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Author-Name: Ian Thynne 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thynne 
Author-Name: John Burns 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Burns 
Title: Editorial Introduction 
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-1 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779281 
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Author-Name: B Guy Peters 
Author-X-Name-First: B 
Author-X-Name-Last: Guy Peters 
Title: Governance and Public Bureaucracy: New Forms of Democracy or New Forms of Control? 
Abstract:
 Support for reforms in the public sector has been premised on their
 capacity to enhance the efficiency and the democracy of public
 administration. This article questions in particular the democratic
 implications of reforms, even some participatory reforms that would appear
 on their face to have a significant capacity to enhance participation.
 There may be more participation, but that participation is limited to the
 social organisations and individuals immediately concerned with the policy
 area. By according those groups enhanced control over policy, these
 reforms may in fact diminish the accountability of programmes to more
 general and public controls.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 3-15 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779282 
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Author-Name: Roger Wettenhall 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wettenhall 
Title: On Comparing Governance Arrangements: Some Questions and Reflections 
Abstract:
 Question-and-answer exchanges with Chinese academics and managers in which
 I have been involved over the past few years point to the strong
 possibility that conceptual and terminological misunderstandings will
 emerge in cross-country and cross-cultural discussions about aspects of
 governance. This article explores this issue in relation to two particular
 aspects highlighted by these exchanges: the relationship between
 government and the public sector, and that between privatisation and
 ownership.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 17-32 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779283 
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Author-Name:  Mutebi 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Mutebi 
Title: Recentralising while Decentralising: Centre-Local Relations and "CEO" Governors in Thailand 
Abstract:
 The period since the mid 1990s has coincided with a largely endogenous
 movement in Thailand to renegotiate centre-local relations ostensibly in
 favour of increased decentralisation. This article addresses this movement
 and considers the so-called "CEO" governors introduced by Prime Minister
 Thaksin Shinawatra in 2003. It argues that Thailand's decentralisation
 reforms ironically have created new opportunities for national politicians
 to renegotiate centre-local relations in favour of a more recentralised
 system.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 33-53 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779284 
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Author-Name: Michael Christie 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Christie 
Author-Name: John Greatorex 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Greatorex 
Title: Yolngu Life in the Northern Territory of Australia: The Significance of Community and Social Capital 
Abstract:
 The notion of social capital has had wide currency in mainstream social
 policy debate in recent years, with commonly used definitions emphasising
 three factors: norms, networks and trust. Yolngu Aboriginal people have
 their own perspectives on norms, networks and trust relationships. This
 article uses concepts from Yolngu philosophy to explore these perspectives
 in three contexts: at the former mission settlements, at homeland centres,
 and among "long-grassers" in Darwin. The persistence of the components of
 social capital at different levels in particular contexts shotild be seen
 by government policy makers as an opportunity to engage in a social
 development dialogue with Yolngu, aimed at identifying the specific
 contexts in which Yolngu social capital can be maximised.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 55-69 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779285 
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Author-Name: Roy Kelly 
Author-X-Name-First: Roy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kelly 
Title: Property Tax Reform in Indonesia: Emerging Challenges from Decentralisation 
Abstract:
 Indonesia is in the midst of an exciting decentralisation reform.
 Expenditure and revenue responsibilities have been rationalised, granting
 Dati II local governments responsibility for virtually all public
 services. Although devolved revenues have initially funded the newly
 devolved local responsibilities, there is increased concern that
 additional local revenues may be needed to further sustain the
 decentralisation process. One possibility would be to restructure the
 property tax from a pure "shared tax" to a more "local oriented tax"'.
 This would involve granting local tax rate discretion to promote autonomy
 and accountability, allocating property tax revenues entirety to local
 governments based on property location to promote ownership of the
 property tax, and adjusting the relative co-administrative
 responsibilities between central and local governments. All three required
 changes could be implemented immediately, while retaining the benefits of
 the current legal and institutional shared tax structure pending a more
 thorough review of the broader revenue allocation decisions.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 71-90 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779286 
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Author-Name: Paul Higgins 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Higgins 
Author-Name: Phil James 
Author-X-Name-First: Phil 
Author-X-Name-Last: James 
Author-Name: Ian Roper 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Roper 
Title: Compulsory or Not Compulsory? The Use of Competition in British Local Government 
Abstract:
 This article examines the content and outcomes of the "competition"
 element of the British Government's best value (BV) regime. It focuses on
 the claim that BV policy grants British local authorities the freedom,
 previously absent from the former policy of compulsory competitive
 tendering (CCT), to provide local services without recourse to compulsory
 competition. Utilising results of a survey of BV lead officers, the
 article reveals that, white the use of "competition" is far from
 ubiquitous, in terms of outcomes the services subject to B V seem to be at
 least as likely to be provided externally as would have been the case
 under CCT. Further analysis of the response of the BV inspection service
 to these outcomes and on different types of service is provided.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 95-114 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779288 
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Author-Name: Anne McLeod 
Author-X-Name-First: Anne 
Author-X-Name-Last: McLeod 
Author-Name:  Kurian 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Kurian 
Title: Contracting Out Local Government Services: A Comparative Study of Two New Zealand Regional Councils 
Abstract:
 Studies of New Zealand's public sector reforms since the mid-1980s have
 tended to focus on the application of New Public Management principles to
 the central government. Yet local government in New Zealand too has
 experienced drastic restructuring with a view to ensuring greater
 rationalisation, efficiency and effectiveness. This article examines
 contracting out in New Zealand local government, focusing on the delivery
 of plant pest management by Environment Waikato (the Waikato Regional
 Council) and the Wellington Regional Council. The study reveals distinct
 differences in approach by the two councils, determined in each case by
 pragmatic responses to situational context rather than mere adherence to
 NPM principles.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 115-133 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779289 
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Author-Name: Valarie Sands 
Author-X-Name-First: Valarie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sands 
Title: Victoria's Partly-Privatised Prison System: An Accountability Report Card 
Abstract:
 This article explores the interplay and impact of the first few years of
 Victoria's prison privatisation policy on government accountability
 institutions, mechanisms, remedies, procedures and relationships. The
 evolution of prisons and then relationship to the private sector are
 outlined. The discussion ends by offering suggestions regarding the
 development of a more relevant accountability model appropriate to new
 public management realities.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 135-154 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779290 
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Author-Name:  Hodge 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodge 
Title: Risks in Public-Private Partnerships: Shifting, Sharing or Shirking? 
Abstract:
 Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have now become a popular way of
 providing infrastructure. A commercial relationship between government and
 business is not necessarily a new phenomenon, but wholesale use by
 governments of long term, sophisticated contract techniques on private
 credit is. Better efficiency in infrastructure provision and strengthened
 monitoring and accountability are promised, along with stronger business
 and investor confidence. A major part of the forecast benefits from the
 private funding of public infrastructure arises through the transfer of
 risks from the public sector to private parties. This article aims to
 probe on an empirical basis the realities of risk transfers in PPPs and to
 compare this experience against both the rhetoric of project proponents
 and the formal contract conditions. Several conceptual issues are
 addressed and a case study 1$ used to illustrate some empirical experience
 on risk transfers under PPP arrangements Experience shows the extent to
 which risks were shifted or shared as planned, or whether governments
 ideologically predisposed to the adoption of PPPs shirked accountability
 for future risks by signing up to PPP deals favoring financiers. Huge
 financial resources and long term PPP contracts of up to several decades
 both make it critical to better understand the nature of risk transfers
 and the extent to which actual risk bearing experience differs from
 advocate rhetoric.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 155-179 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779291 
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Author-Name:  Colebatch 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Colebatch 
Title: Western Answers and Southeast Asian Questions: Applying the Concept of Policy 
Abstract:
 Policy is a construct in and about the practice of governing, and like
 other institutions, it is subject to adaptation. This article argues that
 "policy" is a distinct account of government, distinguishable from other
 accounts such as "tradition" or "market failure", and identifies the
 underlying assumptions of the policy account. The contemporary appeal of
 "policy" can be traced back to reform currents in American government from
 the post-war years, which gave rise to the emergence of "policy analysis"
 as a body of knowledge and a field of practice; the article traces the key
 elements of this "policy project". It goes on to identify the
 characteristics of government in Southeast Asia, and asks what questions
 are raised by the application of the concept of policy to the practice and
 the analysis of government in the region.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 181-195 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779292 
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Author-Name: Rachel Parker 
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Parker 
Author-Name: Lisa Bradley 
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bradley 
Title: Bureaucracy or Post-Bureaucracy? Public Sector Organisations in a Changing Context 
Abstract:
 This article explores the nature of public sector organisational values m
 the context of wider debates about the shift from bureaucracy to
 post-bureaucracy. Preference for post-bureaucracy is a characteristic of
 the discourse of new public management, which has been influential in the
 public sectors of advanced economies. The article focuses on
 organisational values, which are ingrained attitudes and beliefs that
 underlie organisational structures. It might be expected that public
 sector organisations would reflect post-bureaucratic values in response to
 changes in dominant management and organisational discourses as well as
 the external environment. The research reported here does not confirm
 initial expectations that public sector organisations have become
 post-bureaucratic. In this regard, the article discusses the possibility
 that public sector organisations have evolved from one form of bureaucracy
 based on political controls and values, to a form of bureaucracy
 associated with market controls and values.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 197-215 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779293 
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Author-Name: Weerasak Krueathep 
Author-X-Name-First: Weerasak 
Author-X-Name-Last: Krueathep 
Title: Local Government Initiatives in Thailand: Cases and Lessons Learned 
Abstract:
 Local government practices in Thailand have become more participatory or
 governance-oriented since the promulgation of the Constitution of 1997 and
 the Decentralization Plan and Process Act of 1999. Several local
 governments have applied modern concepts of New Public Management and
 participatory approaches in performing their tasks. This article aims to
 describe and analyze local administrative initiatives to increase
 participation in recent years, Six case studies are discussed to identify
 the factors that drove the local government initiatives and how local
 governments responded to such factors. Lessons learned from the case
 studies are also discussed.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 217-239 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 26 
Year: 2004 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2004.10779294 
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Author-Name: Samiul Hasan 
Author-X-Name-First: Samiul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hasan 
Title: Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurship in Asia: Analysing the Links 
Abstract:
 In recent years, the term "social capital" has received much currency and
 interest from researchers and public policy makers, and has been studied
 for its impact on development, resource management, and service delivery
 in different societies. Social capital does not exist independently in the
 realm of civil society. Rather, governments, public policies, societal
 cleavages, economic conditions, and political institutions channel and
 influence social capital. In many cases, social entrepreneurs, as public
 officials or actors beyond government, have been catalysts to social
 capital formation. This article analyses the links between social capital
 and social entrepreneurship with reference to Asian experience.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-17 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779296 
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Author-Name: Ferdous Arfina Osman 
Author-X-Name-First: Ferdous 
Author-X-Name-Last: Arfina Osman 
Title: Implementation Constrained by a Lack of Policy Ownership: Evidence from Bangladesh 
Abstract:
 In developing countries, many of the policy ideas or visions originate
 from abroad. Aid dependency has given donors the power to influence the
 direction of policy ideas, which creates a problem of ownership- Lack of
 policy ownership affects implementation through a tack of commitment and
 support from domestic forces. This article presents empirical evidence on
 how a lack of ownership affects implementation of a gigantic health sector
 programme in Bangladesh. The findings of the study show that as the vision
 of the programme was not homegrown, it lacked commitment among the policy
 formulators as well as the implementers. Moreover, due to a lack of
 ownership of vision, the level of understanding or conceptualisation among
 the implementers was also very low, which contributed significantly to the
 poor implementation of the programme.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 19-36 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779297 
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Author-Name: Bidhya Bowornwathana 
Author-X-Name-First: Bidhya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowornwathana 
Title: Administrative Reform and Tidal Waves from Regime Shifts: Tsunamis in Thailand's Political and Administrative History 
Abstract:
 The analogy of tidal waves is taken from the 26 December 2004 tsunami that
 devastated parts of Thailand and other Asian countries. Regime shifts or
 changes in systems and styles of government produce "tidal waves" that
 affect the direction and progress of administrative reform. Examples of
 major regime shifts, causing tidal waves or tsunami are drawn from Thai
 experience from 1932 to the present. The Thaksin Administration
 (2001-present) provides an especially notable example of a major regime
 shift from democratic governance to democratic authoritarianism. The
 Thaksin tsunami has resulted m a definite centralisation and consolidation
 of political power in the hands of the Prime Minister.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 37-52 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779298 
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Author-Name: Peter McKinlay 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinlay 
Title: Local Government in New Zealand: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities 
Abstract:
 The underlying argument of this article is that the role of local
 government is undergoing a major shift from what has been essentially
 "roads, rats and rubbish" to becoming genuinely local governance. The
 context is set in terms of New Zealand's present governance arrangements,
 after which an outline is given of the driving factors behind the
 establishment of local government in the 19th century and the state of
 local government in the mid-20th century. Against this background, various
 significant developments over the last 40-50 years are considered, leading
 to a discussion of the challenges and opportunities in the 21st century.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 53-76 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779299 
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Author-Name: Richard Ziolkowski 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ziolkowski 
Author-Name: Eugene Clark 
Author-X-Name-First: Eugene 
Author-X-Name-Last: Clark 
Title: Standards of ICT Governance: The Need for Stronger Epistemological Foundations in Shifting Sands 
Abstract:
 Information communication technology (ICT) governance is a subset of the
 larger notion of "corporate governance". As ICT issues become increasingly
 important and information becomes one of the most valuable assets of
 organisations, the sound governance of ICT becomes a major factor in
 organisational success. Standards such as the Australian New Zealand
 Standard on ICT Governance provide useful guidance to organisations about
 how best to meet their corporate and ICT governance 'obligations. At the
 same time, notions of what is meant by corporate and ICT governance are
 rapidly evolving in Australia, the EU and US. New concepts, models,
 theories and applications of governance are emerging as various
 disciplines such as management, politics, law, sociology, psychology,
 economics, ethics and computer science contribute to the governance
 dialogue and debate. In response to such concepts, etc the discussion here
 urges clarity and common definitions concerning ICT governance. It also
 cautions against the uncritical adoption of standards. While standards may
 provide a rough guide for managers, there is a need to acknowledge the
 shifting epistemological sands and shaky logical foundations upon which
 much of the research and writing on governance are based. Stated
 positively, when definitions of ICT governance are clear and consistent
 and models and theories are sound, then a workable framework and quality
 standards may emerge to provide clearer and more reliable guidance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 77-90 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779300 
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Author-Name: Miro Hacek 
Author-X-Name-First: Miro 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hacek 
Title: The Importance of Democratic Freedoms and Equality in Slovenian Public Administration 
Abstract:
 The conflict between civil servants and politicians has often been
 described as the basic problem of modern authorities, for this reason, one
 must understand and thus research the relationship between these two
 groups of very influential actors in order to understand the governing
 process, In modern democracies, civil servants have outgrown their classic
 role of mere implementers of orders given by politicians. Both civil
 servants and politicians serve the same democratic state, and both are
 hews to the same democratic evolution. S argue that based mainly on the
 historically developed division of labour between bureaucracy and politics
 civil servants have never been tasked with creating the conditions for
 more democracy m the state, but instead with creating the conditions for a
 more effective and successful slate. Given that political bodies in which
 politicians operate have been established as the institutionalised
 personification of democracy, the task of politicians is above alt to
 promote democracy, its values and norms.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 91-106 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779301 
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Author-Name: Roger Wettenhall 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wettenhall 
Author-Name: Ian Thynne 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thynne 
Title: Editorial Introduction 
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 111-116 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779303 
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Author-Name: Wei-qi Cheng 
Author-X-Name-First: Wei-qi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheng 
Title: The Relationship Between the Chinese Government and Corporatised Enterprises in the Current Transition Period 
Abstract:
 Although many state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been converted to
 limited liability companies or joint stock companies either wholly
 state-owned or in mixed state-private ownership form, many problems still
 exist. One of the reasons is that state shares and legal-person shares
 which account for more than 50 percent in a corporatised enterprise are
 not tradable on the stock exchange without the government's permission.
 This article discusses this and other issues concerning state-owned
 corporatised enterprises from the angle of SOE reform history and the
 relationship with the Chinese government at different reform stages.
 Attention is focused on the state assets management system and the roles
 of state assets representatives, as well as on some policy issues behind
 the piecemeal reforms.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 117-139 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 12 
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Author-Name:  Yeung 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeung 
Title: Divestment in Hong Kong: Critical Issues and Lessons 
Abstract:
 Contrary to the conventional beliefs about the laissez faire nature of
 Hong Kong, the government owns and provides many essential goods and
 services of public importance. The colonial government did not follow the
 global trend of privatisation in the 1980s because of a lack of budgetary
 pressure and opposition from China during the political transition. Since
 1997, however, the political and economic conditions have changed. The
 HKSAR government has started to divest public assets mainly by way of
 listing, an approach generally welcomed in this international financial
 centre. Three major exercises have involved one of the two railway
 corporations, five tunnels and a bridge, and the retail and car-parking
 facilities in public housing estates. Using these three cases, along with
 historical and international developments, this article examines the key
 issues and characteristics of the divestment process and post-divestment
 situation in Hong Kong, and explores lessons for the future.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 141-162 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779305 
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Author-Name: Cheng-chiu Pu 
Author-X-Name-First: Cheng-chiu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pu 
Title: Ownership and Management Issues in Taiwanese Public Enterprises 
Abstract:
 The Taiwanese polity has passed through three major milestones over the
 last two decades, greatly enhancing the democratic characteristics of the
 state and reflecting a degree of absorption of global economic pressures.
 The public enterprise system has played an important part in the economic
 development of the state over this whole period, and the operation of that
 system has demonstrated a relatively high degree of continuity
 notwithstanding the political changes. There has been some privatising
 action, with that action gaining some popularity because it has also
 seemed to mean "Taiwanisation". But the article shows that the action has
 not changed the relationship between the government and the enterprises in
 any fundamental way. It investigates the relevant post-World War II
 history, explains techniques of government "control", and seeks to account
 for the seeming inconsistency between formal ownership change and the
 continuing close government-enterprise relationship.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 163-180 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779306 
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Author-Name: Joop Koppenjan 
Author-X-Name-First: Joop 
Author-X-Name-Last: Koppenjan 
Author-Name: Martijn Leijten 
Author-X-Name-First: Martijn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leijten 
Title: Privatising Railroads: The Problematic Involvement of the Private Sector in Two Dutch Railway Projects 
Abstract:
 This article provides a comparative analysis of the Dutch government's
 attempts to involve private parties in two national railroad
 mega-projects: the Betuwe Line (a transit line for goods connecting the
 Rotterdam harbour to the German rail network -- costing 4.8 billion euros)
 and the HSL-Zuid (a high speed line between the Belgian border and
 Amsterdam -- costing 6.8 billion euros). These projects are currently
 under construction. To date, the government has not succeeded in
 privatising the Betuwe Line. Although the privatisation of the HSL-Zuid
 has been realised, it has proven difficult to keep under control. The two
 projects are compared in terms of the motives for privatisation, the
 strategies adopted, and the results achieved. Explanations are sought for
 the extent to which the strategies were successful. Generic lessons are
 drawn from the two projects.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 181-199 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779307 
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Author-Name:  Pirotta 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Pirotta 
Title: Public Enterprise Implications of Malta's Entry into the European Union 
Abstract:
 Before its accession to the European Union in 2004, Malta had long enjoyed
 a paternal system of government with a large public sector and strong
 welfare-state characteristics. The sometimes bitter debates about the
 merits of joining the EU explored the pros and cons of privatisation at
 length. Adopting a market economy was one of the EU's declared
 requirements, but it ran counter to the Maltese sense of ownership of
 their own state. After several hesitations and compromises, Malta did join
 the EU and the old patterns were severely fractured. Now the debate is
 about whether Malta might have done better to stay out.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 201-220 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779308 
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Author-Name:  Vargas-Hernández 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Vargas-Hernández 
Title: Questions of Ownership: Social Implications of the Mexican Privatisation Programme 
Abstract:
 This article analyses the social implications of ownership changes
 involving state-owned enterprises and land in Mexico. The changes involved
 have led to foreign investors owning the most profitable enterprises that
 were formerly state-owned, and the associated spirit of globalisation of
 business has terminated any sentiment of national capitalism. The policy
 of privatisation has not achieved the stated aims of increasing economic
 growth and development, but has rather turned Mexico into a subsidiary
 economy owned and managed by transnational and multinational corporations.
 This result runs counter to the declared aim of contributing to the
 economic development of the country, and brings few benefits to society.
 The paradox is that, if good performance under privatisation is required,
 it can only be achieved if the state-owned enterprises are so well managed
 that there is no need to privatise them.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 221-238 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779309 
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Author-Name: Ron Hamilton 
Author-X-Name-First: Ron 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hamilton 
Title: Corporate Governance in Government-Owned Companies in New Zealand: A Stock-Take 
Abstract:
 The New Zealand government's adoption in 1986 of the company model for its
 trading enterprises was a major development in the way in which government
 services and commercial operations were managed. It also marked a
 significant change in the role and functions of ministers, as the model
 changed them from day-to-day decision-makers into the equivalent of
 owners. Although the company model had received modest attention by
 governments and had existed in the private sector for decades, the
 formation of companies with boards for government operations led to a new
 and stronger focus on what has come to be known as "corporate governance".
 This article addresses how corporate governance evolved in the years
 following the formation of companies as "state-owned enterprises" in the
 New Zealand government trading environment. The discussion is based
 largely on a close personal involvement in the developments at a senior
 level in government and, more recently, as a director of a private
 consulting, training and advisory firm dealing with both government and
 private companies.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 239-262 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779310 
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Author-Name: Roger Wettenhall 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wettenhall 
Author-Name: Ian Thynne 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thynne 
Title: Ownership and Management in the Public Sphere: Governance Issues and Concerns 
Abstract:
 This article identifies a number of ways in which governance thinking has
 raised issues of ownership and management in organisations with
 public-serving roles. It tracks backwards to consider how such issues have
 been handled in the past: notably in the theory and practice of
 socialisation and nationalisation, in the adoption of cooperative and
 mutual forms of organisation, and in the use of enterprises mixing public
 and private ownership, with some fairly novel recent developments being
 noted. It then explores how these arrangements are affected by various
 rights to own and manage organisations and by the ways in which such
 rights can be exercised to protect and promote significant interests. The
 questions and issues considered suggest useful lines of future
 organisational inquiry.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 263-290 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 27 
Year: 2005 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2005.10779311 
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Author-Name:  Fritzen 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Fritzen 
Title: Probing System Limits: Decentralisation and Local Political Accountability in Vietnam 
Abstract:
 Decentralisation occupies an important space in debates over public-sector
 reform in doimoi Vietnam. This article assesses the changing distribution
 of roles, responsibilities and resources across levels of government over
 the past decade. Vietnam is incrementally transfering greater
 administrative and fiscal responsibilities to the provincial level. In
 addition, the Communist Party is attempting to prevent local corruption
 through a much touted "grassroots democratisation" initiative. Yet such
 moves towards decentralisation, however cautious, are problematic in terms
 of their bureacratic politics and potential impacts on poverty. Incentives
 for bureacratic actors and local leaders to transfer meaningful control
 downwards are weak or non-existent within the current governance
 structure, which centralises political power and emphasises hierarchical,
 sectoral controls over decision-making and resources. And decentralisation
 trends are exacerbating the weak administrative and fiscal capacities of
 poorer provinces, threatening to reinforce rather than reduce Vietnam's
 widening regional and rural-urban disparities. A more proactice role for
 the centre in redistributing resources, providing technical support and
 establishing a facilitative policy framework will be crucial if
 decentralisation is to contribute towards improved socioeconomic outcomes
 in Vietnam's poorest regions. In existing and necessary future
 arrangements, requirements and asociated mechanisms of accountability are
 of key significance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-23 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779312 
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Author-Name: Sony Pellissery 
Author-X-Name-First: Sony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pellissery 
Title: Does Multi-level Governance Meet Local Aspirations? The Case of Social Protection Needs in Rural India 
Abstract:
 The concept of decentralisation has often been used to study whether
 "decision space" is devolved to the lower tiers of administration from
 central government. The new tool of "multi-level governance" examines the
 nature of "decision space" in the context of a cauldron of political
 voices at the local level. The decision space of the state may be
 constrained by the interaction of state actors with non-state actors.
 Taking the issue of social protection needs in the rural areas of the
 Indian state of Maharashtra, this article examines how lower level
 bureaucrats determine the "need" of social protection for the claimants.
 Both the state and non-state sectors were studied through fieldwork of
 eight months in 2003-04 using an actor-oriented method of the sociology of
 development. In essence, access to public funds is conditional on people's
 relationships with local elites rather than their eligibility for the
 funds. Local elites measure the "needs" through informal rules of the
 community and dominate the bureaucrats in decision-making, who insist on
 the interpretation of legal principles at lower levels of administration.
 This process excludes over 60 percent of eligible persons to gain public
 funds. While the responsibility of bureaucrats is diffused in different
 levels of administration, the local elites are able to draw loyalty solely
 for themselves. The effective devolution of political power, creating an
 extensive network of political elites, seems to constrain the devolved
 administrative power.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 25-40 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779313 
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Author-Name: Pranab Kumar Panday 
Author-X-Name-First: Pranab 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Panday 
Title: Central-Local Relations, Inter-Organisational Coordination and Policy Implementation in Urban Bangladesh 
Abstract:
 What happens to policy implementation when the process suffers from
 problems of coordination? In this article, the focus is on how
 central-local relations create inter-organisational coordination problems,
 which in the long run affect the implementation of policies in urban
 governance. In the case of the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) in
 Bangladesh, the central-local relationship is determined by the political
 identity of the mayor. By virtue of his attachment with the party in
 power, the RCC receives more favours especially in terms of the allocation
 of resources from the central government. These resources facilitate the
 completion of many development projects.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 41-58 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779314 
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Author-Name:  Quah 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Quah 
Title: Preventing Police Corruption in Singapore: The Role of Recruitment, Training and Socialisation 
Abstract:
 Police corruption is a serious problem in many Asian countries. However,
 Singapore's case shows that it is possible to prevent and control police
 corruption if there is the political will to do so. After analysing
 various forms of police corruption, this article recognises that police
 corruption was rampant in Singapore during the British colonial period,
 but that since then, through the commitment of the People's Action Party
 government to curbing corruption in the country, the Singapore Police
 Force has succeeded in preventing and minimising police corruption. It has
 done this by improving its salaries and working conditions, its
 recruitment and selection procedures, its training programmes, and the
 socialisation of its members.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 59-75 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779315 
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Author-Name: Jin-Wook Choi 
Author-X-Name-First: Jin-Wook 
Author-X-Name-Last: Choi 
Author-Name: Kyusun Lee 
Author-X-Name-First: Kyusun 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee 
Title: The Social Costs and Benefits of Smoking: Modeling and Policy Implications for South Korea 
Abstract:
 An economic rationale for anti-smoking regulation should lie in the costs
 of, as well as the benefits from, cigarette consumption. Yet social
 sentiment and government attitudes in dealing with this issue tend to
 emphasize the social costs of smoking, while underestimating or even
 ignoring the benefits from consuming tobacco. Using several specifications
 in modeling a cigarette demand curve and subsequent statistical analyses,
 this article estimates consumers' surplus from cigarette consumption in
 South Korea. The analysis shows that the price elasticity of demand for
 cigarettes is low and that the net social benefits from smoking after
 subtracting social costs can vary from negative to positive, depending on
 the model specification. If a low price elasticity of demand is to be
 upheld and if positive net social benefits are the case, price control by
 the Korean government through higher cigarette taxes will yield only a
 limited impact on the reduction of the smoking population.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 77-94 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779316 
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Author-Name: B Guy Peters 
Author-X-Name-First: B 
Author-X-Name-Last: Guy Peters 
Title: Understanding the Public Sector: The Significance of Size and Complexity? 
Abstract:
 The public sector and public administration can be analysed in any number
 of ways. This article examines the utility of two important variables --
 size and complexity -- for understanding contemporary governance. These
 variables have been used by both scholars and popular commentators, and
 they do help to understand, by comparing across countries and policy
 areas, how the public sector functions. Although both variables are
 significant, complexity appears to be more important as a means of
 understanding the public sector.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 99-116 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779318 
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Author-Name:  Cheung 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheung 
Author-Name:  Wong 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Wong 
Title: Judicial Review and Policy Making in Hong Kong: Changing Interface Between the Legal and the Political 
Abstract:
 The number of judicial review challenges in Hong Kong has grown rapidly in
 recent years, following Hong Kong's reversion to Chinese sovereignty.
 Judicial review has also become an alternative means to initiate and back
 up political bargaining, and even to extend the political arena for
 agenda-setting. This article examines the role and implications of
 judicial review from public administration and policymaking perspectives,
 focusing on the two critical issues of "the politicisation of the
 judiciary" and "the judicialisation of politics and public policy". It
 finds that the courts have been trying not to involve political arguments
 in judicial review. Their adjudication is still based on the legality
 issues rather than various political preferences, with most rulings
 essentially maintaining the status quo or government position.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 117-141 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779319 
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Author-Name: Cheng-Chiu Pu 
Author-X-Name-First: Cheng-Chiu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pu 
Title: Public Enterprise Management in Taiwan: Has the Change of Government Made Much Difference? 
Abstract:
 Taiwan's transition towards political democracy has been widely discussed
 in recent years, but not much attention has been paid to the effect of
 these changes on public sector management. The discussions have speculated
 that the government no longer uses an authoritarian way of governing the
 country, in keeping with its promotion of democratic development. However,
 this article shows that the change from the previous Kuomintang (KMT)
 government to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government has not
 changed the way public enterprises are managed. The DPP government
 resembles the KMT government in that it continues with an authoritarian
 way of managing public enterprises, despite the party's long established
 commitment to a democratic way of governance. The regime turnover has not
 meant public enterprises are any better placed than they were previously,
 in terms of their potential to improve autonomy, profitability and
 governance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 143-169 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779320 
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Author-Name: Yasuo Takao 
Author-X-Name-First: Yasuo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Takao 
Title: Co-Governance by Local Government and Civil Society Groups in Japan: Balancing Equity and Efficiency for Trust in Public Institutions 
Abstract:
 The significant rise of distrust in public institutions is a disturbing
 trend in advanced democracies. There are two emerging world-wide patterns
 of government reform to address this: promoting greater equity and
 producing an economically efficient government. But equity and efficiency
 are often considered as a trade off against each other. By exploring the
 experience of Japan, this article argues that local governments can make
 considerable progress towards democratic benefits-oriented partnership
 models of conciliation with economic efficiency by engaging civil society
 groups in co-governing partnership arrangements and, as such, positively
 contribute to building social capital and trust.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 171-199 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779321 
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Author-Name: Geert Devos 
Author-X-Name-First: Geert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Devos 
Author-Name: Dave Bouckenooghe 
Author-X-Name-First: Dave 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bouckenooghe 
Title: Individual and Organisational Facets of Change in the Public and Private Sectors: A Comparative Study 
Abstract:
 This study compares aspects of change in Belgian public and private sector
 organisations, with references to individual aspects (readiness to change
 and the locus of control) and organisational aspects (participation in
 decision making and risk-taking reward orientation). The empirical
 research is based on perceptions of 930 managers and 629 employees
 collected through a questionnaire survey from a variety of public (n = 35)
 and private sector organisations (n = 21). In total 1,559 responses were
 collected from the private sector (n = 827) and the public sector (n =
 732). The hypotheses tested were that in the public sector, people report
 a lower level of readiness to change (ie, emotional involvement and
 commitment to change); a lower level of internal locus of control; a lower
 risk-taking reward orientation; and a higher level of participation in
 decision making in comparison to the private sector. Two-way analyses of
 variance, private versus public and managerial versus non-managerial
 positions of respondents, were performed. Results yielded significant main
 effects for each sector on locus of control, risk-taking reward
 orientation and readiness to change, and contribute to the debate on
 similarities and differences between public and private sector management.
 Some main effects cannot be interpreted in a straightforward manner, since
 significant interaction effects were observed between sectors and
 hierarchical position for the locus of control, risk-taking reward
 orientation, commitment to change, and emotional involvement. In brief,
 the hierarchical position of respondents is an important moderator
 variable that helps to explain differences between both sectors. The
 findings of this inquiry have noteworthy theoretical and managerial
 implications that are discussed throughout the article.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 201-229 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779322 
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Author-Name: Taeil Kim 
Author-X-Name-First: Taeil 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim 
Author-Name: Soogwan Doh 
Author-X-Name-First: Soogwan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Doh 
Title: Analysis of the Digital Divide Between Disabled and Non-Disabled People in South Korea 
Abstract:
 This article analyses the digital divide between disabled and non-disabled
 people by comparing their personal information capacity. The personal
 information capacity consists of four sub-categories: the "access index",
 "capacity index", "quantitative usage index", and "qualitative usage
 index". Using the Oaxaca model, we separate the digital divide into two
 parts: the digital divide caused by "disability" and that caused by "other
 individual characteristics" such as education and household income. The
 main findings of the article are as follows. All four indices are lower
 for disabled people, and the "usage indices" of disabled people are
 particularly low compared to that of non-disabled people. As regards young
 people, "disability" is a much more important factor than "other
 individual characteristics" in causing a digital divide in their personal
 capacity index. Regarding middle-aged people, the digital divide between
 the two groups is mostly caused by "other individual characteristics",
 among which education is the most important.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 231-261 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 28 
Year: 2006 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2006.10779323 
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Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thynne 
Author-Name:  Burns 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Burns 
Title: Editorial Introduction 
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-2 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779325 
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Author-Name: Yash Ghai 
Author-X-Name-First: Yash 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghai 
Title: The Legal Foundations of Hong Kong's Autonomy: Building on Sand 
Abstract:
 This article examines changes to Hong Kong's constitutional and legal
 position since 1997. It focuses in particular on the promise in the Basic
 Law of a high degree of autonomy for the Hong Kong Special Administrative
 Region of China. The Basic Law is Hong Kong's constitution, made pursuant
 to article 31 of the Chinese Constitution. Interpretations of the Basic
 Law and related court cases, including interpretations by the Standing
 Committee of the National People's Congress, indicate that the autonomy of
 the HKSAR is very fragile. This conclusion is supported by the formal
 division of powers and responsibilities between the HKSAR and Beijing, and
 by institutional arrangements which are not in keeping with the essential
 elements of autonomy as apparent from analyses of other systems of
 government.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 3-28 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779326 
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Author-Name: Ian Scott 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott 
Title: Legitimacy, Governance and Public Policy in Post-Handover Hong Kong 
Abstract:
 Hong Kong's post-handover government has experienced great difficulties in
 introducing new policies. Legitimacy and governance problems and
 opposition from increasingly vocal, imaginative and active coalitions have
 resulted in the failure of many attempts to introduce new policies and in
 long delays in introducing others. While there is some prospect that
 governance problems in policy formulation may be overcome, there remain
 major difficulties in implementation that seem unlikely to be settled
 unless the fundamental legitimacy issue of consent through the
 introduction of universal suffrage is resolved.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 29-49 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779327 
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Author-Name: Anthony Cheung 
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheung 
Title: Policy Capacity in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Constrained Institutions Facing a Crowding and Differentiated Polity 
Abstract:
 Hong Kong has experienced a policy impasse after reunification with China
 in 1997. This is due not only to the erosion of old institutions and
 processes inherited from British colonial rule, but also the lack of "fit"
 between an outdated policy system and a new and more uncertain policy
 environment. In addition to institutional defects, newly emerging
 cleavages have also limited the government's policy capacity. This article
 examines the growing constraints faced in governing a differentiated
 polity and in managing social conflict. Changes in terms of policy actors,
 policy habitat, policy processes, and policy thinking are examined.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 51-75 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779328 
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Author-Name: Elaine Chan 
Author-X-Name-First: Elaine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan 
Author-Name: Joseph Chan 
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph 
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan 
Title: The First Ten Years of the HKSAR: Civil Society Comes of Age 
Abstract:
 Civil society in Hong Kong has gone through an important period of
 maturity in the ten years since the handover, with 2003 being a watershed.
 Around 2003, civil society assumed a separate identity, and from that
 point on it has been active in various aspects on the policy-making scene.
 This article discusses how civil society has articulated itself: its
 identity, roles, agenda and agency. Civil society's self-articulation of
 its identity and roles reveals three discourses: civil society as a
 defender of its own autonomy, civil society as the third sector, and civil
 society as a partner in governance. While the first and third discourses
 are popular among civil society actors, the second discourse is used more
 by the government. There is also a shift in the emphasis: from the
 self-defense discourse surrounding opposition of the public security bill
 to the governance partnership discourse relating to an expanded agenda of
 civil society on environmental, history, culture and heritage issues. The
 expanded agenda signals a greater diversification of values. In addition
 to the monolithic capitalist value system, there are now some
 post-materialist values that stress a sense of belonging, self-expression
 and quality of life. Civil society's sense of agency has grown over the
 years, and it is now acting with increasing confidence in advocacy.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 77-99 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779329 
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Author-Name: Lo Sonny 
Author-X-Name-First: Lo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sonny 
Title: The Political Cultures of Hong Kong and Mainland China: Democratisation, Patrimonialism and Pluralism in the 2007 Chief Executive Election 
Abstract:
 Democratisation in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is
 necessarily constrained by the trepidation of the central government in
 Beijing, which views radical political reform as a step towards an
 expansion of western influence upon both Hong Kong and mainland China. The
 political culture of Beijing constantly clashes with that of the
 pro-democracy Hong Kong people, who regard themselves as politically
 mature enough to enjoy the luxury of Western-style democracy. The
 collision between the two political cultures came to a head in December
 2005, when the pro-democracy legislators rejected the political reform
 blueprint proposed by the Hong Kong government. However, the participation
 of the mainstream democrats in the 2007 Chief Executive election was a
 watershed in Hong Kong's political development. It signaled an
 amalgamation of the mainland Chinese political culture, which emphasises
 patrimonialism and personnel control, and Hong Kong's political
 conventions, which stress pluralistic competition, public accountability
 and transparency. The blend of patrimonialism and pluralism will continue
 to be a hallmark of the evolving Beijing-Hong Kong political relations in
 the years to come.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 101-128 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779330 
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Author-Name: Tania Gessi 
Author-X-Name-First: Tania 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gessi 
Author-Name: Devindra Ramnarine 
Author-X-Name-First: Devindra 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramnarine 
Author-Name: John Wilkins 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilkins 
Title: Introducing a New E-Governance Framework in the Commonwealth: From Theory to Practice 
Abstract:
 The public sector, academia and the international community have been
 preoccupied with good governance in developing countries since the
 announcement of the Millennium Development Goals. Optimisation of
 governance models has featured prominently in public sector development.
 Globalisation and the information society have given rise to e-governance.
