LEE, Jane

Challenges and adjustments in policy principle in the Hong Kong special administrative region - New York : Marcel Dekker, 2001

This article discusses issues that challenged the principles of policy development in the Hong Kong Special Admintrative Region (HKSAR) after the transfer of sovereignty. It first examines the traditional paradgims of public administration i Hong Kong and asseses their strenghts. Then it analyses the problems and pressures confronted by the new HKSAR government, focusing on eight problem areas and five dilemmans i the two-year period after 1997. Challenges and adjustments in policy principles in the new political setting are identified, and the critical sucess factors for public administration are re-visited