Public Administration and Policy: An Asia-Pacific Journal: Volume 26 Issue 3 , Open Access

Editorial: Policy analysis, political issues, sustainable development and more

Evaluating the policy response to curb the opioid prescribing behaviour of physicians in the United States

Roshni Das

In 2017, the opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency in the United States. The federal and state governments are still struggling to contain the crisis through…

Citizens’ trust and digital attitudes: evidence from city digital transformation in Shanghai, China

Yang Zhang

Based on the theory of trust and cost-benefit perspective, this paper examines the relationship between citizens’ trust and their digital attitudes by considering the mediating…

Agencification, policy reversal and the reforms of the French health care system

Daniel Simonet

Often linked to the New Public Management (NPM) doctrines, agencification has been on the priority list of policy makers for over two decades. This article proposes an analysis of…

Is constitutional democracy in India in crisis?

Krishna K. Tummala

This paper examines the decline of the largest working parliamentary democracy in India overtime, but accelerating since 2014 as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the…

Systematic child abuse incidents in a children’s residential home in Hong Kong: regulatory and criminal law reform proposals

Wing-hong Chui, Henry Kao, Aaron H.L. Wong

The paper aims to recommend legal and regulatory reforms to better prevent child abuse in childcare institutions in Hong Kong.

Critical success factors of Public-Private Partnerships in the education sector

Sajida, Bevaola Kusumasari

This paper aims to identify the factors affecting the implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the education sector.

A stakeholder analysis for sustainable development of Maritime Village in Semarang coastal community, Indonesia

Kismartini Kismartini, Ali Roziqin, Naila Authori

This paper aims to examine the role of stakeholders and their interconnected relationships based on power and interests in realising sustainable development in coastal areas using…

Political decentralisation and political-administrative relation in the local councils in Tanzania

Wilfred Uronu Lameck

This paper analyses the degree of political decentralisation and its relation to the local councils in Tanzania. It explores the institutional and political set-up of the local…

Indigenous cultures and employee efficiency: the moderating effect of cronyism in state-owned enterprises in Ghana

Fred Awaah, Morounkeji Olanrewaju

This paper examines the relationship between indigenous cultures and employee efficiency and how cronyism strengthens or weakens the relationship in the Ghanaian state-owned…