 Governments worldwide are investing increasingly in information and
 communication technologies (ICTs) across a range of applications. The
 by-product of e-government, in addition to being seen as a global project
 of technology transfer, is public sector reform, achieved by improving
 government processes that connect citizens and support interactions within
 broader society. The literature recognises that strong e-leadership and
 stakeholder cooperation are key to the success of e-government
 initiatives. However, the literature specific to e-leadership is sparse
 and patchy. This article addresses this gap by presenting empirical
 evidence gathered via pan-Commonwealth case studies and surveys. A central
 finding is that e-leaders develop unique skill sets. Their vision is of a
 kind of "ICT socialism", coupled with strategic business acumen. In this
 regard, the article introduces an innovative e-governance framework
 developed under the Commonwealth Connects initiative. It is grounded in
 tools for e-leadership, business practice, strategic gap analysis and
 multi-stakeholder partnerships that seek to improve governance practices
 through ICTs. Commonwealth Connects itself is a pragmatic example of
 shared governance built on mutual trust and interdependence. The
 experience and collaborative methodology are inspiring Commonwealth
 practitioners to bridge the digital divide.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 131-151 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779331 
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Author-X-Name-First: Chris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Aulich 
Author-Name: Janine O'Flynn 
Author-X-Name-First: Janine 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Flynn 
Title: From Public to Private: The Australian Experience of Privatisation 
Abstract:
 This article traces the development of privatisation as a key strategy in
 public sector reform in Australia, as used to some degree or other by
 parties of both the left and right. The article identifies the shift from
 a more pragmatic approach adopted by Labor as one element of its
 micro-economic reform program, to a more ideologically driven approach
 used by successive Liberal Coalition governments. It identifies the range
 of privatisation utilised by both parties and concludes that there has
 been some convergence in approaches. The results have significantly
 modified the nature of the Australian state and the way it delivers its
 public services. With a new government of the left elected in November
 2007, it remains to be seen whether or not this trajectory will continue.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 153-171 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779332 
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Author-Name: Robin Gauld 
Author-X-Name-First: Robin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gauld 
Title: Which Way Forward? An Analysis of Hong Kong's Health System Reform Options 
Abstract:
 Hong Kong's health system is remarkable for the fact that, in almost 170
 years of existence, it has only been subject to change once when, in the
 early 1990s, a statutory Hospital Authority (HA) was created to manage
 public hospitals. Yet there have been consistent calls for reform over the
 years, with five consultation papers on reform options commissioned by the
 government since 1990. With reform momentum growing, this article provides
 a brief history of the government's commissioned work culminating in the
 most recent recommendations. It then discusses the two areas for reform
 presently under consideration: financing reforms that include the
 development of health insurance; and a series of initiatives to improve
 existing structures, including integrating the health system, improving
 primary care, and creating electronic patient records. The discussion
 draws on examples from health systems such as Singapore's and Japan's to
 suggest that the various initiatives to improve existing structures
 provide a more appropriate pathway forward than the creation of
 insurance-based financing.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 173-190 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779333 
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Author-Name: Redwanur Rahman 
Author-X-Name-First: Redwanur 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rahman 
Title: The State, the Private Health Care Sector and Regulation in Bangladesh 
Abstract:
 Multifarious factors have contributed to the development of the private
 health care sector in Bangladesh. Its growth has been facilitated by the
 inclusion of private health care development in planning policies, by
 symbolic encouragement by government officials, by state patronage through
 medical education and training, by public sector physicians being allowed
 to practise privately, and by the provision of grants, subsidies and funds
 for investment. Opportunities for its expansion have also been created by
 a host of problems in the public health care system, including an
 inability to provide services, limited resources, poor perception and poor
 quality of services, a lack of personnel, absenteeism, corruption, and
 poor planning and management. But complains are also levelled against the
 private sector, as it lacks necessary infrastructure, equipment and
 personnel, with poor service conditions, poor quality and poor standards.
 The government enacted an Ordinance to regulate private health care, but
 evidence shows that regulatory practices are ineffective as a result of
 problems of legislative design, information and implementation, as well as
 internal and external contradictions within the regulatory system. Some
 policy guidelines are necessary to ensure positive outputs from the
 private health care sector.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 191-206 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779334 
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Title: Business-NGO Relationships for Environmental Conservation in Hong Kong: Capacity Building for NGOs and the Roles of Government and Business-Related Organisations 
Abstract:
 Voluntarism and relationships involving partnerships and other alliances
 are exerting an increasingly powerful influence over developments in
 environmental policy in Europe, USA and elsewhere but have yet to figure
 prominently on the environmental agenda in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, there
 are problems such as the lack of relevant skills and knowledge, of
 sufficient and independent funding sources for non-governmental
 organisations (NGOs), and of trust and understanding between NGOs and
 businesses, as well as a relatively weak civil society compared to the
 high level of power exerted by business firms. Positive action is required
 by the relevant parties to ensure the long-term development of
 business-NGO relationships. Also required is more concerned environmental
 legislation, and corporate social responsibility education on the
 environment. Key needs are capacity building and funds for NGOs in order
 for them to establish balanced and meaningful relations with businesses in
 relation to environmental matters. These are matters addressed in this
 article on the basis of 31 in-depth interviews with relevant stakeholders,
 including environmental NGOs, businesses, government departments,
 business-related organisations, and a legislative councilor. The
 stakeholders' views highlight the current problems and possible roles of
 the government and business-related organisations in Hong Kong in
 assisting in the forging and sustaining of business-NGO relationships of
 significance to environmental conservation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 207-222 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2007.10779335 
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Author-Name: Ahmed Shafiqul Huque 
Author-X-Name-First: Ahmed 
Author-X-Name-Last: Shafiqul Huque 
Title: Local Leadership: Development, Problems and Potential in Bangladesh 
Abstract:
 Local government institutions in developing countries are expected to
 perform a number of functions, including the development of elected
 leadership. In Bangladesh, the expansion of the decentralised local
 government system has facilitated the entry of an increasing number of
 participants into the system. Successive regimes have undertaken a number
 of local government reforms over the past four decades. New institutions
 have been created to replace the old, with the stated aims being to
 improve the delivery of services and extend participation at the local
 level. But the outcome remains unclear as the volatile political situation
 in Bangladesh has had an impact on the development of leadership from all
 sources, including local institutions. Based on research and observations
 extending over a period of two decades, this article examines the
 background and evolution of local government institutions, as well as
 their structure and mode of operation, to identify problems relating to
 local leadership development. Key findings are that there has been a
 persistent tendency to retain control by the central government, and a
 centralised bureaucracy has negated the prospect of developing a pool of
 capable and effective elected leaders in the localities. There is an
 absence of specific strategies and facilities for local leadership
 development. Thus, the family, non-governmental organisations and the
 political parties emerge as the main agents involved in leadership
 development for elected local government institutions, although their
 performance in this respect is far from satisfactory.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 223-239 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 29 
Year: 2007 
Month: 12 
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Author-Name: Jan-Erik Lane 
Author-X-Name-First: Jan-Erik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lane 
Title: Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific Area 
Abstract:
 Research into the phenomenon of regionalism has finally begun to take into
 account other experience or models than the large-scale European
 experiment. In the Asia-Pacific region, groups of states are active with
 efforts at regional coordination in which the ambitions and achievements
 reflect more the situation in this part of the world than any imitation of
 the EU model. Regional organisation here reflects the predominance of
 politics over economics. Thus, regional coordination targets political
 stability and is conditioned as well as restrained by the growing strength
 of China and India. Instead of closed and profound regionalism, as with
 the EU model, regional coordination in ASEAN and APEC display weak but
 open regionalism in keeping with the economic power of the region in the
 world economy.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-13 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779339 
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Author-Name: Numayr Chowdhury 
Author-X-Name-First: Numayr 
Author-X-Name-Last: Chowdhury 
Title: Public Accountability in Differing Governance Situations: Challenges and Options 
Abstract:
 Building strong capacities in public accountability is key to controlling
 malfeasance in public expenditure. Even though most public entities in
 most countries are legally obligated to report on public expenditure and
 to detect incidences of malfeasance, differing governance arrangements
 regarding political democracy, the rule of law and civil liberties
 indicate differences in the priority given to, and in the results obtained
 through, public accountability initiatives, including those of the supreme
 audit institutions (SAIs). This article demonstrates how variations in
 governance enablers in different regions of the world produce differing
 results. It argues that on their own and without necessary investments in
 democracy and the rule of law, investments in accountability measures,
 including those of the SAIs, will not produce desired outcomes and thus
 will have little or no impact on the control of corruption. It also cites
 selected successful cases of civil society participation in the auditing
 of government programmes.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 15-28 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779340 
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Author-Name: Reza Hasmath 
Author-X-Name-First: Reza 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hasmath 
Author-Name: Jennifer Hsu 
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hsu 
Title: NGOs in China: Issues of Good Governance and Accountability 
Abstract:
 Drawing on interviews conducted among leading local and international NGOs
 operating in China, this article examines how NGOs understand and
 implement good governance and accountability principles and practices. It
 also examines how Chinese constituents and the general public perceive
 local and international NGOs. The discussion provides a basis on which to
 assess ways of improving governance and accountability practices for NGOs
 operating in China.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 29-39 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779341 
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Author-Name: Jocelyne Bourgon 
Author-X-Name-First: Jocelyne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bourgon 
Title: Performance Management: It's the Results that Count 
Abstract:
 The ultimate worth of a performance management system is the use that is
 made of it. By that standard, performance management in government is not
 performing well. This article addresses the various issues involved. It
 proposes a system designed to respond to different needs at three levels:
 agency, system-wide and societal.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 41-58 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779342 
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Author-Name: Mohan Dass 
Author-X-Name-First: Mohan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dass 
Author-Name: Keith Abbott 
Author-X-Name-First: Keith 
Author-X-Name-Last: Abbott 
Title: Modelling New Public Management in an Asian Context: Public Sector Reform in Malaysia 
Abstract:
 This article combines the key elements of new public management theories
 with theories of privatisation and total quality management. The key
 elements identified in this review are used to establish a general model
 of new public management. Based on western theorising, the model is
 acknowledged as having a cultural bias. As a corrective, the article
 reviews the empirical experience of Malaysian public sector reform between
 1980 and 2000, with the findings being used to identifying
 country-specific characteristics as a means of refining the model in a way
 that reflects that experience. The discussion concludes by setting out a
 revised model of new public management which takes account of its
 application in a Malaysian context. The contention is that the process of
 enquiry leading to this contingent model of new public management might be
 adapted along similar lines for the purposes of analysing the application
 of public sector reform in other developing countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 59-82 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779343 
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Author-Name:  Elhussein 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Elhussein 
Author-Name: Abdelrahim Elshahin 
Author-X-Name-First: Abdelrahim 
Author-X-Name-Last: Elshahin 
Title: Manpower <italic>Emaratisation</italic> in the United Arab Emirates Federal Government: An Exploratory Study from the Perspective of Civil Service Leadership 
Abstract:
 The main objective of this article is to explore empirically the attitudes
 of civil service leaders in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) towards the
 policy of Emaratisation of posts in the UAE civil service. Emaratisation
 refers to the UAE government's policy to localise posts and replace
 expatriate manpower with national personnel. The article examines the
 Emaratisation policy in the light of relevant studies and with reference
 to its major components. It presents and draws conclusions from the
 responses of civil service leaders to a questionnaire which addressed key
 dimensions of the policy.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 83-95 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779344 
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Author-Name: Catherine McDonald 
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine 
Author-X-Name-Last: McDonald 
Author-Name: Greg Marston 
Author-X-Name-First: Greg 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marston 
Title: Re-visiting the Quasi-Market in Employment Services: Australia's Job Network 
Abstract:
 Australia's Job Network is an example of the quasi-market model applied to
 employment services. It has been in operation now for over ten years. This
 article explores its functioning predominantly in terms of public choice
 and agency theory which promotes the quasi-market model. It augments that
 analysis with the application of a normative framework asking if the Job
 Network promotes choice, voice and citizenship. Using evidence and data
 from different sources, it suggests that the Job Network, despite claims,
 largely fails to deliver in the manner suggested by the theoretical
 accounts.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 101-117 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779346 
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Author-Name: Roger Wettenhall 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wettenhall 
Title: Public-Private Mixes and Partnerships: A Search for Understanding 
Abstract:
 The idea of the public-private partnership (PPP) has become one of the
 dominant forces in public sector reform over the recent period. Its
 advocates have no doubt that it leads to a better future, particularly in
 the area of infrastructure development. But there are many critics who
 point out variously that the advantages are not nearly as great as the
 advocates assume, that the practice itself is not so new, that most of the
 infrastructure deals are not real partnerships, and indeed that the field
 is compromised by a massive confusion of meanings. Not surprisingly, a
 search has begun for a classificatory system which will help sort out the
 variety of arrangements now loosely described as PPPs and so aid better
 understanding of the field. This article traces these problems and
 developments in understanding.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 119-138 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779347 
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Author-Name: James Hayes 
Author-X-Name-First: James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hayes 
Title: The Great Difference, The Great Rift, and The Great Need: The New Territories of Hong Kong and its People, Past and Present 
Abstract:
 The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region includes Hong Kong Island, the
 Kowloon Peninsula, and the New Territories. Largest in area, formerly
 entirely rural, but now heavily urbanized, the New Territories comprise
 two very disparate component groups: the descendants of the long-settled
 indigenous inhabitants whose ancestors had lived there for many centuries
 before this geographic part of Hong Kong was leased to Britain in 1898;
 and the rest, the great majority of its present residents, who have moved
 into the nine "new towns" built there since the 1960s. This article charts
 the changing tripartite relationship between the government of the
 territory, the indigenous residents, and the bulk of Hong Kong's
 population up to and over the 1997 divide, and examines some long-standing
 issues which prevent a more harmonious future for all.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 139-164 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779348 
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Author-Name: Soonhee Kim 
Author-X-Name-First: Soonhee 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim 
Title: Local Electronic Government Leadership and Innovation: South Korean Experience 
Abstract:
 What are the key components of e-government leadership and innovation
 strategy for effective e-government development in local government? Based
 on an in-depth case study of a local district in South Korea, this study
 examines how executive leadership creates citizen-centered local
 government innovation through adopting e-government and building
 management capacity. The key lesson for e-government leadership gleaned
 from this study is that the executive leader's capacity to integrate clear
 e-government vision and goals, effective communication and appropriate
 management systems is vital to successful e-government innovation. The
 study shows that employee training and the demonstration of a clear vision
 of e-government leadership are positively associated with employee
 motivation. Successful e-government innovation relies on the development
 of strong management capacity in the areas of IT capacity, human resource
 management capacity, and IT education for citizens. Lessons and
 implications of the study for effective e-government leadership and
 innovation are presented.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 165-192 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779349 
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Author-Name: Tsedev Damiran 
Author-X-Name-First: Tsedev 
Author-X-Name-Last: Damiran 
Author-Name: Richard Pratt 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pratt 
Title: Public Administration Development and Reform in a Post-Communist Regime: The Case of Mongolia 
Abstract:
 This article analyses public administration reforms in Mongolia following
 the collapse of the communist regime, and interprets the current
 administrative system in terms of the consequences of waves of reform.
 First, we examine ideas of public administration reform in Mongolia,
 comparing them with contemporary civil service reform models. We find that
 many elements of these models have been present in the transition after
 1990. Second, we analyse the implementation of these reform processes in
 the context of Mongolia's distinctive social-economic, cultural and
 political conditions. Third, we interpret the current administrative
 system in terms of the paradoxical results of these overlaying reform
 waves, identifying it as an evolving mixed administrative system.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 193-216 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779350 
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Author-Name: Jan-Erik Lane 
Author-X-Name-First: Jan-Erik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lane 
Author-Name: Reinert Maeland 
Author-X-Name-First: Reinert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Maeland 
Title: The Ecological Deficit of the Asia-Pacific Region: A Research Note 
Abstract:
 Beneath the economic advances in the Asia-Pacific region there is an
 environmental problematic. Using comparative data on pollution and the
 capacity to sustain pollution, we observe that the Asia-Pacific region has
 by far the most negative ecological footprint on the globe. This reflects
 rapid industrialisation, in combination with heavy population pressures
 and weak biocapacity in general. Governments in the Asia-Pacific region
 must pay much more attention to ecology when making public policies.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 217-226 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 30 
Year: 2008 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2008.10779351 
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Author-Name: Soogwan Doh 
Author-X-Name-First: Soogwan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Doh 
Title: The Impact of National and Local Development Policies on Regional Disparities in South Korea: 1985-2005 
Abstract:
 This article analyses the impact of national and local development
 policies on regional disparities in South Korea by measures such as
 maximum to minimum ratios (MMR), coefficients of variation (CV), relative
 mean deviations (R), the Gini index (G), and the Theil index (T). The main
 finding is that regional disparities in the South Korean economy gradually
 increased by most measures over the period 1998 to 2005. The disparities
 were positively correlated with policies on the spatial distribution of
 transportation facilities and educational services, while being negatively
 correlated with the national employment rate and the rate of urbanisation.
 This suggests that, while local governments need to identify the
 importance of local disparity determinants in transportation and human
 capital development, the national government needs to increase the levels
 investment in these areas. The national government also needs to increase
 investment levels in projects which contribute to a higher employment rate
 and higher urbanisation rate, as these are important factors in the
 reduction of regional economic inequalities.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-16 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779353 
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Author-Name:  Roxas 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Roxas 
Author-Name: Val Lindsay 
Author-X-Name-First: Val 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindsay 
Author-Name: Nicholas Ashill 
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ashill 
Author-Name: Antong Victorio 
Author-X-Name-First: Antong 
Author-X-Name-Last: Victorio 
Title: Economic Accountability in the Context of Local Governance in the Philippines: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach 
Abstract:
 This study posits that by virtue of the enabling role of local
 governments, the economic development of their locality must be at the
 core of their public accountability, which is referred to here as
 "economic accountability". Grounded on this idea of accountability, along
 with enabling theory and institutional theory, the study presents
 empirical evidence supportive of the argument that the enabling role of
 local governments, as manifested in a capacity to establish or adhere to
 formal institutional arrangements, has a direct impact on the
 entrepreneurial strategic posture and performance of local small and
 medium enterprises (SMEs) which are key players in local economic
 development.The results of the structural equation modelling support the
 view that institutional arrangements as manifestations of the enabling
 role of city governments are positively associated with an entrepreneurial
 strategic posture of local firms, which consequently improves the firms'
 overall economic performance. Therefore, SME development in particular,
 and local economic development in general, should be part of the economic
 accountability of local governments in the Philippine context of local
 governance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 17-37 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779354 
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Author-Name: Joko Mariyono 
Author-X-Name-First: Joko 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mariyono 
Author-Name:  Saputro 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Saputro 
Title: Political Determinants of Regional Economic Growth in Indonesia 
Abstract:
 This article seeks to explain the different progress of each region in
 Indonesia in terms of economic growth. The changes in decentralisation and
 democratisation are variables of interest in driving economic growth. The
 neoclassical growth model is the underlying theory used in the study.
 Cross-region regression is employed using political and institutional
 indicators. The results show that democratisation has a positive impact on
 decentralised regions, as the increases in the effective number of parties
 and total number of seats in the representative councils lead to faster
 economic growth. It is expected that this condition can be maintained to
 drive high growth rates in all regions.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 39-56 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779355 
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Author-Name: Pan Suk Kim 
Author-X-Name-First: Pan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Suk Kim 
Author-Name: Mobasser Monem 
Author-X-Name-First: Mobasser 
Author-X-Name-Last: Monem 
Title: Civil Service Reform in Bangladesh: All Play but Hardly Any Work 
Abstract:
 There has been a long history of administrative reform in Bangladesh, with
 almost every government having instituted an administrative reform
 commission or committee since the country's independence in 1971. The work
 of these bodies has often remained limited to recommendations for changing
 elements of the basic structure and system without delving into key
 underlying issues. The cumulative problems of poor civil administration
 have now become so apparent that everyone is realising that something more
 fundamental needs to be done. Against this backdrop, this article briefy
 reviews global public administration trends, discusses the structure and
 staffng of the civil service in Bangladesh, and examines civil service
 reform in Bangladesh in terms of three dimensions: past efforts, recent
 initiatives, and a future vision.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 57-70 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779356 
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Author-Name:  Jones 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Jones 
Title: Reforms to Promote Non-Price Factors in Public Works Procurement in Singapore 
Abstract:
 This article examines the shortcomings that have arisen over the years in
 Singapore's open and competitive procurement system for public works. The
 shortcomings are due to the central priority frequently given to bid
 prices at the expense of key non-price factors, namely work quality,
 contractor reliability, work safety, and environmental sustainability. In
 the light of these shortcomings, the article considers the reforms which
 have been implemented by the Singapore government to ensure such non-price
 factors are given greater priority and become decisive criteria in both
 the award of public works contracts and in the evaluation of contractor
 performance. The article further discusses the reasons for the
 government's commitment to promote non-price factors in public works,
 highlighting Singapore's global standing, national aspirations,
 competitiveness, and changing public expectations. To guide the analysis,
 the article draws on market failure theory as applied to the procurement
 market, which avers that open and competitive systems of procurement may
 mal-function by failing to deliver value for money as a result of
 compromising work quality and contractor reliability, and by thwarting the
 achievement of social objectives such as work safety and environmental
 sustainability.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 71-89 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779357 
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Author-Name: Terry O'Callaghan 
Author-X-Name-First: Terry 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Callaghan 
Title: Regulation and Governance in the Philippines Mining Sector 
Abstract:
 The Philippines is one of the most mineralised countries in the world, but
 the mining sector has been under-performing for decades. In 1997,
 President Ramos sought to revitalise the sector with a new "investor
 friendly" Mining Act. However, as soon as the legislation was enacted,
 anti-mining lobby groups challenged its legitimacy in the Supreme Court.
 After a number of years delay, the Supreme Court finally ruled on the
 constitutionality of the new Act. As a consequence of this, and of other
 regulatory innovations, the government has heralded a new era for mining
 investment in the country. This article argues that it is premature to
 claim, as some industry insiders have, that the Philippines mining sector
 is "back in business". Signifcant regulatory and governance problems
 remain. These are likely to deter foreign investors for some time to come.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 91-114 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779358 
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Author-Name: Pham Thu Thuy 
Author-X-Name-First: Pham 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thu Thuy 
Author-Name:  Campbell 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell 
Author-Name: Stephen Garnett 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Garnett 
Title: Lessons for Pro-Poor Payments for Environmental Services: An Analysis of Projects in Vietnam 
Abstract:
 Payments for environmental services (PES) are seen as a useful economic
 tool to ensure both environmental health and human welfare. Doubts have
 been expressed, however, as to whether PES can be pro-poor. Using four PES
 case studies in Vietnam (one project on carbon sequestration, two projects
 on landscape beauty and biodiversity conservation, and one project on
 watershed protection), the article highlights the pitfalls of PES projects
 and discusses lessons learnt for PES and pro-poor PES approaches. Major
 pitfalls and lessons for PES and pro-poor PES are: high transaction costs
 due to complex project administration and conficts among actors; limited
 number of ES buyers due to political interference; the need for continuous
 follow-up activities among potential ES buyers; the need to adopt an
 approach to PES that is more bottom-up than the current rather top-down
 approach; and transparent and well monitored mechanisms for the
 distribution of benefits. The studied projects, although still incipient,
 have had both positive and negative impacts on the poor. The impacts have
 been mainly fnancial.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 117-133 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779359 
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Author-Name: Jan-Erik Lane 
Author-X-Name-First: Jan-Erik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lane 
Title: The Environmental Predicament in the Asia-Pacifc Region Compared With Other Regions 
Abstract:
 An elaborate attempt to measure pollution has been made by the Global
 Footprint Network (GFN). Its statistics offer quantitative measures of
 both pollution and its opposite, namely biocapacity. The basic division is
 that between CO2 pollution and other kinds of pollution. In the GFN data,
 carbon pollution is of such a size as to create a global ecological
 defcit. Whereas CO2 pollution follows the level of economic development,
 the variation in biocapacity is very much determined by country specifc
 ecological factors. The Asia-Pacifc region has a huge ecology defcit due
 to the immense carbon pollution in India and China, which is not
 compensated for by the bio-capacity assets in the region, such as in
 Oceania.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 135-146 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779360 
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Author-Name: Gianluca Ferraro 
Author-X-Name-First: Gianluca 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferraro 
Author-Name: Marleen Brans 
Author-X-Name-First: Marleen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Brans 
Author-Name: Weiqing Guo 
Author-X-Name-First: Weiqing 
Author-X-Name-Last: Guo 
Author-Name: Tu Feng 
Author-X-Name-First: Tu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Feng 
Title: An Intra-National Perspective on Regime Implementation: The Case of Marine Fisheries in China - Keen Conficts and Hazy Contents 
Abstract:
 The international legal framework developed by the United Nations for the
 management and sustainable use of fisheries resources has not prevented
 the severe depletion of world fish stocks. In order to be effective,
 international agreements have to be voluntarily implemented by national
 governments. This process of domestic implementation has been little
 investigated by regime theory, despite the rich array of frameworks
 developed by policy studies. Therefore, this article seeks to contribute
 to regime theory through the use of insights coming from implementation
 research. In order to do so, the domestic implementation of international
 fisheries agreements in the People's Republic of China is investigated.
 Responsible fisheries are not yet a common practice in China, although the
 country has adapted its legal framework to international requirements. The
 execution of new laws has been jeopardised not only by the lack of
 resources, but mainly by institutional conflicts and unclear policy
 contents.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 147-169 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779361 
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Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Quah 
Title: Benchmarking for Excellence: A Comparative Analysis of Seven Asian Anti-Corruption Agencies 
Abstract:
 Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) have been established in many Asian
 countries to tackle the problem of corruption. However, with the
 exceptions of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau in Singapore and
 the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong, many Asian
 ACAs have been ineffective. What criteria should be used to evaluate their
 effectiveness? After analyzing the functions of the ACAs in India, Hong
 Kong, Macao, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand, this
 article recommends that their performance should be benchmarked according
 to 22 indicators. It concludes that benchmarking provides an ACA with an
 objective method for evaluating its performance by comparing it with the
 performance of more effective ACAs. Benchmarking also enables an ACA to
 improve its performance by introducing reforms to remove the weaknesses
 exposed by comparison with more effective ACAs in other countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 171-195 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779362 
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Author-Name: Jana Jagodick 
Author-X-Name-First: Jana 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jagodick 
Author-Name: Jerry Courvisanos 
Author-X-Name-First: Jerry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Courvisanos 
Author-Name: John Yearwood 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yearwood 
Author-Name: Patrice Braun 
Author-X-Name-First: Patrice 
Author-X-Name-Last: Braun 
Title: Key Public Sector Individuals as ICT Change Agents: An Analysis of Australian and German Experience 
Abstract:
 The increasing demand for technology-enabled public sector services drives
 state agencies to launch information and communication technology (ICT)
 projects. The Australian and German state agencies are taking a proactive
 role towards technological change by employing so-called ICT change
 agents. These ICT change agents introduce, diffuse, manage and implement
 ICT within projects. Despite the mobilisation of change agents, there is
 scant research on the formal and informal roles of these key individuals
 within public sector projects. This article bridges that gap by providing
 valuable insights into the activities of public sector ICT change agents.
 It is based on empirical research from six case studies in Australian and
 German state agencies. Findings from these studies indicate that public
 sector ICT change agents position organisations to take advantage of
 cutting edge technologies by performing a great variety of formal and
 informal roles. Formal roles are performed in order to accomplish set
 formal project tasks, while informal roles help to speed up rapid ICT
 adoption and innovation through the change agents' informal networks. The
 findings are delineated in a framework for future research which shows
 that formal and informal roles impact on the outcomes of public sector ICT
 projects.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 197-212 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 31 
Year: 2009 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2009.10779363 
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Author-Name: Peter McKinlay 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinlay 
Title: Enabling Local Governance in a Market Economy 
Abstract:
 This article provides an overview of some emerging trends in New Zealand
 and Australia. It concerns the capability of local governments to use
 their statutory powers and community leadership role to enable new
 approaches to local governance, drawing on market related tools to
 complement what the public sector is able to achieve.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-16 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779364 
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Author-Name: Anthony Rausch 
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rausch 
Title: Post <italic>Heisei</italic> Mergers in Japan: Potential for a New Realignment in the <italic>D&#x14d;sh&#x16b;</italic> State System 
Abstract:
 From 2000 onward, Japan underwent a period of municipal mergers referred
 to as the Heisei Mergers. Even though the outcome of these mergers is
 still unclear, the central Japanese government is considering, if not
 moving toward, initiating a new set of mergers, this time consolidating
 the 47 prefectures into 12 d&#x14d;sh&#x16b;, or states, in what is termed
 a d&#x14d;sh&#x16b;-sei, or state system. This article examines the
 proposed characteristics of the d&#x14d;sh&#x16b;-sei together with its
 justifications and implications. Evaluation of the d&#x14d;sh&#x16b;-sei
 system follows, based both on post-Heisei Merger and
 pre-d&#x14d;sh&#x16b;-sei sentiment, as well as an analytical
 consideration of the unintended consequences.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 17-33 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779365 
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Author-Name: Kwang-ho Sim 
Author-X-Name-First: Kwang-ho 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sim 
Title: Policymaking Through Rulemaking and Adjudication: An Analysis of the US Federal Communications Commission with Lessons for its South Korean Counterpart 
Abstract:
 This article is an inquiry into the nature and roles of rulemaking and
 adjudication in shaping public policies in the American political system.
 Rulemaking and adjudication are compared in terms of policy formulation by
 administrative agencies. The political contexts of the two procedures are
 explored, with reference to the US Federal Communications Commission and
 to its counterpart in South Korea. Public policies shaped by the closed
 systems and administrative discretion of government agencies often have
 negative side effects that reach far beyond the interested parties
 immediately affected. The procedures of quasi-legislative rulemaking and
 quasi-judicial adjudication act as institutional safeguards. They oblige
 public agencies to follow due process when they are formulating public
 policies, thereby protecting the public from the abuse or misuse of
 administrative discretion. If the Korean government systematically
 institutionalises and operates such rulemaking and adjudication procedures
 in an effective way, Korean citizens and private companies may have formal
 or legal opportunities to express their opinions and appeal decisions
 adversely affecting their interests to a higher authority, including the
 judiciary. The congressional system may closely oversee the inner
 practices of policy formulation by administrative agencies, and the Korean
 President may effectively and impartially monitor the exercise of
 bureaucratic discretion in public areas of national importance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 35-62 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779366 
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Author-Name: Stuart Kells 
Author-X-Name-First: Stuart 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kells 
Author-Name: Graeme Hodge 
Author-X-Name-First: Graeme 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodge 
Title: Redefining the Performance Auditing Space 
Abstract:
 The tools of integrity institutions, including performance auditing (PA),
 are attracting growing research interest. Amidst this interest, there is
 ongoing debate about the definition of PA. This article adopts a new
 definitional framework to characterise and investigate the PA space, which
 is the conceptual space in which PA takes place. The article then uses a
 case study from Australia to consider four integrity institutions that,
 after a process of convergence, now occupy that space. The article
 explores the implications that arise when integrity institutions cohabit
 the PA space. It concludes that the space is both crowded and contested,
 and that this has implications for society, government agencies and the
 integrity institutions themselves.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 63-88 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779367 
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Author-Name: Desmond Uelese Amosa 
Author-X-Name-First: Desmond 
Author-X-Name-Last: Uelese Amosa 
Title: State-Owned Enterprises and the Arm's Length Concept: The Case of Government Commercial Companies in Fiji 
Abstract:
 Influenced by the rhetoric of the arm's length concept, Fiji's public
 enterprise reform of 1993 took off with high hopes of better things to
 come for the struggling government commercial companies (GCCs) that had
 been posing a significant burden on the government's limited resources.
 Unfortunately, the prevailing sense of optimism faded after more than a
 decade of inconsistent performance by the majority of GCCs. There was an
 oversight right from the outset. Responsible authorities were easily
 carried away by the finesse of the concept and were largely ignorant of
 the realities in Fiji that stifled progress following the 1993 reform..
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 89-105 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779368 
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Author-Name: Muhammad Mustafizur Rahaman 
Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mustafizur Rahaman 
Author-Name: Niaz Ahmed Khan 
Author-X-Name-First: Niaz 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmed Khan 
Title: The Realities of Aid Harmonisation and Aid Effectiveness: Views from Bangladesh 
Abstract:
 Aid harmonisation, both as a concept and an operational practice, has come
 to the forefront of discussions by aid donors and recipient countries. The
 Paris Declaration adopted a blueprint for donor harmonisation in order to
 increase aid effectiveness. In the context of the strikingly limited
 research on the subject, this article examines the progress of aid
 harmonisation in Bangladesh vis-à-vis the spirit of the relevant
 international conventions - especially the Paris Declaration and other
 stated official goals. The article offers some thoughts on improved
 harmonisation practices, and argues that effective donor harmonisation
 largely depends on a genuine commitment and collective effort between
 donors and the governments of recipient countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 107-122 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779369 
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Author-Name: Bidhya Bowornwathana 
Author-X-Name-First: Bidhya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowornwathana 
Title: The Politics of Becoming a Top Bureaucrat in the Thai Bureaucracy 
Abstract:
 "Top bureaucrats" refers to career officials who assume the most powerful
 positions in their respective government agencies. They become permanent
 secretaries of ministries, the army commander-in-chief, the national
 police chief, directors and secretary-generals of agencies, and CEOs of
 state enterprises, autonomous public organisations and the like. When
 senior bureaucrats jockey for top positions, they play politics. In
 examining this aspect of politics and the bureaucracy, it is pertinent to
 address the following interrelated questions. How and why does a senior
 bureaucrat rise to the top in the Thai bureaucracy? Is it a merit process,
 or is it largely the work of politics? These questions underpin the
 discussion and provide a basis for further extensive research into the
 political strictures and dynamics involved.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 125-136 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779370 
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Author-Name: Eric Windholz 
Author-X-Name-First: Eric 
Author-X-Name-Last: Windholz 
Title: Evaluating the Harmonisation of Australia's OHS Laws: Challenges and Opportunities 
Abstract:
 This article examines three significant and increasingly important public
 policy issues: OHS, harmonisation and evaluation. OHS is an issue on which
 comparatively little has been written in public administration, yet it is
 an issue from which much can be learned - especially about the
 intersection between social and economic policy. In this regard, the
 harmonisation of Australia's OHS laws provides a valuable opportunity to
 evaluate and better understand the benefits and costs of the harmonisation
 of social regulation in the name of economic efficiency. Such an
 evaluation is inevitably challenging, with the already difficult job of
 evaluation complicated by a multiplicity of stakeholders and objectives.
 This article examines the challenges which these multiple objectives held
 by multiple stakeholders present for evaluation. In doing so, it
 demonstrates that far from being interpreted simply as difficulties to be
 overcome, they actually represent an opportunity to enhance both the
 legitimacy of the evaluation process and the utility of its outcomes.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 137-162 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779371 
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Author-Name: Tan Boon Seng 
Author-X-Name-First: Tan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boon Seng 
Author-Name: Stephen Ko 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ko 
Title: The Minimum Wage Policy in Hong Kong 
Abstract:
 An across-the-board statutory minimum wage (SMW) will come into effect in
 Hong Kong on 1 May 2011. We draw on theoretical arguments for and against
 a SMW policy, examining empirical evidence outside Hong Kong to suggest an
 agenda for research. The anti-poverty argument for a SMW implies that the
 SMW rate should significantly exceed the comprehensive social security
 assistance (CSSA) monthly payment rate of HK$4095. However, the
 anti-poverty argument is problematic because of the complexity of the
 poverty problem. The unemployment argument against a SMW has a lower level
 of consensus today than it did three decades ago because of conflicting
 empirical results. The theory of a monopsonistic labour market is the
 leading theoretical explanation for this situation. It is an empirical
 question if the labour market that hires low-wage workers in Hong Kong is
 monopsonistic or competitive. The source of monopsony power and the
 effects of an across-the-board SMW can differ among industries depending
 on the difference between the industry average wage rates and the SMW.
 Firms that hire low-wage workers can also adjust differently, depending on
 their competitiveness in their product markets. Empirical investigations
 can help improve policy making with informed decision making.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 163-176 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779372 
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Author-Name: Jan-Erik Lane 
Author-X-Name-First: Jan-Erik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lane 
Title: Development Without Freedom? East and South East Asia: Vibrant Markets but a Rule of Law Deficit 
Abstract:
 Economic development results first and foremost in a bigger output of
 goods and services. Whether it also enhances the rule of law is a
 classical question in the social sciences and economics. The absolutely
 remarcable economic progress in East Asia and South East Asia in recent
 decades has been accompanied by the rule of law in only a few countries.
 Are we to conclude that economic progress is possible without the rule of
 law?
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 177-186 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779373 
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Author-Name: Leong Ching 
Author-X-Name-First: Leong 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ching 
Title: New Governance, Old Problems: Explaining the Appeal of Third-Party Tools 
Abstract:
 The rise in the number and use of third-party tools by governments have
 led to a new paradigm called "new governance." While this paradigm
 provides a strong framework for tool management and evaluation, it fails
 to explain the high use of third-party governance (TPG) by governments.
 But why do governments often prefer indirect to direct government? It is
 argued here that the appeal of TPG lies in its potential to provide a new
 answer to an old problem: the need to legitimise policies. An initial
 emphasis is on how input and output legitimacy could well be increased by
 trade unions in Singapore. This represents the first step towards a
 research agenda to measure the impact of trade unions on government
 legitimacy in Singapore, leading to a more wide-ranging exploration of
 regulatory regimes and the basis for the legitimacy of public actors.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 187-197 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 32 
Year: 2010 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2010.10779374 
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Author-Name:  Guy Peters 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Guy Peters 
Title: Governing in the Shadows 
Abstract:
 Governance is often conceptualised as involving delegation to actors
 outside the state, but we have long understood that these actors function
 within a "shadow of hierarchy". Although powers may be delegated to social
 actors, they can always be returned to the state. This article discusses
 three additional shadows - society, the market and the international
 system - and their effects on governance. These multiple shadows present
 an opportunity for would-be governors to select patterns of governing.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-16 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779375 
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Author-Name: Mark Richard Hayllar 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Richard Hayllar 
Author-Name: Roger Wettenhall 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wettenhall 
Title: Social Enterprise: What is it, and How can it be Strengthened? 
Abstract:
 There has been a rapid growth in the social enterprise sector since the
 early years of the 21st century. This is evident in many countries and is
 widely regarded as a very positive humanitarian development, though it is
 not easy to explain exactly what the sector involves. Accordingly, as well
 as discussing defnitional issues, this article draws attention to factors
 operating to prevent the social enterprise sector from achieving its full
 potential, and considers strategies that need to be followed to empower
 social enterprises and ensure their sustainability.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 17-36 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779376 
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Author-Name: Tobin Im 
Author-X-Name-First: Tobin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Im 
Author-Name: Wonhyuk Cho 
Author-X-Name-First: Wonhyuk 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cho 
Author-Name: Gregory Porumbescu 
Author-X-Name-First: Gregory 
Author-X-Name-Last: Porumbescu 
Title: An Empirical Analysis of the Relation Between Social Spending and Economic Growth in Developing Countries and OECD Members 
Abstract:
 This study examines the economic effects of social spending in less
 developed nations and compares the situation with that of social spending
 in developed countries. Currently, research in this feld is limited to
 developed countries, but there is a need to question the appropriateness
 of the conclusions of existing studies for developing countries. An
 analysis of data from developed and developing countries suggests that
 social spending correlates positively with economic growth in developing
 countries and negatively with economic growth for developed countries.
