Pub Date : 2022-02-02DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2022.2030276
Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, G. Capano
{"title":"The role of tool calibrations and policy specifications in policy change: evidence from healthcare reform efforts in Korea 1990-2020","authors":"Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, G. Capano","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2022.2030276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2022.2030276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89287441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-30DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2022.2033610
Xue Li, Changquan Jiao
{"title":"Decentralised growth: have central fiscal transfers changed the landscape of the Chinese social security regime?","authors":"Xue Li, Changquan Jiao","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2022.2033610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2022.2033610","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79175750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-26DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.2015850
M. Jae Moon, Xun Wu
ABSTRACT Resilience is of paramount importance in dealing with a prolonged pandemic such as COVID-19, in which all countries inevitable suffer through multiple stages of adversity. Many Asian countries were initially hard hit by the pandemic, but some of them displayed the remarkable ability to withstand these shocks, overcome despair, and bounce back quickly. This special issue examines two aspects of resilience building in policy responses to crises such as COVID-19 – capacity development and governance innovation. Capacity can be a key factor in determining the effectiveness of health emergency preparedness, surveillance, response, and recovery systems for unprecedented public health crises like COVID-19, and governance innovation also plays a key role in resilience building by strengthening the roles of non-government actors in public health crises, the efficacy of science-policymaking interactions, and the uses of disruptive technologies.
{"title":"Sustaining Asia’s development amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: capacity development and governance innovation","authors":"M. Jae Moon, Xun Wu","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.2015850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.2015850","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Resilience is of paramount importance in dealing with a prolonged pandemic such as COVID-19, in which all countries inevitable suffer through multiple stages of adversity. Many Asian countries were initially hard hit by the pandemic, but some of them displayed the remarkable ability to withstand these shocks, overcome despair, and bounce back quickly. This special issue examines two aspects of resilience building in policy responses to crises such as COVID-19 – capacity development and governance innovation. Capacity can be a key factor in determining the effectiveness of health emergency preparedness, surveillance, response, and recovery systems for unprecedented public health crises like COVID-19, and governance innovation also plays a key role in resilience building by strengthening the roles of non-government actors in public health crises, the efficacy of science-policymaking interactions, and the uses of disruptive technologies.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"22 1","pages":"165 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90218486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-26DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2022.2031091
A. He, Peng Liu, Fan Yumeng, Hongdou Liu
ABSTRACT The field of public administration and policy faces ongoing calls to maintain its relevancy to public sector practice. A variety of innovations have thrived in the recent years, striving to fill the gap between theory and practice. Faculty-practitioner exchange is one such attempt. This study examines the micro dynamics of such exchange in Master of Public Administration (MPA) programs in China where the gap was seen to be particularly wide. Using qualitative methods, this study interviewed 13 faculty instructors in Chinese MPA programs with experience of government engagement. We found that the instructors were predominantly driven by a keen awareness of their weakness in real-world exposure. The government engagement experience boosted their self-efficacy when teaching in-service students, and the empathy developed between instructors and students augmented educational outcomes. The engagement service invigorated pedagogical innovations towards enhanced case teaching conducive to the co-production of practical knowledge with practitioners. The engagement service strengthened the faculty instructors’ awareness of the theory-practice gap and their appreciation of students’ needs. They became more cognizant of the usefulness of various theories and more capable of relating theory to practice.
