquence and extraordinary legal understanding won him numerous court cases. Marshall subsequently entered politics at the head of the Labor Front party and became Singapore's first elected Chief Minister between 1955 and 1956.
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