 These results imply that social spending regimes can be instrumental in
 achieving economic growth in poorer countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 37-55 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779377 
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Author-Name: Pham Thu Thuy 
Author-X-Name-First: Pham 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thu Thuy 
Author-Name:  Garnett 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Garnett 
Author-Name:  Aslin 
Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Aslin 
Title: Organisational and Institutional Opportunities and Constraints for Poor Households to Participate in Payment for Environmental Service Schemes in Vietnam 
Abstract:
 Payment for environmental services (PES) can be a poverty reduction
 strategy. Findings from two PES case studies in Vietnam indicate that the
 involvement of the poor is enhanced by increasing attention and interest
 from donors and the private sector. However, their participation is
 limited due to political influences which weaken environmental services
 monitoring, and weak local intermediaries who are limited in their
 capacity to represent and protect the poor. Whether PES schemes can be
 pro-poor depends on the scope of the project, the political, social and
 economic context of the case, and the local definition of poverty.
 Capacity building for the poor, coupled with better coordination for
 transparent and equitable benefit-sharing and monitoring mechanisms, need
 to be in place to ensure that the poor will not be marginalised.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 57-76 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779378 
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Author-Name: Greg Mahony 
Author-X-Name-First: Greg 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mahony 
Author-Name: Chris Sadleir 
Author-X-Name-First: Chris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sadleir 
Title: Cultural Norms and Meta-Governance in the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment: Trans-Tasman FDI Regimes 
Abstract:
 Australia and New Zealand provide a unique set of comparators with which
 to examine similarities and differences in approaches to the regulation of
 foreign direct investment (FDI). By examining experience with the
 regulation of FDI in these two states, we show how they act in the
 governance space to enable state directed regulation and how they differ
 in their approach to regulation. In particular, we focus on the influence
 of cultural norms in shaping meta-governance responses from each of the
 states. Textual analysis of the treatment of investment in bi-lateral
 discussions associated with Closer Economic Relations demonstrates that
 political, social, cultural and institutional factors are integral to
 modelling the challenges faced by national governments in regulating FDI.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 77-92 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779379 
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Author-Name: Kishor Sharma 
Author-X-Name-First: Kishor 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma 
Title: Foreign Aid, Governance and Economic Development in Nepal 
Abstract:
 This article contributes to the aid effectiveness debate using Nepal as a
 case study, a country which has failed to accelerate growth and reduce
 poverty and inequality despite being a significant aid recipient for over
 half a century. The weak aid absorption capacity and lack of commitment to
 institutional reform appear to be the reasons for aid ineffectiveness.
 Nepal needs to embark on major reforms in governance, institutions and
 policy aimed at rural development. The commitment of donors to give more
 aid without fundamental reforms in these areas will only enable the ruling
 elite to remain in power without achieving the objectives of helping the
 poor and disadvantaged groups who live in the rural and remote areas.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 95-115 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779380 
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Author-Name: Nilufa Akhter Khanom 
Author-X-Name-First: Nilufa 
Author-X-Name-Last: Akhter Khanom 
Title: The Effects of Public-Private Partnerships on Ultra-Poor Households in Bangladesh: Evidence from the IGVGD Programme 
Abstract:
 The problem of poverty is particularly severe in Bangladesh. To achieve
 the national development goals and especially to reduce poverty, the
 Government of Bangladesh has started to experiment with cooperative
 approaches involving the private sector and NGOs. Public-Private
 Partnerships (PPP) have been introduced as one of these novel approaches
 to poverty alleviation in Bangladesh. Income Generation for Vulnerable
 Group Development (IGVGD) is one of the important PPP arrangements under
 the Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNP) in Bangladesh. This article
 explores the effects of the IGVGD programme from the survey of sixty-six
 IGVGD households from fifteen Unions of five Districts. The survey results
 show an insignificant improvement in income levels. However, the survey
 results reveal that IGVGD is effective for ensuring food security. The
 programme also demonstrates noteworthy attainments in improving the rates
 of school enrolments of children; and in health consciousness such as
 immunisation of children, access to safe drinking water, and hygienic
 sanitation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 117-141 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779381 
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Author-Name: Ulla Fionna 
Author-X-Name-First: Ulla 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fionna 
Title: The Pull and Push between Central and Local Political Parties: A Case Study of Party Branch Organisation in Indonesia 
Abstract:
 With the resignation of former president Suharto after thirty-two years of
 oppressive rule, political parties were granted freedom in their
 operations more than a decade ago, most notably through the lifting of
 bans on grassroots operations. At the same time, new policies of
 administrative and political decentralisation have influenced parties to
 empower their local branches. This combination of political freedom and
 decentralisation has given parties the opportunity to establish active and
 functioning grassroots branches and the chance to get local communities to
 engage in politics. This article examines and compares the operational
 capacities of four different parties (Partai Golkar, Partai Demokrasi
 Indonesia Perjuangan, Partai Amanat Nasional, and Partai Keadilan
 Sejahtera) in their local branches in Malang, East Java. Focusing on the
 aspects of local administration and local-central relationship, the
 article demonstrates that although the parties have responded positively
 to their newfound freedom to operate locally, that same freedom has
 benefited parties with better local resources and better central support.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 143-162 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779382 
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Author-Name: Stuart Kells 
Author-X-Name-First: Stuart 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kells 
Author-Name: Graeme Hodge 
Author-X-Name-First: Graeme 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodge 
Title: Performance Auditing and Public Sector Innovation: Friends with Benefts or Strange Bedfellows? 
Abstract:
 Today, "innovation" is increasingly seen as a primary dimension of
 improving public sector performance. "Performance auditing" is, in turn, a
 widespread activity that seeks to enhance the performance of public sector
 organisations. This article examines intersections between the performance
 auditing process and public sector innovation. After presenting simple
 models of the audit process and the innovation system, the article
 considers the plausibility of performance auditing's improvement
 aspirations. The article then briefly considers performance auditing in
 the Australian state of Victoria and concludes that, while the
 circumstances in which performance auditing can spur innovation may be
 limited, there is cause for cautious optimism about performance auditing's
 value in this regard.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 163-184 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779383 
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Author-Name: Desmond Uelese Amosa 
Author-X-Name-First: Desmond 
Author-X-Name-Last: Uelese Amosa 
Author-Name: Atishwar Pandaram 
Author-X-Name-First: Atishwar 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pandaram 
Title: Are Fiji'S Government Commercial Companies in Competent Hands? 
Abstract:
 Following the launch of Fiji's public enterprise reform in 1993 that
 involved commercialisation and corporatisation to create solutions in the
 ailing government commercial companies (GCCs), not much improvement has
 been seen in recent times. Many questions were raised in an attempt to
 determine the cause of the problem. In return, a lot of explanations and
 answers were presented and the key competencies of senior managers in
 charge of GCCs were acknowledged amongst the myriad of issues raised. This
 study seeks to bring to the fore key competencies central to sound
 performance of GCCs according to senior managers of GCCs following the
 reform. This is based on several interviews and questionnaires conducted
 on senior managers of GCCs. The findings of this research are important
 for many reasons. In particular, it helps government officials identify
 and address the training needs of senior managers of GCCs.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 185-195 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 33 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2011.10779384 
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Author-Name: Robert Gregory 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gregory 
Author-Name: Daniel Zirker 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zirker 
Author-Name: Frank Scrimgeour 
Author-X-Name-First: Frank 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scrimgeour 
Title: A Kiwi Halo? Defining and Assessing Corruption in a "Non-Corrupt" System 
Abstract:
 New Zealand has been ranked consistently as one of the five least corrupt
 countries in the world (Transparency International's Corruption
 Perceptions Index, TI-CPI) over the past 16 years, but may have suffered
 somewhat from its international renown. There is no clear legal Definition
 of corruption in New Zealand. There is a rather diffuse institutional
 policing of whatever is considered to be corruption, an apparent growth of
 organised crime, and sometimes public controversy surrounding conflicts of
 interests in public procurement. Some concerns have been raised about the
 sale of state assets in the 1980s and 1990s. There is also occasionally
 evidence of corruption in high public offices and with the parliament's
 tardiness in ratifying the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
 TI-New Zealand has recently commented that the country's consistently high
 ranking on the CPI may actually discourage closer examination of these and
 other issues. Against this background, and with some comparative reference
 to Hong Kong and mainland China, this article seeks to move towards a
 framework for future research on corruption in New Zealand.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-29 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779385 
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Author-Name: Allan Patience 
Author-X-Name-First: Allan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Patience 
Title: The New Cannibalism: The International Community and the Problem of Governance Weaknesses in Papua New Guinea 
Abstract:
 In its first section, this article surveys several understandings of state
 failure, the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and proposes
 a special category of states suffering under specific forms of
 misgovernance: <bold>ruined states</bold> - the consequence of ruling
 elites' unwillingness or incapacity to guarantee human security (freedom
 from want and fear) for their citizens. This unwillingness and/or
 incapacity is described as <bold>the new cannibalism</bold> - alluding to
 the devouring of state resources by corrupt and incompetent power elites,
 resulting in widespread suffering among the peoples they govern. Secondly,
 the article summarises the decline in governance in Papua New Guinea (PNG)
 over some three decades of independence, noting the unfolding of high
 levels of corruption and incapacity in politics and the civil service.
 This suggests that the new cannibalism is threatening to emerge in PNG
 today, placing the country on a ruined state trajectory. Third, given that
 successive governments in PNG have appeared unwilling to accept
 responsibility for protecting all Papua New Guineans, or have been
 incapable of doing so (thereby failing to honor the UN-endorsed principle
 of R2P), the question is asked: Should appropriate representatives of the
 international community be anticipating a form of intervention? The
 article concludes by canvassing a <bold>mentoring/collaborative
 engagement</bold> strategy.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 31-55 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779386 
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Author-Name: Kishor Sharma 
Author-X-Name-First: Kishor 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma 
Title: Politics and Governance in Nepal 
Abstract:
 This article discusses the role that politics and governance have played
 in the current state of affairs in Nepal, citing a lack of vision among
 political leadership and their inability to understand the consequences of
 socioeconomic exclusion as the roots of the current political crisis in
 Nepal. It outlines the resultant problems of the centralisation of power,
 corruption, a bias towards urban development and especially the historical
 exclusion of minority and underprivileged classes from participation in
 governance and mainstream politics. It is argued that there is a need to
 introduce bold reforms in economic policy, politics and the institutional
 setup to sustain growth and increase the collective voice and bargaining
 power for all disadvantaged groups.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 57-69 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779387 
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Author-Name: JungWook Seo 
Author-X-Name-First: JungWook 
Author-X-Name-Last: Seo 
Author-Name: Soyoon Chung 
Author-X-Name-First: Soyoon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Chung 
Title: Impact of Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector: Cheonggye Stream Restoration Project in the Seoul Metropolitan City 
Abstract:
 This article explores the impact of public entrepreneurship on the
 Cheonggye Stream Restoration Project (CSRP) as an urban renewal project.
 The article presents the four elements of entrepreneurship:
 innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness, and network governance.
 Innovativeness was an important motive to start the CSRP. The risk-taking
 and proactive leadership of the mayor had a positive effect on boosting
 internal cohesion among public employees and implementing the CSRP.
 Network governance helped manage conflicts among the related stakeholders
 and attract support to the CSRP. The article suggests that it was the
 effort to share the spirit and practice of public (or social)
 entrepreneurship with the people -- including the general citizens, public
 servants, experts, and interest groups - that eventually led to the
 success of the restoration project.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 71-93 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779388 
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Author-Name: Andrew Sense 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sense 
Author-Name: Matthew Pepper 
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pepper 
Title: Social Networks, Social Learning and Service Systems Improvement 
Abstract:
 This article illustrates and qualitatively explores the value of
 understanding the social networks present in a service operation through a
 case study of a local government service network that manages regional
 development applications. It also examines how social learning underpins
 service systems performance improvement and how it is instrumental in
 creating a richer environment for ongoing service network innovation and
 development. It is argued that gaining a better understanding of these
 social networks and the social learning potential in a system offers
 substantial and highly practitioner-friendly avenues to progress service
 systems capability development. These findings clearly place an emphasis
 on developing the human and social aspects of service systems and also
 provide human-centred points of departure for researchers examining more
 holistic service systems theory development.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 95-111 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779389 
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Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: Jones 
Title: Reforms to Promote Competition in Government Procurement in Southeast Asia: Achievements and Constraints 
Abstract:
 Two key principles of government procurement are value for money for the
 end user agencies and the public, and fairness in the treatment of
 suppliers and contractors based on equal access and impartial evaluation
 of bids. It is widely recognized that these can be best guaranteed through
 competitive tenders and quotations. While competition in government
 procurement was previously substantially curtailed in most states in
 Southeast Asia, a series of reforms in the last ten years or so have been
 introduced with a view to widening competition. Priority has been given to
 the adoption of open tenders as the norm, and imposing restrictions on
 less competitive methods of procurement. To achieve greater competition,
 reforms have also been introduced to improve transparency and to combat
 corruption in the procurement process. Nonetheless, obstacles remain to
 achieving a fully competitive procurement market in most states. These
 include continued preferential arrangements, loopholes and ambiguities in
 the reforms, continuing high levels of corruption, limitations of
 transparency, and shortcomings in the system of accountability of
 procuring entities. Three reasons are given to explain why obstacles
 remain, namely a protectionist belief in promoting the domestic business
 sector, vested interests amongst political, administrative and business
 elites to limit competition, and a lack of institutional capacity in
 procuring entities to manage complex competitive tenders.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 113-136 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779390 
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Author-Name: Eric Windholz 
Author-X-Name-First: Eric 
Author-X-Name-Last: Windholz 
Author-Name: Graeme Hodge 
Author-X-Name-First: Graeme 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodge 
Title: The Magic of Harmonisation: A Case Study of Occupational Health and Safety in Australia 
Abstract:
 Harmonisation is both a substantive policy reform and a political project.
 Using the lens of Pollitt and Hupe's "magic concepts of government" and
 the harmonisation of Australia's occupational health and safety laws as a
 case study, this article argues that as a political project harmonisation
 has a magical rhetorical quality that obscures traditional differences,
 eases the business of governing, and makes it almost irresistible as a
 policy solution. The article observes, however, that harmonisation's magic
 is: illusory in that it obscures rather than resolves policy differences;
 seductive in that it entices stakeholders to overestimate its capacity to
 reconcile such differences; and time limited with reform outcomes
 eventually becoming vulnerable and fragile. The article concludes that
 harmonisation's "magic" and its limitations need to be better
 acknowledged, with government use of harmonisation tools being approached
 with a healthy level of scepticism, and policy and regulatory review
 processes being designed to guard against its seductive qualities.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 137-155 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779391 
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Author-Name: Razlyn Abdul Rahim 
Author-X-Name-First: Razlyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Abdul Rahim 
Author-Name: Lillian Mwanri 
Author-X-Name-First: Lillian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mwanri 
Title: Health Workforce Crisis: Recruitment and Retention of Skilled Health Workers in the Public Health Sector in Malaysia 
Abstract:
 There is significant evidence indicating the existence of a worldwide
 shortage of healthcare professionals. The problem is more severe in middle
 and low-income countries, and Malaysia is no exception. The shortage in
 developed countries further impacts the global shortage through active
 recruitment of overseas-trained healthcare professionals from developing
 to developed countries. This complex global problem demands a
 comprehensive policy driver that provides a prudent harmonisation of
 health policies and legislation in the pursuit of equitable and just
 delivery of healthcare and distribution of medical and other health
 service providers. Individual nations need to be informed of their role in
 the development of equitable health services for their citizens. An
 effective national approach to health policy and health legislation
 development will enable recruitment and the long-term retention of health
 professionals. This article discusses worldwide policy initiatives that
 respond to the health care workforce shortage and health service delivery
 in different countries. Five policy initiatives are discussed and related
 to the Malaysian context. Like other countries, the Malaysian healthcare
 system needs to be responsive to the current workforce shortage. A
 comprehensive range of policies and legislation needs to be developed in
 order to address this problem.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 157-170 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779392 
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Author-Name: Joko Mariyono 
Author-X-Name-First: Joko 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mariyono 
Title: Indonesian Textile Exports in the Presence of Bilateral Foreign Aid 
Abstract:
 This study aims to analyze Indonesia's export of textiles after the
 abolishment of the quota system from a gravity model perspective. The
 textile industry is selected because of its growth trend in Indonesia.
 Bilateral foreign aid is included as a proxy of the close friendship
 between Indonesia and its trading partners. Data were compiled from
 various sources, comprising target-export countries during 1999-2009, and
 a linear regression model was used to estimate the significance of
 gravity. The results show that the presence of foreign aid leads to higher
 volumes of textile exports. As expected, distance has a negative impact at
 a decreasing rate, and Indonesia's income per capita has a negative impact
 as well. This indicates that an increase in Indonesia's income per capita
 leads to higher domestic consumption. Similarly, the income per capita in
 export-target countries has a positive impact, wherein international
 demand for textile increases, leading to an increase in the export of
 Indonesian textiles. Increases in the price of textiles and the exchange
 rate lead to a lower volume of exports. Indonesia should increase
 investment in the textile industry to fulfill domestic demand and reduce
 its dependency on imported raw materials.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 171-186 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779393 
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Author-Name: Tan Yee Shin 
Author-X-Name-First: Tan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yee Shin 
Author-Name: Mohamed Aslam 
Author-X-Name-First: Mohamed 
Author-X-Name-Last: Aslam 
Title: Political Economy of the Budgetary Process and Public Expenditure in Malaysia 
Abstract:
 A nation's ruling political party has the right to draft and implement
 economic policies, including budgetary policy. In the case of Malaysia,
 budget policy and expenditure is associated with medium- and long-term
 economic development plans, the current thinking behind economic policies,
 and any additional measures related to major economic events such as the
 impact of global economic crises. Also, the budget includes economic
 policies according to the ruling party's manifesto. Even though the
 allocation of the budget is the ruling government's privilege, the
 government's financial plans, spending, taxation and borrowing are subject
 to laws, rules and procedures. The ruling government cannot simply utilise
 economic resources for its particular political interests, as the
 discussion illustrates.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 187-203 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 34 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2012.10779394 
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Author-Name: Dan Guttman 
Author-X-Name-First: Dan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Guttman 
Author-Name: Song Yaqin 
Author-X-Name-First: Song 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yaqin 
Author-Name: Li Haiming 
Author-X-Name-First: Li 
Author-X-Name-Last: Haiming 
Title: United States Government Contracting and China's <italic>Shi Ye Dan Wei</italic>: Two Shadow Governments - Path Dependency from Opposite Directions, or Mutual Learning? 
Abstract:
 Comparisons between governance systems in China and America have become
 increasingly popular, but literal "apples-to-apples" comparisons may be
 less fruitful than comparisons between activities or institutions that
 bear different names but play similar roles in the two systems. In this
 context, this article compares the large government but non-civil service
 workforces that play pervasive roles in the daily work of the U.S. and
 Chinese governments - as "government contractors" and "Shi Ye Dan Wei" or
 "public service units". They similarly helped produce substantial
 governance successes, but the growth of these systems in conducting
 functions otherwise performed by government itself has created a host of
 unanswered challenges for accountability.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-51 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10779395 
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Author-Name: Peter McKinlay 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinlay 
Title: Governance and the Co-Design of Services: The Importance of a "Governance Perspective" 
Abstract:
 There is growing research-based evidence that strategies of public
 management need to embrace a "governance perspective" which encourages
 collaboration between the public, private and non-profit sectors. Outcomes
 include the more cost-effective targeting and delivery of
 government-funded services and greater legitimacy for decision-making.
 Terms such as "co-design" are entering the language alongside the more
 familiar "co-production". The potential to build a governance perspective
 in a community opens up the opportunity for significantly better
 utilisation of public resources.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 53-70 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10779396 
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Author-Name: Stephen Tay 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tay 
Title: Subjective Well-being in Greater China: Broadening the Framing of Citizen Well-being in Public Policy 
Abstract:
 Citizens entrust the government with taking care of their well-being and
 most governments are committed to improving citizen well-being.
 Nevertheless, there is a divergence between government and citizen
 perceived notions of well-being. This divergence largely arises because
 bureaucratic policy making is rooted in measuring public policy outcomes
 of citizen well-being in objective indicators that underemphasise the
 importance of subjective well-being. Using the case of three Greater China
 societies of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, this article highlights the
 importance of socio-psychological factors and subjective perceptions of
 income inequality in affecting subjective well-being in Greater China.
 Thus, public policy makers should broaden the framing of well-being in the
 form of objective and subjective well-being and apply the appropriate
 policy measures.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 71-92 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10779397 
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Author-Name: Soonhee Kim 
Author-X-Name-First: Soonhee 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim 
Author-Name: Daniel Nelson 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nelson 
Title: What Do Indian Administrative Service Offcers Learn from South Korea Exposure Visits? 
Abstract:
 The purpose of this article is to assess the Indian Administrative Service
 (IAS) Exposure Visit Programme to South Korea in 2008 and 2010 with
 respect to the content of its training programme and its effect on the IAS
 officers' learning and leadership development. The study adopts multiple
 research methods, including participatory observation of the programme, an
 evaluation by Indian participants, and content analysis of self-assessment
 learning papers. The results of the content analysis of the programme
 lessons are that 58 percent of the 2008 programme participants and 47
 percent of participants in the 2010 programme had a clear understanding of
 the key lessons from the Korea visit programme and proposed how India
 might apply or replicate them. The study finds that there are eight core
 lessons and application areas from the Korea visit programme identified by
 programme participants: change of mindset and attitudes of government
 officers and citizens; leadership and vision; citizen participation;
 enacting social policy; increasing resources for infrastructure building
 and development; administration capacity; training of government officers
 and citizens; and a competitive approach for rural development. Several
 ideas are suggested for enhancing the quality of future exposure visit
 programmes for civil servants.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 93-119 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10779398 
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Author-Name: Asinate Mausio 
Author-X-Name-First: Asinate 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mausio 
Title: Research Note - Low Road Ethics Management: A Baseline Study of Government Departments in the Western Division of Fiji 
Abstract:
 This research note discusses the main findings of a baseline survey on
 ethics management in various government departments in one of the four
 administrative regions of Fiji. It presents a view of how ethics
 management systems in developing countries like Fiji are often grid-locked
 into low road, compliance/rules based ethics management systems in the
 face of a NPM-driven shift from public administration to market-oriented
 managerial practices. It highlights existing weaknesses in the ethics
 management systems in various government departments, indicating a gap
 between government rhetoric on NPM decentralisation and actual practice at
 the regional level.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 121-134 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10779399 
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Author-Name: John P. Burns 
Author-X-Name-First: John P. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Burns 
Title: Bidhya Bowornwathana 
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 135-136 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10800985 
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Author-Name: Bidhya Bowornwathana 
Author-X-Name-First: Bidhya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowornwathana 
Title: Administrative Reform and Regime Shifts: Reflections on the Thai Polity 
Abstract:
 Aucoin has identified two paradigms--public choice and
 managerialism--which are of relevance to administrative reform. These
 paradigms are outlined, along with a regime- survival paradigm which is
 suggested as a necessary additional means of understanding the dynamics of
 reform in unstable regimes. The latter paradigm in particular is then used
 to inform a discussion of selected areas of reform in the Thai polity
 during the Suchindal/Anand and Chuan administrations.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 137-147 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10800986 
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Author-Name: Bidhya Bowornwathana 
Author-X-Name-First: Bidhya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowornwathana 
Title: Governance Reform in Thailand: Questionable Assumptions, Uncertain Outcomes 
Abstract:
 This article examines the nature of governance reform in Thailand. The
 argument is that Thai citizens are not especially benefiting from the
 public reform initiatives of Thai governments because government reformers
 made four questionable assumptions about reform which have in turn
 produced uncertain outcomes and provided the opportunity for government
 reformers to avoid responsibility for their reform choices. First, the
 reformers support the belief that a global reform paradigm with ready-made
 reform packages exists which can be easily transplanted in the Thai public
 sector. Second, the reformers prefer to define success largely as reform
 output rather than reform outcomes or long-term reform consequences.
 Third, Thai government reformers have overemphasized the efficiency
 aspects of the new public management at the expense of other governance
 goals. Fourth, governance reform in Thailand has been portrayed as a
 managerial problem instead of a political one. The author supports his
 arguments by drawing on theoretical debates in the international
 literature on administrative reform, and relating these debates to the
 Thai case. Governance reform in Thailand is still at an early stage, but
 the role of unintended consequences is important to administrative reform.
 Furthermore, the Thai case may reflect governance reform in other
 countries as well.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 149-165 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10800987 
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Author-Name: Bidhya Bowornwathana 
Author-X-Name-First: Bidhya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowornwathana 
Title: Administrative Reform and Tidal Waves from Regime Shifts: Tsunamis in Thailand's Political and Administrative History 
Abstract:
 The analogy of tidal waves is taken from the 26 December 2004 tsunami that
 devastated parts of Thailand and other Asian countries. Regime shifts or
 changes in systems and styles of government produce "tidal waves" that
 affect the direction and progress of administrative reform. Examples of
 major regime shifts, causing tidal waves or tsunami are drawn from Thai
 experience from 1932 to the present. The Thaksin Administration
 (2001-present) provides an especially notable example of a major regime
 shift from democratic governance to democratic authoritarianism. The
 Thaksin tsunami has resulted in a definite centralization and
 consolidation of political power in the hands of the Prime Minister.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 167-182 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10800988 
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Author-Name: Bidhya Bowornwathana 
Author-X-Name-First: Bidhya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowornwathana 
Title: Autonomisation of the Thai State: Some Observations 
Abstract:
 This article argues that the recent global trend of creating autonomous or
 quasi-autonomous public arganisations must be understood within the
 particular context of the country under investigation. In the case of the
 Thai state, autonomisation should be seen as a transformation process from
 a unitary administrative system to multiple administrative systems. It is
 an escape from a very centralised form of government to a more
 decentralised one where government power is more dispersed among various
 public organisations. The nature of politics and administration determines
 the direction of the hybridisation processes of autonomisation in
 Thailand. The reform direction chosen by the prime minister and the
 relationship between politicians and bureaucrats are two key factors that
 dictate the direction of autonomisation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 183-194 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10800989 
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Author-Name: Bidhya Bowornwathana 
Author-X-Name-First: Bidhya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowornwathana 
Title: The Politics of Becoming a Top Bureaucrat in the Thai Bureaucracy 
Abstract:
 "Top bureaucrats" refers to career officials who assume the most powerful
 positions in their respective government agencies. They become permanent
 secretaries of ministries, the army commander-in-chief, the national
 police chief, directors and secretary-generals of agencies, and CEOs of
 state enterprises, autonomous public organisations and the like. When
 senior bureaucrats jockey for top positions, they play politics. In
 examining this aspect of politics and the bureaucracy, it is pertinent to
 address the following interrelated questions. How and why does a senior
 bureaucrat rise to the top in the Thai bureaucracy? Is it a merit process,
 or is it largely the work of politics? These questions underpin the
 discussion and provide a basis for further extensive research into the
 political strictures and dynamics involved.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 195-206 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 35 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2013.10800990 
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Author-Name: Ian Thynne 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thynne 
Title: In celebration of public administration: the sustaining significance of power - introductory perspectives 
Abstract:
 The symposium is introduced here as heralding the beginning of a new era
 for the journal. Significant aspects of public administration are
 addressed concerning power as its lifeblood and basis of its
 institutional-organisational configurations, roles, responsibilities,
 control and legitimacy. The discussion of these matters sets the scene for
 the analyses in the following articles.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-8 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.892269 
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Author-Name: Björn Dressel 
Author-X-Name-First: Björn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dressel 
Title: Public administration and the rule of law in Asia: breadth without depth? 
Abstract:
 Public administration in Asia has undergone considerable transformation
 over the last two decades, yet commitment to the rule of law has remained
 problematic. Presenting a basic typology of state types based on the
 breadth and depth of how public administration is situated within the rule
 of law, this article argues that while in recent years states in Asia have
 made great strides towards fuller legalisation and judicialisation of the
 public administration space as part of a broader process of institutional
 layering, they have largely failed to deepen its enforcement in terms of
 universality and impartiality. Drawing on East Asian Barometer data, the
 analysis shows how, because citizens' attitudes have given little support
 to the rule of law framework in public administration, elites have had
 little incentive to advocate for reform. Taking into account the broader
 organisation of state power in Asia with its ideological emphasis on
 developmental outcomes, substantial empirical and theoretical questions
 are raised about the trajectory of public administration in the region.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 9-21 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.892270 
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Author-Name: Ian Scott 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott 
Author-Name: Ting Gong 
Author-X-Name-First: Ting 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gong 
Title: Administrative values in the mainland Chinese and Hong Kong public services: a comparative analysis 
Abstract:
 Public bureaucracies shape the values of their officials in ways that
 affect performance and behaviour. By contrasting those administrative
 values in mainland China and Hong Kong and how they impact on such issues
 as attitudes towards the organisation, superior-subordinate relationships,
 conflict and conflict avoidance and responsiveness to change, the
 character of the bureaucracy and the dynamics of interactions within it
 can be better understood. From the findings, the most important
 determinant of differences is that the prevailing conception on the
 mainland is of a bureaucracy where authority is lodged in the person
 ("rule of man"), whereas in Hong Kong, Weberian bureaucracy ("rule of
 law") is the dominant form. The study draws both on quantitative material
 derived from the same survey conducted among senior civil servants on the
 mainland and in Hong Kong and on qualitative material from interviews with
 officials.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 22-33 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.892271 
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Author-Name: James L. Perry 
Author-X-Name-First: James L. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Perry 
Title: The motivational bases of public service: foundations for a third wave of research 
Abstract:
 Research on public service motivation has garnered significant attention
 from scholars, especially in the last two decades. This article divides
 the evolution of the research into three waves: definition and
 measurement; assessing and confirming construct validity and diffusion of
 the construct; and learning from past research and filling shortcomings
 and gaps. Significant contributions and benchmarks of the first two waves
 are identified. Four foundational activities are discussed that are
 present and will be important for advancing public service motivation
 research during the third wave. Some aspects of the research in the Asia
 Pacific region are highlighted.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 34-47 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.892272 
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Author-Name: Brian W. Head 
Author-X-Name-First: Brian W. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Head 
Title: Public administration and the promise of evidence-based policy: experience in and beyond Australia 
Abstract:
 This article examines the uncertain growth and future prospects of
 "evidence-based" policy-making, with a focus on Australia and some other
 states in which public leaders and officials have claimed to value and
 promote the use of evidence in policy decision-making. There are many
 obstacles to developing evidence-informed policy systems, including the
 availability of investment for data analysis, entrenched political elites
 and traditional cultural values. The gaps between rhetoric and reality are
 substantial, even in the more "advanced" states, mainly owing to political
 considerations such as partisan ideologies and the power of economic and
 socio-cultural interests. Evidence-based approaches are shown to operate
 most clearly in those policy areas concerned with technical efficiency,
 and are less evident in contested areas of social policy. Brief
 comparisons are drawn between Singapore, Hong Kong and Organisation for
 Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 48-59 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.892273 
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Author-Name: Heungsuk Choi 
Author-X-Name-First: Heungsuk 
Author-X-Name-Last: Choi 
Title: Who should be in charge? Citizens' perceptions of the provision of health care services in South Korea 
Abstract:
 This study investigates the perceptions of citizens in South Korea
 concerning the provision of health care services by the government and
 private for profit and non-profit entities. A cluster analysis based on
 the perception of government performance and the need for health care
 services results in the identification of four citizen groups: the
 advantaged, the disadvantaged, the calculative and the acquiescent. The
 demand for government involvement in the delivery of health care services
 is strong in the advantaged and disadvantaged groups, and weak in the
 calculative and acquiescent groups. Citizens demand that the government
 actually do more in providing services so long as its service quality is
 good, as is revealed by the positive associations between SERVQUAL
 (service quality) measures and the demand for more government involvement.
 Citizens also demand that the government be more involved by way of
 reforming the health care delivery system. This aspect of citizen demand
 is revealed by the finding that they especially prefer the government to
 intervene more in cases where they perceive the delivery process to be
 corrupt, where they feel politically alienated from the policy process,
 where they have a higher sense of political efficacy and where they
 perceive themselves as knowing how to fix the problems in the delivery
 system. This demand for increased government involvement in reforming the
 delivery system occurs particularly in the disadvantaged and calculative
 groups.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 60-69 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.892274 
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Author-Name: H. Brinton Milward 
Author-X-Name-First: H. Brinton 
Author-X-Name-Last: Milward 
Title: The increasingly hollow state: challenges and dilemmas for public administration 
Abstract:
 For over 20 years, a research programme has been conducted on service
 implementation networks that are connected to governments by a network of
 contracts. The networks themselves engage in a joint production of the
 service and thus collaboration is essential if these networks are to
 perform reasonably well. Most of the research in the programme has been in
 mental health. The degree of connectedness between the state and its
 agents has been used as a measure of how many degrees of separation there
 are between the source of taxpayer funds and the use of those funds. The
 more degrees of separation there are, the greater the degree of
 "hollowness", and the more degrees of separation, the more difficult it is
 to govern and manage what is called a "hollow state".
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 70-79 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.892275 
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Author-Name: Ching-Ping Tang 
Author-X-Name-First: Ching-Ping 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tang 
Author-Name: Meng-Che Yu 
Author-X-Name-First: Meng-Che 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yu 
Title: Capacity building for societal governance: managing knowledge for alternative development - an analysis of two cases in Taiwan 
Abstract:
 Facing an accelerated trend of globalisation, industrial late-comers need
 to protect themselves from unfair competition from superior economies and
 bad consequences of rapid integration. As the tradition of the
 "developmental state" in many East Asian countries becomes less feasible,
 another model - "alternative development" - has been experimented with and
 has experienced some success in recent years. This article examines two
 cases in Taiwan to demonstrate how community economies might be
 reactivated without the strong hand of the government. In both cases,
 social entrepreneurs have governed the knowledge needed for local
 economies through a "platform" mechanism in a highly effective manner. The
 analysis challenges traditional wisdoms and indicates a reasonable policy
 alternative for inferior economies to survive global competition with the
 supportive but passive involvement of public administration.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 80-88 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.892276 
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Author-Name: Lichia Saner Yiu 
Author-X-Name-First: Lichia Saner 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yiu 
Author-Name: Raymond Saner 
Author-X-Name-First: Raymond 
Author-X-Name-Last: Saner 
Title: Sustainable Development Goals and Millennium Development Goals: an analysis of the shaping and negotiation process 
Abstract:
 This article analyses the emerging scope of the Sustainable Development
 Goals (SDGs) as the successor development instrument to the Millennium
 Development Goals (MDGs) which are scheduled to end on 31 December 2015.
 The top priorities of the stakeholders involved in the shaping and
 negotiation process include poverty eradication, water sanitation, energy,
 economic growth, green growth, governance and employment. Current trends
 appear to favour a progression of the shaping and negotiation process
 which goes beyond the established MDG goals.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 89-107 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.911487 
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Author-Name: Henry Sherrell 
Author-X-Name-First: Henry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sherrell 
Title: The "price of rights" and labour immigration: an Australian case study 
Abstract:
 This article analyses Australia's primary temporary employment visa - the
 457 visa programme - through the lens of Ruhs' "price of rights" thesis.
 Ruhs has argued that a trade-off exists between the openness of labour
 migration and the rights afforded to migrants. The 457 visa programme
 provides a single case example to analyse Ruhs' theory. The analysis finds
 that the 457 visa programme provides a level of support for the "price of
 rights" thesis. However, minor methodological issues arise, demonstrating
 the need for further exploration of this important migration topic.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 108-122 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.911488 
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Author-Name: Joko Mariyono 
Author-X-Name-First: Joko 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mariyono 
Title: Rice production in Indonesia: policy and performance 
Abstract:
 Rice is a politically strategic commodity in Indonesia. The government
 seeks to ensure that rice production meets the needs of domestic
 consumption and, accordingly, is interested in its performance as a matter
 of considerable policy significance. This study addresses its performance
 in accordance with several determining factors, underlying which is the
 concept of technical efficiency. Panel aggregate data on input-output rice
 production in 23 provinces during 1993-2013 are employed for estimating
 frontier production functions. The results indicate that variation in rice
 production across regions of the country is due primarily to technical
 efficiency. Sources of variation within technical efficiency include
 intensification, training programmes, land fertility and local culture. Of
 the regions investigated, rice production in Bali has been the most
 efficient. Overall, efficiency of production is low and has marginally
 decreased over time in all regions. The study concludes that there is
 considerable room for productivity improvements through increases in
 efficiency. Training in relevant agricultural methods, the creation of
 wetlands, and an improvement in irrigation infrastructure are the best
 ways to enhance rice production.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 123-134 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.911489 
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Author-Name: Anthony S. Rausch 
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony S. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rausch 
Title: Japan's Heisei municipal mergers and the contradictions of neo-liberal administrative planning 
Abstract:
 This article addresses Japan's Heisei period municipal mergers, which
 occurred from 2000 to 2010, considering the emerging outcomes and
 long-term implications. The mergers, which aimed to upscale on a national
 level to larger-sized municipalities while also rationalising
 administrative costs and streamlining services, reduced the number of
 municipalities in Japan from over 3000 to under 1800. Reports from
 prefectural and municipal bureaus and research institutions, together with
 coverage through the media, indicate that these aims have largely been met
 in the short term. However, these sources also indicate that resident
 reaction is less than favourable, particularly in terms of service
 rationalisation and loss of local identity. In terms of the long-term
 implications of the mergers as reflecting within Japan a transition from a
 developmental state policy orientation toward nation state liberalism,
 questions are emerging for rural areas regarding the long-term
 sustainability of the post-merger national municipal structures, as well
 as resident acceptance of the neo-liberal governing philosophy.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 135-149 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.911490 
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Author-Name: Ahmed K. Rashid 
Author-X-Name-First: Ahmed K. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rashid 
Title: The role of the bureaucracy in policymaking in Bangladesh 
Abstract:
 The policymaking roles and responsibilities of political and bureaucratic
 executives are often difficult to distinguish. Taking the example of
 Bangladesh, this article argues that the role of the bureaucracy in
 policymaking is undermined by excessive political influence, the
 bureaucracy's lack of effective engagement with civil society and
 non-governmental organisations, and a decline in bureaucratic capacities
 in terms of policy support and policy management. Bureaucrats lose
 objectivity in policymaking as undue political inference and partisan
 interests override neutral expertise. Policy-relevant insights from the
 community do not feed into policy processes because of a bureaucratic
 reluctance to engage regularly with civil society organisations, think
 tanks and the media. A steady decline in the educational quality and
 professional standards of public officials results in poor capacity to
 deal with policy issues. The analysis suggests that instead of tussling
 with political executives in the exercise of power and authority,
 bureaucrats must better utilise their knowledge, expertise and experience
 by engaging meaningfully in policy matters that have a direct impact on
 citizens. Bureaucratic ownership of key aspects of policymaking is a
 critical factor in expediting socio-economic development in a country such
 as Bangladesh.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 150-161 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.911491 
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Author-Name: Peter McKinlay 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinlay 
Title: Innovation in local governance: emerging New Zealand experience 
Abstract:
 Recent local governance innovation in New Zealand involves the use of
 arm's-length entities in the ownership and management of significant
 assets for the benefit of local communities. Two examples are outlined in
 the context of local government arrangements. They are possible exemplars
 for developments elsewhere, while also providing a valuable basis and
 stimulus for future comparative research.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 162-165 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.911492 
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Author-Name: Richard Balme 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Balme 
Author-Name: Tang Renwu 
Author-X-Name-First: Tang 
Author-X-Name-Last: Renwu 
Title: Environmental governance in the People's Republic of China: the political economy of growth, collective action and policy developments - introductory perspectives 
Abstract:
 The special issue is introduced here by considering the state of the
 environment and environmental governance in the PRC. While significant,
 substantial developments in legislation and policymaking remain
 insufficient to tackle the degradation of the environment and the
 increasing saliency of environmental issues in Chinese politics.
