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"Providing context-specific regional and national perspectives, this novel Handbook sets out to disentangle the considerable intellectual ambiguities that surround Asian public administration and Asia's diverse applications of Western administrative models. Building a holistic understanding of public administration systems across East, Southeast and South Asia, chapters explore the various historical formations, contemporary changes, and impacts of local contexts. It also covers social accountability, performance and human resource management, and the role of local governments. An international range of leading scholars track the gradual embrace of market-driven reforms in Asian public policy and administration, including privatisation, agencification, outcome-based performance, and customer choice. With its cross-regional and cross-national comparisons finding divergences in these reforms, the Handbook's most significant revelation highlights the impacts of national political contexts and actors on bureaucracy. Illustrating a clear overarching picture of the divergences in Asian public administration, the comparative focus of this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of Asian politics, public policy and administration. It will also be a useful point of reference to Asian policy makers and bureaucrats dealing with national administrative reforms who are looking to innovate the public sector"--

Rethinking governance and democracy in developing countries: looking back, moving forward / M. Shamsul Haque, Anastase Shyaka, and Gedeon M. Mudacumura -- Legacy of the NPM model in governance: impacts of its neoliberal principles on democracy in Asia, Africa, and Latin America / M. Shamsul Haque -- Understanding Africa's governance structures and its economic growth performance: past, present, and future / Oluwole Owoye and Olugbenga A. Onafowora -- Reshaping economic and political governance: role of the BRICS / Asha Gupta -- The Arab Spring and democratic processes in North Africa: implications for sub-Saharan Africa / Chris M.A. Kwaja -- Girardin's ethical hexagon: democratic governance and the role of ethics in politics and public service / Denis Venter -- Strengthening democratic governance and accountability in Rwanda: the role of the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) / Félicien Usengumukiza, Jean Paul Munyandamutsa, and Esperance Nshutiraguma -- The new South Africa's democratic governance complexities / Boyie Sabelo Dlamini -- Making local government more local: strategies for successful decentralization in transitional countries / Jyldyz Kasymova, Marco Aurelio M. Ferreira, and Tia Sherèe Gaynor -- Challenges faced in the delivery of public services in Uganda's local governments / William Kalanzi -- Civic governance, engagement, and protest in quest of democracy in Uganda / Prince Karakire Guma -- Fighting corrupt practices in the local government authorities in Tanzania: the role of the National Audit Office / Japhace Poncian -- Home-grown solutions: key drivers of the development process in Rwanda / Florence Mutesi and Prince H. Kayigire -- Understanding SMEs in peace-building: lessons from Kenya / Caleb Wafula -- Electoral adjudication in Africa's democratic process: a prerequisite for electoral justice / Lydia A. Nkansah.