{"title":"Enforcement in Singapore: Using the Compliance Strategy","authors":"D. Jones","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1998.10800347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1998.10800347","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the compliance approach to regulatory law enforcement in Singapore, as exemplified in two enforcement programmes, namely, food control and industrial safety. In contrast to the traditional sanction-based strategy of enforcement which emphasises coercion and deterrence, the compliance strategy focuses upon voluntary commitment to standards through learning, inducements, and self responsibility The reasons why this strategy has been adopted in the two enforcement programmes are also considered. In addition, the article assesses the effectiveness of the compliance strategy, highlighting the greater degree of effectiveness in the food control programme than in the industrial safety programme, especially in the construction sector. The differences are explained in economic terms. Where the cost of violating regulations (both penal and non-penal) outweighs the cost of conforming, as in the food control programme, it is more likely that the strategy will work. If the reverse is true, as in ...","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116610998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Further Development of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority","authors":"R. Gauld","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1998.10800348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1998.10800348","url":null,"abstract":"The statutory Hospital Authority was established by the Hong Kong government in 1990 to lead a new era in public hospital management. The new body was given the tremendous task of implementing a management structure across some forty hospitals. This article discusses the development and current status of the Hospital Authority. A variety of challenges presently facing the organisation are outlined, and possible responses are offered.","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124216761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Administrative Reform in Vietnam: Need and Strategy","authors":"Dao Minh Chau","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1997.10800343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1997.10800343","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the need for, and strategies of, developing a sound system of administration in Vietnam. It adopts a concept of administrative reform as the induced systemic improvement of public sector operational performance The paper examines the limitations and weaknesses of the present system of public administration from three perspectives: organisation; institution; and human resource. A strategy of reform is developed with a focus on the three abovementioned dimensions. The main instruments of the reform are decentralisation, privatisation, contracting out, overhauling the existing legal system, enacting new laws and regulations, and training public servants. The potential difficulties of implementation are also analysed.","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120857460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reform in Search of Politics: The Case of Hong Kong’s Aborted Attempt to Corporatise Public Broadcasting","authors":"A. Cheung","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1997.10800342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1997.10800342","url":null,"abstract":"Following the recommendation of the 1985 Broadcasting Review Board Report, the Hong Kong government proceeded to corporatise Radio-Television Hong Kong, the public broadcaster. The corporatisation process encountered various intra-bureaucratic and extra-bureaucratic problems, as identified in this article. By 1993 it was more or less aborted amidst Sino-British diplomatic impasse. This short-lived organisational reform had appeared on the governmental agenda as a result of the political opportunity provided by the Broadcasting Review Board and the political circumstances in Hong Kong after the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984. In the end, however, it was also politics which derailed the plan.","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124436955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Policy and Social Development in Hong Kong","authors":"P. Wilding","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1997.10800341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1997.10800341","url":null,"abstract":"Hong Kong is often portrayed as the epitome of a free market economy dominated by an ideology of laissez-faire. This paper explores the development of social policy in Hong Kong and the factors which have shaped that development. It shows that the Hong Kong government plays a major role in promoting social development in the territory and that state involvment is the product of a complex interaction of political, social, and economic forces.","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124412424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pakistan: A Civil Service in an Obsolescing Imperial Tradition","authors":"Garth N. Jones","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1997.10800344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1997.10800344","url":null,"abstract":"Pakistan inherited a civil service with a long and illustrious history, a product of two great imperial civilisations. The civil service is a cultural artifact which is now caught in transitional time. Pakistani leaders recognise this public issue. They have sought to introduce personnel reforms; the consequences have been uneven. This article addresses these and related aspects It concludes that Pakistan must reinvent its constituent civil service.","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126644232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Critical View of the Build-Operate-Transfer Privatisation Process in Asia","authors":"P. Handley","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1997.10800340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1997.10800340","url":null,"abstract":"Since the late 1980s the “build-operate-transfer” concession, or BOT, has become a popular option in Asia for infrastructural privatisation. The experiences of several years suggest that BOT schemes are by nature too complex and fragile, and too highly prone to politicisation, to enable governments in developing countries to achieve the quick, efficient, and privately financed supply of infrastructure as intended by this method of privatisation. Across Asia the number of unqualified BOT successes has been few. A much greater number of attempted projects has been characterised by lengthy delays, chronic disputes, and frequently, failure to ever get underway. Even in the case of those which do proceed, the state often fails to attain its principal goals.","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115367686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management Turnaround of a Public Enterprise: A Sri Lankan Case Study","authors":"T. S. Weerakoon","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1997.10800336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1997.10800336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132628938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When the Minister Leans on the Board: The Forced Resignation of the Managing Director of Australia’s Overseas Telecommunications Commission","authors":"Christos Mantziaris","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1997.10800339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1997.10800339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128702999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Management of Interface among the Policy and Administrative Leadership in Air Zimbabwe","authors":"S. Agere","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1997.10800335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1997.10800335","url":null,"abstract":"(1997). The Management of Interface among the Policy and Administrative Leadership in Air Zimbabwe. Asian Journal of Public Administration: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 86-101.","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126252326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}