Public Policy in the 'Asian Century': Concepts, Cases and Futures

1: Introduction; Sara Bice, Avery Poole and Helen Sullivan.- 2: Beyond the Western Paradigm: Confucian Public Administration; Wolfgang Drechsler.- 3: Rethinking public governance in the Asian Century: Grand discourse vs. Actual reality; M. Shamsul Haque.- 4: Weber and Confucius in East Asia: The Great Experiment; Jill L. Tao.- 5: Disciplining democracy: Explaining the rhythms of Myanmar's first Hluttaw, 2011-2016; Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win.- 6: Science and Technology Policy in the Asian Century; Paul Jensen and Lauren Palmer.- 7: Humanising bureaucracy: Clan-oriented culture in the Thai civil service; Marianna Fotaki and Rutaichanok Jingjit.- 8: Urban development in China: Moving from urbanisation to quality of urban life; Jong Youl Lee, Chad Anderson and Bo Wang.- 9: Public sector reform and national development in East and Southeast Asia: specificity and commonality; Mark Turner.- 10: A capabilities framework for a globalised public service; Sara Bice.- 11: Hurdles to an Asian Century of Public Administration; Kim Moloney.- 12: International policy coordination and its impacts; Adrian Kay.- 13: Beyond the East-West Dichotomy: Economic development policies in Asia and Europe; Jon Pierre.- 14: Conclusion: five emergent themes for public policy in the Asian Century; Sara Bice, Avery Poole and Helen Sullivan.-