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Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Asia

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Public Policy and Governance

Edited by Professor Evan Berman, School of Government,Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

This series brings together the best in international research on policy and governance issues. Authored and edited by experts of the field, these books present new and insightful research on a range of policy and governance issues across the globe. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, policy analysis frameworks; health care policy; environmental/resource policy; local government policy; development policy; regional studies/policy; urban policy/planning and social policy.

Titles include:

• Corruption, Accountability and Discretion

  Nancy S. Lind and Cara Rabe-Hemp

• The Experience of Democracy and Bureaucracy in South Korea

  Tobin Im

• Governmental Financial Resilience: International Perspectives on How Local Governments Face Austerity

  Ileana Steccolini, Martin Jones and Iris Saliterer

• The Global Educational Policy Environment in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Gated, Regulated and Governed

  Travis D. Jules

• Governing for the Future: Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow

  Jonathan Boston

• Asian Leadership in Policy and Governance

  Evan M. Berman and M. Shamsul Haque

• Different Paths to Curbing Corruption: Lessons from Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore

  Jon S. T. Quah

• Institutional Reforms in the Public Sector: What Did We Learn?

  Mahabat Baimyrzaeva

• New Steering Concepts in Public Management

  Sandra Groeneveld and Steven Van de Walle

• Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries: An Impossible Dream?

  Jon S. T. Quah

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Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Asia

Edited By

Evan Berman

School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Eko Prasojo

Faculty of Administrative Science, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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ISBN: 978-1-78743-310-6 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-78743-309-0 (Online)

ISBN: 978-1-78743-444-8 (Epub)

ISSN: 2053-7697 (Series)

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Loo-See Beh is Professor at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya. Her research focus is on public administration and human resource management. She has published widely in leading journals and various publications. She has been a Resource Person and Associate Member with several organisations, including Malaysian Qualifications Agency, Royal Malaysian Police, Malaysian Tax Agency, and the Asian Development Bank Institute.

Evan Berman is Professor of Public Management at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is recipient of the Fred Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration from the American Society for Public Administration and other awards. He has published extensively on public administration leadership in Asia, performance, human resources and other topics. His publications include works on Public Administration in East Asia (2010) and Public Administration in Southeast Asia (2011). He is past University Chair Professor, and currently Adjunct Chair Professor, at National Chengchi University (Taiwan) and Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University. He is also Coauthor of the popular textbooks, Human Resource Management in Public Service (Sage, 2016, 5th ed.) and Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts (Sage, 2018, 4th ed.).

Alex Brillantes is Professor of Public Administration at the National College of Public Administration and Governance in the University of the Philippines. Brillantes earlier served as Commissioner of the Commission on Higher Education, Executive Director of the Local Government Academy of the Department of Interior and Local Government and President of the Philippine Society for Public Administration. He obtained his Masters and PhD from the University of Hawaii, and MPA and AB from the University of the Philippines. His areas of expertise are governance, institutions, development administration, local governance and higher education.

John Halligan is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis, University of Canberra. Research interests are comparative public management and governance, including public sector reform. He specialises in Anglophone countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom, and is currently completing a book on the results of reform in these countries.

Defny Holidin is a Lecturer in Public Administration at Universitas Indonesia. His research areas are public administrative reform, public sector innovation and institutional reengineering. He is currently Co-directing Research and Policy Advocacy of the Universitas Indonesia Center for Study of Governance and Administrative Reform. He has provided policy consultation and advice concerning bureaucracy reform and public service innovation agendas to the Government of Indonesia. He has recently co-authored a policy paper on transformative leadership and competencies of public servants for the 15th Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (2016) and a book entitled Bureaucracy Reform Transition in Indonesia (in Bahasa Indonesia, 2016).

