Description
Present day knowledge about public sector reforms in Asia is quite scattered and seldom focuses on the challenges of leadership. This edited collection seeks to address this issue by presenting country cases that reflect the great diversity of the region.
Home to roughly one-third of the world's population, Asia-Pacific governments typically play leading roles in social and economic development, yet by measures of expenditures or civil servants per capita, most are among the smaller ones in the world. These regimes include democracies, one-party states and unstable systems; there is a broad range of cultural legacies including Confucian, Buddhist, and Western, and vastly different levels of economic development; the region includes some of the very least corrupt countries and those with high corruption levels; it includes the world's most populous country, as well as some of the smallest.
Public sector reforms are very relevant to these countries and their leaders. In Asia, a strong government is invaluable and public sector reforms are relevant to helping modern states meet their goals and performance. This collection explores what is known about these reforms with an eye towards helping leaders responsible for reforms. Clearly, there is very large variation; some Asia-Pacific countries are leading in public sector reforms, while others are not, and this book also seeks to further our understanding what leaders might need to do to be successful.
About the Author
Evan Berman is Professor of Public Management at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Government. He is recipient of the Fred Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration from the American Society for Public Administration. He has published extensively on public administration leadership in Asia, performance, human resources, and other topics.Eko Prasojo is Dean of Faculty of Administrative Science University of Indonesia and the Director of University Centre of Study of Governance and Administrative Reform (UI CESGAR). He is also Professor of Public Administration. He is President of the Indonesian Association of Public Administration (IAPA), Vice President Asian Association for Public Administration (AAPA) and member of Committee Expert of Public Administration, the United Nation (UN CEPA).
Reviews
The 11 chapters in this volume discuss public sector reforms in Japan, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand. Public administration specialists from these countries address the challenges of leadership in reforms in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on the leadership of political executives and bureaucratic actors and the strategy and contexts of reform leadership. They describe the locus and drivers of reforms, the extent and manner that leadership is seen to promote reform efforts, how leaders address resistance inside organizations and relations with the authorizing environment, how they overcome public distrust, and how leaders build operational capacity for implementation and sustainability of reforms. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787433106
Author Evan Berman
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 580g
Home to roughly one-third of the world's population, Asia-Pacific governments typically play leading roles in social and economic development, yet by measures of expenditures or civil servants per capita, most are among the smaller ones in the world. These regimes include democracies, one-party states and unstable systems; there is a broad range of cultural legacies including Confucian, Buddhist, and Western, and vastly different levels of economic development; the region includes some of the very least corrupt countries and those with high corruption levels; it includes the world's most populous country, as well as some of the smallest.
Public sector reforms are very relevant to these countries and their leaders. In Asia, a strong government is invaluable and public sector reforms are relevant to helping modern states meet their goals and performance. This collection explores what is known about these reforms with an eye towards helping leaders responsible for reforms. Clearly, there is very large variation; some Asia-Pacific countries are leading in public sector reforms, while others are not, and this book also seeks to further our understanding what leaders might need to do to be successful.
About the Author
Evan Berman is Professor of Public Management at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Government. He is recipient of the Fred Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration from the American Society for Public Administration. He has published extensively on public administration leadership in Asia, performance, human resources, and other topics.Eko Prasojo is Dean of Faculty of Administrative Science University of Indonesia and the Director of University Centre of Study of Governance and Administrative Reform (UI CESGAR). He is also Professor of Public Administration. He is President of the Indonesian Association of Public Administration (IAPA), Vice President Asian Association for Public Administration (AAPA) and member of Committee Expert of Public Administration, the United Nation (UN CEPA).
Reviews
The 11 chapters in this volume discuss public sector reforms in Japan, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand. Public administration specialists from these countries address the challenges of leadership in reforms in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on the leadership of political executives and bureaucratic actors and the strategy and contexts of reform leadership. They describe the locus and drivers of reforms, the extent and manner that leadership is seen to promote reform efforts, how leaders address resistance inside organizations and relations with the authorizing environment, how they overcome public distrust, and how leaders build operational capacity for implementation and sustainability of reforms. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787433106
Author Evan Berman
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 580g
