THE REPOSITIONING OF PUBLIC GOVERNANCE

Since the 1980s, every nation in the world has been struggling to make its government stronger by implementing various administrative reforms. This book makes a significant and timely contribution by analyzing what has been achieved and what still remains to be done to improve public sector performance, transform government into governance, and reposition the administrative state, three of the most important challenges still facing public administrators the world over. The book begins with two chapters that provide the global setting for the country-specific chapters that follow. These chapters then explore how the concepts of New Public Management have been translated and implemented in different social and political contexts, such as Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan.

01 Introduction /Gerald E. Caiden
02 Repositioning Public Governance: An Overview/Gerald E. Caiden
03 Public Budgeting in an Era of Globalization/Naomi J. Caiden
04 Repositioning Australian Public Governance:
Three Generations of Management Reform atCommonwealth Level /John Halligan
05 State Sector Reform and Renewal in New Zealand:
Lessons for Governance/Jonathan Boston and Christopher Eichbaum
06 Government-Based Governance Reform inChina and Its Implications /Lan Xue
07 Stealth Populism: Administrative Reform inJapan /Gregory W. Noble
08 Administrative Reform in Malaysia/Noore Alam Siddiquee
09 Administrative Reform and Governance inSingapore / Jon S. T. Quah
10 Government Reform Experience in Taiwan(1990 - 2006):
A Critical Assessment/Jay N. Shih
11 Public Budgeting Reform in Taiwan/Tsai-Tsu Su
12 Reinventing Government in Taiwan: PublicOpinion Research Findings /Chilik Yu