Handbook on Asian public administration / edited by M. Shamsul Haque (Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore), Wilson Wong (Data Science and Policy Studies Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Kilkon Ko (Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, Korea).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haque, M. S., editor.

Wong, Wilson, editor.

Ko, Kilkon, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in public administration and management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Asia.

Public administration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"Providing context-specific regional and national perspectives, this novel Handbook sets out to disentangle the considerable intellectual ambiguities that surround Asian public administration and Asia's diverse applications of Western administrative models. Building a holistic understanding of public administration systems across East, Southeast and South Asia, chapters explore the various historical formations, contemporary changes, and impacts of local contexts. It also covers social accountability, performance and human resource management, and the role of local governments. An international range of leading scholars track the gradual embrace of market-driven reforms in Asian public policy and administration, including privatisation, agencification, outcome-based performance, and customer choice. With its cross-regional and cross-national comparisons finding divergences in these reforms, the Handbook's most significant revelation highlights the impacts of national political contexts and actors on bureaucracy. Illustrating a clear overarching picture of the divergences in Asian public administration, the comparative focus of this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of Asian politics, public policy and administration. It will also be a useful point of reference to Asian policy makers and bureaucrats dealing with national administrative reforms who are looking to innovate the public sector"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. Why public administration in asia? An Introduction / M. Shamsul Haque, Wilson Wong and Kilkon Ko

Part I. Understanding public administration in east asia

2. China's national administrative reforms over 40 years: Process, characteristics, impetus and outlook / Lin Han and Yang Wan

3. Public administration in hong kong: Diffusion of governance from China to hong kong / Wilson Wong

4. Agencification and the 'hollowing-out' of the administrative state in hong kong: Origin, dynamics, and consequences / Raymond Hau-yin Yuen

5. Critical review of multi-dimensional aspects of performance management of south korea / Kilkon Ko and Taehee Kim

6. Public administration in Japan: Towards new public governance? / Yasuhiko Kotagiri and Aya Okada

7. Public administration reforms in southwest China: From the perspective of education reforms / Jie Wang, Muying Shen and Zhiju Xie

8. Introduction to the current korean civil service system / Soo-Young Lee and Sumin Kim

9. State-society relations in transition: NGOs and their role in China's social governance / Peijie Wang

Part II. Revisiting public administration in southeast asia

10. Recent reforms in public sector performance management in asia: Major limitations and implications / M. Shamsul Haque

11. Paradoxes of public administration in Malaysia / Noore Alam Siddiquee

12. Thailand in transition: Paradoxical reform policies in the age of anxiety / Ora-orn Poocharoen and Phanuphat Chattragul

13. Public administration in the philippines: Features, trends, issues, and directions / Alex Bello Brillantes, Jr and Karl Emmanuel V. Ruiz

14. Privatisation, decentralisation and local government in peninsular Malaysia / Kuppusamy Singaravelloo

15. Indonesian public administration: Past, present, and future / Andy Fefta Wijaya, W. Wike and Asti Amelia Novita

16. Public administration reform within the socialist party state: The case of vietnam / Duy Nghia Pham

17. Comparing ict and e-government policy implementation in thailand and indonesia: Success or failure? / Mergen Dyussenov

Part III. Exploring public administration in south asia

18. Conceptualizing the role of social accountability in public service delivery: A comparative study of Bangladesh, India, and pakistan / Abu Elias Sarker, Farhana Razzaque and Farhad Hossain

19. Public administration in twenty-first century Bangladesh: Fossilised, bureaucratised, politicised / Ahmed Shafiqul Huque and Habib Zafarullah

20. Fostering innovation in public services: Illustrations from pakistan / Yaamina Salman, Sidra Irfan and Amani Moazzam

21. Challenges of governance in the 'new' federal system in nepal / Ishtiaq Jamil and Narendra Raj Paudel

22. Hrm in the public administration in pakistan: From personnel administration to strategic alignment / Shabana Naveed, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Jadoon and Madiha Rehman Farooqi

23. Balancing representation, participation and capacity for democracy and development: An assessment of India's rural local government system / Ananya Samajdar

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781839104794 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.