Governance Innovations in the Asia-Pacific Region
Trends, Cases, and Issues
Published on 17. April 1998
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-84014-392-8 (ISBN)
Description
The debate on what constitutes good governance - and more importantly, how to attain it - is not a new issue. The elusive - and pluralistic - nature of governance ensures that much more needs to be studied about the specific incidence of good governance before a unifying theme on how exactly to develop a universal framework of application of governance can be finalized. It is within this context that this book seeks to fill a vacuum in the theory-practice dichotomy that, it argues, has dominated the debate on governance so far.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
figures, tables, index
Dimensions
Height: 157 mm
Width: 226 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84014-392-8 (9781840143928)
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Content
Part 1 Introduction: evolving context of governance in the Asia-Pacific region, Joaquin L. Gonzalez III, Gambhir Bhatta; does governance matter? John Page. Part 2 Bureaucracy and leadership: bureaucratic rationality in an evolving developmentalist state - the challenges of governance in Singapore, Gillian Koh; public service leadership and political adaptation of the Hong Kong civil servants, Jermain T.M. Lam. Part 3 Citizen, business, and government: total quality governance (TQG) - a new model for government-citizen relations, Emil P. Bolongaita, Jr.; small business policy reform - a new approach to old problems, William Cole, Stephen Parker; building a government-citizen-business partnership - linking business with government in Laos, Sirisamphanh Vorachith. Part 4 Accountability, corruption, and enforcement: strategic approach for donor-assisted counter corruption programmes, James R. Klein; methodology for evaluation dimensions, characteristics and costs of corruption, Pasuk Phongpichit; combat training - using seminars to fight corruption, Denis Osborne; strengthening legislative audit institutions - a catalyst to enhance governance and combat corruption, Vinod Sahgal, John Burns. Part 5 Regulations and informations: regulation in the information age - Indonesia public information programme for environmental management, Shakeb Afsah et al; building information "city streets" - the Internet as a tool for effective governance, Bhavya Lal. Part 6 Capacity building and local governance: decentralized governance empowerment without capacity enhancement is meaningless, Gambhir Bhatta; capacity building and administrative innovation in the Philippines - the integrated capacity building programme, Alex B. Brillantes; choice of community forestry by voice of local participation in northeastern villages of Thailand, Tipaporn Phimphisut. Part 7 Conclusions: moving beyond 20th-century myths to an appreciation of state-society synergy, Peter Evans; the future of governance in the Asia-Pacific and areas for further research, Joaquin L. Gonzalez III, Gambhir Bhatta.