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Reward for high public office : Asian and Pacific-Rim states / edited by Christopher Hood and B. Guy Peters with Grace O.M. Lee.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in comparative politics ; 3.
- Routledge research in comparative politics ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performance awards--Pacific Area.
- Performance awards.
- Public officers--Salaries, etc--Pacific Area.
- Public officers.
- Government executives--Salaries, etc--Pacific Area.
- Government executives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems, a particularly rich set of cases for exploring the causes and consequences of the rewards of high public office, having some of the most generous and most meagre reward packages in the world.There are a range of economic, political and cultural explanations for the rewards provided by governments. Likewise, these choices are assumed to have a number of conseque
- Contents:
- Cover; Reward for High Public Office: Asian and Pacific-Rim states; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I Rewards for high public office: An overview; 1 Introduction; 2 Alike at the summit?; Part II The politics behind the numbers: Seven cases; 3 Rewarding comrades at the top in China; 4 Rorts, perks and fat cats: Rewards for high public office in Australia; 5 New Zealand - the end of egalitarianism?; 6 Japan's pattern of rewards for high public office: A cultural perspective; 7 The politics of rewards for high public office in Korea
- 8 Hong Kong - institutional inheritance from colony to special administrative region9 Paying for the 'best and brightest': Rewards for high public office in Singapore; Part III Conclusions; 10 The top pay game and good governance - where immodest theories meet slippery facts; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-138-37665-5
- 0-203-33072-2
- 1-134-41185-5
- 1-280-07032-3
- OCLC:
- 437079092
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