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ISBN: 971-561-593-3
Publication Date: December 2005
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The Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG)* is a network of professionals formed to encourage the continuing development of public administration theory and practice through research, education and training, and foster cooperation and collaboration between and among the members in the pursuit of common interests.

An international conference held on 6-8 December 2004 in Kuala Lumpur officially launched NAPSIPAG with over a hundred institutions in attendance representing 26 countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Conducted in partnership with the National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN) – Malaysia, the conference provided a venue for public administration educators and practitioners to share expertise and experiences on "The Role of Public Administration in Alleviating Poverty and Improving Governance."

This publication contains selected papers from the six conference workshops. Five workshop sessions deal with leadership and change management, strengthening democratic institutions, citizen empowerment through participation, economic and financial management, and effective public service delivery. A sixth special workshop session on the challenges of teaching public administration and policy in the region traces educational innovations in this field.

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Contents

Foreword [ PDF: 68kb | 4 pages ]

Introductory Papers [ PDF: 260kb | 38 pages ]

Session 1 - Leadership and Change Management [ PDF: 451kb | 69 pages ]

  • Leadership and Change Management
    JEFFREY STRAUSSMAN
  • Leadership in Public Administration for Alleviating Poverty and Development: A Conceptual Approach
    E. H. VALSAN
  • Gender Responsive Governance in India: The Experience of Rajasthan
    SHEILA RAI
  • Administrative Discretion and Representative Bureaucracy: Linking Descriptive Representation to Substantive Representation
    AHMAD MARTADHA MOHAMED
  • Educating and Training Japanese Government Officials: Current Trends and Policy Study Aspects
    TATSUO OYAMA

Session 2 - Strengthening Democratic Institutions [ PDF: 625kb | 137 pages ]

  • Workshop on Strengthening Democratic Institutions – Convenor’s Report
    SYED ABU AHMAD AKIF
  • A Values-Based Approach to Public Sector Reform: The Australian Experience
    SARAH CLEAVES
  • Local Government in Bangladesh: Major Issues and Challenges
    H. RAHMAN and MIZANUR RAHMAN
  • Strengthening Democratic Institutions in Nepal: Issues and Challenges
    GOVIND P. DHAKAL
  • The Role of Civil Service Training in Strengthening Democratic Institutions in Pakistan
    SYED ABU AHMAD AKIF and MUHAMMAD KHALID NADEEM KHAN
  • Deliberate Democracy and Electoral Fallacy: The Logic of Coexistence
    AMITA SINGH
  • Poverty Alleviation and Peace Building in Multiethnic Societies: The Need for Multiculturalist Governance in the Philippines
    MACAPADO A. MUSLIM

Session 3 - Citizen Empowerment Through Participation [ PDF: 545kb | 119 pages ]

  • Citizen Empowerment through Participation in the Context of Poverty Alleviation
    VICTORIA A. BAUTISTA
  • A State of Learning: Strategies for Reducing Social and Economic Disadvantage at the Personal, Local and State Level
    JENNIFER LAURITSEN
  • Addressing Poverty Through Self Help Groups — A Case Study of Kerala
    JAYA S. ANAND
  • Citizen Empowerment through Participation — Pakistan’s Case
    AHMAD NADEEM KHAN
  • People’s Organization’s Interface in Poverty Alleviation Program: The CIDSS Experience
    LILIBETH JOVITA J. JUAN and NAPOLEON ALLAN PRIETO
  • The Institutional Design and Citizen Participation in Local Governance
    KENG-MING HSU and CHUN-YUAN WANG
  • Foreign Aid and Civil Society: An Assessment of USAID Policy Assumptions in India
    MARY BREEDING

Session 4 - Economic and Financial Management [ PDF: 638kb | 130 pages ]

  • Workshop on Economic and Financial Management
    RAM KUMAR MISHRA
  • The Urban Poverty Problem and the Minimum Living Security System in the People’s Republic of China
    YE XIANGQUN
  • The Development-Oriented Poverty Reduction Program for Rural People’s Republic of China: A Successful Case in the International Campaign to Alleviate Poverty
    YU JUN
  • Governing through Governance: Changing Social Policy Paradigms in Post-Mao People’s Republic of China
    KA-HO MOK
  • Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh: Does Good Governance Matter?
    AKM AHSAN ULLAH
  • Privatization Challenges for Good Governance — A Case of India
    RAM KUMAR MISHRA
  • Impact Assessment of Poverty Alleviation Programs in India—Some Administrative and Institutional Issues
    RATNA NAIK
  • Options for Fiscal Policies Aimed at Sustaining Education, Health Care, and Social Protection Systems in the Kyrgyz Republic
    ROMAN MOGILEVSKY
  • Public Service Delivery Mechanism and Rural Poverty in Nepal
    PARASHAR KOIRALA
  • Poverty Alleviation in Uzbekistan’s Strategy of National Development
    ALISHER YUNUSOV

Session 5 - Effective Public Service Delivery [ PDF: 379kb | 70 pages ]

  • Poverty Alleviation through Effective Public Service Delivery
    MENGZHONG ZHANG
  • Improving Governance and Services: Can E-Government Help?
    JULIAN TEICHER and RFI SMITH
  • Rural Poverty Alleviation in India: An Assessment of Public Programs
    B. S. GHUMAN and GURPINDER CHIMA
  • Improving Public Service Delivery Through Bureaucracy Reform
    AWANG ANWARUDDIN
  • Mutually Reinforcing Cycles of Public Service Delivery and Poverty Reduction Program:Lesson from the Implementation of Social Safety Net Program in Indonesia
    DJONET SANTOSO

Session 6 - Special Session on the Teaching of Public Administration and Policy [ PDF: 582kb | 138 pages ]

  • Teaching Public Policy and Administration: Controversies and Directions
    SCOTT FRITZEN
  • ‘But it’s different in my country’: Teaching Public Administration Using Western Materials
    JO BAULDERSTONE and PADDY O’TOOLE
  • Managing Group Work in Public Policy Programs
    CAROLE COMERTON-FORDE, JIM KITAY, STEPHEN NICHOLAS and JEANEY YIP
  • Teaching Public Policy in MPA Programs in the People’s Republic of China
    NGOK KINGLUN
  • Using Extended Role-Plays to Develop Policy and Decision-Making Skills in Cases where Interpretations of What is in the ‘Best Public Interest’ are Strongly Contested
    MARK RICHARD HAYLLAR
  • Dialogues in Public Administration: A New Zealand-Vietnamese Case Study
    ROBERT GEORGE LAKING
  • Enhancing the Role of Public Administration Education to Support the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals
    JOEL V. MANGAHAS
  • Teaching Policy Analysis in a Complex World: The Post-Positivist Route for Programs in Asia and the Pacific
    DAN DURNING
  • Power Implications of Lecture and Participatory Teaching Techniques
    STEVEN E. AUFRECHT and XIE MING

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Publication Date: December 2005

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