Asia

Readings and class materials for Thursday, December 5, 2024

Readings

  •  Alasdair Roberts, “Our Asian Challenge,” Governance 30, no. 4 (October 2017): 537–39, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12303.
  •  Pan Suk Kim, “The Development of Modern Public Administration in East Asia,” International Review of Administrative Sciences 83, no. 2 (June 2017): 225–40, https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852316685162.
  •  Alexandre Gomide, “Democracy and Bureaucracy in Newly Industrialized Countries: A Systematic Comparison Between Latin America and East Asia,” Governance 35, no. 1 (January 2022): 83–102, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12572.
  •  Wei‐Ting Yen et al., “The Imperative of State Capacity in Public Health Crisis: Asia’s Early COVID‐19 Policy Responses,” Governance 35, no. 3 (July 2022): 777–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12695.

One of these empirical articles on China:

  •  Linke Hou et al., “Of Time, Leadership, and Governance: Elite Incentives and Stability Maintenance in China,” Governance 31, no. 2 (April 2018): 239–57, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12286.
  •  Qiang Zhi and Margaret M. Pearson, “China’s Hybrid Adaptive Bureaucracy: The Case of the 863 Program for Science and Technology,” Governance 30, no. 3 (July 2017): 407–24, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12245.

Plan for the day

The Middle East and North Africa

  • What even is the “Middle East”?

  • Orientalism, historical essentialism, and modernization theory

  • Public administration in the Middle East and North Africa

    • Ali Farazmand, “Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in the Middle East,” in Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective, ed. Keith M. Henderson and O. P. Dwivedi (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1999), 244–68, https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983355_10.
    • John Dixon, Shahjahan Bhuiyan, and Yılmaz Üstüner, “Public Administration in the Middle East and North Africa,” International Journal of Public Administration 41, no. 10 (July 2018): 759–64, https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2018.1433207.
    • Rahel M. Schomaker and Michael W. Bauer, “Public Governance in the MENA Region: Reform Trends and Patterns,” International Journal of Public Administration 43, no. 5 (April 2020): 378–91, https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2019.1669179.

  • Specific countries

    • Muhammad A Nisar, “Children of a Lesser God: Administrative Burden and Social Equity in Citizen–State Interactions,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 28, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 104–19, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/mux025.
    • Hamid E. Ali, “State Transitions from Rigidity to Fragility and Failure: The Case of Middle East and North Africa,” International Journal of Public Administration 41, no. 10 (July 2018): 765–71, https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2017.1387150.
    • Egypt
    • Jordan
    • The UAE
    • Turkey

Asia

  • Public administration in East Asia

    • Kim, “The Development of Modern Public Administration in East Asia.”
    • Roberts, “Our Asian Challenge.”

  • Not China

    • Gomide, “Democracy and Bureaucracy in Newly Industrialized Countries.”
    • Yen et al., “The Imperative of State Capacity in Public Health Crisis.”

  • China

    • Hou et al., “Of Time, Leadership, and Governance.”
    • Zhi and Pearson, “China’s Hybrid Adaptive Bureaucracy.”

Final policy brief

  • Q&A time!