International Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Responses

Chapter 01. Introduction Chapter 02. The Evolution of COVID-19 and Policy Responses of Korea: Adaptation and Learning Perspectives Chapter 03. Japan’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cautious and Self-restraint-based Approach Chapter 04. Thailand’s Response to COVID-19 Chapter 05. Beyond Regime Types: Local Governance, Bureaucratic Coordination, and COVID-19 Responses in Vietnam Chapter 06. Aotearoa New Zealand’s Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Chapter 07. COVID-19 Responses in Finland: Uneven, Fairly Effective, and Craving to Return to the Normal Chapter 08. Crisis Governance in a Multilevel System: German Public Administration Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic Chapter 09. Sweden and the COVID-19 Crisis Chapter 10. Science, Uncertainty, and Partisanship: The United States’ Response to COVID-19 Chapter 11. Summary and Discussions for Policy Implication

Management Capabilities and Policy Capacity Where are the Links?

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Comparative public management reform: Cases of policy transfer in Thailand and Malaysia

This is an exploratory, qualitative study of the transfer of public management reform policies and performance-based budgeting from abroad into Thailand and Malaysia. The three sources for data are: in-depth interviews with elite officials; document research; and participant observation in the agencies leading reform in the two countries. Findings from the cases lead to a better understanding of why and how public management reforms are transferred around the world. First, this study found that domestic bureaucratic politics is an important factor that has pushed central agencies to make decisions to transfer management policies and tools from abroad. Second, once central agencies seek to transfer policies, the process is rather simple. The two cases show that the processes of transfer occur through various types of agents of transfer. Some of them literally fly into the country to give quick advice or write reports for governments. Some are searched for through \u27google.com\u27 or upon personal recommendations. These individuals are not deeply associated with any international organization, they do not represent an institute, and they usually work as individuals. This supports the claim that by focusing on individual-level analysis, we are better able to explain how public management reform policies and tools are transferred around the world. Third, the two cases show that studies of public management reforms must incorporate historical approaches in order to understand the processes at work. In addition to supporting the three claims, this study aims to compare the experiences of policy transfer in the two countries in order to reveal lessons that can be learned which would enhance learning cycles of efforts on reform. It demonstrates the fine line between learning a policy and copying one---something practitioners must be aware of in order to carry out successful reforms

Talent Management in the Public Sector: A comparative study of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand

10.1080/14719037.2013.816525Public Management Review1581185-120

Exploring the challenges of energy and resources network governance

While a growing amount of literature has recently emerged describing network governance, less attention has been paid to evaluating the actual performance of networks. Our paper looks at the challenges facing network governance for natural resources (primarily logging and forestry) and energy (primarily renewable energy and energy efficiency) in Asia. The paper investigates what network governance is, and what types of challenges networks have to tackle. It then develops a qualitative analytical framework to evaluate the effectiveness of networks consisting of five criteria: (1) clarity of roles and objectives among members, (2) having strong, independent, continual sources of funding, (3) institutional formality (having a permanent secretariat, budget, full time staff, etc.), (4) efficacy (ability to accomplish its mission and goals at the least possible cost); and (5) level of interdependency among members. Finally, we apply this framework to four case studies: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Centre for Energy, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), ASEAN Regional Knowledge Network on Forests and Climate Change (FCC), and ASEAN Regional Knowledge Network on Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG). These cases illustrate effective (or ineffective) environmental and energy networks and the factors that are associated with network governance

Managing Reforms: The Politics of Organizing Reform Work

Literature in the field of New Public Administration has focused mainly on individual countries especially the successes and failures of public sector reform efforts. This article introduces a more comparative perspective by looking at the different ways governments are managing public sector reforms without judging the successes and failures. The authors take an inductive approach by first introducing descriptions of reform works in six countries: Thailand, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Malaysia, the United States, and Japan. Then all the cases are synthesized into a framework for comparison. Findings from the study show that there are no distinct patterns. Thus, there is no one golden rule for organizing reform work. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005new public management, comparative public administration, bureaucratic reforms, managing reforms,

Understanding co-production as a policy tool: integrating new public governance and comparative policy theory

10.1080/13876988.2017.1287445Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice195487-50