Public Policy in the 'Asian Century' - Concepts, Cases and Futures

This volume explores the defining features, critical approaches, challenges and opportunities for public policy in the 'Asian Century'. This is the first book to systematically analyse the key institutions and practices that comprise public policy, administration and governance to investigate how they are changing in the context of increasing Asian influence. Its authors argue that the Asian Century holds the potential to generate a paradigm shift equivalent to the impacts of neo-liberalism and the New Public Management of the late 20th century. 

Divided into three parts, this volume interrogates the theories underpinning contemporary public policy; explores case studies from different policy arenas across the Asian region; and imagines what a future of globalised public policy might look like. It examines the implementation measures necessary to support policy and administration in an era of transnational governance networks, tightly linked economic markets and progressively fluid cultural exchanges. This book provides the concepts and tools necessary to navigate these shifting sands successfully. It is essential reading for scholars of public policy, public management, international relations, and politics and social sciences, as well as for administrators and public servants.

Sara Bice is Director, Research Translation and Westpac Bicentennial Foundation Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She is President-Elect, International Association for Impact Assessment. Her most recent book is Responsible Mining.

Avery Poole is Assistant Director, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published articles on democracy and human rights in Southeast Asia, particularly in regard to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Helen Sullivan is Director, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. She is a Fellow (Victoria) of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. Her latest book is Hybrid Governance in European Cities: Neighbourhood, Migration and Democracy (2013).