Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Asia

Evan Berman is Professor of Public Management at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Government. He is recipient of the Fred Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration from the American Society for Public Administration. He has published extensively on public administration leadership in Asia, performance, human resources, and other topics.Eko Prasojo is Dean of Faculty of Administrative Science University of Indonesia and the Director of University Centre of Study of Governance and Administrative Reform (UI CESGAR). He is also Professor of Public Administration. He is President of the Indonesian Association of Public Administration (IAPA), Vice President Asian Association for Public Administration (AAPA) and member of Committee Expert of Public Administration, the United Nation (UN CEPA).

• 1. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Asia: An Overview; Evan Berman2. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Japan; Masahiro Horie 3. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Indonesia; Eko Prasojo and Defny Holidin 4. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in China; Jiang Wu and Shao Jingjun 5. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Thailand; Supachai Yavaprabhas 6. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Vietnam; Ha Ngoc Pham 7. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in the Philippines; Alex Brillantes and Lizan Perante Calina 8. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Singapore; David Jones 9. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Malaysia; LooSee Beh 10. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in Australia; John Halligan 11. Leadership and Public Sector Reform in New Zealand; Caroline Rennie and Evan Berman

The 11 chapters in this volume discuss public sector reforms in Japan, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand. Public administration specialists from these countries address the challenges of leadership in reforms in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on the leadership of political executives and bureaucratic actors and the strategy and contexts of reform leadership. They describe the locus and drivers of reforms, the extent and manner that leadership is seen to promote reform efforts, how leaders address resistance inside organizations and relations with the authorizing environment, how they overcome public distrust, and how leaders build operational capacity for implementation and sustainability of reforms.