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.

Article discussion reminder

How to discuss an article in a seminar

  • Who wrote the article? What’s their background?
  • General summary of the article
  • Strengths
  • Weaknesses
  • How does it connect to other readings?
  • How does it connect to the broader course themes?
  • How does it connect to current events?
  • What does it add to our Global Bureaucracy Toolkit?

Plan for the day

  • 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.”