Asia

Readings and class materials for Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Readings

•  Alasdair Roberts, “Our Asian Challenge,” Governance 30, no. 4 (October 2017): 537–39, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12303.
•  Pan Suk Kim, “The Development of Modern Public Administration in East Asia,” International Review of Administrative Sciences 83, no. 2 (June 2017): 225–40, https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852316685162.
•  Wei‐Ting Yen et al., “The Imperative of State Capacity in Public Health Crisis: Asia’s Early COVID‐19 Policy Responses,” Governance 35, no. 3 (July 2022): 777–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12695.
•  Rajesh Kumar Kundu, “New Public Governance and Post-New Public Management Reforms in India,” Public Affairs And Governance 11, no. 2 (2023): 99–118, https://doi.org/10.5958/2321-2136.2023.00008.5.

One of these empirical articles on China:

•  Linke Hou et al., “Of Time, Leadership, and Governance: Elite Incentives and Stability Maintenance in China,” Governance 31, no. 2 (April 2018): 239–57, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12286.
•  Qiang Zhi and Margaret M. Pearson, “China’s Hybrid Adaptive Bureaucracy: The Case of the 863 Program for Science and Technology,” Governance 30, no. 3 (July 2017): 407–24, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12245.