B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of Government at the University of Pittsburgh, and Editor of the International Review of Public Policy. He was the founding president of the International Public Policy Association. His most recent books include Administrative Traditions: Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Administrative Behavior (2021) and Democratic Backsliding and Public Policy (Cambridge, 2021). Colin Knox is a professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and Emeritus Professor at Ulster University (UK). His most recent books are: The Economics of Schooling in a Divided Society: The Case for Shared Education (2015) (with Vani Borooah); and Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (2016) (with Padraic Quirk). Byong Seob Kim is an emeritus professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University. He was the president of the Korean Association for Public Administration. His most recent books is A Discussion on Leadership (『大學衍義』; 대학연의: 리더십을 말하다) (2018).

• 1. Patronage in Asian political systems: a framework for research B. Guy Peters; Part I. One-party Dominated Systems: 2. Governing the global city's mandarinate: politically motivated appointments in Singapore's public sector Assel Mussagulova and George Wong; 3. Patronage and politicisation in the Indian administrative service Naresh Chandra Saxena; 4. Political patronage, civil service politicisation and the ordeals of career civil servants: insights from Bangladesh Mohammad Mizanur Rahman; Part II. Two-party/Multi-party Systems: 5. Patronage appointment in Japanese politics: political representation in a large bureaucracy Masao Kikuchi; 6. Patronage in Mongolia Oyunsuren Damdinsuren, Julian Dierkes and Byambakhand Luguusharav; 7. Loyalty or expertise? The practice of political patronage in Taiwan Tong-yi Huang and Zong-xian Huang; 8. Patronage in South Korea Min Han Kim, Byongseob Kim and Hyejin Kang; 9. Patronage appointments in the Philippine public service Maria Fe Villamejor-Mendoza; Part III. Autocracies: 10. Varieties of patronage in a single party state: ministers in China Jiangnan Zhu, Siqin Kang and Yaowensong Song; 11. Party patronage in Kazakhstan Colin Knox and Saltanat Janenova; 12. Political patronage in Vietnam Minh-Quang Le, Chi-Kien Phung and Quang-Minh Le; 13. Conclusions Colin Knox and B. Guy Peters; Index.

'Building on work in Latin America, the authors explain styles of patronage in Asia considering social homogeneity, party systems, political culture, regime type, and the strength of the civil service. The book is essential reading for all comparativists, and those seeking to understand the behavior of key Asian polities.' John P. Burns, Emeritus Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong