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

Contents:

Preface xiii
1 Why public administration in Asia? An introduction 1
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 10
Lin Han and Yang Wan
3 Public administration in Hong Kong: diffusion of governance from
China to Hong Kong 23
Wilson Wong
4 Agencification and the ‘hollowing-out’ of the administrative state in
Hong Kong: origin, dynamics, and consequences 37
Raymond Hau-yin Yuen
5 Critical review of multi-dimensional aspects of performance
management of South Korea 55
Kilkon Ko and Taehee Kim
6 Public administration in Japan: towards new public governance? 75
Yasuhiko Kotagiri and Aya Okada
7 Public administration reforms in Southwest China: from the perspective
of education reforms 91
Jie Wang, Muying Shen and Zhiju Xie
8 Introduction to the current Korean civil service system 105
Soo-Young Lee and Sumin Kim
9 State–society relations in transition: NGOs and their role in China’s
social governance 120
Peijie Wang

PART II REVISITING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
10 Recent reforms in public sector performance management in Asia:
major limitations and implications 137
M. Shamsul Haque
11 Paradoxes of public administration in Malaysia 146
Noore Alam Siddiquee
12 Thailand in transition: paradoxical reform policies in the age of anxiety 162
Ora-orn Poocharoen and Phanuphat Chattragul
13 Public administration in the Philippines: features, trends, issues, and directions 175
Alex Bello Brillantes, Jr and Karl Emmanuel V. Ruiz
14 Privatisation, decentralisation and local government in Peninsular Malaysia 196
Kuppusamy Singaravelloo
15 Indonesian public administration: past, present, and future 214
Andy Fefta Wijaya, W. Wike and Asti Amelia Novita
16 Public administration reform within the socialist party state: the case of
Vietnam 224
Duy Nghia Pham
17 Comparing ICT and e-government policy implementation in Thailand
and Indonesia: success or failure? 236
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 253
Abu Elias Sarker, Farhana Razzaque and Farhad Hossain
19 Public administration in twenty-first century Bangladesh: fossilised,
bureaucratised, politicised 270
Ahmed Shafiqul Huque and Habib Zafarullah
20 Fostering innovation in public services: illustrations from Pakistan 284
Yaamina Salman, Sidra Irfan and Amani Moazzam
21 Challenges of governance in the ‘new’ federal system in Nepal 297
Ishtiaq Jamil and Narendra Raj Paudel
22 HRM in the public administration in Pakistan: from personnel
administration to strategic alignment 311
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 327
Ananya Samajdar

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