1. Public administration in Singapore: continuity and reform - David Seth Jones 2. Bureaucratic accountability in Malaysia: control mechanisms and critical concerns - Khai Leong Ho 3. The changing nature of administrative reform: cases in Malaysia and Singapore - M. Shamsul Haque 4. Administrative reform and the politician-bureaucrat perspective: visions, processes, and support for reform - Bidhya Bowornwathana 5. New zealand's corporatization experience: a strategy of "staying in, but beefing up"? - Ian Thynne 6. Administrative reform in Australian public sector - John Wanna 7. Reforming government and changing styles of Japanese governance: public administration at the crossroads - Akira Nakamura 8. Public administration scholar-practitioner differences: A Q study of theory-pratice connections in Taiwan - Milan Tung-Wen Sun and John J. Gargan 9. Goverment reform in Korea - Pan Suk Kim 10. Changing environmental impacts on civil service systems: the cases of China and Hog Kong - John P. Burns 11. Administrative development in Hong Kong political questions, administrative answers - Anthony B. L. Cheung 12. Training as an instrument for organizational change in public administration in Hong Kong - Peter K. W. Fong 13. Public finance in the people's republic of China: From the 1950s to the 1990s - Zhiyong Lan 14. Corruption in China: A principal-agent perspective - Kin-man Chan 15. An instrumental disciplina for the party and state: public administration education and training in China - Tao-Chiu Lam and Hoi-Kwok Wong