Recent Posts
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, Can liberal democracies address climate change?, on the site Equality and Democracy 5 days ago
Regarding Climate Change, liberal democracies have been criticized for a long time. While they do claim to care about environment, pollution and climate change, they have taken few to no actions to handle these […]
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, On Constitutions & Deliberative Democracy, on the site Equality and Democracy 5 days, 1 hour ago
Abstract: Several countries have decided, constitutionally or otherwise, to adopt liberal policies regarding same sex relationships in the past decade. These victories have overwhelmingly been the result of […]
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, Should Korea Move Away From Confucian Public Reason?, on the site Equality and Democracy 5 days, 1 hour ago
“I should have scrutinized and managed my family much more rigorously not only as the head of the family but also as the father of my children.” – Cho Guk [1]
Above are the words given by Cho Guk, a former Jus […]
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, Poverty as a threat to democracy, on the site Equality and Democracy 5 days, 1 hour ago
Democracy takes many forms – some are Western liberal democracies, others are Asian authoritarian democracies. What all of these democratic forms have in common, however, is an element of collective d […]
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, Relooking Representation in Singapore’s Non-Electoral Institutions, on the site Equality and Democracy 5 days, 4 hours ago
“How about postman? Postman you open or not? For Singapore Post?” Minister of Parliament, Ong Teng Koon, suggested sincerely to food delivery riders at a Meet-the-People Session.[1] Following the overnight ban of […]
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, Vocation vs Cultivation: The Role of Public College Education in a Democratic Society, on the site Equality and Democracy 5 days, 4 hours ago
Globally, there has been serious debate about the purpose and value of public college education. This debate has been highlighted by a raft of controversial policies— in Brazil, President Jair M. Bolsonaro a […]
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, Student Activism in Singapore: The Role Yale-NUS College Plays in the Framework of Calibrated Coercion, on the site Equality and Democracy 5 days, 4 hours ago
I. Student activism in illiberal democracy
In 2018, the Economist Intelligence Unit rated Singapore as a flawed democracy.[1] Though the government claims itself to be a functioning representative democracy, […]
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, Why We Should Rally Against the Garden City, on the site Equality and Democracy 5 days, 4 hours ago
“Singapore today is a verdant city…This was no accident of nature. It is the result of a deliberate 30-year policy.” – Lee Kuan Yew, 1995[1]
“Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead, we should […]
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, Decriminalising Adultery in South Korea for Freedom, Democracy, and Justice, on the site Equality and Democracy 5 days, 4 hours ago
In February 2015, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled that Article 241 of the criminal code, which made adultery punishable by imprisonment, is unconstitutional. In January the following year, the article […]
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Toa Li Ting wrote a new post, The Canadian Citizen’s Senate: Radically Reforming Canada’s Second Chamber of Parliament, on the site Equality and Democracy 6 days, 2 hours ago
The Canadian Senate was founded in 1867, intended to be a chamber of sober second thought for the legislation passed through the House of Commons. Flash forward to the present, and election year after election […]
