Lee Kuan Yew wrote about how he went looking for a governance system for his party, the PAP (which now rules Singapore) after the party nearly was captured by the communists in the 50s. He looked at the Catholic Church as an inspiring example of a system that had survived for a long time, and he eventually settled on a system based on the Church’s system for electing cardinals and the Pope.
This is from his memoir The Singapore Story, from right after he finished studying in the UK. (Don’t have a precise reference, just a text file with some notes.)
Lee Kuan Yew wrote about how he went looking for a governance system for his party, the PAP (which now rules Singapore) after the party nearly was captured by the communists in the 50s. He looked at the Catholic Church as an inspiring example of a system that had survived for a long time, and he eventually settled on a system based on the Church’s system for electing cardinals and the Pope.
That’s fascinating, have you got a source?
This is from his memoir The Singapore Story, from right after he finished studying in the UK. (Don’t have a precise reference, just a text file with some notes.)