 Tremendous challenges remain in the areas of natural resources governance,
 environmental health, and transition paths in agriculture and urban
 development. They need to be addressed by an even stronger commitment of
 the Chinese leadership, accompanied by significant reforms in the areas of
 environmental litigation, the transparency of local government
 decision-making, and the capacity of the self-organisation of Chinese
 citizens in mobilising on environmental issues.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 167-172 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.942067 
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Author-Name: Richard Balme 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Balme 
Title: Mobilising for environmental justice in China 
Abstract:
 This article assesses the situation
 of&nbsp;environmental&nbsp;rights&nbsp;in China in terms of political
 interactions and their implications for Chinese politics. Environmental
 justice is primarily conceived as equity in access to environmental goods
 and fairness in social processes dealing with market or government
 failures to provide environmental security. The argument is
 that&nbsp;environmental deterioration has a significant influence on the
 pattern of inequalities in the PRC, occasionally creating situations
 of&nbsp;extreme injustice. The developments involving legislation,
 collective action, public participation and litigation over the last
 decade have served as converging factors to allow for some significant
 improvements in environmental policymaking procedures. Although these
 developments have remained far from reversing the general state of the
 environment in China, they have introduced significant changes in the
 patterns of interaction among policy stakeholders.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 173-184 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.942066 
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Author-Name: Hongping Lian 
Author-X-Name-First: Hongping 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lian 
Title: The resistance of land-lost farmers in China 
Abstract:
 In the process of urban extension, the inconsistency of the government's
 land expropriation policies and working methods has damaged the immediate
 interests of some land-lost farmers. The land-lost farmers strive against
 such damages. This analysis generalises five types of land-lost farmers,
 among whom the "elites of resistance" play a key role. Reasons for the
 resistance of land-lost farmers include an absolute feeling of deprivation
 when they realise that the compensation they have gained is far below what
 was regulated by higher authorities; and a relative feeling of deprivation
 when, after comparison, they learn that the benefits gained by farmers of
 different villages and even within the same village have great
 discrepancies. The forms of their resistance include "appeals" and
 "sit-ins", with their resistance typically based on documents issued from
 higher authorities. Their resistance serves to safeguard farmers' rights
 and interests.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 185-200 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.942061 
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Author-Name: Jia Guo 
Author-X-Name-First: Jia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Guo 
Title: Learning through international cooperation: a case study of two Chinese counties implementing the Grain for Green project 
Abstract:
 China's remarkable economic development has been achieved at the cost of
 its environment. Scholarly attention on international norm diffusion and
 policy learning asserts that international influence could make a positive
 impact on China's environmental politics. However, the policy process in
 China still retains the campaign style, which dates back to Mao's era.
 This case study of two inland counties in Shaanxi province provides
 empirical material that partially challenges the so-called international
 influence approach. County B and W, which were involved in an
 international forestry cooperation project with the Kreditanstalt für
 Wiederaufbau (KFW), both learned from their partner in subsequently
 implementing the Grain for Green project, but with different levels of
 learning and, consequently, different institutional changes. The findings
 based on these two counties indicate an important factor other than the
 structure of international influence, one which definitely affects policy
 learning and the resultant changes made by local bureaucrats, namely local
 learning agents; thus, a locality with a strong local learning agent is
 more likely to induce learning and substantive institutional changes. The
 findings also underscore the difficulty in spreading new norms and
 knowledge from international actors to the Chinese government. The impact
 of international influence in enhancing domestic governance cannot be
 taken for granted.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 201-210 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.942058 
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Author-Name: Hongxin Wang 
Author-X-Name-First: Hongxin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang 
Author-Name: Junlin Shao 
Author-X-Name-First: Junlin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Shao 
Author-Name: Menghan Cai 
Author-X-Name-First: Menghan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cai 
Title: Is self-governance of the commons feasible in the PRC? A case study of pasture governance in Zhua Xixiulong township, Gansu province 
Abstract:
 The concept of the "tragedy of the commons", as articulated by Hardin
 (1968), has had a huge influence on the protection and management of
 pastures in countries where ecosystems of grasslands and livestock
 co-exist, including in the People's Republic of China. In order to avoid
 "the tragedy" and to establish clear property rights, a policy was adopted
 in China under which winter pastures were contracted to households, while
 summer pastures remained "common". The effect of this policy on pasture
 protection has been controversial. Some have argued that the capacity of
 herders for self-governance has been ignored since, according to Ostrom's
 (1990) theory of self-governance, under certain conditions herders
 themselves should be able to govern pastures efficiently without external
 constraints. The findings of the present case study - conducted in Zhua
 Xixiulong township, Tianzhu county, Gansu province - temper this argument.
 They show that complete self-governance is not feasible in practice,
 because self-governance principles such as graduated sanctions and minimal
 recognition of rights to organise are not fully satisfied.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 211-219 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.942064 
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Author-Name: Marie-Hélène Schwoob 
Author-X-Name-First: Marie-Hélène 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwoob 
Title: Towards sustainable agriculture? Local level reliance on economic networks and the consequences for China's agricultural modernisation pathway 
Abstract:
 In recent years, the Chinese central government has demonstrated a strong
 willingness to implement solutions to alleviate environmental issues
 caused by unsustainable agricultural practices. However, in spite of a
 wish to better balance the three goals of agriculture - food security,
 stability and sustainability - changing farming practices at the local
 level has proven to be a particularly hard task. This article, which draws
 on interviews conducted in Beijing, Shanghai and Jiangxi, shows that
 patterns of relationships established in rural areas are key elements for
 the successful implementation of agricultural change. The underlying
 argument is that local patterns of power have led to an over-reliance of
 local governments on food processing and retail enterprises. This
 over-reliance, which has turned into a real modus operandi of local
 governments to reinvestigate agricultural production activities in rural
 areas, is partially responsible for China's difficulties in creating
 sustainable pathways for agricultural modernisation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 220-232 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.944690 
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Author-Name: Giulia C. Romano 
Author-X-Name-First: Giulia C. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Romano 
Title: Strategies for sustainable urban development: towards green(er) Chinese cities? 
Abstract:
 In the face of more and more environmental pollution and the rapid pace of
 urbanisation, sustainable urban development has become an increasingly
 important issue for China. As the country aims to bring urbanisation
 levels up to 70% by 2035, the way its cities develop and the control of
 resources consumed for growing urban activity are of paramount importance.
 Yet, despite a rhetoric pushing for the realisation of sustainable cities,
 urban development practices currently show a persistently different
 picture, casting doubts over the effectiveness of policies adopted at the
 different levels of government. The different dimensions of environmental
 management in sustainable urban development policies still encounter
 important obstacles in their implementation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 233-247 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 36 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2014.944748 
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Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin 
Title: Resourcefulness opportunities and challenges in local government: Australian perspectives - guest editor's introduction 
Abstract:
 The special issue is introduced here by appreciating briefly the broad
 context in which local governments in Australia are established and
 operate. Their diversity but common significance are important features,
 with numerous expectations and pressures from communities, the market and
 the other levels of government constantly being felt and requiring
 appropriate responses. Accordingly, to survive as purposeful and
 meaningful entities, they forever need to seize opportunities and cope
 with challenges such as, and well beyond, those addressed so pertinently
 in the following articles.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-3 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1018375 
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Author-Name: Andrew Hickey 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hickey 
Author-Name: Paul Reynolds 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reynolds 
Author-Name: Lisa McDonald 
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa 
Author-X-Name-Last: McDonald 
Title: Understanding community to engage community: the use of qualitative research techniques in local government community engagement 
Abstract:
 Local government departments charged with the responsibility of engaging
 with their communities require a codified evidence base for designing and
 delivering engagement initiatives. This is vital if the engagement
 initiative is to take effective account of the often multifarious and
 divergent needs that present within the community. This was the case for
 the Community Development and Facilities Branch of the Toowoomba Regional
 Council in Queensland<italic>,</italic> which in partnership with social
 researchers based in an Australian regional university set about
 developing a sequenced professional development programme that up-skilled
 council staff in field-based qualitative research approaches. This article
 addresses findings from this collaboration, as well as detailing more
 broadly the role qualitative social research might play in local
 government community engagement practice. Core concerns are how the views,
 perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of a community might be gathered
 through qualitative social research and the ways in which this might
 inform engagement initiatives.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 4-17 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1018371 
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Author-Name: Robyn Cochrane 
Author-X-Name-First: Robyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cochrane 
Title: Community visioning: the role of traditional and online public participation in local government 
Abstract:
 Public participation is increasingly becoming an expectation and is often
 mandated in government policy and planning processes around the world.
 However, eliciting public participation in large-scale community visioning
 is fraught with challenges as public officials navigate the abstract
 nature of visioning, the abundance of public participation approaches, and
 the emerging Web 2.0 services and technologies. In response, this article
 outlines an approach used by a local government authority in Australia for
 its community visioning initiative entitled <italic>Living Kingston
 2035</italic>. The use of extensive communication and promotion channels,
 coupled with traditional and online participation approaches, has
 delivered broad public participation. It has also resulted in an endorsed
 long-term vision, a suite of publicly accessible research reports, and a
 community knowledge database to guide future plans and decisions for the
 municipality.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 18-32 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1018370 
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Author-Name: Roberta Ryan 
Author-X-Name-First: Roberta 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ryan 
Author-Name: Catherine Hastings 
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hastings 
Title: Missed opportunities for democratic engagement: the adoption of community indicators in local government 
Abstract:
 Community indicators, as a framework for the measurement of community
 wellbeing and progress established in collaboration with the community
 itself, have more than three decades of history in the United States.
 Although community indicator projects developed in Australia from the
 1990s onwards, particularly by local governments, they have primarily been
 used as a reporting tool rather than as an instrument for democratic
 engagement and evidence-based policy development. In this article, an
 analysis is provided of the range of approaches to community indicators in
 Australia and the United States. The argument is made for the use of
 community indicators to enhance the democratic capacity of local
 government. The aim is to stimulate discussion about the potential
 benefits of community indicator projects for local government in Australia
 and increase understanding of the possible extent of their application.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 33-43 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1018376 
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Author-Name: John Lavarack 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lavarack 
Author-Name: Roberta Ryan 
Author-X-Name-First: Roberta 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ryan 
Title: Cultural development and local government: analytical frames, insights and observations 
Abstract:
 Over the last 50 years, local government in Australia has increasingly
 been involved in cultural development as a means of supporting community
 cohesion, wellbeing, sense of identity, and economic development. The
 involvement includes activities intended to elicit, express or explore
 aspects of community life that lend themselves to these goals, including
 arts practices that are generally integral to the activities. The
 requirement of funding bodies to evaluate the effectiveness of subsidised
 programmes has led to a tendency to view the arts instrumentally as a
 means to an end and thus to leave discussion of the intrinsic value of the
 arts relatively undeveloped or unresolved. In response, this article
 argues for the use of various analytical frames for evaluating cultural
 development and for the institutional value of cultural development for
 local government and its communities to be better recognised. Integrated
 strategies are available for a systems view of cultural development which
 can contribute to appropriate governance approaches in local government.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 44-55 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1018373 
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Author-Name: Alex Kats 
Author-X-Name-First: Alex 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kats 
Author-Name: John Martin 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin 
Author-Name: Angela Zivkovic 
Author-X-Name-First: Angela 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zivkovic 
Title: Future-proofing local government: strategies to address language, literacy and numeracy skills in the sector's workforce 
Abstract:
 The <italic>Future-Proofing Local Government: National Workforce Strategy
 2013-2020</italic>, prepared and released in 2013 by Local Government
 Managers Australia on behalf of the Australian Centre of Excellence for
 Local Government, is designed to ensure that the local government sector
 moves towards a more sustainable workforce through effective attraction,
 retention and development programmes. One of the areas identified in the
 Strategy requiring further development and capacity building is that of
 language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills, which is a significant
 concern not just for the local government sector, but for the entire
 Australian workforce, as identified in the Industry Skills Councils' 2011
 report: <italic>No More Excuses</italic>. In response to the Strategy and
 the initiatives of local governments, this article addresses LLN
 implementation developments, as well as factors that could encourage
 councils without a LLN programme to develop and implement one. The
 discussion draws on survey research - based on a "planned behaviour" or
 "reasoned action" approach (Ajzen, 2006; Fishbein & Ajzen, 2010) - into
 council intentions concerning the development and implementation of LLN
 programmes as reported by their human resource managers. An aim is to
 assist councils by ideally enabling them systematically to address a key
 workforce issue as they seek to become more productive and effective
 institutions.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 56-67 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1018372 
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Author-Name: Zeger Van der Wal 
Author-X-Name-First: Zeger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Van der Wal 
Title: "All quiet on the non-Western front?" A review of public service motivation scholarship in non-Western contexts 
Abstract:
 While public service motivation (PSM) research has recently become more
 internationalised, over 80% of all scholarship is still being conducted in
 Europe and the United States. In this article, the focus is on recent PSM
 scholarship in non-Western contexts, involving 36 empirical studies
 published between 2000 and 2014. Of particular interest are the origins of
 scholarship, the theories, samples and methodologies used, and the
 empirical findings on the relation between PSM and key antecedents and
 outcomes. The findings show that the use of theoretical and methodological
 approaches with a Western signature is sometimes problematic in explaining
 motivational and organisational dynamics in non-Western contexts. In
 response, the discussion concludes by proposing a research agenda for
 non-Western PSM research with three key interest areas: cultural values
 and societal disposition, different types of motivators and their relation
 with PSM, and links between public service ethos, institutions, and PSM.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 69-86 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1041223 
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Author-Name: Ian Scott 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott 
Author-Name: Ting Gong 
Author-X-Name-First: Ting 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gong 
Title: Evidence-based policy-making for corruption prevention in Hong Kong: a bottom-up approach 
Abstract:
 Between 1976 and 1990, the Hong Kong government conducted an ambitious,
 and ultimately largely successful, campaign to change public attitudes
 towards corruption. Using a combination of publicity, survey research and
 extensive face-to-face civic engagement, the anti-corruption agency was
 able to devise a bottom-up approach for corruption prevention which
 provided policymakers with evidence to allocate resources
 in&nbsp;effective and targeted ways. This article draws on
 recently-released survey data and interviews with policymakers and
 officials to analyse the strengths and limitations of a bottom-up,
 evidence-based approach and to examine its implications for countries
 which are seeking more effective methods of corruption prevention.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 87-101 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1041222 
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Author-Name: Richard Reid 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reid 
Author-Name: Roger Wettenhall 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wettenhall 
Title: Shared services in Australia: is it not time for some clarity? 
Abstract:
 As a result of the 2014 National Commission of Audit, shared services
 began to receive increasing attention amongst those involved with
 Australian public administration. However, little seems to be known about
 the term and its theoretical origins. In addition to this lack of
 understanding of what is meant by shared services, the term was also
 linked with another perennial in public administration: the one-stop shop.
 The two terms are often confused and the difference between them little
 understood. This article seeks to provide some clarity to this discussion
 over shared services and one-stop shops through both an exploration of the
 evolution of the terms and through a consideration of a variety of
 Australian case studies. We conclude that the two terms mean very
 different things and have very different theoretical underpinnings. We
 also conclude that these concepts are often employed for purely political
 considerations, and are employed inconsistently with government rhetoric.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 102-114 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1041221 
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Author-Name: Jhalak Sharma Sapkota 
Author-X-Name-First: Jhalak Sharma 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sapkota 
Title: Protecting the wellbeing of Nepalese migrant workers: the nature and extent of interventions by the government of Nepal 
Abstract:
 Host and source countries alike are directly responsible for protecting
 and promoting the wellbeing of migrant workers. This article appreciates
 this important feature of international labour migration with particular
 reference to legislative, policy and administrative responses of the
 government of Nepal - as a source country of migrant workers hosted by
 some East Asian and Gulf Cooperation Council countries. It addresses the
 government's responses in terms of selected types and means of
 intervention detailed in an analysis by Hamada (2012). The discussion
 reveals that, while the government has adopted relevant legislation and
 policies, it has clearly lacked the requisite implementation commitment,
 resources and capacity. A significant consequence is that the living and
 labour conditions of many Nepalese migrant workers are not protected as
 directly and effectively as they certainly deserve to be.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 115-127 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1049737 
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Author-Name: Peter McKinlay 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinlay 
Title: Innovation in local government and governance: observations on emerging practice in New Zealand 
Abstract:
 This article addresses aspects of the evolution of local government and
 governance in New Zealand - arising largely from some unintended
 consequences of major public sector reform initiatives of the late 1980s
 and early 1990s which are now being adapted to the more demanding
 conditions of the early 21-super-st century. Observations are included on
 the emerging practice and its potential to play a positive role in the
 on-going debate about the future proper role and function of local
 government and governance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 128-141 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1043709 
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Author-Name: Ali Farazmand 
Author-X-Name-First: Ali 
Author-X-Name-Last: Farazmand 
Author-Name: Arjola Balilaj 
Author-X-Name-First: Arjola 
Author-X-Name-Last: Balilaj 
Title: Does Asia have a unique theory of public administration for all seasons? An exploratory essay 
Abstract:
 Does Asia have a public administration theory or philosophy for all
 seasons? This article argues affirmatively, contending that Asia has more
 than one unique theory or philosophy of public administration. Select
 theories and models of Asian public administration are presented to make a
 case concerning several countries in Asia. A conclusion is offered in
 relation to Western models of public administration and the moral/cultural
 underpinnings of public administration in Asia.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 143-160 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1087088 
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Author-Name: Beryl A. Radin 
Author-X-Name-First: Beryl A. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Radin 
Author-Name: Wai Fung Lam 
Author-X-Name-First: Wai Fung 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lam 
Title: Micro and macro approaches to social innovation: mapping the approaches of significant funders and advocates - comparative experience in East Asia, Europe and the United States  
Abstract:
 Despite the global interest in social innovation, limited attention has
 been given to the diverse ways in which this effort has been approached.
 Much of the literature highlights the bottom-up approach and does not deal
 with the complexity of the broader institutional settings that play a role
 in the process. While there has been rhetorical attention to issues
 related to "getting to scale", this goal is often confronted by diverse
 structural and political institutions and actors. This diversity limits
 the ability of advocates to devise approaches that straddle sectoral and
 national divides. In response, this article focuses on the approaches of a
 number of different organisations that have emphasised social innovation
 in their work and have provided resources for the efforts now underway. It
 analyses and compares the work undertaken in Western countries, including
 that of the US Social Innovation Fund, the USAID Forward programme, the
 Kennedy School Innovations in American Government Awards, and the European
 Commission, with that undertaken in East Asia, including the more socially
 embedded approach to incubating social innovation in Hong Kong and South
 Korea. The analysis draws on extant studies and reports issued by the
 relevant organisations, and provides a skeleton framework for future
 attempts to analyse the varied social innovation efforts.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 161-181 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1075528 
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Author-Name: Thomas H. Stanton 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas H. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Stanton 
Title: The growing movement for enterprise risk management in government: the United States begins to catch up 
Abstract:
 After lagging the United Kingdom and Canada in managing risk of government
 agencies and programmes, the United States is beginning to catch up with
 action by a small and growing group of government officials seeking to
 apply a management approach known as "enterprise risk management" (ERM).
 Too often, information is bottled up in the middle or lower ranks of an
 organisation. In response, ERM seeks to open channels of communication so
 managers have access to information needed to make good decisions. Rather
 than limiting the focus to specific identified risks, ERM asks the larger
 question: What are the risks that could prevent my agency from achieving
 its goals and objectives? Recognising the value of ERM in improving
 government management, US central organisations - the Office of Management
 and Budget and the Government Accountability Office - are now working to
 institutionalise the new movement, which in the US government began from a
 confederation of officials across multiple government agencies rather than
 as a mandate from the top of an administrative hierarchy at the centre of
 government. This reflects the peculiar "stateless" aspect of US public
 administration.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 182-192 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1075529 
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Author-Name: Raymond Saner 
Author-X-Name-First: Raymond 
Author-X-Name-Last: Saner 
Author-Name: Lichia Yiu 
Author-X-Name-First: Lichia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yiu 
Author-Name: Mario Filadoro 
Author-X-Name-First: Mario 
Author-X-Name-Last: Filadoro 
Author-Name: Victoria Khusainova 
Author-X-Name-First: Victoria 
Author-X-Name-Last: Khusainova 
Title: Access to water in developing countries: four options for provision and regulation in the water sector 
Abstract:
 Water plays a central role in the life of society. However, factors such
 as population growth, pollution and poor allotment and distribution
 mechanisms place severe pressures on adequate and equitable water supply.
 The principle of universal and consistent access to clean water is a key
 part of the Millennium Development Goals and a major component of the
 post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Provision of water has to be
 efficient, sustainable, accessible and affordable for all - especially in
 developing countries. The water issue arises from the capacity of
 governments to expand water networks and maintain or improve
 infrastructure in order to supply water to their citizens and particularly
 to their most marginalised populations. In response, the discussion here
 contributes to the debate about whether and how water should and can be
 provided by governments only or with private and social sector
 participation. Four options are addressed, with a significant conclusion
 being that private sector participation in water provision necessitates
 rigorous public regulation to enforce standards and ensure adequate and
 affordable access to water resources.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 193-206 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1075698 
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Author-Name: Rikkie L. K. Yeung 
Author-X-Name-First: Rikkie L. K. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeung 
Author-Name: Anthony H. F. Li 
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony H. F. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Li 
Author-Name: Samuel K. Hung 
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel K. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hung 
Title: Monetising social and environmental costs in infrastructure evaluation: the case of Hong Kong's third international airport runway 
Abstract:
 Traditionally, governments have been inclined to make economic progress at
 the expense of social and environmental well-being. Since the 1980s, there
 have been calls for governments to pursue development in a sustainable way
 by considering the social and environmental impacts of any infrastructure
 projects in addition to their concern about economic benefits. In 2010,
 the construction of the third runway at the Hong Kong International
 Airport was proposed at an infrastructure cost unprecedented in Hong
 Kong's history. This research note uses this development as a case to
 demonstrate how social and environmental impacts can be monetised by the
 innovative application of social return on investment (SROI) as weighed
 against economic benefits in the same currency. It identifies climate
 change, aviation noise, and damage to the habitat of Chinese white
 dolphins as impacts from the proposed runway. These impacts are converted
 into monetary costs under the SROI approach with particular attention to
 the use of proxies, stakeholder engagement, and the development of various
 scenarios. Limitations of the analysis and future research directions are
 discussed.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 207-215 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1075530 
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Author-Name: H. Brinton Milward 
Author-X-Name-First: H. Brinton 
Author-X-Name-Last: Milward 
Title: The state and public administration: have instruments of governance outrun governments? Introductory perspectives 
Abstract:
 These introductory perspectives set the scene for this Special Issue and
 companion Special Issue in March 2016. Several questions are raised about
 states, institutions, instruments and the ecology of governance as a
 forerunner to analyses in subsequent articles. Particularly pertinent are
 questions concerning instrument use and control, with significant
 implications for state capacity, legitimacy and trust as multi-nodalism
 becomes an ever-expanding reality in modern governance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 217-223 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1117178 
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Author-Name: B. Guy Peters 
Author-X-Name-First: B. Guy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Peters 
Author-Name: Jon Pierre 
Author-X-Name-First: Jon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pierre 
Title: Governance and policy problems: instruments as unitary and mixed modes of policy intervention 
Abstract:
 The public sector has developed a range of instruments for intervening in
 an economy and society that involve employing non-governmental actors to
 achieve the purposes of public policy. While not entirely novel, such
 instruments and their extensive use raise significant questions about
 government capacity, effectiveness, accountability and legitimacy. They
 often appear to be chosen with little regard for the nature of the
 underlying policy problems being addressed. For example, using contracts
 for social service delivery may undervalue the need for personal
 interactions that are almost impossible to express in contractual
 language. In response, this article discusses the links between
 instruments and policy problems, along with a selection of instruments
 involving insights into the design of effective interventions aimed at
 enhancing instrument control and legitimacy in governance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 224-235 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1117179 
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Author-Name: Adrian Kay 
Author-X-Name-First: Adrian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kay 
Author-Name: Carsten Daugbjerg 
Author-X-Name-First: Carsten 
Author-X-Name-Last: Daugbjerg 
Title: De-institutionalising governance? Instrument diversity and feedback dynamics 
Abstract:
 Despite several generations of literature on governance and the
 instruments involved, micro-foundational frameworks remain lacking to
 describe and model the positive, negative and confused feedback dynamics
 within any set of governance arrangements. In response, this article
 addresses the argument common in various historical accounts of a shift
 from government to governance that governance is a process of
 deinstitutionalisation. In doing so, governance is revealed not as the
 simple absence of institutions, but rather as a shift in the nature,
 composition and diversity of institutions and the instruments adopted by
 them. This raises important questions about the design and use of
 instruments and their institutional effects and legitimacy as
 micro-foundations of governance, and also about the ability of governments
 to control them given the nature and significance of feedback dynamics.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 236-246 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1117176 
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Author-Name: Donald F. Kettl 
Author-X-Name-First: Donald F. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kettl 
Title: Syncing the instruments and missions of government: re-thinking the roots of decay 
Abstract:
 Careful analyses of government have suggested that many political systems
 are in decay. Some problems stem from challenges to governmental
 institutions. But fundamental, often unrecognised, challenges flow from
 the failure to sync the instruments of government action with the missions
 that governments seek to accomplish. The mismatch of instruments and
 goals, of capacity and results, lies at the heart of many of the most
 serious problems of government and governance. There are strong strategies
 that could close this performance gap. They require the strengthening of
 key instruments, involving human capital, information technology and
 boundary management.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 247-252 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1117177 
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Author-Name: Dan Guttman 
Author-X-Name-First: Dan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Guttman 
Title: The global vernacular of governance and instruments: translating between the operating systems of China and the United States 
Abstract:
 There is now a global English language vernacular of governance and its
 instruments. Students, scholars, practitioners and conferees alike in
 Beijing, Washington and numerous other locations use terms and phrases
 like &#x201c;governance,&#x201d; &#x201c;policy instruments,&#x201d;
 &#x201c;NGOs&#x201d; and &#x201c;the rule of law&#x201d; when talking
 about and analysing government and public affairs. But do these words have
 the same meaning in different heads? In response, this article examines
 some key vernacular terms related to governance and instruments, and
 compares their practical meaning in China and the US to consider whether
 the vernacular is robust enough to permit deep comparisons between
 differing &#x201c;operating systems.&#x201d; It contends that, at present,
 it is not, but that patient attention to differing systems may yield clues
 to translation and, ultimately, fruitful comparisons.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 253-263 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1119971 
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Author-Name: Ian Thynne 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thynne 
Title: Alignments of instruments and action in governance: a synthesis 
Abstract:
 This synthesis begins with propositions concerning instrument-action
 alignments in governance which underpin the Special Issue and companion
 Special Issue in March 2016. Thereafter, instrument choices and efficacy
 are considered with reference to how the alignments are crafted, as
 influenced by their nature, pervasiveness and warranting. An appreciation
 of these matters assists in understanding important thematic interests and
 concerns of the Special Issues.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 264-272 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 37 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2015.1131038 
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Author-Name: H. Brinton Milward 
Author-X-Name-First: H. Brinton 
Author-X-Name-Last: Milward 
Title: The state and public administration: have instruments of governance outrun governments? Introductory perspectives II 
Abstract:
 These introductory perspectives set the scene for this Special Issue (II)
 by echoing comments made in the introduction to Special Issue (I) in
 December 2015. Three critical questions are addressed: What is the role of
 the state in different countries with different histories and
 capabilities? Does it make a difference what the form of the state is and
 how well articulated the instruments of governance are in delivering
 effective public goods and services? Have instruments of governance outrun
 governments? The latter is the overall theme of the Special Issues. The
 three complement the questions which are posed at the outset of Special
 Issue (I) and stated again in this discussion.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 1-6 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1159392 
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Author-Name: Jack H. Knott 
Author-X-Name-First: Jack H. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Knott 
Title: Governance and the economy in Asia and the United States: institutions, instruments and reform 
Abstract:
 Effective governance involving the use of various institutions and
 instruments is very important for economic development. While many states
 fail to achieve even the minimal features of effective governance, state
 capitalism has proven to be a successful model economically. The problem
 is that state capitalism is frequently associated with authoritarian and
 corrupt regimes. Over time, such regimes limit economic efficiency, ignore
 the environment, and under-invest in social and health services. In the
 West and some Asian countries, these conditions have led to substantial
 reform in democratic governance. Singapore and possibly the
 People&#x2019;s Republic of China offer alternative models of reform,
 reducing corruption and somewhat liberalising their economies in the
 absence of well-developed democratic governance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 7-23 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1152723 
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Author-Name: Ishani Mukherjee 
Author-X-Name-First: Ishani 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mukherjee 
Author-Name: Michael Howlett 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Howlett 
Title: An Asian perspective on policy instruments: policy styles, governance modes and critical capacity challenges 
Abstract:
 Does Asia have a distinct policy style? If so, what does it look like, and
 why does it take the shape it does? This article argues that in the newly
 reinvigorated emphasis of policy studies on policy instruments and their
 design lies the basis of an analysis of a dominant policy style in the
 Asian region, with significant implications for understanding the roles
 played by specific kinds of policy capacities. There is a distinctly Asian
 policy style based on a specific pattern of policy capacities and
 governance modes. In this style, a failure to garner initial policy
 legitimacy in the articulation of instrument norms often results in later
 mismatches between instrument objectives and specific mechanisms for their
 achievement. The formulation of payments for ecosystem services policy is
 used to illustrate the capacities required for policy designs and action
 to meet policy goals effectively.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 24-42 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1152724 
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Author-Name: Eric P. Schwartz 
Author-X-Name-First: Eric P. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwartz 
Title: Humanitarian NGOs as instruments, partners, advocates and critics in the governance of international humanitarian response: complementary or conflicting roles? 
Abstract:
 Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play an important role in the
 governance of international humanitarian response as implementing partners
 to governments and international organisations, as advocates, and as
 critics. They face challenges in reconciling their role as implementing
 partner with their responsibility to promote principles of international
 humanitarianism, such as humanity, impartiality, neutrality and
 independence. But this tension can be managed to ensure effective
 assistance to those in need. Governments and international organisations
 should welcome the role of NGOs in the governance of humanitarian
 response, given the expertise and resources that NGOs provide. To improve
 integration of effort and overall effectiveness, governments and NGOs
 should work to establish greater communication and enhanced procedures for
 coordination, especially given the increased engagement by non-traditional
 donor governments in the provision of humanitarian aid.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 43-59 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1152725 
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Author-Name: Ian Thynne 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thynne 
Title: Alignments of instruments and action in governance: a synthesis -- revisited and extended 
Abstract:
 This synthesis concludes this Special Issue (II) by revisiting and
 extending the synthesis which concluded Special Issue (I) in December
 2015. The focus is again on instrument-action alignments in governance in
 terms of their nature, pervasiveness and warranting. Of particular
 interest are inherent challenges of diversity, interconnection and
 responsibility which require appreciative, integrative and legitimation
 capacities. These challenges and capacities, involving their form,
 significance and intertwining, are central to the thematic interests and
 concerns of the Special Issues.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 60-73 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1159393 
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Author-Name: Jan-Erik Lane 
Author-X-Name-First: Jan-Erik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lane 
Title: The Asian miracles: implementing the COP21 agreement 
Abstract:
 The governments of Asian countries have signed on to the COP21 agreement,
 binding their states to the fulfilment of the global climate change policy
 of the United Nations. Thus, they are now confronted with the task of
 implementing the chief objectives of the COP21: halting and reducing
 CO<sub>2</sub> emissions stopping deforestation and desertification, and
 promoting long-term decarbonisation of their economies in a wide sense.
 The policy process envisaged is a decentralised one, with each government
 defining its ends and means. The COP21 puts enormous responsibility on
 Asian countries, as this region has the most CO<sub>2</sub> emissions of
 all regions in the world and its energy consumption is predicted to
 continue to grow at a fast rate. Yet, policy implementation is difficult
 to conduct in a successful manner.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 75-86 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1184516 
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Author-Name: Jon Stanhope 
Author-X-Name-First: Jon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Stanhope 
Author-Name: Roger Wettenhall 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wettenhall 
Author-Name: Thaneshwar Bhusal 
Author-X-Name-First: Thaneshwar 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bhusal 
Title: Governance challenge: Australia&#x2019;s Indian Ocean Island Territories 
Abstract:
 Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands group are located in the
 Indian Ocean. They developed as small outposts of the British Empire from
 their first settlement in the early 19th century until they were caught up
 in the world decolonising movement of the mid-20th century. Their paths of
 development were very different, with one depending on the exploitation of
 rich phosphate deposits, and the other on the harvesting of the products
 of copra plantations. But both attracted immigrant workers from South East
 Asia, and as these workforces matured they generated demands for
 democratic participation in their own governance. This article notes this
 history, and then tracks developments over the past 50 years, including
 their conversion to the status of external territories of Australia; a
 gradual process of bringing them together as a single territory for
 purposes of governance; and rising tensions as their populations have
 sought to win democratic governance rights in the face of a seeming lack
 of sympathy by the Australian government which considers them too small to
 warrant such treatment. The impasse that has developed in shaping an
 appropriate governance structure for these islands is seen here, arguably,
 as a case of &#x201c;democratic deficit&#x201d;.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 87-102 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1179859 
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Author-Name: Yu Noda 
Author-X-Name-First: Yu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Noda 
Title: Municipal relationship modifications by the Great Heisei Consolidation in Japan 
Abstract:
 In Japan, the Great Heisei Consolidation has facilitated municipal mergers
 for economies of scale and drastically reduced the number of
 municipalities since 2000.This phase of merger promotion ended in 2010.
 The central government&#x2019;s strongest focus was on encouraging mergers
 in areas where many municipalities each had a population of less than
 10,000. An analysis of the &#x201c;metropolitan power diffusion
 index&#x201d; (MPDI) and &#x201c;move resources&#x201d; shows that,
 although half of the areas achieved good modifications, mergers do not
 always improve financial efficiency. However, the more striking result is
 that municipalities in prefectures that resisted the central
 government&#x2019;s consolidation incentives, especially Hokkaido where
 there are many small municipalities, continued to receive the benefit of
 local allocation tax revenue redistribution from the central government
 due to their relatively disadvantaged fiscal status. By contrast, the
 benefits of well-modified municipalities that followed the recommendations
 of central government policy and achieved good outcomes were reduced and
 financial exemption was cut. Thus, the central government&#x2019;s use of
 accelerated and restrictive approaches to incentivise consolidation was
 limited by its ongoing willingness to bail out needy municipalities that
 did not accept with national policy.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 103-117 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1179857 
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Author-Name: Lhawang Ugyel 
Author-X-Name-First: Lhawang 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ugyel 
Title: Convergences and divergences of public sector reform in Bhutan: dynamics of incremental and transformational policies 
Abstract:
 The convergence-divergence debate in public sector reform is ongoing, with
 evidence of both trajectories being prevalent empirically.
