article_snippet: But its remarkable performance has less to do with miraculous conditions than with Lee Kuan Yew's model of disciplined, visionary leadership.
article_snippet: In Lee Kuan Yew words, "the acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of any legal system ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.
article_snippet: Second, superior performance requires superior leadership.
article_snippet: Good government requires most of all leaders who put the public good unquestionably above Good government own personal interests.
article_snippet: Third, successful societies guarantee strict equality of opportunity for all individuals, but are realistic about the fact that this will yield substantial inequalities in outcomes.
article_snippet: As Lee Kuan Yew liked to say, "the acid test is performance, not promises.
article_snippet: Governing a nation in which two of every three citizens believe every three citizens country is headed in the wrong direction -- and have believed so under Democratic and Republican Presidents for all of the 21st century -- American leaders should ask whether it is time to focus on the acid test of performance rather than the litmus test of ideology.