{"title":"Sending professors to the field: does faculty-practitioner exchange narrow the theory-practice gap in China’s MPA programs?","authors":"A. He, Peng Liu, Fan Yumeng, Hongdou Liu","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2022.2031091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2022.2031091","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The field of public administration and policy faces ongoing calls to maintain its relevancy to public sector practice. A variety of innovations have thrived in the recent years, striving to fill the gap between theory and practice. Faculty-practitioner exchange is one such attempt. This study examines the micro dynamics of such exchange in Master of Public Administration (MPA) programs in China where the gap was seen to be particularly wide. Using qualitative methods, this study interviewed 13 faculty instructors in Chinese MPA programs with experience of government engagement. We found that the instructors were predominantly driven by a keen awareness of their weakness in real-world exposure. The government engagement experience boosted their self-efficacy when teaching in-service students, and the empathy developed between instructors and students augmented educational outcomes. The engagement service invigorated pedagogical innovations towards enhanced case teaching conducive to the co-production of practical knowledge with practitioners. The engagement service strengthened the faculty instructors’ awareness of the theory-practice gap and their appreciation of students’ needs. They became more cognizant of the usefulness of various theories and more capable of relating theory to practice.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"96 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86202807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-04DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.2022851
Hongna Miao, Hsin-Che Wu, Osbern Huang
{"title":"The influence of media use on different modes of political participation in China: political trust as the mediating factor","authors":"Hongna Miao, Hsin-Che Wu, Osbern Huang","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.2022851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.2022851","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75780728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-29DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.2021127
Wei Wan, Shenghua Xie
ABSTRACT How the sectoral work experience of local leaders affects local public expenditure is underexplored. Using a unique panel dataset on the work experience of secretaries of the provincial party committee (SPPCs) and governors of provinces (GPs) in China, this study empirically analyses how the work experience of provincial leaders in the agricultural sector affects agricultural public expenditure. The results show that the work experience of SPPCs in the agricultural sector significantly raises agricultural public expenditure, while the work experience of GPs in the agricultural sector shows no such effect. In addition, there is a positive relationship between the tenure of SPPCs in the agricultural sector and agricultural public expenditure. Moreover, this study reveals that SPPCs with work experience in the agricultural departments of the central government will increase agricultural public expenditure to a greater extent than SPPCs with work experience in the agricultural departments of local governments. Furthermore, the positive work experience of SPPCs in the agricultural sector on agricultural public expenditure is because such experience shapes their intrinsic preferences for agricultural affairs. This study enhances the understanding of how the sectoral work experience of local leaders affects local public expenditure in developing countries.
{"title":"Sectoral work experience of provincial leaders and local public expenditure in China","authors":"Wei Wan, Shenghua Xie","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.2021127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.2021127","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How the sectoral work experience of local leaders affects local public expenditure is underexplored. Using a unique panel dataset on the work experience of secretaries of the provincial party committee (SPPCs) and governors of provinces (GPs) in China, this study empirically analyses how the work experience of provincial leaders in the agricultural sector affects agricultural public expenditure. The results show that the work experience of SPPCs in the agricultural sector significantly raises agricultural public expenditure, while the work experience of GPs in the agricultural sector shows no such effect. In addition, there is a positive relationship between the tenure of SPPCs in the agricultural sector and agricultural public expenditure. Moreover, this study reveals that SPPCs with work experience in the agricultural departments of the central government will increase agricultural public expenditure to a greater extent than SPPCs with work experience in the agricultural departments of local governments. Furthermore, the positive work experience of SPPCs in the agricultural sector on agricultural public expenditure is because such experience shapes their intrinsic preferences for agricultural affairs. This study enhances the understanding of how the sectoral work experience of local leaders affects local public expenditure in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"5 1","pages":"380 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78912825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-28DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.2021126
J. Low
ABSTRACT An assumption by Rose and Dolowitz and Marsh was that policy-makers looked overseas for solutions when faced with policy problems. In setting up the first leadership training scheme in the Singapore Public Service in 1959, policymakers eschewed learning from abroad. Instead, the new centre for training the Administrative Service leadership corps was grounded in the Singapore context without reference to foreign exemplars. The local context continued to loom large at each phase in the development of leadership training in th Singapore bureaucracy over the years leading to the 1993 establishment to the Civil Service College (CSC). The pre-eminent consideration accorded to rooting lessons from abroad to suit the practicalities of the local context ultimately meant a very ‘Singapore-West’ hybridization.
