Singapore has less policy accumulation

…we find that Singapore (1) has only produced about one-fourth of the environmental policy measures of an “average” democracy and (2) is constantly the country with the lowest level of policy accumulation in our sample. These findings hold even when controlling for alternative explanations, such as the effectiveness of the administration and the government’s ability to opt for stricter and more hierarchical forms of intervention.

Here is more from Christian Aschenbrenner, Christoph Knill, and Yves Steinebach.  Via the excellent Kevin Lewis.