Asia

Readings and class materials for Tuesday, April 18, 2023

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.

How to discuss an article in a seminar

Mini presentation and group discussion
Review of past region-specific theories and exploration of how they apply to East 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.”