Masahiro Horie is Senior Professor and Director of the Executive Development Center for Global Center of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. Before moving to GRIPS, he worked for the Japanese Government for 35 years. Positions he held in the government includes Vice Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and Director-General of the Cabinet Secretariat Office for the Promotion of Administrative Reform. Since 2013 he is the Chair of the Programme and Research Advisory Committee of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences. His research concentrates on administrative reform, public management, policy evaluation and comparative public administration.

Shao Jingjun has worked as the Deputy Secretary of Ling County CPC Committee, Shandong Province and has served as the Deputy Discipline Commissioner to the Research Office of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of CPC and inspector of the Inspection Department. He has served as the Committee Member of Committee of National Philosophy and Social Science Planning Subject, Special Commentator of Central Organization Department of CPC, the Contributing Senior Editor of People’s Daily, Adjunct Professor of Chinese Academy of Governance, Hunan University, and Qingdao University, and the Staff Writer of Chinese Public Administration. His main research areas are the social development and governance in current China, and the CPC Building and Anti-Corruption Fight.

David Seth Jones is currently a Consultant in Policy and Management. He previously worked as Associate or Adjunct Professor in the National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University and University of Brunei Darussalam, and as a Course Director in Singapore for a Masters of Public Administration Programme conducted by the Australian National University and the Civil Service College, Singapore. His current research interests are public procurement, public finance, public–private partnerships and land policy and reform. He has published widely in these fields.

Lizan Perante Calina is currently connected with the House of Representatives. She is a University Lecturer at the National College of Public Administration, University of the Philippines. She is actively involved in the discourse of public administration and governance as Executive Director of the Philippine Society for Public Administration and Associate Editor of the Philippine Governance Digest. She obtained her Doctorate and Masters in Public Administration from the same university.

Ha Ngoc Pham is a Lecturer at National Academy of Public Administration in Hanoi, Vietnam. She obtained a Master Degree in Public Administration from University of Leuven, Belgium and is currently doing a PhD in Public Management in Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her main research areas include public sector leadership, performance management and public administration reform and training. She has published several articles, textbook chapters and conference papers in Vietnamese and English.

Eko Prasojo is Dean of Faculty of Administrative Science, University of Indonesia and the Director of University Centre of Study of Governance and Administrative Reform. He is Professor for Public Administration. From October 2011 until October 2014, he was the Vice Minister of Administrative Reform in the Republic of Indonesia and was involved in several drafts of law on public sector reform and decentralization in Indonesia. He is now president of the Indonesian Association of Public Administration, Vice President of the Asian Association for Public Administration and Member of Committee Expert of Public Administration, the United Nation.

Caroline Rennie has worked in the New Zealand Government for the Ministry of Transport, NZ Treasury and former Ministry of Economic Development. Caroline worked on provided ministerial advice on the management of Crown owned entities and advising on the development of commercial legislation in the transport, electricity and finance sectors. She has for a number of years taken an interest in the changes and reforms to the New Zealand public sector and has qualifications in Law and Economics.

Supachai Yavaprabhas is a Professor in the Department of Public Administration, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. His research interests include public policy analysis and public sector reform, especially in the sector of higher education, basic education, police and judicial administration and public health. Recently, he was appointed as a member of the Thailand National Reform Council and later a member of the Constitutional Drafting Committee. He previously served as Secretary to the Minister of University Affairs, and in the last decade, he held positions on the Main Committee, External QA Assessor, Advisor and Senior Administrator in both public and higher education sectors.

Jiang Wu has served as President of the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science and as a member of the 11th and 12th CPPCC National Committee. He served as the Senior Vice President of International Institute of Administrative Sciences from 2009 to 2016. He is currently the President of Asian Group of Public Administration, and also works as the Deputy Director of Research Institute of China’s Administrative Reform, the vice chairman of Chinese Public Administration Society and the Deputy Director of Research Institute of China’s Public Sectors Management and China Institute for Leadership Science. Prior, he served as Deputy Director of research office of Central Organization Department of CPC in 1993, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Party Building Books Publishing House in 1991.