{"title":"‘Singapore-West’ hybridization: policy learning in the development of leadership training in the Singapore Public Service","authors":"J. Low","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.2021126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.2021126","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An assumption by Rose and Dolowitz and Marsh was that policy-makers looked overseas for solutions when faced with policy problems. In setting up the first leadership training scheme in the Singapore Public Service in 1959, policymakers eschewed learning from abroad. Instead, the new centre for training the Administrative Service leadership corps was grounded in the Singapore context without reference to foreign exemplars. The local context continued to loom large at each phase in the development of leadership training in th Singapore bureaucracy over the years leading to the 1993 establishment to the Civil Service College (CSC). The pre-eminent consideration accorded to rooting lessons from abroad to suit the practicalities of the local context ultimately meant a very ‘Singapore-West’ hybridization.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"85 1","pages":"426 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84858403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-19DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.2013400
Ling Zhu
ABSTRACT The economic influence of local political leaders, i.e. heads of local governments and party committees in subnational jurisdictions, has been highly emphasized and widely studied in China. Yet studies have also documented that these leaders experienced frequent spatial transfers and had short time horizons in each jurisdiction, which should have perverse effects on their incentives and capacities to promote the regional economy. What, then, explains the continued economic growth in China without stable local political leaders? Drawing on the stratified spatial mobility model, we emphasize the importance of the more stable political elites, who constitute a crucial buffer zone to alleviate the perverse economic effects of leaders’ frequent turnover, in sustaining long-term local development. Our empirical analyses in Jiangsu province provide evidence that supports this proposition. This study deepens our understanding of the institutional logic underlying China’s economic growth and political stability.
{"title":"How does the Chinese bureaucracy sustain economic growth without stable local political leaders? Stratified spatial mobility and the role of stable political elites in local governments","authors":"Ling Zhu","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.2013400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.2013400","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The economic influence of local political leaders, i.e. heads of local governments and party committees in subnational jurisdictions, has been highly emphasized and widely studied in China. Yet studies have also documented that these leaders experienced frequent spatial transfers and had short time horizons in each jurisdiction, which should have perverse effects on their incentives and capacities to promote the regional economy. What, then, explains the continued economic growth in China without stable local political leaders? Drawing on the stratified spatial mobility model, we emphasize the importance of the more stable political elites, who constitute a crucial buffer zone to alleviate the perverse economic effects of leaders’ frequent turnover, in sustaining long-term local development. Our empirical analyses in Jiangsu province provide evidence that supports this proposition. This study deepens our understanding of the institutional logic underlying China’s economic growth and political stability.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"46 1","pages":"288 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74030869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-19DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.2014627
Q. Gao, A. He
ABSTRACT This essay introduces a special issue focusing on poverty alleviation in Asia. We argue that expanding the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and using a variety of methodologies to study poverty issues can help inform more effective, sustainable policy solutions in Asia and globally. Drawing on a set of new empirical studies across various Asian countries and regions, we suggest several concrete directions in monitoring poverty trends and dynamics, evaluating the effectiveness of poverty alleviation policies and programs, and proposing new policy solutions to address poverty in Asia and beyond.
{"title":"Poverty alleviation in Asia: future directions in measurement, monitoring, and impact evaluation","authors":"Q. Gao, A. He","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.2014627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.2014627","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay introduces a special issue focusing on poverty alleviation in Asia. We argue that expanding the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and using a variety of methodologies to study poverty issues can help inform more effective, sustainable policy solutions in Asia and globally. Drawing on a set of new empirical studies across various Asian countries and regions, we suggest several concrete directions in monitoring poverty trends and dynamics, evaluating the effectiveness of poverty alleviation policies and programs, and proposing new policy solutions to address poverty in Asia and beyond.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"1 1 1","pages":"32 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83451104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.2014641
L. Tao, Bo Wen
ABSTRACT This study investigates the individual and interaction effects of parents and teachers on shaping adolescents’ PSM. Based on nationally representative data from China, we find that both family- and classroom- level factors positively impact adolescents’ PSM. Results further show that a satisfying teacher-student relationship significantly attenuates the influence the parent-child relationship imposes on PSM. This study empirically proves that the development of PSM can be understood as other-oriented emotional responses generated during one’s exchanges with socialization agents, leaving fertile ground for inquiries into non-organizational antecedents of PSM and the design of policies to foster it at the pre-entry stage.
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