Public administration in East Asia : legacies, trajectories and lessons
By: CHEUNG, Anthony B. L
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ArticlePublisher: New Jersey : IIAS , june 2012International Review of Administrative Sciences : Public Administration in East Asia: Legacies, experiences and trajectories of reforms 78, 2, p. 209-216Abstract: Public administration and public management, as a field of study, has always been informed by the practice of governance and public administration in the Western world, especially the Anglo-American family of countries. In recent years, there have been more comparative studies of administrative and governance reforms (e.g OECD, 1995; Pollitt and Bouchaert, 2000), though such studies are mostly construed within the context of global reform movements and paradigms originating from the Western developed nations. Globalization should not be a one-way street; it should be a process of recognizing cross-border, cross-cultural and cross-institutional experiences, from the East as much as from the West, from the South as much as from the North, and from the developing world as much as from the developed. Writing from East Asia, the authors in this special issue consider it long overdue that the Asian public administration experience should be more systematically understood, conceptualized and presented in the international literature. East Asian public administration reforms represent efforts at continuity and change both connected to past traditions and domestic administrative and political trajectories, as well as linking up to the current global movement of administrative reform, displaying features of Asian-ness, which can be distinguished from the hitherto mostly Euro-American dominated paradigms of public administration.
Public administration and public management, as a field of study, has always been informed by the practice of governance and public administration in the Western world, especially the Anglo-American family of countries. In recent years, there have been more comparative studies of administrative and governance reforms (e.g OECD, 1995; Pollitt and Bouchaert, 2000), though such studies are mostly construed within the context of global reform movements and paradigms originating from the Western developed nations. Globalization should not be a one-way street; it should be a process of recognizing cross-border, cross-cultural and cross-institutional experiences, from the East as much as from the West, from the South as much as from the North, and from the developing world as much as from the developed. Writing from East Asia, the authors in this special issue consider it long overdue that the Asian public administration experience should be more systematically understood, conceptualized and presented in the international literature. East Asian public administration reforms represent efforts at continuity and change both connected to past traditions and domestic administrative and political trajectories, as well as linking up to the current global movement of administrative reform, displaying features of Asian-ness, which can be distinguished from the hitherto mostly Euro-American dominated paradigms of public administration.
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