TRIANTAFILLOU, Peter

Machinating the responsive bureaucrat : excellent work culture in the Malasyan public sector - Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, December 2002

This article examines the bewildering array of reforms of the malasyan public sector launched since the 1980s under the heading of Excellent Work Culture. Taking as the point of departure Michel Foucaultīs analytics of government and ethics, it is argued that these reforms should be seen as a specific malasyan neo-liberal problematic of government seeking to recast norms of bureaucratic self-conduct so as to make way for an ethos of responsiveness informed by malasyan values.