Subject: Re: Investing with an eye on rising authoritarianism
"Is Singapore authoritarian? How is their economy doing?"

Singapore is certainly an interesting case: It is a parliamentary democracy, but given the dominance of the ruling party, it is also considered "soft-authoritarian". It might be one of those idiosyncratic places I mentioned in my first post in this thread where some authoritarian elements coupled with a solid democratic culture (British and Japanese influence) actually prevent the development of a real autocracy.