Dr. Stephan Ortmann

Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Metropolitan University

E-Mail: ortmann.stephan at googlemail.com 

Books

• • Ortmann, Stephan, Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, and Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan (eds.). 2025. Hong Kong Politics After the National Security Law: Autocratization and Its Consequences. London: Routledge.

  • Ortmann, Stephan and Mark R. Thompson (eds.). 2020. China's ‘Singapore Model’ and Authoritarian Learning. London: Routledge.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2017. Environmental Governance in Vietnam: Institutional Reforms and Failures. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2010. Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong: Containing Contention. London and New York: Routledge. (Paperback reprint)

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2009. Managed Crisis: Legitimacy and the National Threat in Singapore. Saarbrücken: Verlag Dr. Müller.

Journal Articles

• • Ortmann, Stephan. 2025. "The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Structural and Situational Opportunities in an Illiberal Regime," Journal of Contemporary Asia, 55:4, pp. 598-617, https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2396329 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2024. "Civil society alliance building in Hong Kong: The case of preservation movements," Asian Politics and Policy, 16:4, pp. 488-506, https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12760 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2024. "The transformation of political culture in Hong Kong: Tracing the decline of protest space," Asian Affairs: An American Review, 51:4, pp. 279-304, https://doi.org/10.1080/00927678.2024.2388940 

  • Ortmann. Stephan. 2023. "When protests become a threat to authoritarian rule: the case of environmental protests in Viet Nam," Third World Quarterly, 44:9, pp. 2063-2079. 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2023. "Liberal Vestiges in an Illiberal Regime: The Case of Singapore," Society, 60:28–39.

  • Lowe, John and Stephan Ortmann. 2022. “Graffiti of the “New” Hong Kong and Their Imaginative Geographies During the Anti-Extradition Bill Protests of 2019–2020,” Critical Arts, 36:1-2, pp. 1-19.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2021. “Hong Kong’s constructive identity and political participation: Resisting China’s blind nationalism,” Asian Studies Review, 45:2, pp. 306-324.

  • Lowe, John, Hsun-Hui Tseng, and Stephan Ortmann. 2021. “Photo Essay: Reclaiming the University – Cartographies of Student Resistance during the 2019-20 Hong Kong Protests,” Asian Affairs, 52:2, pp. 344-356.

  • Lowe, John and Stephan Ortmann. 2020. "Unmasking nativism in Asia’s world city: graffiti and identity boundary un/making in Hong Kong," Continuum, 34:3, pp. 398-416.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2019. "Contentious politics and democratization in Hong Kong: Explaining growing demands for self-determination", Asian Education and Development Studies, 9:4, pp. 547-557.

  • Ortmann, Stephan, and Mark R. Thompson. 2018. “Introduction: The ‘Singapore Model’ and China's Neo-Authoritarian Dream,” The China Quarterly, 236, pp. 930-945.

  • Thompson, Mark R., and Stephan Ortmann. 2018. “Mis-Modelling Singapore: China's Challenges in Learning from the City-State,” The China Quarterly, 236,  pp. 1014-1032.

  • Yang, Kai, and Stephan Ortmann. 2018. “From Sweden to Singapore: The Relevance of Foreign Models for China's Rise,” The China Quarterly, 236, pp. 946-967.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. "Political Development in Hong Kong: The Failure of Democratization," Asian International Studies Review, 17:2, pp. 199-219.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. "The lack of sovereignty, the Umbrella Movement, and democratisation in Hong Kong," Asia Pacific Law Review, 24:2, pp. 108-122.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. "Singapore 2011-2015: A Tale of Two Elections," Asia Maior, 26, pp. 197-212.

  • Ortmann, Stephan and Mark R. Thompson. 2016. "China and the 'Singapore model'", Journal of Democracy, 27:1, pp. 39-48.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015. "The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong: From Economic Concerns to the Rejection of Materialism," Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, 17.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015. "The Umbrella Movement and Hong Kong's Protracted Democratization Process," Asian Affairs, 46:1, pp. 32-50.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015. “Political Change and Civil Society Coalitions in Singapore,” Government and Opposition, 5:1, pp. 119-139.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014. "The Significance of By-elections for Political Change in Singapore's Authoritarian Regime," Asian Survey, 54:4, pp. 725–748.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014. "Democratization and the Discourse on Stability in Hong Kong and Singapore," Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 10:1, pp. 123-145.

