Public Policy in the 'Asian Century'

Sara Bice is Director, Research Translation and Westpac Bicentennial Foundation Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She is President-Elect, International Association for Impact Assessment. Her most recent book is Responsible Mining.Avery Poole is Assistant Director, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published articles on democracy and human rights in Southeast Asia, particularly in regard to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).Helen Sullivan is Director, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. She is a Fellow (Victoria) of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. Her latest book is Hybrid Governance in European Cities: Neighbourhood, Migration and Democracy (2013).

• 1: Introduction; Sara Bice, Avery Poole and Helen Sullivan.- 2: Beyond the Western Paradigm: Confucian Public Administration; Wolfgang Drechsler.- 3: Rethinking public governance in the Asian Century: Grand discourse vs. Actual reality; M. Shamsul Haque.- 4: Weber and Confucius in East Asia: The Great Experiment; Jill L. Tao.- 5: Disciplining democracy: Explaining the rhythms of Myanmar’s first Hluttaw, 2011-2016; Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win.- 6: Science and Technology Policy in the Asian Century; Paul Jensen and Lauren Palmer.- 7: Humanising bureaucracy: Clan-oriented culture in the Thai civil service; Marianna Fotaki and Rutaichanok Jingjit.- 8: Urban development in China: Moving from urbanisation to quality of urban life; Jong Youl Lee, Chad Anderson and Bo Wang.- 9: Public sector reform and national development in East and Southeast Asia: specificity and commonality; Mark Turner.- 10: A capabilities framework for a globalised public service; Sara Bice.- 11: Hurdles to an Asian Century of Public Administration; Kim Moloney.- 12: International policy coordination and its impacts; Adrian Kay.- 13: Beyond the East-West Dichotomy: Economic development policies in Asia and Europe; Jon Pierre.- 14: Conclusion: five emergent themes for public policy in the Asian Century; Sara Bice, Avery Poole and Helen Sullivan.-