The Many Faces of Public Management Reform in Asia-Pacific: Moving Ahead Amidst Challenges and Opportunities in Emerging Markets and in Difficult Times

摘要

During the past decade, globalization and democratization have been the major forcesthat helped transform the structures, functions, and processes of Asian public sectors.Nevertheless, these transformation efforts of Asian countries vary considerablydepending on local context, and have met with different degrees of success. Somecountries experienced smooth transformations. For others, the reform process has beenmore volatile. These issues were explored at a conference July 7-9, 2008 in Bangkok,Thailand, hosted by the Department of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, andco-sponsored by the International Public Management Network, the Asia-PacificGovernance Institute, and Thailand Democracy Watch. This special issue presents asample of the work by participating scholars and practitioners...