When I teach a history course on mainland Southeast Asia, I don’t usually include Singapore in the survey, but let’s include it here as another good example of one-party dominance. We might describe Singapore’s political system as non-communist socialism. In Singapore the People’s Action Party has won every election since independence in 1959 and, naturally, has governed since then. If other parties exhibit meaningful opposition, the PAP hobbles them and thus maintains its one-party dominance. Opposition parliamentarians who show promise of strong and popular leadership are sometimes ruined financially by being sued. The interesting lesson from this comparison with Singapore is that the Lee family has played a key role in the continuing one-party dominance of the PAP.