  • Ortmann, Stephan and Mark R. Thompson. 2014. "China's obsession with Singapore: learning authoritarian modernity," The Pacific Review, 27:3, pp. 433-455.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2012. "The ‘Beijing consensus’ and the ‘Singapore model’: Unmasking the myth of an alternative authoritarian state-capitalist model," Journal of Chinese Business and Economic Studies, 10(4), pp. 337-359.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2012. "Policy Advocacy in a Competitive Authoritarian Regime: The Growth of Civil Society and Agenda Setting in Singapore," Administration & Society, 44(6), pp. 13s-25s.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2011. "Singapore: Authoritarian but Newly Competitive," Journal of Democracy, 22(4), pp. 153-164.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2010. "Opposition and Regime Legitimacy: A Comparative Study of Singapore and Hong Kong,“ Journal of Asian and African Studies, 45(1), pp. 67-86.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2009. "Singapore: The Politics of Inventing National Identity,"  Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 28(4), pp. 23-46.

Book chapters

• • Ortmann, Stephan. 2025. "Educating Authoritarianism: The Legitimation of Authoritarian Rule in Hong Kong," In: Ortmann, Stephan, Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, and Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan (eds.). 2025. Hong Kong Politics After the National Security Law: Autocratization and Its Consequences. London: Routledge, pp. 131-147.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2024. "Civil society," Lam Wai-man, Percy Luen-tim Lui, and Wilson Wong (eds.). Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics. 3rd. ed. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 214-238.

  • Ortmann, Stephan.  2023. "Can Vietnamese Cities Learn from Singapore? On the Challenges of Policy Transfer,"  Frauke Kraas, Javier Revilla Diez, Matthias Garschagen, Le Thu Hoa (eds.). Mega-Urban Development and Transformation Processes in Vietnam: Trends, Vulnerability and Policy Option. Berlin: LIT Verlag, pp. 169-188.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2022. "Legality and the Hong Kong Protests," Shiping Hua (ed.). Chinese Legality: Ideology, Law, and Institutions. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 161-177.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2021. “The Lee Family Saga and the 2020 General Election,” Kevin YL Tan and Terence Lee (eds). Voting in a Time of Change: Singapore’s 2020 General Election. Singapore: Ethos, pp. 185-206.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2021. “Environmental Movements in Vietnam under One-Party Rule,” Paul Jobin, Ming-sho Ho and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (eds.). Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene. Singapore: ISEAS, pp. 252-283.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2020. “Evolving Environmental Governance Structures in a Market Socialist State: The Case of Vietnam,” in: The Socialist Market Economy in Asia: Development in China, Vietnam and Laos, edited by A. Hansen, J. I. Bekkevold, and K. Nordhaug. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-217.

  • Ortmann, Stephan and Mark R. Thompson. 2020. “Introduction: China’s Singapore model and authoritarian learning,” in: Stephan Ortmann and Mark R. Thompson (eds). China’s “Singapore Model” and Authoritarian Learning. London: Routledge, pp. 1-18. 

  • Yang Kai and Stephan Ortmann. 2020. “The origins of the “Singapore fever” in China: 1978–92,” in: Stephan Ortmann and Mark R. Thompson (eds). China’s “Singapore Model” and Authoritarian Learning. London: Routledge, pp. 21-37.

  • Thompson, Mark R. and Stephan Ortmann. 2020. “Mis-modeling Singapore: China’s challenges in learning from the city-state,” in: Stephan Ortmann and Mark R. Thompson (eds). China’s “Singapore Model” and Authoritarian Learning. London: Routledge, pp. 38-53.

