Public management and policy transfer in Southeast Asia / Richard Common.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Common, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Southeast Asia--Politics and government--1945-.

Southeast Asia.

Politics and government.

Policy sciences.

Public administration--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

v, 273 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Public Management and Policy Transfer

1 Is Policy Transfer Analysis a Useful Mode of Enquiry in Political Science? 3

2 The New Public Management: Origins, Development and Globalisation 43

3 The Role of International Organisations in Policy Transfer 64

4 Accounting for Administrative Change in the Asia-Pacific: A Case of Policy Transfer? 86

Part 2 Applying Public Management and Policy Transfer to Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore

5 Administrative Change in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China 123

6 Administrative Change in Malaysia 155

7 Administrative Change in Singapore 189

8 Policy Transfer in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore: Comparisons and Conclusions 220

Appendix An Explanation of the Characteristics of the NPM Model 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0754614867

OCLC:

45305113