Who wants to work for govt in the age of populism?

Assoc Prof Zeger van der Wal from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS discussed a surge of “strongman” populist leaders using aggressive, nationalist rhetoric to win elections, while using loyalist forces and purging their opposition to stay in office, across the globe. He opined that such leaders may endanger the potential for creating quality of government, or destroy quality of government already achieved over a long period of time.

• The Straits Times, 22 November 2016, Opinion, pA22