  • Thompson, Mark R., Stephan Ortmann, and Yang Kai. 2020. “Conclusion: the decline of the Singapore model,” in: Stephan Ortmann and Mark R. Thompson (eds). China’s “Singapore Model” and Authoritarian Learning. London: Routledge, pp. 187-198.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2019. "The Growing Challenge of Pluralism and Political Activism: Shifts in the Hegemonic Discourse in Singapore," in: Lily Zubaidah Rahim and Michael D. Barr (eds.). The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in Singapore’s Developmental State. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 173-194.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2018. "The Development of Hong Kong Identity: From Local to National Identity," in: Wai-man Lam and Luke Cooper (eds.). Citizenship, Identity and Social Movements in the New Hong Kong: Localism after the Umbrella Movement. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 114-131.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2018. “The Emergence of Nativist Groups and Political Change,” in: Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo (ed.). Interest Groups and New Democracy Movement in Hong Kong. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 155-173.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015. "The Democracy Movement in Hong Kong and Singapore: Comparative Perspectives," in: Ip Iam-chong and Chan King-fai (eds.). 罷課不罷學－雨傘運動前夕的理論和思想大檢閱 (Boycott Classes, Continue Learning - A Review of the Theories and Thoughts Prior to the Umbrella Movement). Hong Kong: Step Forward, pp. 183-197.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015. “Singapore: from hegemonic to competitive authoritarianism,” in: William Case (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Democratization. Ogdon: Routledge, pp. 384-398.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2013. "The "Beijing Consensus" and the "Singapore Model": Unmasking the Myth of an Alternative Authoritarian State-Capitalist Model," in: Jun Li and Liming Wang (eds.). China’s Economic Dynamics: A Beijing Consensus in the Making? London and New York: Routledge, pp. 73-96.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2012. "Hong Kong: Problems of Identity and Independence," in: Meredith Weiss and Edward Aspinall (eds.). Student Activism in Asia: Between Protest and Powerlessness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 79-100.

Reviews

• • Ortmann. Stephan. 2024. "Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore: The Malayan Generation, 1953-1963. By Thum Ping Tjin. London and New York: Routledge, 2024, 350 pp. ISBN: 9781032484259." Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 97, Part 1, June 2024, pp. 183-184.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2020.  "The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019 335 pp. €109.00 ISBN 978-94-6298-456-1," China Quarterly, Volume 241, March 2020 , pp. 268-270.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2018. "Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore. By Chua Beng Huat. Singapore: NUS Press, 2017. Softcover: 223pp.," Contemporary Southeast Asia, 40:1, pp. 156–158.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2017. "Democratization in Hong Kong – and China?, by Lynn T. White III," Democratization, 24:6, pp. 1231-1233.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2013. "A review of Smaller States’ Alignment Choices: A Comparative Study of Malaysia and Singapore’s Hedging Behavior in the Face of a Rising China, by Cheng-Chwee Kuik," Dissertation Reviews, February 13.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2006.  “Review of Hussin Mutalib: Parties and Politics: A Study of Opposition Parties and the PAP in Singapore,” The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 23.

Reports and working papers

• • Bertelsmann Stiftung. 2022. Transformation Index BTI 2022 - Singapore Country Report. Gütersloh (country expert for Singapore).

  • Bertelsmann Stiftung. 2020. Transformation Index BTI 2020 - Singapore Country Report. Gütersloh (country expert for Singapore).

  • Bertelsmann Stiftung. 2018. Transformation Index BTI 2018 - Singapore Country Report. Gütersloh (country expert for Singapore). 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. Environmental Governance in Authoritarian Regimes: China and Singapore. SEARC Working Papers Series, The Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC) of the City University of Hong Kong.

  • Bertelsmann Stiftung. 2016. Transformation Index BTI 2016 - Singapore Country Report. Gütersloh (country expert for Singapore). 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014. “Report on the second workshop part of the project “The Power of Elections: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Electoral Authoritarianism”, 15.-16. September 2014 at the University of Heidelberg,” Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politik, 8:3-4, pp. 365-368.

  • Bertelsmann Stiftung. 2014. BTI 2014 - Singapore Country Report. Gütersloh (country expert for Singapore). 

  • Croissant, Aurel, Ortmann, Stephan and Quah Jon S. T. 2012. “Need for Reform and Governance Capacities in Asia: Country Report Singapore,” SGI Sustainable Governance Indicators, Bertelsmann Foundation.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2011. The 2011 Elections in Singapore: The Emergence of a Competitive Authoritarian Regime. SEARC Working Papers Series, The Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC) of the City University of Hong Kong.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2008. Explaining Non-Transitions: The Strategic Behavior of Political Groups in Singapore and Hong Kong. PhD thesis, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Newspaper articles and commentaries

• • Ortmann, Stephan. 2025. "Democratic Party’s dissolution marks Hong Kong’s political decline," East Asia Forum, April 15, https://doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1744754400 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2024. "Hong Kong’s legal uncertainty fosters climate of self-censorship," East Asia Forum,  May 6, https://doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1715032800