 Convergence-divergence at the start of the reform trajectory examines the
 similarity of the contents and the objectives of the reforms compared to
 best practices; and convergence-divergence at the end point examines the
 similarity of the outcomes of the reforms with their objectives. This
 article considers the convergence-divergence debate in public sector
 reform and examines when convergence and divergence occur along the reform
 trajectory. In doing so, the article uses as a case study the
 implementation of the position classification system (PCS) which was
 introduced in Bhutan in 2006. The PCS comprises a bundle of reforms that
 can be categorised as incremental and transformational. The experience of
 the PCS highlights the dynamics of incremental and transformational
 reforms, and explains why transformational reforms often lead to
 divergence. The article, in using a case study of a country that is
 relatively understudied, contributes to the extant literature on
 comparative public administration. It extends what is known about the
 convergences and divergences of public sector reforms by highlighting the
 importance of institutional and cultural contexts in the implementation of
 transformational reforms.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 118-130 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1179858 
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Author-Name: Peter McKinlay 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinlay 
Title: Bridging a strategic gap: a think tank for local government in New Zealand 
Abstract:
 This discussion addresses an initiative to establish New Zealand&#x2019;s
 first think tank focused specifically on local government. It considers
 how two councils, Rotorua Lakes and Waipa, identified a strategic gap in
 their policy capability and saw the need for a collaborative approach to
 addressing it. The think tank is expected to take a long-term strategic
 approach by facilitating access by New Zealand councils to international
 experience and research, and by working with councils to develop responses
 to major long-term trends, including demographic change and the impact of
 technological change on local employment markets.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 
Pages: 131-137 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 38 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6  
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1183350 
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Author-Name: Dennis Vicencio Blanco
Author-X-Name-First: Dennis Vicencio
Author-X-Name-Last: Blanco
Title: Anti-money laundering governance in the Philippines: legal foundations, institutional dynamics and policy challenges
Abstract: 
 Effective anti-money laundering governance is essential in all countries with banks and other financial institutions which could be, or already are, the targets of money laundering aimed at making the proceeds of illegal activities appear to be clean and legitimate. The Philippines is no exception, with the government having taken some important initiatives but needing to do more to meet significant international expectations and standards. Accordingly, this article assesses the country’s anti-money laundering governance in terms of its legal foundations, institutional dynamics and policy challenges, which all point to a need for ongoing review and reform.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 51-62
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1290901
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Author-Name: Zahid Mumtaz
Author-X-Name-First: Zahid
Author-X-Name-Last: Mumtaz
Author-Name: Peter Whiteford
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Whiteford
Title: Social safety nets in the development of a welfare system in Pakistan: an analysis of the Benazir Income Support Programme
Abstract: 
 This article analyses the Benazir Income Support Programme as an ongoing social safety net programme in Pakistan aimed at reducing poverty and improving education and health outcomes at the programme and national levels. Social safety nets in a lower middle income country such as Pakistan are considered an effective measure for combating poverty and improving education and health. In Pakistan, however, domestic fiscal constraints limit the coverage of social safety net programmes. Also, the limited cash transfers that households receive through these programmes force them to utilise the transfers largely for immediate living consumption, leaving little for spending on improving education and health. Increased financing of social safety nets not only will increase the coverage of the programmes, but will also be valuable in improving education and health outcomes, which are essential for developing an effective and sustainable welfare system in Pakistan.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 16-38
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1290902
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Author-Name: Yu Noda
Author-X-Name-First: Yu
Author-X-Name-Last: Noda
Title: Forms and effects of shared services: an assessment of local government arrangements in Japan
Abstract: 
 Various forms of shared services are adopted by local governments throughout Japan, just as they are in many other countries. There are high hopes of their being efficient and effective means of service provision and resource management of considerable value to the localities in which they are established and operate. But are the hopes fulfilled, and what are the key factors in how the arrangements are structured, work and achieve results? These are important questions, which are addressed in this article with particular reference to the experience of partial service associations as one form of shared services in two prefectures in Japan. The findings reveal that such associations do not necessarily improve financial efficiency because of various transaction costs. These costs, along with other significant aspects of the arrangements, are certainly worthy of further comprehensive research and analysis.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 39-50
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1290903
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Author-Name: Lina Vyas
Author-X-Name-First: Lina
Author-X-Name-Last: Vyas
Author-Name: Yida Zhu
Author-X-Name-First: Yida
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu
Title: Centralisation, decentralisation and outsourcing of civil service training: Hong Kong, Singapore and United Kingdom experience in comparative perspective
Abstract: 
 As a result of public management reforms, civil service training has undergone significant changes around the world. An important development is that ministries and departments are frequently empowered to choose in-house or external providers. Exploring the dynamics and complexities of centralisation, decentralisation and outsourcing in civil service training in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Kingdom, this article traces the trajectories of the changes and, in doing so, reveals factors involved in the successful transformation of such training. The findings may be used to draw inferences about civil service training in other countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 1-15
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1290904
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Author-Name: Dang Minh Duc
Author-X-Name-First: Dang Minh
Author-X-Name-Last: Duc
Title: Agricultural insurance in Vietnam: pilot programme and pre-conditions for a public-private partnership approach
Abstract: 
 Agricultural insurance is an important tool that helps farmers gain access to appropriate financial services in support of agricultural production and the risks involved. In March 2011, the Prime Minister of Vietnam announced the adoption of a pilot agricultural insurance programme for selected agricultural products such as rice, shrimps, fish, buffalos and cows in 20 localities in the country. Since then, the programme has achieved some of its objectives, but has also had several weaknesses, such that the government is now considering the possible use of a public-private partnership approach. The programme experience is addressed here, leading into a discussion of significant pre-conditions for the sound involvement of the state and insurance companies in such an approach.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 63-71
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1291555
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Author-Name: Erwin Sondang Siagian
Author-X-Name-First: Erwin Sondang
Author-X-Name-Last: Siagian
Title: Public-private partnerships in Indonesia: a comprehensive legal framework of significance to action and analysis
Abstract: 
 Public-private partnerships have been formally provided for in Indonesia since 1998. A comprehensive legal framework has been established by the government concerning possible PPP projects, but to-date only five projects have been approved and only one of them has been completed. The many components of the framework need to be understood by those responsible for researching and advising on possible projects, just as other researchers could find it insightful to explore the reasons for the limited project action within the framework, as well as the focus, form and results of the only completed project. In accordance with these research needs and possibilities, this note addresses the fundamentals of the framework and some significant associated challenges.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 72-78
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2017.1294395
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Author-Name: Iris van Eeden Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Iris
Author-X-Name-Last: van Eeden Jones
Author-Name: Karin Lasthuizen
Author-X-Name-First: Karin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lasthuizen
Title: Building public sector integrity in Indonesia: the role and challenges of ethical leadership
Abstract: 
 Many public sector organisations in developing countries are working ineffectively, which is due considerably to weak standards of governance that result in widespread corruption. Accordingly, this article considers how a public organisation in a corrupt political-economic environment can successfully implement measures to enhance its integrity through an emphasis especially on the role and challenges of ethical leadership. The particular focus is a large state-owned enterprise responsible for the distribution of electricity in Indonesia. The discussion is based on responses to a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, with the findings confirming that ethical leadership at various levels within and beyond an organisation plays a pivotal role in fostering and maintaining high organisational integrity.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 175-185
Issue: 3
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1515392
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Author-Name: Mohammad Mizanur Rahman
Author-X-Name-First: Mohammad
Author-X-Name-Last: Mizanur Rahman
Author-Name: Fahimul Quadir
Author-X-Name-First: Fahimul
Author-X-Name-Last: Quadir
Title: The civil service’s “fast food approach” to development policy-making in Bangladesh: critique and agenda for reform
Abstract: 
 Since Bangladesh’s independence in 1971, the international donor community has largely shaped the nature and direction of the country’s development plans. In most cases, successive governments have introduced development policies and programmes within the broad framework of international development co-operation that has frequently overlooked the local context. A significant part of the reason why donors have been able to play a dominant role in setting the country’s development agenda is the inability of the civil service to serve as a challenge to externally-driven models of development. As is explored in this article, civil servants have lacked the capacity and political will to assume proactively a vital role in the policy-making process. This has resulted in a “fast food approach” which has allowed donors to have considerable control over the country’s development. In response, civil service reform needs urgent and high priority attention in line with successful reform initiatives in other countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 159-174
Issue: 3
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1516278
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Author-Name: Ella Weisbrot
Author-X-Name-First: Ella
Author-X-Name-Last: Weisbrot
Title: Policy on the move: how policy advocates have framed the international transfer of Australia’s asylum seeker policies
Abstract: 
 When a public policy is actually or potentially moved from one jurisdiction to another, policy advocates seek to shape public debate by discussing the opportunities and risks associated with policy transfer. This is especially the case concerning controversial policies, such as those regarding irregular migration, in response to which international policy commentators argue quite strongly in favour or against. Specifically, this article analyses how policy advocates have framed the international transfer of Australia’s asylum seeker policies, leading to reflections on the findings in relation to the scholarly debates on policy transfer. The findings demonstrate that the idea of policy transfer can take on a life of its own in policy advocacy documents. The concept of policy transfer is not just a valuable analytic category used in academic discourse; it is also used astutely by advocates for rhetorical purposes, explicitly or implicitly, to argue for or against the movement of policies across jurisdictions.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 147-158
Issue: 3
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1519235
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Author-Name: Keshav K. Acharya
Author-X-Name-First: Keshav K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Acharya
Title: The capacity of local governments in Nepal: from government to governance and governability?
Abstract: 
 Local governments are units of government closest to the grassroots, with responsibility not only for institutionalising local governance by creating an enabling environment to promote democratic values and public participation in decision-making, but also for accelerating social and economic development in order to enhance the quality and prosperity of community life. These fundamental aspects of their responsibility constitute core goals in most governmental systems. In Nepal, however, as in many other countries, the goals are only partially pursued and met, despite relevant institutional arrangements having been put in place. Accordingly, as highlighted in the discussion, there is much still to be done to ensure local governments have the requisite capacity to design and deliver services and infrastructure of immediate local significance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 186-197
Issue: 3
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1525842
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Author-Name: A. H. M. Kamrul Ahsan
Author-X-Name-First: A. H. M. Kamrul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahsan
Title: Inter-organisational coordination: structures and dynamics of subnational project management in Bangladesh
Abstract: 
 This discussion explores the state of inter-organisational coordination at the subnational level in Bangladesh, with a particular focus on the experience of upazilas as subdistricts. The focus is on the coordination mechanisms in place, the factors affecting their use, and the consequences of their not working appropriately. The findings confirm the need for them continually to be worked at and enhanced for desired results to be achieved.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 198-205
Issue: 3
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1525847
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Author-Name: Naci Karkin
Author-X-Name-First: Naci
Author-X-Name-Last: Karkin
Author-Name: Volkan Gocoglu
Author-X-Name-First: Volkan
Author-X-Name-Last: Gocoglu
Author-Name: Pinar Savas Yavuzcehre
Author-X-Name-First: Pinar Savas
Author-X-Name-Last: Yavuzcehre
Title: Municipal amalgamations in international perspective: motives addressed in scholarly research
Abstract: 
 Mainly underpinned by economic and financial motives, amalgamations of local governments in and beyond municipal areas have often been on the agenda of many governments. Some studies of the amalgamations have aimed to justify them or to falsify the efforts by concentrating on what could alternatively have been achieved; while others have presented the tensions between various dynamics, including democracy and efficiency. The studies have been valuable in identifying numerous factors of significance to amalgamation processes and results. Hence the present analysis of a selected range of them with a particular and important focus on various articulated motives of amalgamation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 187-202
Issue: 4
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1698843
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Author-Name: Nadia Hezlin Yashaiya
Author-X-Name-First: Nadia Hezlin
Author-X-Name-Last: Yashaiya
Author-Name: Abdillah Noh
Author-X-Name-First: Abdillah
Author-X-Name-Last: Noh
Title: Persistence of bureaucratic over-representativeness or under-representativeness: experience of the civil service in Malaysia
Abstract: 
 What contributes to the persistent nature of bureaucratic over-representativeness or under-representativeness? Answers to such a question are necessary because, while there have been many empirical studies of the relationship between different types of bureaucratic representation (gender, ethnic, class) and/or different features of bureaucracies (levels, types of agencies, unitary or federal) and possible policy outcomes, the studies have largely been silent when it comes to identifying antecedents to bureaucratic over-representativeness or under-representativeness. Accordingly, by studying Malaysian experience involving a largely mono-ethnic bureaucracy in a highly plural and fragmented society, this discussion identifies factors that have contributed to the persistent nature of an under-represented and over-represented bureaucracy. The underlying findings are that there is a need to move away from a monolithic argument that mono-ethnic representation of the bureaucracy is solely due to a state’s interventionist policy, and that the stickiness of administrative tradition, perception, socialisation and attractiveness of alternative sectors of employment can contribute to the persistent nature of bureaucratic representation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 203-216
Issue: 4
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1696592
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Author-Name: Mehmet Akif Demircioglu
Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Akif
Author-X-Name-Last: Demircioglu
Title: Why does innovation in government occur and persist? Evidence from the Australian government
Abstract: 
 Many studies of public sector innovation concern the organisational and individual levels, examining why certain public organisations, leaders and staff are more innovative than others. Wider questions remain as to why some governments are particularly innovative, and how innovation can persist in governments. To answer these questions, Australian experience is addressed in terms of why, and the extent to which, the Australian government is innovative. An analysis of government and government-related documents, as well as scholarly literature on public management reform and innovation attempts, indicates that the crucial factors affecting innovation have been the perception of innovation as a necessity, the duration and intensity of innovation, the span and scope of innovation, the extent of grassroots involvement in generating innovation, and the various isomorphic effects related to innovation. The nature and significance of each of these factors are discussed, along with insights on innovativeness in government and the value of further relevant research and analysis.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 217-229
Issue: 4
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1692570
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Author-Name: Mohammad Mizanur Rahman
Author-X-Name-First: Mohammad
Author-X-Name-Last: Mizanur Rahman
Title: Participation as aid conditionality: parliamentary engagement in Bangladesh’s poverty reduction strategy
Abstract: 
 Stakeholder engagement in the formulation process was a major condition of donors to make Bangladesh’s poverty reduction strategy nationally owned. In response, this article focuses on the engagement of the parliament as the most representative political institution in the country. The analysis shows that there was no political posture to ensure parliamentary engagement in the development of the strategy, with the nature and extent of the parliament’s involvement being significantly limited. The lack of real parliamentary engagement was the outcome of the country’s historical dependence on donors and the parliament’s historically weak contribution to development strategies. The experience highlights the need for a collaborative approach to policy-making aimed at ensuring the active and meaningful involvement of parliament as a core means of facilitating national ownership of the development agenda.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 230-236
Issue: 4
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1692523
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Author-Name: Bulbul Ahmed
Author-X-Name-First: Bulbul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmed
Title: Environmental governance and sustainable development in Bangladesh: millennium development goals and sustainable development goals
Abstract: 
 Environmental conservation is an acknowledged precondition for the sustainable development of any country, whether developing or developed. Like other countries of the world, Bangladesh is seeking to ensure sustainable development through appropriate policies, structures and processes of environmental governance. In response, this note addresses the present state of environmental governance in Bangladesh, with significant gaps being identified in the government’s progress concerning the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals. The challenges for the government involve the imbalance between economic growth and environmental conservation, the weak enforcement of rules and regulations, the lack of organisational coordination, responsiveness and responsibility, and the shortfalls in the mobilisation of required resources.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 237-245
Issue: 4
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1698930
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Author-Name: Erwin Sondang Siagian
Author-X-Name-First: Erwin
Author-X-Name-Last: Sondang Siagian
Author-Name: Asep Sumaryana
Author-X-Name-First: Asep
Author-X-Name-Last: Sumaryana
Author-Name: Ida Widianingsih
Author-X-Name-First: Ida
Author-X-Name-Last: Widianingsih
Author-Name: Heru Nurasa
Author-X-Name-First: Heru
Author-X-Name-Last: Nurasa
Title: Public-private partnerships in solid waste management in Indonesia: the need for technical regulation
Abstract: 
 This research note addresses public-private partnerships involving subnational governments and private business entities in solid waste management in Indonesia in accordance with Law No, 18 of 2008 and related legislation. The law seeks to overcome the negative impacts of solid waste management that are inconsistent with acceptable environmental and health-related methods and techniques. In doing so, it needs to be complemented by appropriate technical regulation of PPPs aimed at reducing significant obstacles to ensuring efficient and effective solid waste management.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 246-250
Issue: 4
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1694236
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Author-Name: Lisa McDonald
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa
Author-X-Name-Last: McDonald
Author-Name: Andrew Hickey
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Hickey
Author-Name: Paul Reynolds
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Reynolds
Title: Discerning the air: locating local government community engagement practice – reflections on selected Australian experience
Abstract: 
 The structures and locations of communities have been reconfigured by the arrival of digital technologies. “Smart” devices, such as portable tablet computers, smart phones, and associated applications (apps), raise questions about how communities connect, understand and experience each other in the context of a disaggregated model of the social. Much has been written about changed practices in public administration in view of new digital capabilities, but little exists in the form of critical reflections about engagement practice itself amid the current wave of digital experiences of place and the social. Accordingly, this article discusses what can be brought to local government community engagement practice through the presence of digital devices, inviting engagement practitioners to reconsider how communities are configured through extended understandings of the local. In highlighting selected dialogue with community engagement practitioners, the discussion articulates the internal structure of engagement practice beyond a notion of consultation, or the survey of community views, toward more effective understandings of engagement which arise from the proliferation of potential locations inspired by digital concepts. In this sense, it addresses questions of regionality in local governance, thus reviewing ongoing issues of place and place-making in the 21st century.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 154-167
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1213034
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Author-Name: Linda Hancock
Author-X-Name-First: Linda
Author-X-Name-Last: Hancock
Author-Name: Zhidong Hao
Author-X-Name-First: Zhidong
Author-X-Name-Last: Hao
Title: Gambling regulatory regimes and the framing of “responsible gambling” by transnational casino corporations: Asia-Pacific regimes in comparative perspective
Abstract: 
 This article addresses land-based casino gambling, with consideration of how Asia-Pacific gambling might be distinguished from other globally-oriented regional gambling regimes. Gambling is an area of public policy that is licensed and regulated by national/sub-national governments which use a range of policy instruments in seeking to curb gambling-related problems in an industry dominated by transnational casino corporations (TNCCs) with multiple sites and global supply chains. While the sheer scale of gambling in Macau tends to define Asian gambling, other jurisdictions seeking to capitalise on the burgeoning Asian market for gambling adopt similar liberal gambling regulatory models, with the partial exception of Singapore. Here, the role of TNCCs is explored, including how they frame and practice responsibility for predictable harms – operationalised as “responsible gambling” – by casinos with operations in Macau, Melbourne and Las Vegas. Industry self-regulation and individuals bearing risk and consequences of gambling-related harm are central axioms. Government and industry are co-producers of the costs and benefits of gambling in liberal regimes, and TNCCs operating across jurisdictions tend to operate to the least restrictive regulations rather than proactively embracing global best practice.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 139-153
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1214362
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Author-Name: Karma Tshiteem
Author-X-Name-First: Karma
Author-X-Name-Last: Tshiteem
Author-Name: Max Everest-Phillips
Author-X-Name-First: Max
Author-X-Name-Last: Everest-Phillips
Title: Public service happiness and morale in the context of development: the case of Bhutan
Abstract: 
 This article comprises the first detailed study published on the attitudes of civil servants in Bhutan. From the data collected under the 2015 gross national happiness (GNH) survey, an index of public service happiness (PSH) emerges, highlighting changes since 2010, with significant differences in happiness between female and male bureaucrats, and also between officials working in rural and urban areas. The findings highlight the importance of measuring public service morale. This topic that has been neglected over the last 25 years, in favour of public service motivation (PSM), due to a Western cultural bias for prioritising individual productivity over collective effectiveness. Attention to bureaucratic morale as measured by a PSH index could offer a more appropriate approach to public service performance in non-Western settings.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 168-185
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1214363
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Author-Name: Joselyn Muhleisen
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Author-Name: Ishani Mukherjee
Author-X-Name-First: Ishani
Author-X-Name-Last: Mukherjee
Title: Policy analysis: a rich array of country and comparative insights
Abstract: 
 The International Library of Policy Analysis (ILPA) series, edited by Iris Geva-May and Michael Howlett, is a collection of books assessing the state of the discipline of policy analysis in eight countries. The books address the academic development of policy analysis, its practical applications, the diverse range of actors involved, and pertinent academic instruction. Alhough the state of policy analysis – and, importantly, the state of policy analysis scholarship – varies considerably in the countries studied, the series is able to sythesise existing knowledge through empirical research and institutional analyses of the governmental and non-governmental organisations that provide policy advice and analysis. This review considers the individual and collective contributions of the books to theory and practice.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 204-210
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1217663
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Author-Name: Masroor Ahmad
Author-X-Name-First: Masroor
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmad
Title: Public finance, political manoeuvering, and the role of independent and controlled commissions: contrasting experience of the Finance and Planning Commissions in India
Abstract: 
 Normative theories of public finance, focusing on equity and efficiency criteria, have not been able to explain fully the variations in shares of different sub-national governments in intergovernmental transfers. This has led to an increase in empirical literature which considers the role of political factors, along with equity and efficiency criteria, in the allocation of central resources to subnational levels. Some of this literature recognises that funds transferred through independent constitutional bodies and other agencies may not be affected by political considerations in the same ways and to the same extent. Consistent with this recognition, this study of the experience of the Finance and Planning Commissions in India examines whether transfers to subnational governments are less prone to political manoeuvering if facilitated through an independent body. The study reveals that transfers through a constitutional body are less prone to political interventions than transfers via a body headed by political executives. The findings of the study have broader policy implications in terms of independent institutional interventions assisting in mitigating political distortions in central transfers.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 186-203
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1221610
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Author-Name: Nurul Afiqah Nor Amin
Author-X-Name-First: Nurul Afiqah
Author-X-Name-Last: Nor Amin
Title: Brunei Darussalam’s institutional development strategy: components, achievements and challenges
Abstract: 
 By the late 1990s, the government of Brunei Darussalam had recognised the significant limitations of development plans as means of strategic planning. Accordingly, it established a strategic planning system, with one of its features being an institutional development strategy. This strategy is addressed here in terms of its main components and achievements thereof, leading to an appreciation of ongoing challenges in need of systematic and concerted responses.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 142-146
Issue: 2
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1475115
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Author-Name: Joanna Spratt
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Title: Donor policy domains in official development assistance: ideas, actors and rules in and beyond Asia
Abstract: 
 This article appreciates that official development assistance (ODA) policy is a complex area of a donor country’s policy-making, within a broader foreign policy domain. The literature on ODA policy-making does not have a common analytical approach, with discussions of specific amounts of aid existing alongside those of it as an aggregated phenomena. Policy scholars are especially interested in exploring policy content, delineating goals, objectives and settings, and identifying actors, ideas and rules that are prevalent in any particular policy area. Applying thinking from policy studies to an analysis of ODA policy highlights significant characteristics, ideas, actors and rules that comprise the ODA policy domain. This approach is useful concerning both long-term traditional Western donors and newer or rising donors, including Asian donors. It facititates a description of the ODA policy domain, which scholars and advocates can use to develop a comprehensive understanding of any individual donor’s ODA policy. It can improve knowledge and action about ODA policy, and potentially lead to greater sustainable development outcomes in countries that receive ODA.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 83-97
Issue: 2
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1477501
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Author-Name: B. S. Ghuman
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Author-Name: Ranjeet Singh
Author-X-Name-First: Ranjeet
Author-X-Name-Last: Singh
Title: Environmental sustainability and poverty alleviation in India: a study of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Abstract: 
 The twining of development and environmental sustainability emerged as an essential area of policy and action in India during the Ninth Five Year Plan 1997–2002. Development programmes were designed or redesigned to foster synergies between the two. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is one such centrally-sponsored programme aimed at pro-poor development through employment generation and the restoration of rural environmental resources. In response, this article examines state-by-state percentages of work completed and expenditure under the scheme concerning environmental services, along with a consideration of local experience in areas within a state. Important trends, initiatives and challenges are identified and assessed of present and future significance to the interrelationship between environmental sustainability and poverty alleviation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 98-114
Issue: 2
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1480096
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Author-Name: Shuvra Chowdhury
Author-X-Name-First: Shuvra
Author-X-Name-Last: Chowdhury
Title: Do government web portals matter for citizen engagement in governance? A study of rural local government digital centres in Bangladesh
Abstract: 
 Citizen engagement in policy development and service provision is increasingly considered to be an essential feature of governance world-wide. Accordingly, means of facilitating it with positive outcomes expected are important, as appreciated in this discussion of the existence and use of digital centres and web portals embracing information and communication technology in Bangladesh. Of particular interest are such centres and portals in rural local governments as the lowest level of government in the country. The focus is on their availability, accessibility and value, with some significant limitations and inherent challenges being identified which require serious practical attention.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 132-141
Issue: 2
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1483051
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Author-Name: Theara Khoun
Author-X-Name-First: Theara
Author-X-Name-Last: Khoun
Title: Fiscal decentralisation and good governance: convergence or divergence? The experience of commune councils in Cambodia
Abstract: 
 It has been 17 years since fiscal decentralisation reform was endorsed by the Cambodian government, with subsequent developments indicating the nature and extent of reform achievements. This article explores the developments with reference to the experience of communes as the lowest level of subnational government in the country. The focus is on functional assignments, revenue assignments and inter-governmental transfers as distinctive components of fiscal decentralisation, coupled with an assessment of pertinent good governance expectations. The developments have been limited in most respects, thus highlighting the need for ongoing reform of genuine benefit to local communities.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 115-131
Issue: 2
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1486507
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Author-Name: Lhawang Ugyel
Author-X-Name-First: Lhawang
Author-X-Name-Last: Ugyel
Title: Relationship between politics and administration: a comparative analysis of legislation and governance in Pacific Island governmental systems
Abstract: 
 The politics-administration dichotomy has long been a subject of considerable debate in public administration. Despite the argument that there is no strict separation between politics and administration, the tension between the two continues to be significant. In response, this article explores why, and the extent to which, countries seek by various legislative means to maintain political neutrality in administration and restrict political involvement by public servants. The focus is on arrangements in 12 Pacific Island governmental systems with the aim of determining whether or not provisions in legislation address important aspects of political neutrality and political involvement and what the implications are for governance. Significantly, the dynamics and complexities in forging an appropriate balance between politics and administration vary considerably from one system to another. On the basis of indicators of government capacity and effectiveness in the Pacific, it is not possible to make causal claims or to discern distinctive patterns in the relationship between politics and administration.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 153-162
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1361626
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Author-Name: Rikkie L. K. Yeung
Author-X-Name-First: Rikkie L. K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeung
Author-Name: Francesca T. C. Chiu
Author-X-Name-First: Francesca T. C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiu
Author-Name: James Y. C. Kwok
Author-X-Name-First: James Y. C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kwok
Title: Corporatist governance in Hong Kong: The case of the sports and arts functional constituency 
Abstract: 
 Hong Kong’s semi-democratic system is rooted in corporatist traditions. The selection of the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the formation of 50% of the Legislative Council are based on functional constituencies (FCs). The FC system manifests corporatism and is often criticised as violating democratic principles. This article examines the design and the patterns of registered voters of the sports and arts functional constituency in order to understand how corporatism operates and distorts the electoral system, as well as how it affects the development of the policy sectors concerned. The findings suggest that the FC system is at odds with the constitutional intent of achieving balanced political participation of all sectors of society.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 163-176
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1361632
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Author-Name: Pranab Panday
Author-X-Name-First: Pranab
Author-X-Name-Last: Panday
Title: Decentralisation without decentralisation: Bangladesh’s failed attempt to transfer power from the central government to local governments 
Abstract: 
 This article addresses decentralising initiatives in Bangladesh with reference, first, to significant literature on decentralisation in the context of development and, thereafter, to a particular reform involving the introduction of the Upazila Parishad (UZP) as a potentially important tier of local government. While the reform heralded a possible expansion of local participation and the taking of responsive local action, the functioning of the UZP has not lived up to the promises and expectations. A lack of a proper transfer of power and responsibility to the elected representatives, the existence of centrally-controlled administration and planning, and the extensive interference of politicians and bureaucrats has limited considerably the capacity of the UZP to operate effectively. Only through a reduction of central control and a recasting of local action will it be able to achieve its significant goals and objectives as a vital form of local government and governance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 177-188
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1363940
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Author-Name: Junaid Ashraf
Author-X-Name-First: Junaid
Author-X-Name-Last: Ashraf
Title: Public sector appointments, political influence and performance: perceptions of the situation in Pakistan
Abstract: 
 Appointment processes are integral to the performance of an organisation and its staff, with competent people needing to be appointed and to have their performance valued and assessed appropriately. Concerning these matters, it is alleged that staff in the Pakistan public sector are often appointed on the basis of their personal political relations more than on their competence, with important implications for their performance and that of the organisations in which they are employed. Accordingly, this note explores the allegation drawing on responses to an administered questionnaire and some interviews. The findings, in the form of perceptions, are significant but equivocal concerning public sector appointments in Pakistan being subject to considerable political influence in ways that impact negatively on organisational performance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 211-216
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1365467
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Author-Name: Priya A. Kurian
Author-X-Name-First: Priya A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kurian
Title: What might it take to achieve sustainable development? Three contrasting sets of perspectives
Abstract: 
 Decades after its first articulation, sustainable development continues to hold sway as a powerful concept and policy goal, with its desirability matched only by its elusiveness and contradictions. Often criticised for meaning all things to all people, its promise of combining a commitment to environmental protection with social justice in any search for development has kept it alive in national and international policy and as a focus for academic research. The three books reviewed here explore distinct approaches to sustainable development, moving from addressing the theory and practice of environmental citizenship to rethinking macroeconomic theory for sustainability and challenging the ideology of green growth as contrary to sustainable development. Collectively, they offer insightful analyses and illustrative cases to illuminate the promise and challenges of sustainable development.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 202-210
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1367164
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Author-Name: K. Kuswanto
Author-X-Name-First: K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuswanto
Author-Name: Herman W. Hoen
Author-X-Name-First: Herman W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoen
Author-Name: Ronald L. Holzhacker
Author-X-Name-First: Ronald L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Holzhacker
Title: Bargaining between local governments and multinational corporations in a decentralised system of governance: the cases of Ogan Komering Ilir and Banyuwangi districts in Indonesia
Abstract: 
 Studies of the relationships between local governments and multinational corporations (MNCs) regarding foreign direct investment (FDI) remain few, despite many countries having implemented policies of decentralisation. In response, by employing ideas about decentralisation, FDI and political bargaining, this article addresses the relationships using two districts in Indonesia as case studies, from which some significant interrelated insights are acquired. One is that the local governments concerned are open to FDI, with their relationships with MNCs being cooperative rather than conflictual. Another is that their bargaining positions vis-à-vis MNCs are inevitably influenced by varying alignments of goals, stakes, resources and constraints. A third is that alternative bargaining arrangements are possible in the form of direct and indirect negotiations, with corresponding involvement by other levels of government. These and associated insights confirm the importance of the relationships and the bargaining process involved, with an ongoing focus on how the relationships and the results thereof can be enhanced in the interests of sound socio-economic development at the local level.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 189-201
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1368246
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Author-Name: Arneil G. Gabriel
Author-X-Name-First: Arneil G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gabriel
Title: Transparency and accountability in local government: levels of commitment of municipal councillors in Bongabon in the Philippines
Abstract: 
 Transparency and accountability are essential components of democratic government and governance, nationally and locally. In recognition of their core significance, this note (as part of a larger study) explores the levels of commitment to them by councillors in a municipality in the Philippines. It does this in terms of a five-point Likert scale which enables the levels to be calculated using various qualitative data and insights. The levels are found largely to be moderate to high, suggesting a firm commitment overall, but with more action being essential to ensure its reflection in high levels of actual adherence.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 217-223
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1368902
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Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
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Title: Dunedin’s arts and culture strategy: a case study of the challenges of participatory governance in New Zealand
Abstract: 
 This article uses Ara Toi Ōtepoti – Our Creative Future – Dunedin Arts and Culture Strategy 2015 as a case study of the challenges of participatory governance. As the strategy was co-created by local arts lobby group Transforming Dunedin and the Dunedin City Council, an examination of its development provides an insight into some of the challenges community groups and local councils face when working together in co-design approaches to policy-making. The discussion focuses on key challenges encountered, which centred on differing understandings of what the term “partnership” actually entails. In response, it concludes by suggesting some good practice values and conditions to underpin co-design relationships.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 43-56
Issue: 1
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1435006
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Author-Name: Kidjie Saguin
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Author-X-Name-Last: Saguin
Author-Name: M. Ramesh
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Author-X-Name-Last: Ramesh
Author-Name: Michael Howlett
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Howlett
Title: Policy work and capacities in a developing country: evidence from the Philippines
Abstract: 
 Are policy work and the capacities required in developing countries different from those in the developed world? This article addresses this question using data from a survey of policy professionals in the Philippines. The individuals surveyed have similar characteristics as their counterparts in developed countries, but their specific policy analytical style appears to be largely coordinative rather being directed at substantive and procedural aspects of policy work – which raises questions about whether or not their capacities as various skills and resources enable them to carry out their work effectively. An important finding is that, despite their work being primarily of an analytical nature, they are more comfortable performing political and operational tasks than conducting substantive, rigorous analysis. Overall, while organisational systems and processes are in place, systemic capacities, particularly political capacity, continue to be an on-going constraint to their work.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 1-22
Issue: 1
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1436427
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Author-Name: Jennifer Shin-Chon Wong
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer Shin-Chon
Author-X-Name-Last: Wong
Title: The role of the government in poverty alleviation in Hong Kong: Part II – diversity of instrument choice
Abstract: 
 This discussion, as Part II of a two-part article, complements the discussion in Part I (in December 2017) of the dynamics of poverty alleviation initiatives embodying important elements of policy attention, choice and change over time, beginning in the colonial era and running through to mid-2017. The focus here is on the diversity of poverty alleviation programmes adopted in terms of the choice of different types of instruments. Individually and together, the programmes as significant instruments of government policy provide valuable insights into the processes and content of policy-making in Hong Kong.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 23-42
Issue: 1
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1438097
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Author-Name: A. H. M. Kamrul Ahsan
Author-X-Name-First: A. H. M. Kamrul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahsan
Author-Name: Mst. Shuvra Chowdhury
Author-X-Name-First: Mst. Shuvra
Author-X-Name-Last: Chowdhury
Author-Name: Pranab Panday
Author-X-Name-First: Pranab
Author-X-Name-Last: Panday
Title: Do legal prescriptions ensure public accountability? Insights and lessons from local governments in Bangladesh
Abstract: 
 This article, which is based on qualitative research, addresses legally-prescribed mechanisms of public accountability and the extent of their use and effect at the lowest level of local government in Bangladesh. The findings are that, while various mechanisms have been established, they have not been effective in holding local representatives to account for what they do and achieve. The main reasons for this have been the unresponsiveness of the representatives, as well as the inability and/or reluctance of local residents to exercise their formal rights of participation and control. These matters pose fundamental challenges which must be the focus of comprehensive change and reform aimed at significantly strengthening local governance and democracy.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 57-67
Issue: 1
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1443638
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Author-Name: Qun Wang
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Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: Have foundations become an independent sector in China? Exploring the links between foundations and the state
Abstract: 
 The Regulations on the Management of Foundations (2004) potentially marked a watershed in the development of foundations in China. Many practitioners and researchers believe that, since then, foundations have become an independent sector with significant characteristics. This note addresses this matter, based on available data from various sources. It counters the belief about the independence of foundations by indicating that most are state-linked, with state-granted privileges in choosing their fundraising status and the policy areas in which they work. Their state connections serve, at least in part, to explain their structures and modes of operation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 68-73
Issue: 1
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1445804
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Author-Name: Muhammad Waqas
Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad
Author-X-Name-Last: Waqas
Author-Name: Masood Sarwar Awan
Author-X-Name-First: Masood Sarwar
Author-X-Name-Last: Awan
Title: Access to better health? The impact of the Benazir Income Support Programme in Pakistan
Abstract: 
 The multi-dimensional impact of social protection programmes can make them an effective instrument in the alleviation of poverty and vulnerability by enhancing the health, education and social well-being of target groups. In recognition of their importance, this note addresses the health-related impact of Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Programme, based on interviews with 1,000 beneficiaries in Punjab province. Not surprisingly, the findings, among others, are that an increase in the family size of beneficiaries has a negative impact on attaining better health; that the probability of better health increases if beneficiaries are engaged in some form of employment; and that the probability of better health is higher for urban beneficiaries than it is for rural beneficiaries. Such findings raise significant questions about the capacity of the programme to meet desired objectives and goals.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 74-81
Issue: 1
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1448505
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Author-X-Name-First: John P.
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Title: Special Issue on the second decade of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China: themes and overview
Abstract: 
 This editorial introduction sets the scene for the Special Issue. It highlights common themes in, and provides an overview of, the analyses in the following commissioned research articles.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 79-82
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1325618
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Author-Name: Ian Scott
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Title: “One country, two systems”: the end of a legitimating ideology?
