CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Tan, K.P. (2023) “Interpreting the Cold War and the New Cold War in Asia”, in K.P. Tan (ed.) Asia in the Old and New Cold Wars: Ideologies, Narratives, and Lived Experiences, Palgrave Macmillan.
Tan, K.P. (2023) “Haunted history: Exorcizing the Cold War”, in K.P. Tan (ed.) Asia in the Old and New Cold Wars: Ideologies, Narratives, and Lived Experiences, Palgrave Macmillan.
Tan, K.P. (2022) “Neoliberal globalization, authoritarian populism, and moral panics”, in K.P. Tan (ed.) Singapore's First Year of COVID-19: Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism (pp. 1–21), Palgrave Macmillan.
Tan, K.P. (2022) “Ready for the post-pandemic world?”, in K.P. Tan (ed.) Singapore's First Year of COVID-19: Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism (pp. 155–165), Palgrave Macmillan.
Tan, K.P. (2022) “Is he Chinese?”, in B.S. Koh (ed.) “One United People”: Essays from the People Sector on Singapore’s Journey of Racial Harmony (pp. 206-215), Marshall Cavendish International.
Tan, K.P. (2020) “The People’s Action Party in government: The pole for ‘big tent’ Singapore”, in T. Chong (ed.) Navigating Differences: Integrating Singapore, ISEAS—Yusof Ishak Institute.
Tan, K.P. (2018) “The road to thoughtful pragmatism”, in C. Chung and A. Maniam (eds.) The Birthday Book: The Roads We Take (pp. 164-168), The Birthday Collective, Singapore.
Loh, K.S. and Tan, K.P. (2017) “Convergence and slippage between film and history: Reviewing Invisible City, Zahari's 17 Years and Sandcastle”, in K.K. Liew and S. Teo (eds.) Singapore Cinema: New Perspectives (pp. 37-50), Routledge.
Tan, K.P. (2017) “Civic education and deliberative democracy in Singapore”, in C. Soon and G. Koh (eds.) Civil Society and the State in Singapore (pp. 203-228), World Scientific.
Tan, K.P. and Wong, B. (2016) “The evolution of political legitimacy in Singapore: Electoral institutions, governmental performance, moral authority, and meritocracy”, in J. Chan, D. C. Shin, and M. Williams (eds.) East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy: Bridging the Empirical-Normative Divide (pp. 135-165), Cambridge University Press.
Tan, K.P. (2016) “Re-enchanting the smart nation”, in H.K. Wee and J. Chia (eds.) Singapore Dreaming: Managing Utopia (pp. 303-310), Asian Urban Lab.
Tan, K.P. (2015) “Images of the migrant worker in Singapore's mainstream news media: Prospects for integration”, in M.T. Yap, G. Koh and D. Soon (eds.) Migration and Integration in Singapore: Policies and Practice (pp. 160-191), Routledge.
Tan, K.P. (2015) “The professorial life: Seamlessness, synergy, and significance”, in Governing Asia: Reflections on a Research Journey (pp. 171-178), World Scientific.
Tan, K.P. (2015) “Evolution of the arts and Singapore’s soul”, in J. Sim (ed.) Beyond 50: Re-imagining Singapore (pp. 143-152), Really Good Books.
Tan, K.P. (2013) “Meritocracy and political liberalization in Singapore”, in D.A. Bell and Li C.Y. (eds.) The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective (pp. 314-339), Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139814850.015
Tan, K.P. (2013) “The Singapore Parliament: Representation, effectiveness, and control”, in Y.N. Zheng, L.F. Lye and W. Hofmeister (eds.) Parliaments in Asia: Institutional Building and Political Development, Routledge.
Tan, K.P. (2012) “A ‘Singapore school’ of public policy”, in K. Mahbubani, S.N. Yiannouka, S.A. Fritzen, A.S. Tuminez, and K.P. Tan (eds.) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy: Building A Global Policy School in Asia (pp. 127-148), World Scientific.
Tan, K.P. (2012) “Alternative vision in neoliberal Singapore: Memories, places, and voices in the films of Tan Pin Pin”, in D.C.L. Lim and H. Yamamoto (eds.) Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention (pp. 147-167), Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203181904
Tan, K.P. (2012) “Cinema as a language of history: Explorations into two related worlds”, in Film as a Language of History (pp. 16-43), National Heritage Board.
Tan, K.P. (2011) “The narcissistic state and The Singapore Story as its mirror”, in W.S.W. Lim, S. Siddique and D.F. Tan (eds.) Singapore Shifting Boundaries (pp. 73-83), Asian Urban Lab.
Tan, K.P. (2011) “The People’s Action Party and political liberalization in Singapore”, in L.F. Lye and W. Hofmeister (eds.) Political Parties, Party Systems and Democratization in East Asia (pp. 107-131), World Scientific. doi:10.1142/9789814327954_0005
Tan, K.P. (2010) “The transformation of meritocracy”, in T. Chong (ed.) Management of Success: Singapore Revisited (pp. 272-287), ISEAS.
Tan, K.P. (2010) “Pragmatic secularism, civil religion, and political legitimacy in Singapore”, in M.S.H. Heng and C.L. Ten (eds.) State and Secularism: Perspectives from Asia (pp. 339-358), World Scientific. doi:10.1142/9789814282383_0019
Tan, K.P. (2009) “Racial stereotypes in Singapore films: Commercial value and critical possibilities”, in P.S.D. Goh, M. Gabrielpillai, and P. Holden (eds.) Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore (pp. 124-140), Routledge.
Tan, K.P. (2008) “Religious reasons in a secular public sphere: Debates in the media about homosexuality”, in Lai A.E. (ed.) Religious Diversity in Singapore (pp. 413-433), IPS and ISEAS.
Tan, K.P. (2007) “Censorship in whose name?”, in K.P. Tan (ed.) Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics (pp. 71-94), NUS Press.
Tan, K.P. (2007) “In renaissance Singapore”, in K.P. Tan (ed.) Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics (pp. 1-16), NUS Press.
Tan, K.P. (2007) “New politics for a renaissance city?”, in K.P. Tan (ed.) Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics (pp. 17-36), NUS Press.
Tan, K.P. (2007) “Optimists, pessimists, and strategists”, in K.P. Tan (ed.) Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics (pp. 253-269), NUS Press.
Tan, K.P. (2007) “Youth: Every generation’s moral panic”, in K.P. Tan (ed.) Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics (pp. 219-230), NUS Press.
Tan, K.P. (2004) “Ethnic representation on Singapore film and television”, in Lai A.E. (ed.) Beyond Rituals and Riots: Ethnic Pluralism and Social Cohesion in Singapore (pp. 289-315), Eastern Universities Press.