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2024. "Hong Kong’s semi-democracy continues its decay," East Asia Forum, January 22, https://doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1705960800 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2020. "An election under pandemic," EJ Global Plus, July 4. https://www1.hkej.com/dailynews/international/article/2513392/An+election+under+pandemic

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2018. "Access denied: Beijing reasserts control over Hong Kong’s borders," East Asia Forum, November 24, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/11/24/access-denied-beijing-reasserts-control-over-hong-kongs-borders/ 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2018. "World Story of Hong Kong 02," Stand News, May 4, https://thestandnews.com/society/world-story-of-hong-kong-02/ 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2017. "Xi Jinping’s New Era and Hong Kong’s Declining Autonomy," China Policy Institute: Analysis, October 26, https://cpianalysis.org/2017/10/26/xi-jinpings-new-era-and-hong-kongs-declining-autonomy/

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2017. "From ‘Two Systems’ to ‘One Country’: China’s Re-centralization and Hong Kong’s Autonomy," China Policy Institute: Analysis, June 1, https://cpianalysis.org/2017/06/01/from-two-systems-to-one-country-chinas-re-centralization-and-hong-kongs-autonomy/

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. "China’s seizure of Singaporean tanks: A public relations crisis, but relations likely to return to normal," APPS Policy Forum, December 2, http://www.policyforum.net/chinas-seizure-singaporean-tanks-no-reason-panic/.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. "Singapore’s succession struggles," East Asia Forum, September 24, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/09/24/singapores-succession-struggles/

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. "Singapore's Constrained Civil Society," Newsletter für Engagement und Partizipation in Europa, 2, http://www.b-b-e.de/fileadmin/inhalte/aktuelles/2016/02/enl-2-ortmann-gastbeitrag.pdf.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015. "Politics, not elections, will change Singapore," East Asia Forum, September 2, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2015/09/02/politics-not-elections-will-change-singapore/.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015. "After Lee, where to now for the PAP?" East Asia Forum, April 1, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2015/04/01/after-lee-where-to-now-for-the-pap/.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014. "An understanding of democracy," Young Post, October 16, p. 6-7.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014. "Beijing’s growing influence over Hong Kong," East Asia Forum, September 25, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2014/09/25/beijings-growing-influence-over-hong-kong/. 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014. "新加坡選舉威權政體 面臨嚴峻挑戰 (Singapore's Electoral Authoritarianism Faces Serious Challenges)," Hong Kong Economic Journal, August 9, p. A21.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014. "Four decades of marching in the streets," Young Post, June 24, p. 6-7.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2013. "Singapore's livelier politics a sign of the times," South China Morning Post, February 25, p. A13.

Conference Papers

• • Ortmann, Stephan. 2025. “From Liberal to Illiberal Authoritarianism: The Autocratization of Hong Kong,”  presented at the International Political Science Association World Congress in Seoul, South Korea, July 12-16.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2025. “Anti-Pollution Protests in the Vietnamese Media: A Form of Mediated Authoritarianism” presented at  the AAS-in-Asia Annual Conference, Kathmandu, June 1-4.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2024. “Educating Authoritarianism: The legitimation of authoritarian rule in Hong Kong,” presented at the AAS-in-Asia Annual Conference, Yogyakarta, July 9-11.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2024. “Educating Authoritarianism: The legitimation of authoritarian rule in Hong Kong,” presented at the Hong Kong Studies Conference, Hong Kong University, June 14-15.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2023. “The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Mobilization, Challenges, and Prospects for Change,” presented at the Theorizing the Dynamics of Collective Action workshop, City University of Hong Kong, August 21, 2023.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2023. "Cooperation among Environmental Organizations in an Illiberal Regime: The Case of Hong Kong," presented at the APISA 17th Annual Congress , Bali,  June 29 - July 1.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2020. “Environmental Protests in Vietnam: From Tolerance to Repression,” presented at the AAS-in-Asia Annual Conference, Kobe, August 31-September 2.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2020. “From Reform-Oriented Protest to Revolution:  Contentious Politics in Hong Kong,” presented at the Society for Hong Kong Studies Second Annual Conference, June 20-21, 2020.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2019. “Environmental Protests in Vietnam’s Fragmented Authoritarian Regime,” paper presented at the SEASIA Biennial Conference 2019 conference, Taipei, December 5-7, 2019. 