Abstract: 
 “One country, two systems” is the formula under which Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Embodied in Hong Kong’s Basic Law, it formally provides for an unchanged system and a high degree of autonomy in most matters other than defence and foreign affairs. Since the Hong Kong people did not expressly consent to the reversion to Chinese sovereignty, “one country, two systems” became de facto a legitimating ideology. However, it is interpreted in very different ways. The Chinese government sees it as a policy designed to integrate Hong Kong into China. For many Hong Kong people, it is a contract guaranteeing a high degree of legislative and executive autonomy, judicial independence and the rule of law, civil liberties, and progress towards a more democratic system. This article explores the tensions arising from these different perspectives.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 83-99
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1325619
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Author-Name: Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
Author-X-Name-First: Sonny Shiu-Hing
Author-X-Name-Last: Lo
Title: Factionalism and Chinese-style democracy: the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
Abstract: 
 The 2017 Chief Executive election in Hong Kong demonstrated the severity of factional politics in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, where the pro-democracy faction has been struggling for power against the pro-Beijing camp. It also showed Mainland China’s emphasis on the centralist aspect of the principle of democratic centralism in which the Hong Kong Chief Executive was elected by a relatively small group of elites, most of whom were under the influence of Beijing. The Chinese-style of democracy was reflected in the desire of Mainland officials and the pro-Beijing press to ensure the easy victory of Carrie Lam, who was the only candidate from the pro-Beijing faction. The efforts of Beijing and its agents to secure Lam’s victory pervaded the pre-nomination, nomination, campaign and election, and post-election stages of the electoral process. The process highlighted the uneasiness of China in possibly having to deal with an uncertain outcome of a limitedly pluralistic electoral experience.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 100-119
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1325620
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Author-Name: Eliza W.Y. Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Eliza W.Y.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Rikkie L.K. Yeung
Author-X-Name-First: Rikkie L.K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeung
Title: The “Principal Officials Accountability System”: its underdevelopment as a system of ministerial government
Abstract: 
 The Principal Officials Accountability System (POAS), which was established in 2002 by the then Chief Executive, Tung Chee Hwa, marked the beginning of a Hong Kong-style system of ministerial government. As a major attempt at institutional reform in the postcolonial era, the reform has so far invited more negative than positive appraisals about its impact on public governance. Academic critiques, however, have barely touched on the problem from the perspectives of institutional design and development. Accordingly, this article analyses the institutional characteristics of the POAS as a ministerial system, and how these characteristics have shaped the working relationships between politicians and bureaucrats. The underlying argument is that, after one and a half decades, the POAS remains underdeveloped. This state of underdevelopment is the outcome of institutional change through incremental reforms leading to disjointedness and incoherence. There are worrying signs that under an increasingly authoritarian system, the core values of the civil service are gradually being eroded.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 120-134
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1325623
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Author-Name: Elaine Chan
Author-X-Name-First: Elaine
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan
Author-Name: Joseph Chan
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan
Title: Hong Kong 2007-2017: a backlash in civil society
Abstract: 
 Ten years ago, the development of civil society in the first decade of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was analysed in terms of three discourses: civil society as a defender of its autonomy; civil society as the third sector; and civil society as a partner in governance. The conclusion then was that Hong Kong civil society had come of age; not only had its agenda been expanded, but there was also a diversification of values. Ten years on, this article updates the state of civil society, which can be described as both turbulent and vibrant. While Hong Kong society is deeply divided as a result of several mass mobilisations and the rise of localism, there has also been a mushrooming of counter forces in the form of social enterprises and informal groups aiming to help the underprivileged. Civil society has assumed a proactive and even aggressive role in protecting its values and autonomy (the first discourse), while its partnership in governance role has been seriously damaged (the third discourse). In its role as the third sector involving social capital (the second discourse), it has continued to flourish. However, there is a growing number of groups which spread ideas of exclusion and intolerance, and engage in practices like verbal abuse and physical violence, that are opposite to the values promoted by civil society. Accordingly, Hong Kong civil society is in urgent need of repair. If the un-civil values and behaviour are not checked, civil society will experience a downward spiral.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 135-152
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1325637
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Author-Name: Graeme Hodge
Author-X-Name-First: Graeme
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodge
Author-Name: Tara McCallum
Author-X-Name-First: Tara
Author-X-Name-Last: McCallum
Author-Name: Colin Campbell
Author-X-Name-First: Colin
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell
Title: The risky business of urban water innovation in Australia: looking through the harm lens
Abstract: 
 New urban water practices promise greater resilience, liveability and sustainability. Water reformers suggest new practices which are decentred compared to old, centralised water arrangements and systems. Fundamentally, changing the way water is delivered in cities may bring new risks, or at least new allocations of existing risks. This article examines the legal consequences of reforms where water is supplied through legally decentred entities, including private or community-owned entities. It recognises that the traditional analytical lens on urban water risks usually adopts the philosophy of risk avoidance or minimisation, as opposed to a less common approach adopted here which views risk as harm. It traces the legal consequences of what happens if harm occurs alongside innovation: that is, what happens if a risk manifests and causes harm to the end user? Four separate incidents of harm are analysed in hypothetical, yet realistic, decentred scenarios – water contamination, flooding, sewage nuisance, and an interrupted water supply – in terms of the legal consequences of the harm and the difficulties for people who are harmed in pursuing adequate redress. The analysis confirms that changing the legal ownership of water suppliers has important legal and practical implications. Thus, governments considering water reforms involving decentred arrangements need to move carefully and explicitly consider if new regulatory regimes and recovery mechanisms are needed – or, indeed, whether new arrangements are justified at all.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 1-18
Issue: 1
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1584462
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Author-Name: Kelvin Andrews
Author-X-Name-First: Kelvin
Author-X-Name-Last: Andrews
Title: Leadership capabilities in Fiji’s civil service: perspectives of senior officials
Abstract: 
 This article addresses views on leadership capabilities in Fiji’s civil service and the lessons for their ongoing development. The discussion is based on a survey of the capability perspectives of officials who comprise the service’s leadership cadre. Of particular interest are capabilities highlighted in a well-respected leadership capability framework. A significant finding is that permanent secretaries of ministries rated the capabilities of their leadership teams lower than other respondents did. Further research could valuably be conducted into the nature and significance of the service’s leadership capability and development needs.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 48-55
Issue: 1
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1585147
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Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Aulich
Author-Name: Roger Wettenhall
Author-X-Name-First: Roger
Author-X-Name-Last: Wettenhall
Title: The evolution of public enterprise in Australia: disillusion and dissolution
Abstract: 
 This article comprises a case study of the development of public enterprise in Australia from its early European settlement to the present. The case reveals that public enterprise played a significant role in developing a prosperous society, serving as an engine room for growth and development. From the late 1980s, however, Australia embraced the doctrines and practices of new public management (NPM), echoing the disillusionment of world leaders like Reagan and Thatcher and steadily dissolving the public enterprise sector through commercialisation and privatisation. The transition towards a neo-liberal state also saw national governments turning away from the public sector as a primary service delivery agent for public services. The case raises the question of whether or not this evolution is a natural one along the development path. or one which has been shaped by a radical reformation of the dominant national political ideology.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 19-32
Issue: 1
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1589695
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Author-Name: ‘Aisea H. Taumoepeau
Author-X-Name-First: ‘Aisea H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Taumoepeau
Title: The Ombudsman and good governance: Tonga’s experience
Abstract: 
 This article addresses the history and work of the Ombudsman in Tonga from the time of being a Commissioner for Public Relations through to now being an Office similar to Ombudsman offices in other countries. It addresses the Office’s functions and responses to performance, leading to an appreciation of various challenges in need of ongoing attention. The challenges underpin developments which seek to strengthen the capacity of the Office as a core promoter of good governance in the country.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 33-41
Issue: 1
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1589698
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Author-Name: Albert Vaea
Author-X-Name-First: Albert
Author-X-Name-Last: Vaea
Title: The dismissal and re-positioning of government ministers and senior administrators in Tonga: leadership and performance challenges
Abstract: 
 This article appreciates the central importance of leadership and performance in the structure and operation of government with reference to recent experience in Tonga. The experience addressed has involved the dismissal and re-positioning of ministers and senior administrators in circumstances which raise critical questions about the nature and efficacy of the government and the decisions taken. The challenges are clear and need to be responded to by way of a genuine commitment to purposeful and quality governance for the benefit of the community.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 42-47
Issue: 1
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1592844
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Author-Name: Erwin Sondang Siagian
Author-X-Name-First: Erwin Sondang
Author-X-Name-Last: Siagian
Author-Name: Asep Sumaryana
Author-X-Name-First: Asep
Author-X-Name-Last: Sumaryana
Author-Name: Ida Widianingsih
Author-X-Name-First: Ida
Author-X-Name-Last: Widianingsih
Author-Name: Heru Nurasa
Author-X-Name-First: Heru
Author-X-Name-Last: Nurasa
Title: Public-private partnerships in solid waste management: arrangements in Indonesia
Abstract: 
 This note addresses experience in Indonesia in the management of solid waste in which some progress has been made in the use of public-private partnerships (PPPs). The amount of waste produced, its collection and transportation to available disposal and treatment sites, and the number, type and quality of such sites raise very significant issues and concerns requiring attention by all levels of government. There are capacity constraints and challenges which need to be responded to as effectively as possible, with PPPs potentially having a positive role to play in meeting legitimate public and private interests.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 56-62
Issue: 1
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1592845
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Author-Name: Sebastian Zwalf
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Zwalf
Title: Competitive neutrality in public-private partnership evaluations: a non-neutral interpretation in comparative perspective
Abstract: 
 Internationally, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become an increasingly common part of government infrastructure programmes. The public sector comparator (PSC) is the key quantitative test to ensure that PPP projects achieve much vaunted value-for-money (VFM) compared to projects managed solely by governments. Despite attracting much debate over the preceding two decades, one component of the PSC that has received relatively little attention is that of competitive neutrality, which is the requirement to remove any advantages either delivery method, private or public, may have due to ownership. Competitive neutrality policies have found favour over the last two decades in an effort to enhance micro-economic competitive tension. In response, this article reviews the conceptual basis for competitive neutrality and considers how it has been applied within the PPP guidelines in eight G20 economies. It finds that, while most governments apply some principles of competitive neutrality, the application varies widely, with a tendency to favour the PPP option. It also finds that the objectives of VFM and competitive neutrality are competing and, in fact, contradictory, which raises the issue of whether a competitive neutrality adjustment should be made to all PPP evaluations. The conclusion is that such an adjustment should not be made in all instances.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 225-237
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1391454
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Author-X-Name-First: Jan-Erik
Author-X-Name-Last: Lane
Author-Name: Florent Dieterlen
Author-X-Name-First: Florent
Author-X-Name-Last: Dieterlen
Title: Climate change in Asia and the Pacific: challenges and perspectives
Abstract: 
 The Asian Development Bank has presented a major report on the consequences for Asia and the Pacific of an ongoing global warming process, as exacerbated by more CO2 and other greenhouse gases such as methane. The Bank argues that countries in Asia and the Pacific contribute much to CO2 emissions and, consequently, have to share the burden of global coordination in the COP21 Treaty. It suggests the use of carbon capture, while recognising that huge investments in renewables are preferable. These are vital responses to the challenges involved, which are considered in this review article from the perspectives of global warming theory and global policy coordination.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 287-296
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1393908
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Author-Name: Kohei Suzuki
Author-X-Name-First: Kohei
Author-X-Name-Last: Suzuki
Title: Government expenditure cuts and voluntary activities of citizens: the experience of Japanese municipalities
Abstract: 
 The governments of many OECD member countries have resorted to expenditure cuts as a significant response to the global economic crisis. While implementing the cuts, several governments have grown reliant on the voluntary sector in order to manage public services under austerity. Such reliance has not been studied comprehensively with reference especially to the link between the cuts and the voluntary activities of citizens. In response, this study examines the link in 604 Japanese municipalities based on an extensive survey of the local planning and community service departments of these municipalities. The study tests if there is an inverse effect of crowding-out and crowding-in when governments implement expenditure cuts. The findings show that the cuts have been complemented by increased involvement of citizen organisations in voluntary activities.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 258-275
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1403179
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Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinlay
Title: Make way for smart cities: opportunities, challenges and capacities of New Zealand local governments
Abstract: 
 This discussion addresses the increasing interest in the idea of smart cities concerning the potential opportunities from innovative technology and the need for flexibility and creativity in how local governments respond. It traces the evolution of the regulatory framework for New Zealand local governments with its increased emphasis on compliance, the protection of public monies, and the growing complexity of local government decision-making. It contrasts this with the flexibility, fleetness of foot and openness to new ways of working needed to take full advantage of changing technology. The conclusion is that there is an increasing disconnect between the compliance and accountability regimes imposed on local governments and what is required if local governments are to embrace creatively the opportunities and challenges of a smart city.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 297-303
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1405627
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Author-Name: Keshav K. Acharya
Author-X-Name-First: Keshav K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Acharya
Author-Name: Habib Zafarullah
Author-X-Name-First: Habib
Author-X-Name-Last: Zafarullah
Title: Service delivery and development at the grassroots: the evolution and contribution of community-based organisations in Nepal
Abstract: 
 Community-based organisations have been well positioned to deliver community services, undertake community development activities, and enhance community governance in Nepal. These aspects of their work are addressed in this article from an institutional perspective focusing on their evolution and contribution to local public affairs. The evidence is that many are committed to being agents of change within their communities, with institutional norms, rules and values developed accordingly. But many are constrained in what they can do by socio-economic power structures and severe resource limitations, which have significant consequences for their work and achievements.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 276-286
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1408268
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Author-Name: Jennifer Shin-Chon Wong
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer Shin-Chon
Author-X-Name-Last: Wong
Title: The role of the government in poverty alleviation in Hong Kong: Part I – dynamics of policy attention, choice and change
Abstract: 
 This discussion, as Part I of a two-part discussion, addresses Hong Kong’s poverty alleviation experience from perspectives on how problems and issues get onto policy agendas and result in various decisions and degrees of change within and beyond specific areas of policy. The alleviation initiatives taken by the government over time highlight the extent to which the processes and results have been, and remain, fluid and multi-dimensional. Significant developments are identified and assessed, as complemented by the discussion in Part II (in March 2018) of specific alleviation programmes as distinctive instruments of government policy.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 238-257
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2017.1411660
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Author-Name: Hasan Muhammad Baniamin
Author-X-Name-First: Hasan Muhammad
Author-X-Name-Last: Baniamin
Title: Linking socio-economic performance, quality of governance, and trust in the civil service: does culture intercede in the perceived relationships? Evidence from and beyond Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka
Abstract: 
 Several non-OECD countries have relatively low socio-economic performance, poor governance, and a fair amount of corruption among civil servants, yet their citizens report higher trust in the civil services than do citizens in OECD countries. To understand this mismatch, this study provides an explanation, arguing that an authoritarian cultural orientation in some societies can contribute to citizens having relatively high institutional trust despite the poor performance and weak governance of public institutions. Based on country-representative survey data from three South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka), the argument is that because of such an orientation, a hierarchical relationship is developed with the authorities which generates natural obedience to them. This, in turn, contributes to their higher level of institutional trust.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 127-141
Issue: 3
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1658926
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Author-Name: Yu Noda
Author-X-Name-First: Yu
Author-X-Name-Last: Noda
Title: Citizen expectations and satisfaction of service performance: lessons from subnational governments in Japan
Abstract: 
 This article evaluates differences in the effects of citizen expectations and satisfaction in relation to city and prefectural government service performance as bases for detecting effects in the vertical relationships of subnational governments. The results show that the expectations of prefectural governments have a higher impact on satisfaction than the expectations of cities. They indicate that increasing the expectations and related action of prefectural governments would be an effective way of improving citizen satisfaction with the service performance of local governments.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 142-156
Issue: 3
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1658361
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Author-Name: Bennis Wai Yip So
Author-X-Name-First: Bennis Wai Yip
Author-X-Name-Last: So
Author-Name: Hsin-Chung Liao
Author-X-Name-First: Hsin-Chung
Author-X-Name-Last: Liao
Title: Managerial flexibility versus employee-friendly flexibility: the internal labour market of Taiwan’s civil service
Abstract: 
 This article addresses the highly flexible internal labour market of Taiwan’s civil service that is quite different from the corresponding labour markers in the West. In contrast to managerial flexibility that is popular in the West, Taiwan’s system – as employee-friendly flexibility – allows for a high degree of flexible choices in job transfers for junior civil servants. The system, which has not been influenced by ideas of new public management, is conducive to a high degree of job mobility for civil servants during their early career paths. On the positive side, this job mobility broadens the experiences of civil servants for career advancement, mitigates conflicts caused by a poor person-environment fit, breaks through the promotion bottleneck, and helps the state retain talent. On the negative side, it makes manpower planning difficult, causes an internal brain drain, and encourages withdrawal behaviour. An analysis of it contributes to the understanding of public human resource management in a non-Western context, which shows a different logic of development from the West.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 157-168
Issue: 3
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1660481
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Author-Name: Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
Author-X-Name-First: Ahmed Shafiqul
Author-X-Name-Last: Huque
Author-Name: Jannatul Ferdous
Author-X-Name-First: Jannatul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferdous
Title: Bureaucratic and political leadership in Bangladesh: dynamics of administrative reform and the public interest
Abstract: 
 Leading administrative reforms is the role of the political executive with a broad vision aimed at effecting improvements for the society and serving the public interest. This is a desirable arrangement that unfortunately has not been attained in Bangladesh for a number of reasons. Using various strategies, the bureaucratic leadership has exercised control over the conception, design and formulation of reform plans, and implemented recommendations selectively to uphold their own group interests. Based on a review of the existing literature, current debates, published analyses, relevant government documents, and conversations with public officials and political leaders, this article argues that administrative reforms in Bangladesh have failed to attain their objectives due to the domination of bureaucratic interests over the public interest. The experience highlights the importance of ensuring checks and balances over the roles and influence of bureaucratic leadership in the design and implementation of meaningful administrative reforms.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 169-180
Issue: 3
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1658364
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Author-Name: Peter McKinlay
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinlay
Title: Approaches to well-being policy and practice:New Zealand initiatives in comparative perspective
Abstract: 
 In May 2019, the New Zealand Minister of Finance presented the world’s first well-being budget. In response, this discussion considers how the government is approaching the implementation of a well-being policy, including its roles in relation to those of local governments. Its approach is compared with international thinking about the role of communities, including emerging practice in Wales as a result of the enactment of well-being legislation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 181-186
Issue: 3
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1664709
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Author-Name: Phuc Nguyen
Author-X-Name-First: Phuc
Author-X-Name-Last: Nguyen
Author-Name: Mark Considine
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Considine
Author-Name: Siobhan O’Sullivan
Author-X-Name-First: Siobhan
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Sullivan
Title: Welfare-to-work: experience in the emerging Vietnamese welfare state
Abstract: 
 The redevelopment of the welfare regimes of former socialist states since the terminal crisis of state socialism in the early 1980s is an emerging field of scholarship. This article contributes to this work by investigating welfare-to-work in a less-studied case, contemporary Vietnam. The research indicates that Vietnam’s newly emerged employment assistance framework represents a blend of certain aspects of the Bismarckian welfare type with earnings-related contributory social insurance measures and the Beveridge-type of flat-rate tax-financed social protection. It is also a little more liberal than the regimes of capitalist welfare states by adopting a so-called “socialisation” approach to fight unemployment. Unlike European, American and some north Asian experience, there are no signs of contracting-out of service delivery informed by new public management principles. Its funding model sits somewhere between a public employment services (PES) system and a private recruitment agency-based system. It is a hybrid model, wherein public offices deliver government-funded assistance but also receive outcome fee payments from employers. It motivates jobseekers to work, thus lowering the unemployment rate. However, its actual implementation is challenged by significant administrative problems, including a considerable amount of red tape.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 270-280
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1253957
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Author-Name: Khadijeh Rouzbehani
Author-X-Name-First: Khadijeh
Author-X-Name-Last: Rouzbehani
Title: Problem-structuring methods: collaborative action with an application to the healthcare sector in Iran
Abstract: 
 While most problem-structuring methods have been used by actors confronting problems within organisations, some have also been used by actors working between and across organisations to address problems of common interest. This research note explores the significance of the methods in collaborative contexts of the latter kind. The underlying proposition is that the methods can be expected to contribute meaningfully to the collaboration process principally by improving actors’ sense-making of their problem and providing structure to the product of such sense-making. This proposition rests on a wider appreciation of collaboration, power, dialogue, shared meaning and implementation, which condition the impact of the methods and the evaluation of their effectiveness. The proposition is considered here, first, from a theoretical-conceptual perspective; and, thereafter, with reference to an action research project concerning industry-academic collaboration aimed at building a high value healthcare environment in relation to a publically-significant company importing medicine in Iran.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 281-288
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1253958
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Author-Name: Peter McKinlay
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinlay
Title: Building effective local government in New Zealand: creatures of statute or expressions of local democracy?
Abstract: 
 This research note – as a basis of an ongoing wider assessment – considers New Zealand’s recent experience of the relationship between central government and the local government sector under successive National party led minority governments. It is essentially a story of successive endeavours by the central government to reshape local government in terms of a core services efficiency understanding of the role of local government. It raises important questions about whether a focus on efficiency is consistent with, or inherently in conflict with, understandings of local voice and representation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 289-295
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1255497
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Author-Name: Mark Turner
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Turner
Author-Name: Sineenat Sermcheep
Author-X-Name-First: Sineenat
Author-X-Name-Last: Sermcheep
Author-Name: Seksan Anantasirijkiat
Author-X-Name-First: Seksan
Author-X-Name-Last: Anantasirijkiat
Author-Name: Piti Srisangnam
Author-X-Name-First: Piti
Author-X-Name-Last: Srisangnam
Title: Small and medium-sized enterprises in Thailand: government policy and economic development
Abstract: 
 This article examines the role of the Thai government in economic development through the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It explores the interaction between the government and the private sector, with the challenges facing SMEs and the effectiveness of the SME promotion policy being considered in terms of implications for future policy. The government has played an important role in supporting the development of SMEs as a means of achieving sustained and healthy economic growth. A committed SME promotion policy from the government and closer cooperation between the state and the private sector are needed for the further development of SMEs. The integration of the government agencies related to SME promotion should be enhanced in order to have a whole-of-government approach. More focus on the quality of SMEs is necessary for their sustained development.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 251-269
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1256545
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Author-Name: Jennifer M. Miller
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Miller
Title: International inter-sectoral collaboration in university research centres: innovation systems in the United States and beyond in comparative perspective
Abstract: 
 University research centres often involve a mix of inter-sectoral and international collaboration. Although the contributions of federally-funded research centres to the United States economy have been studied extensively, less is known about the international aspects of university research centres. The collaborations involved are influenced by opportunities and challenges arising from the national innovation systems of each partner organisation. The centres may also contribute to the innovation systems of the home countries of partners. In response, this article presents two case studies of United States university research centres engaged in international and inter-sectoral engineering research collaborations and the associated roles of the innovation systems of California and the United States more generally, involving France, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea. The case studies demonstrate the feasibility, and also the limitations, of using published accounts to understand the history, mission, and membership of such centres with international partners without government funding – leading to the identification of directions for future research on centres with international membership. The membership of the centres suggests that international collaborations may be a response to market and government failure in the public production of knowledge.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 239-250
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1256548
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Author-Name: Kohei Suzuki
Author-X-Name-First: Kohei
Author-X-Name-Last: Suzuki
Author-Name: Kentaro Sakuwa
Author-X-Name-First: Kentaro
Author-X-Name-Last: Sakuwa
Title: Impact of municipal mergers on local population growth: an assessment of the merger of Japanese municipalities
Abstract: 
 Municipal mergers have been widely used as a tool for administrative reform at the municipal level in various countries. While there are many studies of such reform initiatives, most have overlooked the issue of the unequal distribution of merger benefits among merged municipalities. This article responds to this research gap by assessing the impact of municipal mergers on local population growth in Japan – and, in doing so, appreciates that mergers differ within each of the merger partners, and also that the extent to which pre-merger municipalities can benefit from municipal mergers is contingent on their size relative to that of their merging partners. A unique dataset of Japanese local governments both pre-merger and post-merger facilitates an analysis of the impact of municipal mergers on local population growth. By employing propensity score-matching, it is found that, in Japan, municipal mergers negatively affect population growth for municipalities if they are not the largest municipalities among their merging partners. This finding suggests that not all pre-merger areas benefit from municipal mergers; rather, smaller municipalities are likely to incur considerable costs from municipal mergers.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 223-238
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1258887
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Author-Name: Chen Shaowei
Author-X-Name-First: Chen
Author-X-Name-Last: Shaowei
Author-Name: Li Rui
Author-X-Name-First: Li
Author-X-Name-Last: Rui
Author-Name: Wang Youqiang
Author-X-Name-First: Wang
Author-X-Name-Last: Youqiang
Title: Role and significance of political incentives: understanding institutional collective action in local inter-governmental arrangements in China
Abstract: 
 Forms, opportunities and challenges of institutional collective action (ICA) have become important issues in local government and governance. Studies have focused on the self-organising mechanisms of an ICA framework by seeking to make sense of inter-local collaborative behaviour through the lens of transaction costs. Such studies need to be complemented by country and comparative perspectives which, in particular, test the applicability of the framework to various contexts embodying differing incentive structures for local governments. Accordingly, the present study considers the role and significance of political incentives in addressing ICA issues as manifest in cases of local inter-governmental arrangements in the Pearl River Delta in China. It shows that the type of political incentive (rank-ordered or non-rank-ordered) attached to a specific policy area strongly affects the collaborative behaviour of local governments when coping with ICA dilemmas. This suggests that political incentives play a significant role in influencing the collaborative behaviour of local governments.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 211-222
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1258890
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Author-Name: Raymond Saner
Author-X-Name-First: Raymond
Author-X-Name-Last: Saner
Author-Name: Amaka Uchegbu
Author-X-Name-First: Amaka
Author-X-Name-Last: Uchegbu
Author-Name: Lichia Yiu
Author-X-Name-First: Lichia
Author-X-Name-Last: Yiu
Title: Private military and security companies: legal and political ambiguities impacting the global governance of warfare in public arenas
Abstract: 
 As public opinion in the West veers away from supporting national military interventions abroad, there has been a covert yet substantial proliferation in the use of private military and security companies (PMSCs). While such companies can offer cost effective and politically convenient solutions to counter international instability or to further foreign relations priorities, the trail of human rights abuses they leave in their wake suggests that the global governance of warfare has not advanced quickly enough to adequately monitor the increasing privatisation of warfare. In response, this article addresses the debate surrounding the use of PMSCs. The idea of legal and political ambiguities is crucial to this debate and is differentiated from ideas concerning absent regulatory mechanisms. The current regulatory environment of significance to the PMSC industry is ambiguous as a result of porous legal boundaries and incongruent policies due to competing political and judicial systems: national, regional, and international. Accordingly, it is essential to consider how ambiguities could be reduced and turned into legal certainty through both hard and soft law to prevent human rights abuses.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 63-71
Issue: 2
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1622325
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Author-Name: Sean A. Cain
Author-X-Name-First: Sean A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cain
Title: Oversight and legislative activity concerning Pacific Island territories of the United States: a balancing of partisanship and autonomy
Abstract: 
 Five territories of the United States, plus the District of Columbia, send six non-voting delegates to the United States House of Representatives. While these delegates lack a vote to pass bills, they can serve on committees and advance to subcommittee chair, a position that facilitates Island representation via oversight and legislative activity concerning the federal agency with jurisdiction over territory policy. But aspiration to institutional power requires acceding to the partisan rules and norms of the House; hence, a tension arises between territorial representation and party loyalty. Majority parties under unified government minimise oversight of the executive branch in favour of legislative activism, while Island territories value oversight regardless of party power. Accordingly, under unified government, delegates are less likely to serve as subcommittee chairs than under divided government when their party does not control the executive branch. Once chosen as subcommittee chair, they pursue greater executive oversight than a chair with full voting privileges, while exercising party discipline by curbing oversight activity under unified government. This trade-off is an adaptation to empire in exchange for a degree of representation and authority within the metropole.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 72-84
Issue: 2
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1621485
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Author-Name: Pranab Kumar Panday
Author-X-Name-First: Pranab Kumar
Author-X-Name-Last: Panday
Title: Public participation in local governments in Bangladesh: experience, challenges and the future
Abstract: 
 Despite constitutional guarantees of a clear separation of power between the central and local governments in Bangladesh, problems continue to lie in politicians not upholding the spirit of the decentralisation of power to the local level. This is one of the very few areas where consensus building among the ruling and opposition parties is possible, which could result in public participation in local governing processes becoming more active and meaningful than it has been to-date. The challenges involved have hindered the possibility of local governments contributing efficiently and effectively to the overall development of the country.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 85-96
Issue: 2
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1626060
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Author-Name: Khandakar Al Farid Uddin
Author-X-Name-First: Khandakar
Author-X-Name-Last: Al Farid Uddin
Title: Neoliberal and post-political urban governance: local government amalgamations in New South Wales, Australia
Abstract: 
 The state of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia experienced council amalgamations from 2014 to 2017, amidst widespread disagreement from residents, community groups, councils, and politicians concerning the strategies and policy goals of the state government. In response, this article explores the experience in terms of a neoliberal and post-political framework, which offers a compelling lens to investigate the amalgamation aims and activity. A qualitative mixed methods approach is used to present a case study of three urban councils. The research reveals the critical underlying neoliberal/politico-economic benefits of amalgamation, and elucidates the techno-managerial, post-political processes employed by the state government in pursuit of its goals.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 97-109
Issue: 2
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1627751
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Author-Name: M. Shamsul Haque
Author-X-Name-First: M. Shamsul
Author-X-Name-Last: Haque
Title: Questioning cross-cultural applicability of public administration knowledge: a critical Asian perspective
Abstract: 
 This note addresses the significance of more comprehensive, culturally nuanced research being conducted and recognised internationally with regard to public administration in Asia. It appreciates that, in the field of public administration, while it might be possible to make generalisations based on certain homogeneity in the origins, contexts and patterns of administration, it is questionable to claim the relevance of administrative knowledge to all regional and national contexts. Despite Western (especially British, American and French) public administration having been the dominant paradigm with global impacts due to its colonial imposition and postcolonial imitation worldwide, there has emerged a growing assertion that public administration in East and Southeast Asia represents certain uniqueness in terms of its leading state-centric developmental role. Although state-managed economic achievements in the region have generated certain optimism in the Asian model of public administration, the construction of academic knowledge and education in public administration in most Asian countries has been based on Western colonial legacies, postcolonial administrative prescriptions, and borrowed business-type perspectives such as new public management. In response, it is relevant to explore the exogenous origins of Asian administrative knowledge, the under-representation of Asian countries and scholars in knowledge building, and the critical implications of such borrowed knowledge for public administration as a field of inquiry and practical profession.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 110-118
Issue: 2
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1614747
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Author-Name: Arneil G. Gabriel
Author-X-Name-First: Arneil G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gabriel
Author-Name: Nimfa S. Villaroman
Author-X-Name-First: Nimfa S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Villaroman
Title: Strategic performance management in local governments in the Philippines: work and rating challenges
Abstract: 
 Since 2012, the Philippine Civil Service Commission has required all local governments to have a strategic performance management system (SPMS) as a central element of responsible and effective governance. In response, this note considers the SPMS experience of local governments in three cities, with a special focus on the work and rating challenges involved in selected areas of service delivery. It appreciates the nature and significance of the challenges, with insights being provided and conclusions reached about possible responses to them.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 119-125
Issue: 2
Volume: 41
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2019.1631032
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Author-Name: Graham Hassall
Author-X-Name-First: Graham
Author-X-Name-Last: Hassall
Title: Special Issue on public sector enhancement in Pacific Island states
Abstract: 
 This editorial introduction sets the scene for the analyses in the following research articles. It identifies several significant challenges facing the public sectors of Pacific Island states. The challenges are universal, while being especially pressing in Island countries with limited resource bases and circumstances mostly of geographical smallness and spread which affect administrative capacities for fostering essential socio-economic development. The states whose public sector arrangements are addressed in the articles are the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and Samoa.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 207-211
Issue: 4
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1553276
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Author-Name: Nandi T. Glassie
Author-X-Name-First: Nandi T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Glassie
Title: Public sector management and reform: Cook Islands experience
Abstract: 
 This article explores important features of the evolution of public sector management and reform in the Cook Islands, particularly from the mid-1990s. It addresses significant developments and challenges which require sound ongoing attention. In doing so, it contributes to an understanding of why and how small island developing states need to embrace programmes of public sector reform as a core component of their socio-economic development.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 212-218
Issue: 4
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1543083
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Title: Public sector coordination in Papua New Guinea: responsibilities and experience of central coordination agencies
Abstract: 
 This article focuses on agencies at the centre of government in Papua New Guinea with specific responsibilities for fostering policy and administrative coordination. Of particular interest are levels of inter-agency collaboration, along with factors affecting the effectiveness with which coordination can be achieved, both horizontally at the centre and vertically between the centre and subnational administrations. The experience to-date confirms the definite need for the arrangements to be reviewed and transformed with the aim of considerably enhancing their efficacy.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 219-227
Issue: 4
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1554792
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Author-Name: John Jack
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Jack
Title: E-government in Vanuatu: a whole-of-government approach
Abstract: 
 This article examines developments and plans concerning the use of e-government in Vanuatu. It appreciates the significance of geography, climate and demography as drivers of whole-of-government initiatives, while also recognising the importance of specific organisational circumstances and needs. The experience addressed provides insights and lessons for other small island states which seek to transform their ICT systems and capabilities.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 228-234
Issue: 4
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1545354
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Author-Name: Jude Devesi
Author-X-Name-First: Jude
Author-X-Name-Last: Devesi
Title: The Solomon Islands public service: organisations, challenges and reform
Abstract: 
 This articles addresses various arrangements and dynamics of immediate significance to the structure and operation of the public service in the Solomon Islands. It describes responsibilities of core ministries and associated entities, along with a consideration of significant challenges and associated reform initiatives which seek to transform the way the public service is organised and works. The experience to-date indicates the extent to which the sustainability of reform depends on a complex array of factors, including a careful negotiation of both formal and informal governance practices within and beyond government.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 235-244
Issue: 4
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1545352
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Author-Name: Nanise Lapi
Author-X-Name-First: Nanise
Author-X-Name-Last: Lapi
Title: Performance management in the Vanuatu public service: foundations, achievements and challenges
Abstract: 
 This article addresses significant performance management experience in the Vanuatu public service. The focus is largely on developments since 2014 when the previous, limited system of performance management was transformed. The foundations of the transformed system are in place, which have resulted in several important achievements. But an array of limitations pose challenges which require detailed and concerted action to make the system increasingly more effective.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 245-251
Issue: 4
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1543096
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Author-Name: Elita Tooala
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Author-Name: Faafetai Golovale-Leiofi
Author-X-Name-First: Faafetai
Author-X-Name-Last: Golovale-Leiofi
Title: Public trading bodies in Samoa: performance management, results and challenges
Abstract: 
 This articles addresses the existence and performance of public trading bodies as significant contributors to Samoa&#x2019;s socio-economic development. It considers their performance management framework as prescribed in legislation and related policies, along with a discussion of their performance results and challenges which are in need of serious ongoing attention. Comprehensive action plans and strategic initiatives are identified as being essential to their future structure, operation and success.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 252-259
Issue: 4
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1551796
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Author-Name: Bronwyn E. Howell
Author-X-Name-First: Bronwyn E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Howell
Author-Name: Petrus H. Potgieter
Author-X-Name-First: Petrus H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Potgieter
Author-Name: Ronald Sofe
Author-X-Name-First: Ronald
Author-X-Name-Last: Sofe
Title: From design to action: Papua New Guinea&#x2019;s latest state-owned enterprise policy
Abstract: 
 This article addresses policy developments concerning the structure, operation and performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Papua New Guinea. Of particular significance are reforms since 2014 which have highlighted important tensions between the country&#x2019;s constitutional imperative of self-reliance and governance initiatives aimed at ensuring SOEs have a considerable degree of operational autonomy suited to their commercial objectives. The result of the reforms is a confused and contradictory set of institutional arrangements that have increased rather than reduced the possibility of direct political control over SOEs. While there are efforts to operate SOEs as efficiently as possible within current constraints, the political will to implement those parts of the reforms that have the greatest likelihood of improving the financial performance of SOEs appears to be lacking.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 260-269
Issue: 4
Volume: 40
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2018.1555933
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Author-Name: Aditya Dasgupta
Author-X-Name-First: Aditya
Author-X-Name-Last: Dasgupta
Title: Democracy without capacity?
Abstract: 
 What are the consequences for democracy of inadequate state capacity? This essay argues, drawing on the case of India, that democracy without decay results in several pathologies, including democratic dysfunction and a temptation toward authoritarian populism.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 1-3
Issue: 1
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1733856
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Author-Name: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer Brick
Author-X-Name-Last: Murtazashvili
Title: The hubris of public administration
Abstract: 
 The rise of the global protest movement against government and maladministration should give enormous pause to those in our field who believe that there are administrative reforms that can – on their own – create democratic governance. This article demonstrates that it is precisely this kind of thinking about employing tools of administration that drive the kinds of disconnects we are seeing across the world between citizens and authorities. This kind of thinking represents the ultimate hubris of the study of public administration.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 4-5
Issue: 1
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1733855
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Author-Name: David Arellano-Gault
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Arellano-Gault
Title: Responding to the populist attack on public administration
Abstract: 
 The current wave of populism, either from the left or the right, has a particularly strong and negative view of public administration, both seen as body of knowledge and as a governmental apparatus. In short, populist defend that public administration has become actually a defendant of the elites, a technocracy serving elitist interests. Public administration uses its technocratic jargon to hide from its only and simple responsibility: to resolve the people’s problems, which is assumed to be homogenous and different from the “elites”. The populist solution for an effective government of forcing a general agreement under the idea of homogenous “people’s needs” is not only misleading but also dangerous. Dangerous because accepting the importance of plurality has shown to be critical for protecting the always weak institutional framework that guards the liberty and rights of persons in any society.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 6-8
Issue: 1
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1733854
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Author-Name: Calin Emilian Hintea
Author-X-Name-First: Calin Emilian
Author-X-Name-Last: Hintea
Title: Four elements of successful reform
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 9-11
Issue: 1
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1741864
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Author-Name: Alasdair Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts
Title: Problems of democratic statecraft
Abstract: 
 In the next thirty years, specialists in public administration must address three challenges in the developing world, while respecting democratic norms. These three challenges are urbanisation, education, and climate change. Failure to meet these challenges will cause immense human misery and political instability.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 12-14
Issue: 1
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1733285
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Author-Name: Veronica Junjan
Author-X-Name-First: Veronica
Author-X-Name-Last: Junjan
Title: Democratic governance in turbulent times
Abstract: 
 The article reflects upon the opportunities raised by current societal challenges for public administration theory and practice. Two possible directions include making the currently existing academic expertise available to the public and to the public administration professionals, and reconceptualizing the meaningful involvement of citizen in the policy process. The article pleads for a reassessment of the political and administrative reform trajectories in transition countries. Recent reform experiences took place in relatively turbulent political and economical environments can provide insights towards building resilient governments serving resilient societies.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 15-16
Issue: 1
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1733284
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Author-Name: M. Shamsul Haque
Author-X-Name-First: M. Shamsul
Author-X-Name-Last: Haque
Title: A critique of the role of NGOs as partners in governance
Abstract: 
 In the current age, with the diminishing role of the state, there is a growing significance of its partnership with non-state actors, including private enterprises, local authorities and non-government organisations (NGOs). In particular, there is greater recognition in the developing world of the state’s partnership with NGOs in delivering goods and services, especially in line with the new framework of shared governance prescribed by international agencies and donors. Despite the overwhelmingly favourable views on such partnership disseminated worldwide by its advocates, many critics draw attention to its adverse consequences such as the use of NGOs as profit-making ventures, avoidance of government’s social responsibilities by transferring them to NGOs, and ineffectiveness of government’s public accountability. Questions can also be raised regarding the reliability and legitimacy of NGOs as partners. As most studies on NGO partnership tend to overlook these concerns, this article offers a critique of the state’s partnership with NGOs in the case of Bangladesh where there are some of the world’s largest and most widely recognised NGOs. These concerns related to the partnership of NGOs in governance can also be observed in other developing nations.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 17-32
Issue: 1
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1748960
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Author-Name: Qun Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Qun
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: Government control, governance and spatial distribution: what we have learned from the Research Infrastructure of Chinese Foundations
Abstract: 
 Foundations have become a significant form of nongovernmental organisation in China since 2004. Large-sample research about Chinese foundations, however, did not appear until the middle 2010s. The database of the Research Infrastructure of Chinese Foundations was created to mitigate data scarcity, a key reason for the lack of research on Chinese foundations. In the last 3 years, this database has produced about 30 academic works that address at least three themes of Chinese foundations, namely government control, governance and spatial distribution. Collectively this group of studies has advanced non-profit theory development under authoritarian rule. This article reviews what we have learned from research using the Research Infrastructure of Chinese Foundations database and proposes directions for future research.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 33-45
Issue: 1
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1728152
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Author-Name: Ramesh Ramasamy
Author-X-Name-First: Ramesh
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramasamy
Title: Quality of government, public service delivery and institutional impartiality in ethnically polarised societies: evidence for policy makers
Abstract: 
 Empirical studies support the argument that the quality of government, institutional performance and institutional impartiality are likely to have an impact on minorities in accessing legally mandated welfare services. It is also argued that diminished form of citizenship, discriminatory laws and policy practices could remain a barrier for minorities to enjoy public services in diverse societies. The article explores these different arguments with empirical evidence and explicates in what ways the quality of government, administrative impartiality and institutional performance influence access to public services for the plantation community of Sri Lanka based on qualitative evidence collected for a three-year research project. The article finds that the policy implementation process and practices have a substantial influence on the quality of government, institutional impartiality and citizenship rights of minorities.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 46-60
Issue: 1
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1731246
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Author-Name: Beryl A. Radin
Author-X-Name-First: Beryl A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Radin
Title: Advice on navigating our new roles
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 61-62
Issue: 2
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1748974
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Author-Name: James L. Perry
Author-X-Name-First: James L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Perry
Author-Name: Wai-Fung Lam
Author-X-Name-First: Wai-Fung
Author-X-Name-Last: Lam
Title: Co-editors’ reply
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 63-65
Issue: 2
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1753546
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Author-Name: Daewoo Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Daewoo
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Chae Young Chang
Author-X-Name-First: Chae Young
Author-X-Name-Last: Chang
Author-Name: Hyunkang Hur
Author-X-Name-First: Hyunkang
Author-X-Name-Last: Hur
Title: Economic performance, income inequality and political trust: new evidence from a cross-national study of 14 Asian countries
Abstract: 
 Political trust is a fundamental bedrock for a political system to work. The “trust-as-evaluation” approach has identified an individual’s perceived evaluation of economic performance and income inequality as critical determinants of political trust. Another stream of research has argued that macro-level factors, measured by macroeconomic indicators or GINI index, are correlated with political trust. To date, only a few empirical studies have questioned how macro-level performance interacts with those at the micro-level, namely, individuals’ subjective evaluations. Existing empirical studies mainly focus on Europe with little attention to Asia. To fill a gap in the literature, we extend the “trust-as-evaluation approach” to the Asian context, employing a multilevel analysis using the Asian Barometer Survey’s fourth wave. This study identifies that: (i) an individual’s perception of their economic well-being or inequality is the critical determinant of political trust; (ii) macro-level economic performance has an unclear and mixed effect on political trust; and (iii) instead, macro-level income inequality functions as a moderator between the relationship between perceived income inequality and political trust.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 66-88
Issue: 2
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1755873
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Author-Name: Wesley Teter
Author-X-Name-First: Wesley
Author-X-Name-Last: Teter
Title: Fostering problem driven collaboration in a development context: The ASEAN study of health workforce governance
Abstract: 
 Transnational challenges such as societal ageing, rapid epidemiological transitions from managing chronic disease and infectious disease such as COVID-19, and environmental vulnerabilities raise urgent concerns for collaborative governance. This study addresses the challenges of monitoring outcomes and accountabilities i n a development context. Problem-driven collaboration, with a focus on identifying urgent, locally defined problems offers a potential solution to designing relevant performance management systems. Based on a case-survey design, the study analyses two collaborative governance networks in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) promoting the mobility of health workers. The analysis draws on 20 (n = 20) in-depth interviews with high-level country delegates and officials and a content analysis of 380 confidential reports from 10 countries in ASEAN. The results provide a deeper understanding of how a problem-driven approach can foster collaborative governance and overcome barriers to policy implementation. Implications for monitoring practices include the role of measuring “felt needs” – perceived gaps in implementation of policy objectives, and how problem-driven collaboration can add value to performance management systems in a development context.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 89-110
Issue: 2
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1753222
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Author-Name: Taha Hameduddin
Author-X-Name-First: Taha
Author-X-Name-Last: Hameduddin
Author-Name: Sergio Fernandez
Author-X-Name-First: Sergio
Author-X-Name-Last: Fernandez
Author-Name: Mehmet Akif Demircioglu
Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Akif
Author-X-Name-Last: Demircioglu
Title: Conditions for open innovation in public organizations: evidence from Challenge.gov
Abstract: 
 Public organisations have long sought new ways to enhance organisational performance and employee morale, bring about organisational change, and foster innovations. While governments across the world have continually embarked upon administrative reform efforts, the efficacy and adoption of such reforms remains understudied. This study explores whether organisational and individual factors predict the adoption and use of open innovation in government. In particular, we use the case of Challenge.gov, a novel open innovation platform in the U.S. federal government that aimed to engage the creative potential of the public in solving problems, enhance citizen engagement and public participation. Data on federal agency use of the Challenge.gov platform was paired with existing data on employee attitudes and organisational attributes over a five-year period. Our results show that a range of managerial practices, including employee empowerment, and organisational characteristics predict the extent to which federal agencies use open innovation. We conclude with discussion of the implications for theory and practice.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 111-131
Issue: 2
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1754867
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Author-Name: Pranab Kumar Panday
Author-X-Name-First: Pranab Kumar
Author-X-Name-Last: Panday
Author-Name: Shuvra Chowdhury
Author-X-Name-First: Shuvra
Author-X-Name-Last: Chowdhury
Title: Responsiveness of local government officials: insights and lessons from participatory planning and budgeting
Abstract: 
 Ensuring effective service delivery to the citizens has become a common agenda for all the governments of the welfare states. Keeping this importance in mind, the government of Bangladesh enacted the Local Government (Union Parishad) act, 2009 (hereinafter the UP act, 2009) for ensuring people’s access to its local level planning and budgeting process. In this connection, the UP functionaries are responsible to perform double roles: ensuring the participation of people in the participatory planning and budgeting process, and providing services as per their demands. This paper is based on data collected from the UP functionaries of a total of six UPs. A questionnaire was developed having nine statements relating to the roles of the UP functionaries about UP planning and budgeting process. Using factor analysis, this study shows that three important capacities of the UP functionaries, including the capacity to inform citizens, compliance responsibilities and organising and networking among actors, made planning and budgeting processes workable at the local level. It was also revealed that along with legal enforcement; monitoring of the processes by the government and donor’s officials and personal quality of the UP functionaries had made them responsiveness to their duties.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 132-151
Issue: 2
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1742753
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Author-Name: Hasan Muhammad Baniamin
Author-X-Name-First: Hasan Muhammad
Author-X-Name-Last: Baniamin
Author-Name: Mizanur Rahman
Author-X-Name-First: Mizanur
Author-X-Name-Last: Rahman
Author-Name: Mohammad Tareq Hasan
Author-X-Name-First: Mohammad Tareq
Author-X-Name-Last: Hasan
Title: The COVID-19 pandemic: why are some countries coping more successfully than others?
