01665nam a22001577a 4500 517751 517751 210727b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Abdullah, Walid Jumblatt anD Kim, Soojin 27982 Singapore’s responses to the Covid-19 outbreak: a critical assessment American Review of Public Administration 50(6-7), Aug-Oct, 2020: p.770-776 This article reviews how Singapore has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, from late-January to early May, 2020, through the three-phase approach to “learning”: in-between learning, trial-and-error learning, and contingency learning. Given its unique political system dominated by the People’s Action Party (PAP) and bureaucratic culture, the Singapore government has progressively implemented numerous control measures including strict travel bans, contact tracing, “Circuit Breaker,” compulsory mask-wearing, and social distancing policies, along with financial relief to businesses and workers, in a very top-down fashion. Although the health and treatment issues of foreign migrant workers in dormitories continue to be the subject of ongoing debate among many scholars, it should be noted that the mortality rate in Singapore still remains very low compared to that of many other countries. Singapore’s case points to an important lesson that learning-driven coordinated strategic approaches matter for effective crisis management in the long term. – Reproduced COVID-19, Crisis management, Learning, Singapore 25880 American Review of Public Administration COVID 19 PANDEMIC - SINGAPORE AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 391817 IIPA IIPA 2021-07-27 50(6-7), Aug-Oct, 2020: p.770-776 AR125000 2021-07-27 AR