  • Thompson, Mark R. and Stephan Ortmann. 2019. “Last Year’s Model: The ‘Singapore Model’ and the Trajectory of Chinese Political Reform,” presented at the annual Hong Kong Political Science Conference, Baptist University of Hong Kong, October 26.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2019. “Environmental protests in Vietnam: Another form of contentious authoritarianism?” presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Asia-Pacific Region Conference, Singapore, July 4-6.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2019. “Civil Society Alliance Building in Hong Kong: The Case of Preservation Movements,” at the annual Society for Hong Kong Studies conference, University of Hong Kong, June 22.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2019. “Liberalism in Singapore: Liberal Vestiges in an Illiberal Regime,” presented at the workshop “Localizing liberalisms in Southeast Asia,” City University of Hong Kong, May 16.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2018. “Cooperation between NGOs in Hong Kong: The Case of the “Save Our Country Park Alliance”,” presented at the Annual conference of the Hong Kong Political Science Association, City University of Hong Kong, November 3.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2018. “Hong Kong’s Divided Civil Society: The Case of the ‘Save Our Country Park Alliance’, presented at the conference “(Re)conceptualising Asian Civil Society in the Age of Post-Politics”, 16 Aug 2018 - 17 Aug 2018, National University of Singapore.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2018. “The role of populism in Singapore,” presented at Association for Asian Studies 2018 Annual Conference, Washington, DC, March 22-25.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2017. “Environmental Movements in Vietnam,” International Conference on “Environmental Movements in Southeast Asia since 2000,” Asian Social Transformation Thematic Research Team (AST), Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1-2.

  • Thompson, Mark R. and Stephan Ortmann. 2017. "Attractive Models and Institutional Secrets: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the “Singapore Model,”" Annual conference of the Hong Kong Political Science Association, Hang Seng Management College, October 21.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. “The Development of the Hong Kong Identity: From Local to National Identity,” presented at the Hong Kong Political Science Conference “Politics of Migration and Changing Societies,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, November 26.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. “Contentious Politics and Democratization: The Case of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong,” presented at the American Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4. 

  • Ortmann, Stephan 2016. “The Development of the Hong Kong Identity and the Rise of Localist Movements,” presented at the 24th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, July 23-28, Poznan, Poland.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. “The Umbrella Movement: Democratization, Space, and Citizenship in Hong Kong,” presented at the International Conference “On Cities and Citizenship” at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, June 8-10

  • Ortmann, Stephan and Mark Thompson. 2016. “Mis-modeling Singapore: China’s Challenges in Learning from Singapore,” presented at the workshop “The ‘Singapore Model’ and Its Influence on China,” City University of Hong Kong, Southeast Asian Research Centre, Hong Kong, May 9.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. “The End of the Line? China and the Failure of Democratization of Hong Kong,” presented at the FES-APISA-Ewha Conference “New Authoritarianism in Asia,” Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, March 3-5.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2016. “The Growing Challenge of Pluralism and Political Activism to Singapore's Elitist Governance,” presented at the workshop on “Governance in Singapore: Reform Without Democratisation,” Nottingham University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 18-19.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015. “Security Threats in the South China Sea: Perspectives from Singapore and Vietnam on the East Asian Security Architecture,” presented at the workshop “Security Architecture in East Asia and the role of the US,” Department of Political Science, University of Erlangen, Germany, December 17.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015.  “Singapore's Power Elite Amid Growing Political Activism,” presented at the SEASIA 2015 Conference, Kyoto, Japan, December 12-13. 

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015.  “The Lack of Sovereignty, the Umbrella Movement, and Democratization in Hong Kong,” to be presented at the conference “The Occupy Central Movement and Its Aftermaths: An Interdisciplinary Study,” School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, September 18-19.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2015.  “Democratization and Sovereignty: The Case of Hong Kong,” presented at the 9th APISA conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, September 11-12.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014.  “Singapore: Authoritarian Rule and the Consequences of Increasingly Competitive Politics,” presented at the Inaugural AIS/SEARC and Murdoch/ARC Workshop: “The Politics of Southeast Asia under Multipolarity,” in Hong Kong, November 20-21, 2014.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014. “Environmental Journalists in Vietnam and China - Pressure Politics and Its Limits,” presented at the 8th APISA conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand, September 19-20, 2014.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2014. “The Emergence of Competitive Authoritarianism and the Stability of One-Party Dominant Rule in Singapore,” presented at The Power of Elections 2nd workshop in Heidelberg, Germany, September 15-16, 2014.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2013. “Evolving Governance Structures under Authoritarian Rule: The Case of Environmental Politics in Vietnam,” presented at the 7th APISA conference “People on the Move! Citizen Engagement and Collective Action Within and Across Asian Societies,” 25-26 October 2013 in Ankara, Turkey.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2012. "Environmental Movements and Political Change in Singapore, Vietnam, and China," presented at the conference "Politics and Policy in Asia" of the Asian Political and International Studies Association, Hong Kong, December 1, 2012.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2012. “Hegemonic Party States and the Struggle for Legitimacy: Elections in China, Vietnam, and Singapore,” presented at the conference of the German Political Science Association section on Comparative Politics, Marburg, Germany, March 20, 2012.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2012. “The First Inklings of Civil Society Coalitions in Singapore: The Human Rights Movement,” presented at the conference “The Dynamics of Civil Society Coalitions in Asia,” Hong Kong, February 10, 2012,

