![]() | Transforming Asian Governance: Rethinking assumptions, challenging practices Subjects: Area Studies; Health and Social Care; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Asian Politics; Asian Studies; Social Work and Social Policy; Government; Sociology & Social Policy; Asian Studies (General); Asia Pacific Studies; Chinese Studies; Japanese Studies; Korean Studies; South Asian Studies; South East Asian Studies; Social Work Policy; Governance; Social Policy; There are a multitude of hazards that confront attempts to change institutional or political orders in pursuit of good governance. Even seemingly technical prescriptions run up against local political and social realities which make their adoption difficult and, if adopted, require significant modification of the original prescriptions. Moreover, the technical, rationalist and/or normative language employed in the good governance discourse masks contests over power, rights, resources, and actors' conflicting interests. There is a definite need to situate the good governance debate in the local context rather than reflexively adopting a universalistic positing of the fact or desirability of governance convergence across countries and sectors because the reality is that the world-wide deployment of good governance rhetoric is not accompanied by convergence in thinking or practices across nations. Transforming Asian Governance asks: * How do good governance principles translate into local settings?
Scott Fritzen is Assistant Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. M Ramesh is Associate Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. |
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