Transforming Asian Governance: Rethinking assumptions, challenging practices (Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia) - Hardcover

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9780415474788: Transforming Asian Governance: Rethinking assumptions, challenging practices (Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia)
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ISBN 10: 0415474787 ISBN 13: 9780415474788
Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

There are a multitude of hazards that confront attempts to change institutional or political orders in pursuit of good governance. Even seemingly technical prescriptions run up against local political and social realities which make their adoption difficult and, if adopted, require significant modification of the original prescriptions. Moreover, the technical, rationalist and/or normative language employed in the good governance discourse masks contests over power, rights, resources, and actors’ conflicting interests. There is a definite need to situate the good governance debate in the local context rather than reflexively adopting a universalistic positing of the fact or desirability of governance convergence across countries and sectors because the reality is that the world-wide deployment of good governance rhetoric is not accompanied by convergence in thinking or practices across nations. Transforming Asian Governance asks:

• How do good governance principles translate into local settings?
• How do local settings influence the conception of what is good governance and how the debate over good governance is deployed as a political or administrative strategy?

Using case studies in governance from Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Korea and Japan, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the public and social policy of Asia, and international and comparative governance more generally.

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About the Author

Scott Fritzen is Assistant Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

M Ramesh is Associate Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415474787
ISBN 13 
9780415474788
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
244
Editor
Ramesh M, Fritzen Scott

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