Governance and public sector reforms in Asia: paradigms, paradoxes and dilemmas / Anthony B.L. Cheung and Ian Scott -- Japan's reluctant reformers and the legacy of the developmental state / Mark Beeson -- State capacity and public sector reforms in post-crisis Korea / Joan Y.H. Leung -- Governance and public sector reform in the People's Republic of China / John P. Burns -- Government reinvention in Taiwan: administrative modernisation and regime transition / Anthony B.L. Cheung -- A de-capacitated state? Systemic constraints on governance in Hong Kong / Grace O.M. Lee -- Public service reform in Singapore: reinventing government in a global age / Anthony B.L. Cheung -- Malaysia: a case of 'business as usual'? / Richard Common -- Thailand: building the foundations for structural and systemic transformation / Brian Brewer -- Public administration reform in Vietnam / Martin Painter -- What paradigm shift? Public sector reform in Indonesia since the Asian crisis / Andrew Rosser -- The Philippines: paradigm lost or paradigm retained? / Mark Richard Hayllar -- International agencies and public sector reform in post-crisis Asia / Ian Scott
Summary
This book assesses the current state of governance and public sector reforms in eleven Asian countries and jurisdictions, especially in the wake of the recent regional financial crisis that seriously affected some of them
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-342) and index
