Public Administration & Management in Asia (Resources)

Course Syllabus

PPG6005 Public Administration & Management in Asia (download)

Selected Course Readings

Jarvis, Darryl S.L. (2012), The Regulatory State in Developing Countries: Can It Exist and Do We Want It? The Case of the Indonesian Power Sector, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 42(3), pp. 464-492.

Jarvis, Darryl S.L., (2010), ‘Institutional Processes and Regulatory Risk: A Case Study of the Thai Energy Sector,’ Regulation & Governance, 4(2), pp. 175-202

Jarvis, Darryl S.L. (2012), 'Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Liberalisation in Asia: Assessing ASEAN's Initiatives,' Australian Journal of International Affairs, 66(2), pp. 223-264.

Jarvis, Darryl. S. L. (2011), ‘Regulatory Governance of Nanotechnology in China: Regulatory Challenges and Effectiveness,’ European Journal of Law and Technology, 12(3), pp. 1-12.

Jayasuriya, K (2005), ‘Beyond Institutional Fetishism: From the Developmental to the Regulatory State,’ New Political Economy, 10(3), pp.381-387.

Giandomenico Majone (1997), 'From Positive to the Regulatory State: Casues and Consequences of Changes in the Mode of Governance,' Journal of Public Policy, 17(2), pp. 139-167.

Thomas Pallesen (2011), ‘Privitization,’ in Christensen, Tom & Per Laegreid (eds.), The Ashgate Research Compendium to New Public Management. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, pp. 251-264 (chapter 17).

Comez-Ibanez, Jose A. (2003) Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp.298-325.

Cheung, Anthony B.L. (2011), ‘NPM in Asian Countries,’ in Tom Christensen and Per Laegried (eds.), The Ashgate Research Compendium to New Public Management. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, pp. 131-144.

Bartle, Ian (2011), 'Utility Regulation and NPM,' in in Tom Christensen and Per Laegried (eds.), The Ashgate Research Compendium to New Public Management. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, pp.193-206.

Thomas Pallesen (2011), ‘Privitization,’ in Christensen, Tom & Per Laegreid (eds.), The Ashgate Research Compendium to New Public Management. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, pp. 251-264.

Spiller, Pablo T.,& Mariano Tommasi (2005) The Institutions of Regulation: An Application to Public Utilities, in Menard, C & M.M. Shirley (eds.) Handbook of New Institutional Economics, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 515-543.

Painter, Martin (2011), 'Managerialism and Models of Management,' in Christensen, Tom & Per Laegreid (eds.), The Ashgate Research Compendium to New Public Management. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, pp. 237-249.

Owen E. Hughs (2012) Public Management and Administration: An Introduction (4th Edition), Macmillan Palgrave, pp.74-102 (chapter 4).

Owen E. Hughs (2012) Public Management and Administration: An Introduction (4th Edition), Macmillan Palgrave, pp.43-73 (chapter 3).

Cheung, Anthony B.L. (2010), ‘Repositioning the State and the Public Sector Reform Agenda,’ in M. Ramesh, Eduardo Araral and Wu Xun (eds.), Reasserting the Public in Public Services: New Public Management Reforms. London: Routledge, pp.79-100.

Ramesh, M. (2010),‘Reasserting the Role of the State in the Healthcare Sector: Lessons from Asia,’ in Ramesh, M., Eduardo Araral Jr. &
Xun Wu (eds.), Reasserting the Public in Public Services: New Management Reforms. London: Routledge, pp. 101-112.

Schick, Allen, (1998), 'Why Most Developing Countries should not Try New Zealand's Reforms,' The World Bank Research Observer, 13(1), pp.123-131.

Johnson, Chalmers (1999), ‘The Developmental State: Odyssey of a Concept,’ Woo-Cumings, Meredith (ed.), The Developmental State. Cornell, CA: Cornell University Press, pp. 32-60.

Wu, Xun & Priyambudi Sulistiyanto (2006),‘Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Indonesia and the Philippines,’ in Howlett, M. and M Ramesh (eds.), De-regulation and Its Discontents: Rewriting the Rules in Asia, Edward Elgar, 2006.

Ramesh, M, Xun Wu and Alex Jingwei He (2013), ‘Health Governance and Healthcare Reforms in China,’ Health Policy and
Planning, pp.1-10.

Ramesh, M and Xun Wu (2008), ‘Realigning Public and Private Health Care in Southeast Asia,’ The Pacific Review,
21(2), pp.171-187.

Ramesh, M (2008), ‘Autonomy and Control in Public Hospital Reforms in Singapore,’ The American Review of Public Administration, 38(1), pp. 62-79.

Xun, Wu and M. Ramesh (2009), ‘Health Care Reforms in Developing Asia: Propositions and Realities,’ Development &
Change, 40(3), pp. 531-549.

Wu, Xun and Nepomuceno A. Malaluan (2008), ‘A Tale of Two Concessionaires: A Natural Experiment of Water Privatisation in Metro Manila,’ Urban Studies, 45(1), pp.207-229.

Wu, Xun, Loit Batac and Nepomuceno A. Malaluan (2011), ‘Regulatory Independence and Contract Incompleteness: Assessing Regulatory Effectiveness in Water Privatization in Manila,’ in Jarvis, Darryl S.L., Ed Araral, M. Ramesh & Wu Xun (2011)(eds.), Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why, and How do we Know? Lessons from Asia and Beyond. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 361-390.

Carroll, Toby (2010), Delusions of Development: The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Southeast Asia. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 115-132.

Ching, Leong (2014), ‘The Market Turn in Jakarta’s Water Supply: Vested Interests and Challenges of Realising the Regulatory State,’ in Carroll, Toby and Darryl S.L. Jarvis (eds.), The Politics of Marketizing Asia. London: Palgrave Macmillan.