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2011. “The 2011 Elections in Singapore: The Emergence of a Competitive Authoritarian Regime,“ presented as part of the research seminars at the Southeast Asian Research Centre of the City University of Hong Kong, November 9, 2011.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2011. “China's Political Development: Perspectives for Research,“ presented as part of the “College Student Research Seminar,“ Hong Kong, October 7, 2011.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2011. “The “Beijing Consensus” and the “Singapore Model”: Unmasking the Myth of an Alternative Authoritarian State-Capitalist Model,“ presented at the conference “China’s Economic Dynamics and Its Impacts on the World Economy: A Beijing Consensus in the Making?“ Hong Kong, September 9.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2011. “Singapore's Languishing Civil Society: Why Coalitions Cannot Form,“ presented at the workshop “The Dynamics of Civil Society Coalitions in Asia,“ Hong Kong, May 20.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2010. "Can Vietnamese Cities Learn from Singapore? On the Challenges of Policy Transfer," presented at the Workshop on Socio-economically Sustainable Urban Development, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 1.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2010. “The Future of the Authoritarian Developmental State: China and the 'Singapore model,'” presented at the German Political Science Association section on Comparative Politics, Duisburg, September 21.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2010. “Rejecting Democracy: What China Wants to Learn from Tiny Singapore,” presented at the workshop on “Perspectives of Comparative Politics,” Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna, September 12.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2009. “The Hong Kong Student Movement,” presented at the workshop “Vanguard in a Vacuum: Understanding Student Activism in Pacific Asia”, National University of Singapore, September 28.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2009. “Environmental Governance under Authoritarian Rule: Singapore and China,” vorgestellt auf der DVPW Konferenz in Kiel, 25. September 2009.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2009.  “Democratic Lessons from Authoritarian Rule: China and the ‘Singapore model’ ” presented at the China Workshop “Iserlohn 2009” Schwerte, February 7.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2008. “Of Riots and Communists: The Opposition and the Discourse of Stability in Singapore and Hong Kong,” presented at the Polis Kolloquium, FernUniversität in Hagen, December 3.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2008. “The Politics of Inventing National Identity in Singapore,“ presented at the Asien-Pazifik Kolloquium, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, January 17.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2007.  “Die Demokratiebewegung in Hongkong,” presented at the Asien-Pazifik Kolloquium, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, May 30

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2006. “Between Compliance and Protest: The Political Behavior of Strategic Groups in Singapore and Hong Kong,” presented at the first ECPR Graduate Conference, University of Essex, September 9.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2006. “Two Tigers Compared: The Political Behavior of Strategic Groups in Singapore and Hong Kong,” presented at the Asien-Pazifik Kolloquium, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, January 12.

  • Ortmann, Stephan. 2004. “The National Identity Question and Democratization in Singapore,” presented at the Asien-Pazifik Kolloquium, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, December 16.

Projects

• • Civil society alliances in Hong Kong: The case of the Save Our Country Park Alliance

  • Environmental protests in Vietnam

  • China and the “Singapore Model”

Memberships

• • Hong Kong Political Science Association

  • American Political Science Association

  • International Political Science Association

  • The Association for Asian Studies

  • Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde

Networks

• Facebook

• Academia

• LinkedIn

• Xing

Research links

• Google scholar

• Scopus

• Orcid

• HKMU scholars

Hobbies

• Learning languages

• Hiking

• Photography

• Collecting Disney comics