Public management and policy transfer in Southeast Asia
By: Richard Common.
Publisher: Burlington, VT; Ashgate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Political planning -- Asia, Southeastern -- Case studies.; Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "The author provides a fresh perspective of the implications of policy transfer for standard accounts of policy formulation. By presenting original case studies of public management reforms in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, it is an important addition to our understanding of the development of New Public Management (NPM) outside Western liberal democracies. This book challenges established ideas that the NPM has been globalized based on extrapolations made from experiences of a handful of Western liberal democracies, notably Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US. Moreover, the book contains the first multi-state study of the process of policy transfer. Particularly useful for political scientists, business and management scholars, academics of international relations and economics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-273).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Pan One: Public Management and Policy Transfer; title: I Is Policy Transfer Analysis a Useful Mode of Enquiry in; title: Political Science?; title: 2 The New Public Management: Origins, Development and; title: Globalisation; title: 3 The Role of International Organisations in Policy Transfer; title: 4 Accounting for Administrative Change in the Asia-Pacific: A; title: Case of Policy Transfer?; title: Part Two: Applying Public Management and Policy Transferto Hong; title: Kong, Malaysia and Singapore; title: Introduction to Part Two; title: 5 Administrative Change in the Hong Kong Special; title: Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China; title: 6 Administrative Change in Malaysia; title: 7 Administrative Change in Singapore; title: 8 Policy Transfer in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore:; title: Comparisons and Conclusions; title: Appendix: An Explanation of the Characteristics of the NPM Model; title: Bibliography.