Abstract: 
 Countries have experienced varied success in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand these variations, the study used netnography on news media and websites, and social media. Factors identified as critical to success in managing the pandemic fall into two categories: state-centric and socio-demographic. State-centric factors such as policy learning and implementation structure, and technological and administrative readiness have influenced success. Contextual factors such as a country’s demographic profile (e.g., age), family structure (multigenerational family), and cultural attributes (e.g., kissing and hugging to greet) also shape the effectiveness of policies for controlling the pandemic.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 153-169
Issue: 3
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1784769
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Author-Name: Yukio Kinoshita
Author-X-Name-First: Yukio
Author-X-Name-Last: Kinoshita
Author-Name: Brian Dollery
Author-X-Name-First: Brian
Author-X-Name-Last: Dollery
Author-Name: Keiichi Yamazaki
Author-X-Name-First: Keiichi
Author-X-Name-Last: Yamazaki
Title: Creating institutional advantage: local government co-production with community groups
Abstract: 
 Japanese local government faces formidable problems, not least of which are severe financial constraints and rapidly ageing populations. These problems are acute in the Tohoku region of northern Honshu, with its lower incomes and declining population. Public policies designed to assist local authorities in addressing these problems include fostering greater collaboration between local communities and local governments through co-production in local service provision. In this article, we examine two leading examples of local co-production in Tohoku through the lens of case studies in Sendai City and Hirosaki City, the former focused on the development of evacuation centre manuals and the latter on the competitive sponsorship of community projects by local authorities. Drawing on the theory of comparative institutional advantage, we argue that these approaches are not only efficacious in leveraging the relative strengths of local councils and community groups, but are also readily applicable in other countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 170-187
Issue: 3
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1776624
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Author-Name: B. Shine Cho
Author-X-Name-First: B. Shine
Author-X-Name-Last: Cho
Author-Name: Won No
Author-X-Name-First: Won
Author-X-Name-Last: No
Author-Name: Yaerin Park
Author-X-Name-First: Yaerin
Author-X-Name-Last: Park
Title: Diffusing participatory budgeting knowledge: lessons from Korean-language research
Abstract: 
 This study aims to expand the collective knowledge on participatory budgeting by drawing insights from studies of Korean participatory budgeting. From a review of 93 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2003 and 2017 in the Korean language, we present a bibliometric network, a review of the research methods, and the themes of the studies. The findings suggest that participatory budgeting studies in South Korea developed upon both studies of participatory budgeting from Porto Alegre, Brazil, and studies of public budget participation mechanisms rooted in the United States. In addition, the findings demonstrate the distinctiveness of Korean participatory budgeting practices and studies, such as institutionalisation and diffusion, and impact factors that enabled successful participatory budgeting implementation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 188-206
Issue: 3
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1789481
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Author-Name: Andrew Podger
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Podger
Title: Public sector use of new technology: opportunities and challenges
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 207-208
Issue: 4
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1822193
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Author-Name: Paul Henman
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Henman
Title: Improving public services using artificial intelligence: possibilities, pitfalls, governance
Abstract: 
 Artificial intelligence arising from the use of machine learning is rapidly being developed and deployed by governments to enhance operations, public services, and compliance and security activities. This article reviews how artificial intelligence is being used in public sector for automated decision making, for chatbots to provide information and advice, and for public safety and security. It then outlines four public administration challenges to deploying artificial intelligence in public administration: accuracy, bias and discrimination; legality, due process and administrative justice; responsibility, accountability, transparency and explainability; and power, compliance and control. The article outlines technological and governance innovations that are being developed to address these challenges.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 209-221
Issue: 4
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1816188
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Author-Name: Te Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Te
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Xuemin Yang
Author-X-Name-First: Xuemin
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang
Author-Name: Yueping Zheng
Author-X-Name-First: Yueping
Author-X-Name-Last: Zheng
Title: Understanding the evolution of public–private partnerships in Chinese e-government: four stages of development
Abstract: 
 Public–private partnerships have been widely applied in e-government development, contributing to new technologies’ adoption and e-government performance. PPP has also required and driven related managerial and organisational reforms. Progress in practice, however, has yet to be matched by increased research evidence and various research gaps remain. This study identifies and examines four stages of e-government development in China and the role of PPP – outsourcing, service co-delivery, joint management, and collaborative governance – which are linked to developments in digital technology and, more particularly, to changes in local governments’ views about the roles of technology and the contribution the private sector can make. The changing relationship between the public and private sectors in e-government has also led to gradually deepening engagement, more equal relationships and more mature mechanisms for collaboration, as well as better outcomes. At the same time, the partnerships continue to face challenges including distrust, inadequate managerial control, uncertain legal frameworks and less than optimal efficiency. Some of these are likely to relate to China’s unique “socialist market economy” and its political institutional arrangements.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 222-247
Issue: 4
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1821726
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Author-Name: Dennis Trewin
Author-X-Name-First: Dennis
Author-X-Name-Last: Trewin
Title: Managing technology effectively in large public organisations
Abstract: 
 Technology is one of the most significant and important resources of large organisations. However, to realise the opportunities provided by technology, it must be managed well to ensure its benefits are timely and procured at reasonable cost. The executive team must be involved in the management of technology. They do not need to be technology experts but they do need to have some basic understanding of technology and the opportunities it provides. Further, they need to ensure that projects utilising technology are business driven not technology driven; understand the challenges and the risks and how these should be managed; and understand the externalities that might have an impact. This article is written from the perspective of the former chief executive of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It identifies and discusses the principles that executive management in a large organisation should follow to ensure technology is managed well.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 248-261
Issue: 4
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1802609
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Author-Name: Richard Bartlett
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Bartlett
Title: Enhancing civil service capability: emergence of the professions model
Abstract: 
 In the last thirty years, the dominant approach in Australian public sector organisation has been one of devolution with an emphasis on management at the agency level. This has delivered benefits in terms of public service responsiveness to ministers and stakeholders and a more diverse set of approaches that are tailored to the circumstances confronting individual agencies. However, a number of reviews, including the recent Independent Review of the Australian Public Service (the Thodey Review), have highlighted the limitations of this approach and the constraints it has placed on the ability of the public service to respond effectively to broader challenges and to leverage skills across agency boundaries. The professions model is an approach that seeks to emphasise the continuity of practice across agency boundaries in various job families. A number of countries have tried the professions approach as a way to address a perceived lack of consistency and effectiveness across their collective public services. This article describes international trends associated with the professions model and describes the approach to implementing digital and human resources professions models in the Australian Public Service.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 262-273
Issue: 4
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1787184
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Author-Name: Meili Niu
Author-X-Name-First: Meili
Author-X-Name-Last: Niu
Author-Name: Muhua Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Muhua
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: When the power of the purse meets the power of technology: a case study of Guangzhou People’s Congress in China
Abstract: 
 Technology in governance has never been as important as it is now. Yet, how legislatures use new technology to enhance their oversight of government is neglected in the existing literature. This study developed a framework of information capacity to explain how big data technology could contribute to stronger legislative budget oversight in China. The authors select Guangzhou as a case and found that the online budget supervision system in Guangzhou provided an opportunity for local people’s congresses in China to improve both their efficiency and effectiveness despite their lack of expertise and time. All things considered, the accountability of the entire budgeting system is being improved. However, China’s case may not be copied elsewhere. The use of big data technology requires a favourable environment and various resources. Both technological advances and behavioural change are likely to take a long time to accomplish.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 274-289
Issue: 4
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1821727
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Author-Name: J. Rob Bray
Author-X-Name-First: J. Rob
Author-X-Name-Last: Bray
Author-Name: Matthew C. Gray
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gray
Author-Name: David I. Stanton
Author-X-Name-First: David I.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stanton
Title: Performance management and evaluation meets culture and politics: Australia’s experience
Abstract: 
 An underlying tension exists between the fundamental elements of accountability, government decision-making, performance management, evidence-based policy and the measurement of results. This article considers this through three lenses: evaluation of government policies and programs; program structures and performance indicators; and the challenges of big data. While use of new technologies and big data opens up opportunities for strengthened evidence-based policy, this does not address the tension between a disciplined results-based approach to government decision-making and the inherently political nature of these decisions. There remain also important challenges to the effective development and use of big data in government.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 290-302
Issue: 4
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1808491
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Author-Name: Jim Perry
Author-X-Name-First: Jim
Author-X-Name-Last: Perry
Author-Name: Wai-Fung Lam
Author-X-Name-First: Wai-Fung
Author-X-Name-Last: Lam
Title: Thank you to Professor Roger Wettenhall
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 303-303
Issue: 4
Volume: 42
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1810930
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Author-Name: B. Guy Peters
Author-X-Name-First: B. Guy
Author-X-Name-Last: Peters
Title: Studying public administration in authoritarian regimes
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 1-5
Issue: 1
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1870241
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Author-Name: Edoardo Ongaro
Author-X-Name-First: Edoardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Ongaro
Title: Non-Western philosophies and public administration
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 6-10
Issue: 1
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1844027
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Author-Name: Shena Ashley
Author-X-Name-First: Shena
Author-X-Name-Last: Ashley
Author-Name: Soonhee Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Soonhee
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: William H Lambright
Author-X-Name-First: William H
Author-X-Name-Last: Lambright
Title: Charting three trajectories for globalising public administration research and theory
Abstract: 
 Scholars in the field of public administration are operating in an increasingly globalising world in which people and polities enjoy an unprecedented degree of connectivity irrespective of their geographical location. The enormity of the global spread of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has brought this into clear focus. The purpose of this article is to highlight three trajectories for globalising public administration research and theory. The first trajectory is to build generalisable theories to enhance global applicability. The second is to be more inclusive of diverse perspectives in the mainstream of public administration scholarship. The final trajectory is to scale up the lens of inquiry beyond the nation-state to include global governance actors and organisations. Research efforts that test a universal measurement scale of public service motivation demonstrate progress in the direction of generalisable theory. The broad and diverse body of research on electronic government typifies a decisively inclusive research area. At the same time, the expansion of research on policy networks to the global governance context provides an example along the scaling-up trajectory. The three-trajectory approach outlined in this article provides for a more comprehensive understanding of what it means for public administration research and theory to globalise.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 11-22
Issue: 1
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1789482
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Author-Name: Assel Mussagulova
Author-X-Name-First: Assel
Author-X-Name-Last: Mussagulova
Author-Name: Zeger van der Wal
Author-X-Name-First: Zeger
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Wal
Title: “All still quiet on the non-Western front?” Non-Western public service motivation scholarship: 2015–2020
Abstract: 
 Public service motivation (PSM) scholarship has mushroomed since the early 2000s. After initially being an exclusively Western field of study, scholarship has recently become more internationalised. As a corollary, scholars have begun to formulate a research agenda for advancing non-Western PSM research. To contribute to this advancement, and examine how non-Western PSM scholarship has developed in recent years, we conduct a systematic literature review of 83 empirical studies published between 2015 and 2020. We assess origin of scholarship, theories, samples and methodologies used, and empirical findings on the relation between PSM and key antecedents and outcomes. Our findings show that non-Western PSM scholarship is growing, and increasingly using contextual variables to explain variance in findings in comparison with Western studies. That being said, ample opportunity remains for leveraging contextual and regional particularities to build a more distinct body of scholarship. We conclude with suggestions for further advancing non-Western PSM research.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 23-46
Issue: 1
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1836977
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Author-Name: Shinwoo Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Shinwoo
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Gyeo Reh Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Gyeo Reh
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Does outsourcing reduce employee job satisfaction? A test of new public management orthodoxy
Abstract: 
 Recent public administration research has emphasised that governments’ growing use of market-like arrangements has massive consequences for public employees. This study explores the impact of service outsourcing on the work attitudes of public employees who still remain in their workplace using the case of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) which outsourced the collection of delinquent tax debts. Relying on quasi-experimental analyses along with six years of data from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey from 2013 to 2018, this study offers evidence that outsourcing services negatively affect employee job satisfaction. This study also found that both supervisors and line employees present similar levels of job satisfaction after the outsourcing practice while theoretical arguments anticipate differing levels of reactions between the two groups of employees.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 47-61
Issue: 1
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1801475
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Author-Name: Rifat Mahmud
Author-X-Name-First: Rifat
Author-X-Name-Last: Mahmud
Title: What explains citizen trust in public institutions? Quality of government, performance, social capital, or demography
Abstract: 
 Trust is an essential indicator in the governance mechanism involving citizens’ confidence in public institutions. The present study focuses on citizens’ trust level in local administrative institutions, such as Upazila (sub-district) administrative offices in Bangladesh. It seeks to identify the factors that can explain the variations in citizens’ trust level in public institutions. Based on the survey data of 1440 respondents from 16 Upazila administrative offices, it is found that, first, citizens’ trust in these offices is high. Second, demographic variables involving citizens’ occupation, such as political activism and NGO work, have the strongest overall effect on the variations in citizens’ trust in the Upazila administrative offices. Citizens’ civic engagement or associations to secure service also affect trust in Upazila administrative offices more than performance variables do.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 106-124
Issue: 2
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1893197
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Author-Name: Alasdair Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts
Title: How to bridge East and West
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 63-66
Issue: 2
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1869046
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Author-Name: Étienne Charbonneau
Author-X-Name-First: Étienne
Author-X-Name-Last: Charbonneau
Author-Name: Jean-François Lévesque
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-François
Author-X-Name-Last: Lévesque
Author-Name: Frank A. Tchokouagueu
Author-X-Name-First: Frank A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tchokouagueu
Author-Name: Yanick W. A. Tadjiogue
Author-X-Name-First: Yanick W. A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tadjiogue
Author-Name: Joseph K. Tchinda
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tchinda
Author-Name: Marc Mongong
Author-X-Name-First: Marc
Author-X-Name-Last: Mongong
Title: Camouflaged or deserted? A systematic review of empirical military research in public administration
Abstract: 
 Over time, several researchers have observed that military organisations and personnel are not studied in public administration. This study synthesises the state of knowledge regarding the place of military organisations and personnel in empirical public administration research in thirty-one journal articles published from 1978 to 2019. The 71 empirical articles published in the past four decades focused mainly on human resource (HR) management of veterans and procurement contracts rather than on current members and military organisations. Public administration researchers, particularly outside the United States, are not studying active military personnel and the function of military organisations. Our argument is that, in our collective view of the state, we tend to disregard the state’s punitive or security missions, especially if they are foreign rather than domestic. Another explanation is that accessing military personnel and organisations involves negotiating restricted access. Our collective neglect of studying the military deprives the field and students of good practices that may be replicable in civilian organisations.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 67-86
Issue: 2
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1839351
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Author-X-Name-First: Assel
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Title: Newly independent, path dependent: The impact of the Soviet past on innovation in post-Soviet states
Abstract: 
 Though vastly divergent in size, natural resource endowment and human capital, all of the 15 former Soviet states inherited Soviet institutions. The decision to shed those structures and ideas, however, has been anything but uniform across the post-Soviet region. This article aims to expand what limited understanding we have of the extent to which path dependency in research and development (R&D) institutions can explain the divergence in national innovation performance in three post-Soviet states: Estonia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. This study finds that those countries, which retained the institutional R&D model of the Soviet Union, demonstrate subpar national innovation performance compared to the countries that chose to actively reform their R&D systems post-independence. This presents an important theoretical and practical contribution to the scholarship on path dependency and national innovation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 87-105
Issue: 2
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1805338
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Author-Name: Jongeun You
Author-X-Name-First: Jongeun
Author-X-Name-Last: You
Title: Advancing international cooperation as a strategy for managing pandemics
Abstract: 
 The COVID-19 pandemic has fractured international relationships and challenged governments to adapt in new and unprecedented ways. This crisis has caused many governments to look inward and avoid a globalised response. However, using the case study of South Korea, the author argues that a more open approach and international collaboration are needed to tackle COVID-19 and to avert a future pandemic crisis. Relying on the policy innovation and policy transfer literature, this article suggests how countries can overcome some of the obstacles to international cooperation that may be needed for intra-crisis learning. The author uses policy documents, press briefings, and statements from the South Korean government to examine how the country has shared its expertise and resources in fighting COVID-19 with the international community. The South Korean government is also committed to strengthening the public health systems of developing countries to manage pandemic crises. The article concludes by proposing a way to translate lessons from South Korea into possible opportunities for international cooperation in pandemic crisis management.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 169-191
Issue: 3
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1866624
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Author-Name: Ting-An-Xu Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Ting-An-Xu
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: G. Breck Wightman
Author-X-Name-First: G. Breck
Author-X-Name-Last: Wightman
Author-Name: Euipyo Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Euipyo
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Jordan Hunter
Author-X-Name-First: Jordan
Author-X-Name-Last: Hunter
Title: Revisiting “big questions” of public administration after COVID-19: a systematic review
Abstract: 
 The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed changes on governments across the world. Scholars responded to this crisis with a wide range of comparative studies and theoretical alternatives that addressed “big questions” of public administration. To summarise what we now know about governments, citizens, and civil society as a result of this pandemic, we conduct a systematic review of 188 articles using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. While the range of topics addressed was broad, we began our review by narrowing our focus ex-ante to studies that addressed three “big questions” of public administration: (1) What are the instruments of collective action?; (2) How shall tensions between national and subnational governments be resolved?; and (3) How can processes of societal learning be improved? Two additional “big questions” later emerged from the review process itself: (4) How can public trust in governments be fostered? and (5) Do public services enhance social equity? Answers to each of these questions are reviewed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 131-168
Issue: 3
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1947862
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Author-Name: Tathagata Chatterji
Author-X-Name-First: Tathagata
Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterji
Author-Name: Souvanic Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Souvanic
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Author-Name: Atanu Chatterjee
Author-X-Name-First: Atanu
Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterjee
Title: Global contagion and local response: the influence of centre–state relations and political culture in pandemic governance
Abstract: 
 Covid-19 has severely impacted lives and livelihoods in India. Faced with threatened livelihoods due to lockdowns in major cities, millions of poor informal sector workers have returned to their rural roots, provoking a complex intergovernmental problem that necessitates collective action but is plagued with a high degree of uncertainty. This article explores two interrelated issues. First, we examine the role of the central government in the Covid-19 crisis and the implications for centre–state relations. Second, we review the governance responses of two states, Kerala and Gujarat. We unpack how variations in political values and norms within which the key political actors of the two governing regimes are rooted had informed their policy priorities. We show how local political culture significantly affected critical decisions (e.g. emergency relief for the poor) and administrative implementation mechanisms (whether centralised or decentralised). We draw lessons on the influence of political culture in shaping pandemic governance response in a federal polity.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 192-211
Issue: 3
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2020.1870866
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Author-Name: James Perry
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Author-X-Name-Last: Perry
Author-Name: Wai Fung Lam
Author-X-Name-First: Wai Fung
Author-X-Name-Last: Lam
Title: Symposium: COVID-19 and Big Questions of Public Administration
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 130-130
Issue: 3
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1957957
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Author-Name: Taki Sarantakis
Author-X-Name-First: Taki
Author-X-Name-Last: Sarantakis
Title: Guardians in a connected world: pace matters
Abstract: 
 What happens when the qualities that have served the administrative state - thoughtful, careful, deliberative actions - meet the demands of a world that is connected and increasingly operating in real time? Public administration systems must increasingly consider pace as a factor of success going forward.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 125-129
Issue: 3
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1941155
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Author-Name: M. Jae Moon
Author-X-Name-First: M. Jae
Author-X-Name-Last: Moon
Title: Coronavirus politics and governance
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 212-217
Issue: 3
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1952459
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Author-Name: Bharati Garg
Author-X-Name-First: Bharati
Author-X-Name-Last: Garg
Author-Name: Rohit Barach
Author-X-Name-First: Rohit
Author-X-Name-Last: Barach
Title: Collaborative governance for urban sustainability: implementing solar cities
Abstract: 
 Today, when rapid urbanization has become an environmental concern all over the world, the concept of solar cities assumes a crucial role to play in realizing not only the sustainability potential of cities but also to transform urbanization into an opportunity. The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India in 2008 launched the Solar Cities Programme to promote alternate sources of energy and reduce dependency on conventional energy sources. Chandigarh was the first city to be declared as model solar city. This study attempts to empirically analyze the measures taken to make Chandigarh a model solar city while focusing on adoption of roof-top Solar Photovoltaic (SPV). The data collected was analysed and interpreted using percentages. Descriptive analysis of the responses of government officials, residents, NGOs and private empanelled agencies was done. Findings revealed that the whole idea of participatory local planning was sidelined, awareness generation remained piecemeal, no formal co-ordination mechanism was established and yet empirical targets were not only achieved but surpassed. However, the implementation failed to convince residents to shift towards solar energy, jeopardizing the long-term sustainability of the solar city plan.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 236-257
Issue: 4
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1925132
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Author-Name: Yukio Kinoshita
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Author-Name: Brian Dollery
Author-X-Name-First: Brian
Author-X-Name-Last: Dollery
Title: Local co-production and food insecurity: leveraging institutional advantages of partner organisations
Abstract: 
 Across the developed world food insecurity has become a growing problem, including in contemporary Japan. A common response to food insecurity has been the development of food banks typically run by voluntary associations often in partnership with public agencies and private firms. Considerable ingenuity exists in the Japanese food bank sector that can inform public policymaking in addressing the problem of food insecurity. Adopting the conceptual prism offered by the co-production literature, we study three food banks: Second Harvest Nagoya, Food Bank Iwate and Food Bank Kanagawa. While the modus operandi employed by the three food banks differs considerably, a common thread underpinning their success resides in the fact that they all combine the comparative institutional advantages of their collaborating partner organisations in the local public and the private sectors.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 258-275
Issue: 4
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Aneeqa Suhail
Author-X-Name-First: Aneeqa
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Author-Name: Trui Steen
Author-X-Name-First: Trui
Author-X-Name-Last: Steen
Title: Exploring the implementation gap: organizational autonomy and line managers’ participation in human resource decision–making
Abstract: 
 This article explores the assumption that the level of human resource (HR) autonomy of an organisation influences line managers’ participation in HR decision-making, and it seeks to understand to what extent such a participation affects the effective implementation of HR practices. The results of an empirical study of HR policies and practices in three public hospitals in Pakistan reveal that greater level of HR autonomy of an organisation, with less pressure to comply with public personnel policies, leads to increased participation of middle managers in HR decision-making. This, in turn, helps to reduce the gap between the intended and implemented HR practices, which is important for human resource management (HRM) – organisational performance linkage. These findings contribute to ongoing discussions related to HRM in the public sector context and line management enactment of HR practices by highlighting the profound implications of the institutional context on the HR management of public hospitals. Additionally, this research proposes a bottom-up approach to HR practices, through its focus on the participation of managers in HR decision-making as a possible solution to better implementation of HR practices.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 276-297
Issue: 4
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1963995
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Author-Name: Irina Novikova
Author-X-Name-First: Irina
Author-X-Name-Last: Novikova
Author-Name: Saltanat Liebert
Author-X-Name-First: Saltanat
Author-X-Name-Last: Liebert
Title: Citizens’ perception of government responsiveness: building an engaged citizenry
Abstract: 
 Responsiveness is one of the tenets of good governance. In the post-Soviet setting, in which government officials view provision of public services to the population as government largesse, the perception of government responsiveness is particularly important in building active and engaged citizenry.This study explores a potential link between citizen perceptions of local government responsiveness among residents of squatter settlements in the Kyrgyz Republic and citizen-municipal government collaboration. Based on a survey of 914 urban squatter settlers in Bishkek, the article examines how residents of slums perceive the responsiveness of different levels of government in improving their communities’ access to basic urban services. Lower level of governance is found to be associated with higher levels of perceived responsiveness. Participation in informal demand-making and self-help activities is positively associated with perceptions of government responsiveness, especially when it comes to the city administration.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 298-316
Issue: 4
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1966815
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Author-Name: Graeme Hodge
Author-X-Name-First: Graeme
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodge
Author-Name: Carsten Greve
Author-X-Name-First: Carsten
Author-X-Name-Last: Greve
Title: What can public administration scholars learn from the economics controversies in public-private partnerships?
Abstract: 
 Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is the label often applied to long-term contractual arrangements when the private sector provides management and operating services for public infrastructure and puts private finance at risk. Political and economic logics have long been applied when analysing the success of such infrastructure delivery mechanisms. Mixed empirical performance results has been a recurring theme. Decades of PPP implementation experience has improved our knowledge of the political and policy “logic” of PPP success, but public administration scholars know less about the logic of the economist, about how economic thinking has evolved and its effects on PPP evaluation. This article explores discussions and debates analysing the economics of PPPs. It challenges the PPP economic efficiency argument, not from the perspective of public administration or public policy (which now repeat well-rehearsed arguments) but from the perspective of economics itself. The article argues overall that there are strongly competing economics logics relevant to PPPs, and that public administration scholars need to be more aware of these internal economics controversies and debates rather than assuming that economics is a settled homogenous discipline. Furthermore, it argues that this heterogeneity of economic logics is a central reason why PPP performance debates continue to be unresolved.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 219-235
Issue: 4
Volume: 43
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1939744
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Author-Name: Hsini Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Hsini
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Author-Name: Kyoung-Cheol (Casey) Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Kyoung-Cheol (Casey)
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: Matthew M. Young
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Young
Author-Name: Justin B. Bullock
Author-X-Name-First: Justin B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bullock
Title: A matter of perspective: differential evaluations of artificial intelligence between managers and staff in an experimental simulation
Abstract: 
 This article tests whether managers and staff evaluate artificial intelligence (AI)-based process innovations differently. Scholars have argued perceptions of innovation vary systematically as a function of an individual’s position within organisations. We test for attitudinal differences between managers and staff via an online experimental simulation fielded among working-age Taiwanese citizens employed in public sector employment (n = 600). Respondents engage in a 12-round simulation. We experimentally vary whether the respondent receives support from an AI decision support tool. We assess pre-intervention and post-intervention attitudes towards the use of AI for a suite of organisational tasks, using a difference-in-difference estimation approach to identify the causal effect of organisational position on innovation evaluation. Our findings suggest managers are more supportive of AI as a decision support tool than staff, and remain so after the simulation. Managers also increased their support of AI tools to a larger degree than staff.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 47-65
Issue: 1
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1945468
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Author-Name: Tima T. Moldogaziev
Author-X-Name-First: Tima T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Moldogaziev
Author-Name: Cheol Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Cheol
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Mikhail Ivonchyk
Author-X-Name-First: Mikhail
Author-X-Name-Last: Ivonchyk
Title: Policy experimentation with impact financing: a systematic review of research on social impact bonds
Abstract: 
 Social impact bonds (SIB) have become a novel and attractive policy tool to assist with service delivery to vulnerable groups. Since the first SIB in 2010 in the United Kingdom, hundreds of projects have been adopted, implemented, and continue to be developed around the world. A broad observation from current research concludes that there is a lack of consistent evidence on research foci and orientations with regard to this innovative policy tool. In the context of the Asia-Pacific region, research on SIBs is largely non-existent. Moreover, research from Asia-Pacific contexts is primarily focused on the (financial) product features of impact financing, at the expense of studying the process innovation aspect of SIBs in service delivery. This contrasts with research from European and North American SIBs, which exhibit a relatively heightened interest on issues in service delivery process and their impact on performance measurement, evidence auditing and evaluation, and accountability to service recipients versus investor returns. As policy experimentation continues with SIBs in the Asia-Pacific region, several key considerations remain vital and require future scholarly attention.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 81-99
Issue: 1
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.2019070
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Author-Name: Matthew A. Shapiro
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Author-Name: Toby Bolsen
Author-X-Name-First: Toby
Author-X-Name-Last: Bolsen
Author-Name: Yungwook Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Yungwook
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Title: Air pollution in Northeast Asia: can framing of public messages influence beliefs and attributions?
Abstract: 
 Public support for any policy is often influenced by communications highlighting aspects of it – such as a policy’s perceived “costs” or “benefits” to people. This paper tests for these attitudinal differences as they relate to the transboundary air pollution problem in South Korea where cross-national coordination efforts among China, South Korea, and Japan have done little to alleviate the problem. We conduct an emphasis framing experiment launched in mid-2019, testing whether the importance of cooperation with China decreases or increases with exposure to different frames, such as Korea working alone to address the problem or Korea and China working together. While the message frames utilised in our study did not show a powerful direct impact on respondents, a secondary analysis reveals differences across pre-existing beliefs and attitudes. For Korean policy makers to effectively respond to both domestic and foreign demands related to the air pollution problem in Northeast Asia, there must be acknowledgement of this variance throughout the policy making process. This study thus highlights a tension for policy makers: trying to shift public beliefs through specific messages or allowing change in policy design by engaging the public in a more bottom-up deliberative approach.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 26-46
Issue: 1
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1925133
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Author-Name: Cheol Liu
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Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Tima T. Moldogaziev
Author-X-Name-First: Tima T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Moldogaziev
Author-Name: Christopher Witko
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Witko
Title: Special Issue Introduction: experiments in public administration research in the Asia-Pacific region
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 1-3
Issue: 1
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.2021431
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Author-Name: Ayca Kusseven
Author-X-Name-First: Ayca
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Author-Name: Mete Yildiz
Author-X-Name-First: Mete
Author-X-Name-Last: Yildiz
Title: Emergence & development of behavioral public policy units in government: the case of Turkey
Abstract: 
 The last two decades witnessed a significant rise in the use of behavioural insights in the design and successful implementation of public policies. This creative method of policy design and implementation, also known as “nudging”, makes use of biases in individual decision-making processes to increase the success of policy interventions. As of 2021, there are more than 200 nudge units in the world, some located in governments. This is a detailed case study of the creation and development of the behavioural public policy/nudge unit in the Turkish government, which is located in the Ministry of Trade. This unit emerged as a result of a successful policy experiment via knowledge transfer from the United Kingdom’s Behavioural Insights Team with help from the UK Embassy in Ankara. A detailed account of the creation process, organisational structure, activities, and future objectives of this unit is presented by using John Kingdon’s multiple streams model, reviewing the literature, analysing official documents, and conducting in-depth interviews. Lessons drawn from this case study can be helpful to actors from the public policy community in developing countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 66-80
Issue: 1
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1958353
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Author-Name: Wenna Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Wenna
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Binzizi Dong
Author-X-Name-First: Binzizi
Author-X-Name-Last: Dong
Author-Name: Chih-Wei Hsieh
Author-X-Name-First: Chih-Wei
Author-X-Name-Last: Hsieh
Author-Name: Ning Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Ning
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Richard M. Walker
Author-X-Name-First: Richard M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Walker
Author-Name: Yao Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Yao
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Bo Wen
Author-X-Name-First: Bo
Author-X-Name-Last: Wen
Author-Name: Peiyi Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Peiyi
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Author-Name: Jiasheng Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Jiasheng
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: Experimental research in the Asia-Pacific region: review and assessment of regional capacity
Abstract: 
 Scholars of public administration are increasingly using experimental research to develop more robust causal inferences and greater methodological capacity. Against this backdrop, we examine the extent to which experimental research has taken hold in the Asia-Pacific region and assess regional capacity. Our review of 30 articles published by scholars based in the Asia-Pacific region in the public administration section of the Web of Science’s Journal Citation Reports finds that the regional capacity for experimental research is concentrated in a small number of institutions and strongly supplemented through international collaboration. Topics studied reflect the advent of behavioural public administration. Although progress is being made in reporting experimental designs, much work is needed in the region to bring greater transparency to scholarship. We conclude by encouraging scholars to more robustly implement and report experimental research and by outlining future directions.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 4-25
Issue: 1
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1945470
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Author-Name: Kohei Suzuki
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Author-X-Name-Last: Suzuki
Title: Quality of government in the Asia Pacific region
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 101-105
Issue: 2
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2062400
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Author-Name: Jinhyuk Jang
Author-X-Name-First: Jinhyuk
Author-X-Name-Last: Jang
Title: Power-sharing in governments, clarity of responsibility, and the control of corruption
Abstract: 
 How does power-sharing in governments influence the control of corruption in Asia Pacific democracies? Studies find that voters can more easily hold elected officials accountable, providing them with incentives to control corruption, if levels of clarity of responsibility are sufficiently high. Most of these studies have focused on European countries, and have tended to measure power-sharing, which lowers clarity of responsibility, in terms of coalition governments. The wide variation in institutional arrangements across the democracies in the Asia Pacific region calls for a more nuanced evaluation of the conditions under which we should expect to find clarity of responsibility. Using original data on government characteristics in 19 Asia Pacific democracies from 1996 to 2019 and data on control of corruption from the World Bank, I find that higher levels of clarity of responsibility, captured by presidentialism and a higher share of decision-making power held by the head of government’s party, promote higher levels of corruption control.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 131-151
Issue: 2
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1963996
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Author-Name: Abiha Zahra
Author-X-Name-First: Abiha
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Author-Name: Tobias Bach
Author-X-Name-First: Tobias
Author-X-Name-Last: Bach
Title: The intensity of organizational transitions in government: comparing patterns in developed and developing countries
Abstract: 
 Organisational transitions in governments have long been discussed in the literature. While, more recently, organisational life cycle changes between birth and death have been the focus of research, a systematic comparison of organisational transitions across countries has barely been initiated. We aim to bridge this gap in the literature by providing comparative metrics for organisational transitions, which could be later enriched with structural data from researchers working in this domain. Termination literature mainly hails from the West, wherein this article brings in Pakistan’s developing context – long considered a terra incognita in comparative research – and breaks new analytical ground by comparing the intensity of organisational transitions in Pakistan with those of developed countries. The lack of vivid variance in the intensity of transitions among developing and developed countries, raises interesting questions as to the relationship between the intensity of structural reform and administrative performance. The article thereby seeks to encourage future comparative research.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 152-171
Issue: 2
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1980069
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Author-Name: Hyeon-Suk Lyu
Author-X-Name-First: Hyeon-Suk
Author-X-Name-Last: Lyu
Author-Name: Tae Hyung Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Tae Hyung
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: Daeun Sung
Author-X-Name-First: Daeun
Author-X-Name-Last: Sung
Author-Name: M. Jae Moon
Author-X-Name-First: M. Jae
Author-X-Name-Last: Moon
Title: Linking quality of government to outcomes of civil service training: evidence from southeast asian countries
Abstract: 
 Despite the growing body of evidence about quality of government, few studies have applied the results to the outcomes of civil service training programmes. Given that the development of civil service capacity is a key driver of national development, this study explores the nexus between quality of government in Southeast Asian countries and the outcomes of civil service training programmes. Using a survey of Southeast Asian civil servants who participated in capacity development programmes organised by various Korean institutions, this study examines trainees’ perceptions of quality of government, the capacity needs of their civil services, and the limitations of and improvements in existing capacity development programmes. This study offers theoretical and practical implication concerning associations between quality of government and the effectiveness of official development assistance training programmes for civil servants in developing countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 172-190
Issue: 2
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2028172
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Author-Name: Christopher A. Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher A.
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Title: Encouraging bureaucrats to report corruption: human resource management and whistleblowing
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 Although notoriously hierarchical, rigid and impersonal, bureaucracy has recently become the unsung hero in the fight against corruption. Recent studies suggest that countries whose public service reflects characteristics of a Weberian bureaucracy – particularly, permanent careers and merit recruitment – exhibit lower levels of corruption. Uncertainty exists, however, over which qualities are most important, as well as how these lower corruption. This article advances research by examining the relationship that various human resource management practices have with a central mechanism of thwarting corruption: whistleblowing. Using survey data from Australia, the results from various regression models show that bureaucrats’ belief that recruitment within their agency prioritises merit as well as their belief in opportunities for promotion have a positive relationship with whistleblowing. Meanwhile, reporting corruption does not seem to be affected by bureaucrats’ belief in the permanency of their job, satisfaction with remuneration, turnover intention or organisational commitment. The external validity of the findings is considered by comparing the nature of bureaucracy in Australia with some Asia Pacific and Anglo-American countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 106-130
Issue: 2
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1894955
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Author-Name: Assel Mussagulova
Author-X-Name-First: Assel
Author-X-Name-Last: Mussagulova
Title: Public Service Motivation: Global Knowledge, Regional Perspective
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 191-194
Issue: 3
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2101011
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Author-Name: Taehee Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Taehee
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: Kiwhan Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Kiwhan
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: Sangmook Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Sangmook
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Title: Institutional correlates of public service motivation: family, religion, and high school education
Abstract: 
 The purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence of the extent to which social institutions play a role in the development of public service motivation (PSM). This study investigates institutional factors affecting first-year undergraduate students’ PSM, focusing on family, religion, and high school education in Korea. It uses two-wave survey data collected from first-year undergraduate students at a public university in Korea (n = 202). The test results show that parental teaching and participation in extracurricular activities (creative experiential learning activities) are positively associated with overall PSM and most of its individual dimensions, and religion is positively associated with the dimension of commitment to public values. This study provides support for the process theory holding that PSM is influenced by social institutions throughout an individual’s childhood and adolescence. The implications and limitations of this study are also discussed.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 214-233
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Volume: 44
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Author-Name: Sean Nicholson-Crotty
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Author-Name: Jill Nicholson-Crotty
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Author-Name: Danyao Li
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Author-Name: Robert K. Christensen
Author-X-Name-First: Robert K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Christensen
Title: Exploring the conditionality of public service motivation: evidence from a priming experiment
Abstract: 
 Scholars have demonstrated that public service motivation (PSM) may be conditional and activated in certain contexts or by particular primes. However, to date researchers have focused on the impact of positive experiences or beneficial consequences of public serving activities on employee PSM. Altruism research suggests that PSM may also respond, somewhat counterintuitively, to negative experiences. We test this in an experimental study of 456 public employees in which treatment groups were asked to recall negative or positive interactions with citizens, before responding to questions from a widely used scale of PSM. Results suggest that expressed PSM is sensitive to, and in fact increases, in response to both positive and negative experiential primes. We conclude with a discussion of implications of conditionality for our broader understanding of PSM.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 234-248
Issue: 3
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1934052
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Author-Name: Jessica Breaugh
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica
Author-X-Name-Last: Breaugh
Author-Name: Guillem Ripoll
Author-X-Name-First: Guillem
Author-X-Name-Last: Ripoll
Title: Serving society vs. the individual user? Experimental evidence on the role of public service motivation in predicting job-task preferences
Abstract: 
 Although the term public service motivation (PSM) was coined 30 years ago, its theoretical development is still ongoing. One of these debates examines how to differentiate it from likeminded concepts. Recent theoretical development related to PSM focus on the salience of giving back to society, or non-identified beneficiaries, in contrast to individual users. To assess this distinction, empirical research is essential. Using a between-subjects vignette experiment among a representative sample of 1512 citizens in Catalonia (Spain), we test whether PSM can predict task preferences depending on the extent to which they are oriented to non-identified and identified beneficiaries. This article demonstrates that PSM is mainly oriented to society at large rather than individual users. The findings present evidence to confirm emerging PSM conceptualisations as well as highlight important implications for research and practice – especially with respect to public service job design.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 249-270
Issue: 3
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2047749
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Author-Name: Jeannette Taylor
Author-X-Name-First: Jeannette
Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor
Author-Name: Gene A. Brewer
Author-X-Name-First: Gene A.
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Author-Name: Guillem Ripoll
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Title: Towards a measure of institutional public service motivation: theoretical underpinnings and propositions for future research
Abstract: 
 Empirical support for institutional influences on public service motivation (PSM) has been growing in recent years. Yet, we lack a concept and a measure that captures the capacity of public institutions to energise and propel members to perform meaningful public service and pursue the common good. This study aims to address this gap by presenting a conceptual foundation of institutional PSM. By extending PSM from the individual to the institutional level, we lay the groundwork for a fundamentally different approach to PSM measurement. We draw upon multiple theories and empirical studies to propose that institutional PSM consists of four pillars: public-service orientation, legitimacy, merit, and support. We then present research propositions for studying institutional PSM.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 195-213
Issue: 3
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2085125
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Author-Name: Pablo Sanabria-Pulido
Author-X-Name-First: Pablo
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Author-Name: Cristian Pliscoff
Author-X-Name-First: Cristian
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Title: A crowding-out of public values? Managerial vs. Weberian values in public sector reform in Latin America
Abstract: 
 This article analyzes whether and how managerial and Weberian value systems can coexist or collide in different organisational settings. We compare six public organisations in two Latin American countries to study whether public sector reforms imply a clash or a crowding-out between these values systems. The article uses data from 60 semi-structured interviews with public officials of different hierarchical levels, in public central government agencies with different ages, modernisation stages, and organisational structures. Our analysis reveals that even in different settings and types of organisations, Weberian values coexist with managerial ones and with other sets of values related to governance or political patronage. We conclude that managerial values do not necessarily crowd out other value systems as previous studies have found and appear to be adapted to the organisational and national contexts in which they operate.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 291-314
Issue: 4
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2076135
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Author-Name: Yanbing Han
Author-X-Name-First: Yanbing
Author-X-Name-Last: Han
Author-Name: Min Xiong
Author-X-Name-First: Min
Author-X-Name-Last: Xiong
Author-Name: Shaoming Cheng
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Author-Name: Hai (David) Guo
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Title: Inter-city competition and local government debts in China: a spatial econometric analysis
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 Debts incurred by Chinese cities have skyrocketed. Policymakers and scholars are concerned with potential default risks and political, economic, and social impacts of a possible debt default. It has also drawn attention to drivers of the rapidly increasing municipal debts. This article examines the extent to which competition among Chinese cities affected the debts they accumulated. Drawing from the literature of local government strategic interaction and fiscal competition, we hypothesised that spillover effects might exist among Chinese cities’ decisions and behaviours to issue how much bonds. With access to a panel dataset of 285 cities over 2008–2016, we applied the spatial panel regression analysis to capture and gauge the spillover effects on debt accumulation of Chinese cities. Findings confirm the spillover effects among Chinese cities and support the role that inter-city competition has played in the rapid accumulation of municipal debts.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 271-290
Issue: 4
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2071305
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Author-Name: Patrick Barrett
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick
Author-X-Name-Last: Barrett
Author-Name: Raven Cretney
Author-X-Name-First: Raven
Author-X-Name-Last: Cretney
Author-Name: Priya Kurian
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Author-Name: Naomi Simmonds
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Title: Shifting discourses of nature in participatory processes for environmental management
Abstract: 
 The increasing use of participatory processes in environmental governance and management has implications for the way different conceptualisations of nature and the environment are recognised within environmental decision-making. This article draws on a case study of the Ōngātoro Maketū estuary restoration initiative in Aotearoa, New Zealand, to examine how shifting discourses of nature and the environment intersect with the exercise of power to influence decision-making on the estuary. The study is based on a qualitative analysis of an archive of historical policy and planning documents, and 25 in-depth interviews with participants involved in the restoration initiative. The analysis demonstrates that despite a participatory process that often reinforced the dominant cultural paradigm and power relations, it created the space for different knowledge forms including western science and Māori knowledge to help improve the quality of decisions. We argue that well-designed participatory processes have much potential to address the growing complexity and uncertainty underpinning environmental governance and management.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 315-334
Issue: 4
Volume: 44
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2021.1972322
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Author-Name: Wolfgang Muno
Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang
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Author-Name: Héctor Briceño
Author-X-Name-First: Héctor
Author-X-Name-Last: Briceño
Title: Autocratization and public administration: the revolutionary-populist regime in Venezuela in comparative perspective
Abstract: 
 What happens to state bureaucracies when authoritarianism emerges? How do autocrats seek to use the administration to their ends, and how does it react? The paper analyzes Venezuela as a showcase for autocratization in Latin America. Under Chavismo-Madurismo, the general objective of the regime was to expand and co-opt all the state institutions, including public administration, to subordinate it to the “revolution” and to gain control over oil revenues. As the central aspect of the paper, we will analyse the strategies of the Chavista governments vis á vis the administration to achieve these goals. We identify three main strategies that were used to sideline the bureaucracy: repression and firing; circumventing and neglecting; and militarisation. With these strategies, Chavismo-Madurismo dismantled the former existing public administration and installed a new administration, loyal to the regime, as a part of the process of autocratization. The paper also addresses how the autocratic regime has (mis)used the public management of the Covid-pandemic to strengthen autocracy under the disguise of a state of emergency.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 73-92
Issue: 1
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2148262
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Author-Name: B. Guy Peters
Author-X-Name-First: B. Guy
Author-X-Name-Last: Peters
Title: Public administration in authoritarian regimes
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 7-15
Issue: 1
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2169820
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Author-Name: Guillem Ripoll
Author-X-Name-First: Guillem
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Author-Name: Martin Rode
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Rode
Title: Is there passion for public service in authoritarian bureaucracies? Exploring public service motivation across regime types
Abstract: 
 Although previous research has explored broadly the determinants of public service motivation (PSM), little is known about how it is affected by formal institutional variations. This article examines the presence of PSM in the bureaucracies of democratic and autocratic political regimes. Merging data from the four waves of the International Social Survey Programme with a recent classification of regime types, this study confirms that autocracies seem neither to diminish public servants’ levels of PSM, nor hinder its cultivation. In fact, we find indications that PSM is likely to be higher in autocracies, where the positive effect of relatedness on PSM is also stronger than in democracies, albeit the latter is partially non-significant. Future research and practical implications of the findings are further discussed.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 93-113
Issue: 1
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2035238
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Author-Name: Colin Knox
Author-X-Name-First: Colin
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Author-Name: Saltanat Janenova
Author-X-Name-First: Saltanat
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Title: Does bureaucratic performance vary across authoritarian regimes?
Abstract: 
 This article considers the performance of bureaucracies in two authoritarian states located in Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The former has been a consolidated authoritarian regime since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The latter has oscillated between a form of parliamentary democracy and authoritarianism. We examine how the countries’ bureaucracies perform under different systems of governance and find that Kazakhstan is more effective given its relatively stable political context, higher level of professionalism, and greater policy capacity amongst its officials, notwithstanding its consistent authoritarian leadership. When politicians interfere in the work of officials, it results in lower impartiality and constitutional uncertainty. This finding reaffirms previous research (using Quality of Government survey data) which calls for the separation of political and bureaucratic roles as a way of improving government effectiveness and reducing corruption.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 16-36
Issue: 1
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2026794
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Author-Name: Edoardo Ongaro
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Author-Name: Michele Tantardini
Author-X-Name-First: Michele
Author-X-Name-Last: Tantardini
Title: Advancing knowledge in public administration: why religion matters
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 1-6
Issue: 1
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Hang Duong
Author-X-Name-First: Hang
Author-X-Name-Last: Duong
Title: Political parties and policy transfer in authoritarianism
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 While recognising the significance of political actors in policy transfer, research focuses more on the role of political elites than on political parties and is dominated by studies about Western democracies rather than authoritarian states. This article examines how the ruling party shapes merit-based policy transfer in authoritarian Vietnam. It finds that with the combined developmental and political motivation, the ruling party takes comprehensive control over the transfer process through their authority to initiate, navigate, and approve. The one-party structure has both facilitating and constraining effects, allowing the ruling party to adopt a selective policy transfer approach that results in meritocracy without neutral competence. The study shows the dialectical relationship between structure and agency in policy transfer. It also challenges the assumption that the separation of political and bureaucratic careers can be applicable in authoritarianism by showing that a politically neutral civil service is impossible in the context of highly politicised merit-based policy transfer.
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Pages: 37-53
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Volume: 45
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Srinivas Yerramsetti
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Title: Public sector digitalisation and stealth intrusions upon individual freedoms and democratic accountability
Abstract: 
 Everyday administrative practices are relatively understudied in research on illiberalism and authoritarianism. This article addresses this gap to account for the neoliberalist and technopopulistic motivations that support illiberal and authoritarian practices in a weak rule of law context. Using narrative analysis, it interprets the role of beliefs and desires of politico-administrative actors in facilitating such actions in the context of India’s public sector digitalisation. This article elaborates how the instrumental rationalities embedded into the design of digitalised policies and their practices at various levels of analysis can erode voluntariness and privacy as well as undercut democratic accountability. This article makes a case for recentering the democratic ethos in designing and implementing digitalised policy regimes to ensure everyday administrative practices are aligned with the need to avoid the infringement of individual freedoms and democratic accountability.
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Pages: 54-72
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Volume: 45
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Author-Name: Sangsuk Kim
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Author-Name: Geunjoo Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Geunjoo
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Title: The effects of organizational diversity perception on affective commitment
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 The Korean government introduced the “Balanced Public Personnel Policy” in the mid-1990s. Since then, diversity in the public sector has increased dramatically. However, studies examining the effect of diversity on organisation are scant. To fill the research gap, this study analysed the effects of organisational diversity using a sample of 778 employees from 35 Korean state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The study measured social category diversity, informational diversity, and value diversity and analysed their impacts on conflict and affective commitment. The results show that (1) social category diversity decreased conflict and increased affective commitment, (2) informational diversity did not have a statistically significant impact on conflict and affective commitment, (3) value diversity increased conflict and decreased affective commitment, and (4) conflict had a mediating effect on the relationship between value diversity and affective commitment. This study shows that organizational diversity affects affective commitment and that different types of diversity have different outcomes.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 160-178
Issue: 2
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Mark Turner
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Title: How do public sector auditors perceive the concept and practice of auditor Independence? Evidence from Indonesia
Abstract: 
 Independence is widely regarded as one of the key principles of effective auditing. This article explores the understanding of the nature of auditor independence at the level of practice in the public sector using the case study of Indonesia’s Supreme Audit Institution (Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan-Republik Indonesia – BPK-RI). The research uses a case study methodology involving in-depth interviews with a stratified sample comprised of four groups of BPK-RI auditors. The results confirm that independence is perceived by all respondents as a fundamental auditor value. Independence was found to be a multifaceted concept which was perceived by respondents to have personal, professional and organisational aspects. However, depending on one’s location in the organisational hierarchy there are different emphases about the relative importance of the different aspects of auditor independence.
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Pages: 199-216
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Volume: 45
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Author-Name: Chung-An Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Chung-An
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Soojin Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Soojin
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: Liang Ma
Author-X-Name-First: Liang
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Title: Special issue introduction: integrating Asia Pacific influences and public management research
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 115-117
Issue: 2
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 04
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Author-Name: Chengwei Xu
Author-X-Name-First: Chengwei
Author-X-Name-Last: Xu
Author-Name: Assel Mussagulova
Author-X-Name-First: Assel
Author-X-Name-Last: Mussagulova
Author-Name: Chung-An Chen
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Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Ming-Feng Kuo
Author-X-Name-First: Ming-Feng
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuo
Title: Do high-PSM public employees like extrinsic rewards? A latent class analysis
Abstract: 
 Scholarship examining public service motivation (PSM) in multi-incentive settings is still insufficient. Though previous studies have extensively tested the nomological networks of PSM, they paid less attention to differences between individual preferences. Drawing on latent class analysis (LCA), this study addresses this gap by focusing on these differences in a multi-incentive setting instead of merely investigating relationships between variables. The analysis established a four-class model that classified 1286 Chinese respondents into four groups based on their PSM level and responses to three types of rewards (i.e., intrinsic, intangible extrinsic, and tangible extrinsic rewards). Results demonstrated that: among the respondents, (1) 32.49% with low PSM preferred tangible extrinsic rewards; (2) 19.3% with moderate PSM showed a preference for intangible extrinsic rewards; (3) 35.94% with high PSM reported a desire for tangible extrinsic rewards; and (4) 12.26% with high PSM showed a preference for all three types of rewards. Findings support the argument that PSM may be compatible with tangible and intangible extrinsic rewards.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 179-198
Issue: 2
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2169835
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Author-Name: Morgen Johansen
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Author-X-Name-Last: Johansen
Title: Advancing social equity in East Asia: education and health care policy in China, South Korea, and Singapore
Abstract: 
 Social equity is about asking who ought to get what and for whom is this programme good. With a focus on East Asia, this article examines how social equity is both conceptualised and put into practice outside of the Western context. An assessment of education and health care policy in China, Korea, and Singapore reveals four common themes about social equity in the East Asian context: shifting priorities on equity over time, balancing equity and meritocracy, prioritising distributional equity, and the importance of geography. These four themes demonstrate the need for a more global understanding of social equity.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 139-159
Issue: 2
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 04
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Author-Name: Iseul Choi
Author-X-Name-First: Iseul
Author-X-Name-Last: Choi
Author-Name: Jeongyoon Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Jeongyoon
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: David Lee
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: The influence of planning group diversity on the quality of local strategic plan design
Abstract: 
 As social issues are becoming complex and challenging to solve, governments are increasingly seeking support of diverse planning groups when developing strategic plans. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on (1) the link between planning group composition and strategic plan design quality and (2) the potential inverted U-shaped relationship of planning group diversity in terms of its scope and size for achieving high-quality strategic plan design. To address these gaps in extant knowledge, we analysed 2005 − 2014 U.S. county governments’ strategic plans on homelessness to identify relationships between diversity in planning group size and scope and strategic plan quality. Our results indicate an inverted U-shaped relationship between planning group diversity and strategic plan design quality, suggesting that strategic plan design benefits from group diversity up to a certain level, after which it becomes counterproductive. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed in relation to the growing recognition of the need for deliberate incorporation of diverse voices and perspectives of key collaborators in strategic planning group composition.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 217-235
Issue: 2
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 04
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Author-Name: Chung-an Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Chung-an
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Chengwei Xu
Author-X-Name-First: Chengwei
Author-X-Name-Last: Xu
Author-Name: Don-Yun Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Don-Yun
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Title: “Expecting children to be dragons” in an east asian context: Parental expectations of children choosing a career in the public sector
Abstract: 
 In East Asia, where a culture of submission to authority dominates, parental expectations significantly influence children’s career choices. A recent empirical study conducted in Taiwan shows that children are more inclined to pursue a public service career when influenced by their parents’ expectations. The present study asks two questions: why do parents in East Asia expect children to secure a career in public service? Is it a result of social pressure, parents’ own values, their socio-economic status, or all of these possible reasons? The present study uses data collected in Taiwan to answer these questions. Our findings broaden the current knowledge base of parental socialisation and its effect on children’s preference for public sector careers.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 118-138
Issue: 2
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2039073
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Author-Name: Bui Nhat Vuong
Author-X-Name-First: Bui Nhat
Author-X-Name-Last: Vuong
Title: The influence of servant leadership on job performance through innovative work behavior: does public service motivation matter?
Abstract: 
 This study empirically investigates the effects of servant leadership on job performance and notes the mediating role of innovative work behaviour and the moderating role of public service motivation. The research framework was tested using a survey of 361 civil servants working in local governments in Vietnam. The findings indicated significant positive effects of servant leadership on job performance. This relationship was partially mediated by innovative work behaviour. In addition, the study found that public service motivation positively affected innovative work behaviour and strengthened its association with servant leadership. The managerial implication is that public managers should promote civil servants’ public service motivation and adopt servant leadership. Suggestions for future research are also presented.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 295-315
Issue: 3
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2070517
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Author-Name: Lei Tao
Author-X-Name-First: Lei
Author-X-Name-Last: Tao
Author-Name: Bo Wen
Author-X-Name-First: Bo
Author-X-Name-Last: Wen
Title: Demystifying the components of public service motivation among young public servants in China: a qualitative inquiry
Abstract: 
 While public service motivation (PSM) is universally acknowledged as a value-laden and context-contingent construct, few studies have relied on qualitative methodologies to investigate unique components and dimensions of PSM in a Chinese context. Thus, our knowledge of on-the-job motivation (held by Chinese public employees) and how the cultural and political systems shape these motivations remains limited. This study fills this gap through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 22 junior public servants working at various organisational levels, geographic locations, and functional departments. The findings show that an attachment to the governance regime and predilection towards becoming a politician are two key dimensions that capture the rational motives among Chinese civil servants. In terms of norm-based motives, Confucianism-oriented authoritative values (including government-centric conception, collectivism, obedience, and moral obligations to serve the public) combine to affect the ways in which Chinese nascent public workers interpret the notion of public interests. In addition, love for both the family and nation serves as a core affective factor that contributes towards one’s willingness to seek membership in the public sector. This study ultimately helps construct an all-encompassing yet localised PSM concept, laying the foundation for subsequent quantitative examinations, validations, and replications of PSM-related theories in China.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 248-273
Issue: 3
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Aisha Azhar
Author-X-Name-First: Aisha
Author-X-Name-Last: Azhar
Author-Name: Trui Steen
Author-X-Name-First: Trui
Author-X-Name-Last: Steen
Title: Underlying assumptions of public service motivation: a view from the developing world
Abstract: 
 Based on a qualitative study of public service motivation (PSM) among public employees in Pakistan, the authors formulate a model of contextual factors influencing public-service-motivated behaviours. Through an analysis of 36 interviews, the research finds that because of their different cultural background Pakistan public employees did not identify with the principal motivational structure generally associated with PSM. While Pakistan public employees exhibited empathy and compassion, they did not relate them to public service. The antecedents for these motives were primarily their Islam religion. Employees showed inclinations for the pursuit of power, job security, and implicit opportunities for corruption as motives for seeking public employment. The contextual factors not only directly influenced employees’ behaviours more strongly than PSM, but they also tended to undermine the effect of PSM as a strong influencer for employees to think of serving society at large. The authors conclude that assumptions about PSM in a developing country such as Pakistan are not irrational but are embedded in local rationalities that admittedly countervail the ethical foundations of public service. These local rationalities seem widely accepted among public employees in Pakistan. The findings of the study can be related to other developing countries, particularly South Asian countries.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 274-294
Issue: 3
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2121294
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Author-Name: Baris Kiyak
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Author-Name: Naci Karkin
Author-X-Name-First: Naci
Author-X-Name-Last: Karkin
Title: Job characteristics and public service motivation among highly-qualified public employees
Abstract: 
 Employees’ complaints about the routinisation of jobs and a decrease in their autonomy have been cited as major reasons for employee turnover in government organisations. This study analyzes the relationship between job characteristics and public service motivation (PSM) to shed light on this issue. Employing an online survey completed by employees from Turkish Regional Development Agencies, we examined the effect of job characteristics on the PSM of highly-skilled employees. The results show that employees’ PSM is fostered when they use high-quality skills in implementing their duties. Autonomy, an employee’s self-direction to decide the methods and timing of work, is another important factor affecting PSM. We found that job redesign would foster PSM of highly-qualified employees.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 316-333
Issue: 3
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Zeger Van der Wal
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Author-Name: Assel Mussagulova
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Author-X-Name-Last: Mussagulova
Title: Developing public service motivation in the non-Western world
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 244-247
Issue: 3
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2237619
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Author-Name: Rodney Scott
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Author-Name: Peter Hughes
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Author-X-Name-Last: Hughes
Title: A spirit of service to the community: public service motivation in the New Zealand public service
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 238-243
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Volume: 45
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Co-editors' Note
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 237-237
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Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Jesse W. Campbell
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Author-Name: Yongjin Ahn
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Title: What factors underlie burden tolerance in South Korea? Policy implementation domain, administrative efficiency, and bureaucratic personality
Abstract: 
 Although administrative burden has been studied in relation to social policy, the experience of policy implementation as onerous is relevant to all policy domains, and citizens can experience burden in virtually any encounter with the state. Moreover, perceptions of administrative burden can be influenced by administrative values, such as efficiency. Burden tolerance captures an individual’s belief that the compliance, learning, and psychological costs associated with policy implementation are legitimate and functional, and consequently their willingness to impose these costs on policy targets. We hypothesise that burden tolerance is conditioned by both policy implementation domain and the efficiency of the implementing organisation. Additionally, we link bureaucratic personality, or the tendency to view rules as intrinsically desirable and legitimate, to burden tolerance. We test our hypotheses using a representative sample of South Korean citizens and a survey experiment. Our results suggest that, first and contrary to our expectations, policy domain does not affect burden tolerance. Second, knowledge about inefficiency negatively affects tolerance. Third, bureaucratic personality is positively related to tolerance. We also discuss the contextual aspects of administrative burden, and particularly how the East Asian and Korean policy context may have implications for the generalisability of the administrative burden concept.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 362-384
Issue: 4
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2228435
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Author-Name: Andrew Podger
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Title: The challenges, and importance, of understanding government in Xi Jinping’s China
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 335-341
Issue: 4
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2260506
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Author-Name: Muhammad Azfar Nisar
Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad Azfar
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Author-Name: Ayesha Masood
Author-X-Name-First: Ayesha
Author-X-Name-Last: Masood
Title: Are all burdens bad? Disentangling illegitimate administrative burdens through public value accounting
Abstract: 
 Despite its usefulness for analysing the social equity footprint of policies and documenting citizens’ experiences of accessing social services, the present conceptualisation of administrative burden does not differentiate between necessary and unnecessary administrative burdens. As existing research tends to focus only on negative aspects of administrative burdens, it does not adequately account for their use as a countervailing force to achieve legitimate public values and prevent misuse of public resources. Using a public values accounting approach, this article outlines a framework to analyse the costs and benefits associated with public service delivery. In this formulation, administrative burden conceptualised as the monetary, time and psychological costs experienced by relevant stakeholders are balanced against specific public value benefits that a policy is supposed to achieve. In addition to allowing a more balanced analysis of costs and benefits associated with different policies, this approach helps identify illegitimate administrative burdens, that do not contribute to achieving relevant public values or can be reduced without compromising relevant public values. This approach not only contributes to adding more nuance and dimensionality to the theory of administrative burden but also increases its relevance to policymakers and other stakeholders.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 385-403
Issue: 4
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2088581
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Author-Name: Donald Moynihan
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Author-Name: Pamela Herd
Author-X-Name-First: Pamela
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Title: Special issue introduction: administrative burdens as a global public management phenomenon
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 342-344
Issue: 4
Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2242977
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Author-Name: Shehreen Amin Bhuiyan
Author-X-Name-First: Shehreen Amin
Author-X-Name-Last: Bhuiyan
Author-Name: Hasan Muhammad Baniamin
Author-X-Name-First: Hasan Muhammad
Author-X-Name-Last: Baniamin
Title: Who puts the thorn in the citizen’s flesh? Sources underlying administrative burden in a developing country
Abstract: 
 This article identifies and analyses sources of administrative burden in the context of developing countries. We explore the case of Bangladesh’s online birth registration system, which has been causing inconveniences for its citizens. By employing qualitative research techniques such as netnography, interviews, and newspaper text analysis, this study analyses and identifies sources causing administrative burden in Bangladesh, and categorises them into two broad groups: state-generated (e.g., strict screening policy, partial digitalisation, redundant documentation, mistakes and correction hassles, and corruption) and citizen-generated problems (e.g., delay in submitting a certificate and broker dependency). When these two sources are acute, they can impose “deprivation costs” on citizens.
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Pages: 345-361
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Volume: 45
Year: 2023
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Adrian Kay
Author-X-Name-First: Adrian
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Title: The changing traditions of Islamic public administration: observing processes of collision, absorption and adaptation
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 The development of the concept of Islamic Public Administration (IPA) requires consideration of its portability across spatial and temporal contexts as well as secular-religious divides. The content of IPA has shifted over time, and debate over its meanings and key attributes has been a consistent feature of the history of Muslim societies. This means a hard-edged IPA concept constituted by immutable structural features to enable valid and reliable observation over time is likely to be defeated. This article argues instead for a thematic IPA framework that is relatively underspecified to allow for context sensitivity and facilitates the analysis of enduring historical dilemmas of Islamic governance. Such a framework helps show how IPA differs from other public administration traditions; specifically, its self-conscious reinvention by appeals to Islamic theology, law and ethics; and its grounding in values that are not commensurable with secular, liberal “public” values.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 13-30
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Volume: 46
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Author-Name: James L. Perry
Author-X-Name-First: James L.
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Author-Name: Wai-Fung Lam
Author-X-Name-First: Wai-Fung
Author-X-Name-Last: Lam
Title: Public performance symposium: co-editors’ introduction
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 31-31
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Volume: 46
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Author-Name: Shaleen Khanal
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Title: Open or shut case? Exploring the role of openness in public sector innovation
Abstract: 
 Public organisations are increasingly practising open innovation. Declining budgets, demand for greater participation and growing complexity of today’s social problems are forcing public sector employees to integrate external agencies into their organisational processes. While this eagerness to open up is well-documented, the effects of openness of public organisations on innovation outcomes are not well understood. This article addresses this crucial gap by analysing the extent of involvement of external sources in the innovation process of public sector workplaces and examining the relationship between such involvement and innovation outcomes. The findings suggest that openness and external knowledge is associated with positive organisational returns. Findings also show that public sector workplaces utilise external knowledge to generate product or service innovations, but not to generate organisational process changes.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 90-108
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Volume: 46
Year: 2024
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Author-Name: Richard M. Walker
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Author-Name: Rhys Andrews
Author-X-Name-First: Rhys
Author-X-Name-Last: Andrews
Author-Name: Bert George
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Author-Name: Xuan Tu
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Title: Organizational size and public service performance: a meta-analysis and an agenda for future research
Abstract: 
 The question whether small or large organisations are associated with the best public service performance has long been a subject of debate in public administration research, and has had profound ramifications for practice. This article seeks to bring clarity to this debate by conducting a meta-analysis of studies scrutinising the relationship between organisational size and public service performance (45 articles, 122 effect sizes). Meta-analytical and meta-regression results show mostly null findings. We discuss the circumstances in which organisational size matters for public service performance, and propose rekindling venerable research agendas about nonlinearity and contingency in the size-performance relationship.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 32-65
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Volume: 46
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Author-Name: Francis Fukuyama
Author-X-Name-First: Francis
Author-X-Name-Last: Fukuyama
Title: In Defense of the deep state
Abstract: 
 The term “deep state” originally referred to the hidden security bureaucracies in countries like Turkey and Egypt with sinister overtones. The term has been applied by American conservatives to the existing permanent US bureaucracy, which they argue is exerting tyrannical control over citizens and needs to be destroyed root and branch. The fact is that the US administrative state is highly transparent and plays a critical role in delivering services and outcomes that citizens demand. Modern government cannot function without a high degree of delegation to bureaucratic agents; as such the US “deep state” needs to be defended and not vilified. There are several critical mechanisms for democratic principals to exert control over bureaucratic agents. While there are instances of bureaucratic over-reach, the US system provides a number of checks on agency power that are under-utilised. A separate problem lies in under-delegation, where political principals write detailed rules constraining bureaucratic autonomy in ways that hinder effective and timely government action. Future efforts by conservatives to undermine the “deep state” will result in grave weakening of American government and return the country to the 19th century patronage system.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 1-12
Issue: 1
Volume: 46
Year: 2024
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Hyesong Ha
Author-X-Name-First: Hyesong
Author-X-Name-Last: Ha
Author-Name: Aarthi Raghavan
Author-X-Name-First: Aarthi
Author-X-Name-Last: Raghavan
Author-Name: Mehmet Akif Demircioglu
Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Akif
Author-X-Name-Last: Demircioglu
Title: COVID-19 and employee productivity in the public sector
Abstract: 
 COVID-19 has affected the public sector significantly. However, since it is a recent event, its impact on employee productivity, especially the individual and organisational outcomes, is not well-studied. Using the 2020 data from the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC, n = 96,690), this study analyzes how the Australian Public Service (APS)’s changed working methods during COVID-19, especially the effect of five practices, has affected employee productivity. Findings suggest that team adaption, team effort, and organisational adaptation are positively associated with employee productivity, whereas managerial support and proactiveness are negatively associated with employee productivity. Interestingly, while the team effort has significantly enhanced the perceived productivity of employees, the proactiveness of the organisation to maintain new working methods led to a negative impact on productivity. This is surprising and indicative of the positive and negative impacts of the pandemic on employee productivity. A crucial implication of these findings is that intra-organisational responses to COVID-19, including at the team level and managerial level, have affected employee productivity in the public sector.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 66-89
Issue: 1
Volume: 46
Year: 2024
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Wisanupong Potipiroon
Author-X-Name-First: Wisanupong
Author-X-Name-Last: Potipiroon
Author-Name: Worasan Thawornprasert
Author-X-Name-First: Worasan
Author-X-Name-Last: Thawornprasert
Title: Local government managers’ change-oriented leadership and employees’ change-supportive behaviour during COVID-19: utilizing the theory of planned behaviour
Abstract: 
 Past research has provided important insights on the role of public leaders in fostering employees’ change-related behaviour, but the psychological mechanisms and boundary conditions underlying this relationship remain unclear. This research relies on the theory of planned behaviour and the value-congruence model to shed light on when and how local government managers’ change-oriented leadership influences employees’ change-supportive behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on survey data collected from 758 local government employees in Thailand, our structural equation modelling analyses revealed that local government managers’ change-oriented leadership had a positive relationship with employees’ change-supportive behaviour via the mediating roles of employees’ attitude for change, perceived climate for change and self-efficacy for change. Furthermore, perceived value congruence between managers and employees was found to enhance the indirect relationship between change-oriented leadership and change-supportive behaviour. This research highlights the importance of change-oriented leadership and value alignment in fostering change-related behaviours among government employees.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 139-158
Issue: 2
Volume: 46
Year: 2024
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2207833
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Author-Name: James L. Perry
Author-X-Name-First: James L.
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Author-Name: Wai-Fung Lam
Author-X-Name-First: Wai-Fung
Author-X-Name-Last: Lam
Title: Public leadership symposium: co-editors’ introduction
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 138-138
Issue: 2
Volume: 46
Year: 2024
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2024.2342400
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Author-Name: Sergio Fernandez
Author-X-Name-First: Sergio
Author-X-Name-Last: Fernandez
Author-Name: Lianne P Malan
Author-X-Name-First: Lianne P
Author-X-Name-Last: Malan
Author-Name: Natasja Holtzhausen
Author-X-Name-First: Natasja
Author-X-Name-Last: Holtzhausen
Author-Name: Michel M Tshiyoyo
Author-X-Name-First: Michel M
Author-X-Name-Last: Tshiyoyo
Title: To what extent does corruption erode trust? evidence of reputational spillovers from ten countries in the Southern African development community
Abstract: 
 Emerging research indicates political corruption erodes political trust. However, previous studies have not adequately explored the question of whether corruption by a policy actor can spill over to influence trust in other policy actors. We draw insight from research and theory on collective reputation of organisations among other literature to explain why political corruption can produce reputational spillovers. Using individual-level Afrobarometer survey data from ten countries in the Southern African Development Community, one of the world’s corruption hotspots, the analysis reveals perceived involvement in corruption by a policy actor can spill over to tarnish the reputation of other actors involved in the policy process. State and nonstate policy actors like politicians, judges, bureaucrats and traditional leaders in some measure share a collective reputation and fate. We offer suggestions on how to combat corruption in ways that minimise spillovers and safeguard a shared reputation.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 113-137
Issue: 2
Volume: 46
Year: 2024
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2184403
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Author-Name: Abdul Kadir
Author-X-Name-First: Abdul
Author-X-Name-Last: Kadir
Author-Name: Hillman Wirawan
Author-X-Name-First: Hillman
Author-X-Name-Last: Wirawan
Author-Name: Rudi Salam
Author-X-Name-First: Rudi
Author-X-Name-Last: Salam
Author-Name: Syahruddin Hattab
Author-X-Name-First: Syahruddin
Author-X-Name-Last: Hattab
Author-Name: Daswati Daswati
Author-X-Name-First: Daswati
Author-X-Name-Last: Daswati
Title: Abusive supervision in public service organisations: investigating the moderating effect of attribution styles
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 This study explores how abusive supervision impacts employee turnover intention and performance and examines how attribution styles moderate the relationship in public service organisations. Data were collected from five types of public service organisations in Indonesia (i.e., municipal offices, hospitals, police offices, social security offices, and schools) using a multi-wave longitudinal survey method with a five-workday interval. After removing incomplete responses and participants with careless responses, 369 participants were included in the analysis. The data were analysed using Hayes’ moderated-mediation regression technique. This study confirmed that abusive supervision indirectly reduced performance by increasing turnover intention. However, three attribution styles (i.e., self-, supervisor-, and organisation-directed) showed different moderating effects on the relationship. Self- and organisation-directed attribution could intensify the positive impact of abusive supervision on turnover intention. The negative impact of abusive supervision on performance was observed when supervisor-directed attribution was low.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 184-209
Issue: 2
Volume: 46
Year: 2024
Month: 04
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Author-Name: Alasdair Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts
Title: Improving adaptability in democratic systems
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 109-112
Issue: 2
Volume: 46
Year: 2024
Month: 04
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Author-Name: Junesoo Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Junesoo
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Jongwoo Chung
Author-X-Name-First: Jongwoo
Author-X-Name-Last: Chung
Author-Name: Booyuel Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Booyuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Title: Leaders need to be led: complementary followership in the context of community-driven development program
Abstract: 
 Leadership has often been recognised as a major driver for successful team effectiveness. However, even weak leadership may lead to good team performance, and it is worth studying how weak leadership can be helped and complemented by followership. To investigate the paradoxical mechanism behind leadership – followership practices, we examined (1) multidimensional figures of leadership and followership using the multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ) and (2) the impacts of the combinations of leadership and followership on team performances both during and after a community-driven development (CDD) program. To that end, this study examines a rural CDD case implemented by the Korea International Cooperation Agency and the Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation. The analyses present some common patterns of how weak leadership and strong followership can lead to better performance than other combinations of leadership and followership. We conclude with theoretical and practical conditions of “complementary followership”, i.e., the complementary combinations of leadership and followership in group performance.
Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Pages: 159-183
Issue: 2
Volume: 46
Year: 2024
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2214825
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