Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration

2004 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ian Thynne and Danny Lam

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Volume 44, issue 4, 2022

Inter-city competition and local government debts in China: a spatial econometric analysis pp. 271-290

Yanbing Han, Min Xiong, Shaoming Cheng and Hai (David) Guo

A crowding-out of public values? Managerial vs. Weberian values in public sector reform in Latin America pp. 291-314

Pablo Sanabria-Pulido and Cristian Pliscoff

Shifting discourses of nature in participatory processes for environmental management pp. 315-334

Patrick Barrett, Raven Cretney, Priya Kurian and Naomi Simmonds

Volume 44, issue 3, 2022

Public Service Motivation: Global Knowledge, Regional Perspective pp. 191-194

Zeger Van der Wal and Assel Mussagulova

Towards a measure of institutional public service motivation: theoretical underpinnings and propositions for future research pp. 195-213

Jeannette Taylor, Gene A. Brewer and Guillem Ripoll

Institutional correlates of public service motivation: family, religion, and high school education pp. 214-233

Taehee Kim, Kiwhan Kim and Sangmook Kim

Exploring the conditionality of public service motivation: evidence from a priming experiment pp. 234-248

Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Jill Nicholson-Crotty, Danyao Li and Robert K. Christensen

Serving society vs. the individual user? Experimental evidence on the role of public service motivation in predicting job-task preferences pp. 249-270

Jessica Breaugh and Guillem Ripoll

Volume 44, issue 2, 2022

Quality of government in the Asia Pacific region pp. 101-105

Victor Lapuente and Kohei Suzuki

Encouraging bureaucrats to report corruption: human resource management and whistleblowing pp. 106-130

Christopher A. Cooper

Power-sharing in governments, clarity of responsibility, and the control of corruption pp. 131-151

Jinhyuk Jang

The intensity of organizational transitions in government: comparing patterns in developed and developing countries pp. 152-171

Abiha Zahra and Tobias Bach

Linking quality of government to outcomes of civil service training: evidence from southeast asian countries pp. 172-190

Hyeon-Suk Lyu, Tae Hyung Kim, Daeun Sung and M. Jae Moon

Volume 44, issue 1, 2022

Special Issue Introduction: experiments in public administration research in the Asia-Pacific region pp. 1-3

Cheol Liu, Tima T. Moldogaziev and Christopher Witko

Experimental research in the Asia-Pacific region: review and assessment of regional capacity pp. 4-25

Wenna Chen, Binzizi Dong, Chih-Wei Hsieh, Ning Liu, Richard M. Walker, Yao Wang, Bo Wen, Peiyi Wu and Jiasheng Zhang

Air pollution in Northeast Asia: can framing of public messages influence beliefs and attributions? pp. 26-46

Matthew A. Shapiro, Toby Bolsen and Yungwook Kim

A matter of perspective: differential evaluations of artificial intelligence between managers and staff in an experimental simulation pp. 47-65

Hsini Huang, Kyoung-Cheol (Casey) Kim, Matthew M. Young and Justin B. Bullock

Emergence & development of behavioral public policy units in government: the case of Turkey pp. 66-80

Ayca Kusseven and Mete Yildiz

Policy experimentation with impact financing: a systematic review of research on social impact bonds pp. 81-99

Tima T. Moldogaziev, Cheol Liu and Mikhail Ivonchyk

Volume 43, issue 4, 2021

What can public administration scholars learn from the economics controversies in public-private partnerships? pp. 219-235

Graeme Hodge and Carsten Greve

Collaborative governance for urban sustainability: implementing solar cities pp. 236-257

Bharati Garg and Rohit Barach

Local co-production and food insecurity: leveraging institutional advantages of partner organisations pp. 258-275

Yukio Kinoshita and Brian Dollery

Exploring the implementation gap: organizational autonomy and line managers’ participation in human resource decision–making pp. 276-297

Aneeqa Suhail and Trui Steen

Citizens’ perception of government responsiveness: building an engaged citizenry pp. 298-316

Irina Novikova and Saltanat Liebert

Volume 43, issue 3, 2021

Guardians in a connected world: pace matters pp. 125-129

Taki Sarantakis

Symposium: COVID-19 and Big Questions of Public Administration pp. 130-130

James Perry and Wai Fung Lam

Revisiting “big questions” of public administration after COVID-19: a systematic review pp. 131-168

Ting-An-Xu Liu, G. Breck Wightman, Euipyo Lee and Jordan Hunter

Advancing international cooperation as a strategy for managing pandemics pp. 169-191

Jongeun You

Global contagion and local response: the influence of centre–state relations and political culture in pandemic governance pp. 192-211

Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy and Atanu Chatterjee

Coronavirus politics and governance pp. 212-217

M. Jae Moon

Volume 43, issue 2, 2021

How to bridge East and West pp. 63-66

Alasdair Roberts

Camouflaged or deserted? A systematic review of empirical military research in public administration pp. 67-86

Étienne Charbonneau, Jean-François Lévesque, Frank A. Tchokouagueu, Yanick W. A. Tadjiogue, Joseph K. Tchinda and Marc Mongong

Newly independent, path dependent: The impact of the Soviet past on innovation in post-Soviet states pp. 87-105

Assel Mussagulova

What explains citizen trust in public institutions? Quality of government, performance, social capital, or demography pp. 106-124

Rifat Mahmud

Volume 43, issue 1, 2021

Studying public administration in authoritarian regimes pp. 1-5

B. Guy Peters

Non-Western philosophies and public administration pp. 6-10

Edoardo Ongaro

Charting three trajectories for globalising public administration research and theory pp. 11-22

Shena Ashley, Soonhee Kim and William H Lambright

“All still quiet on the non-Western front?” Non-Western public service motivation scholarship: 2015–2020 pp. 23-46

Assel Mussagulova and Zeger van der Wal

Does outsourcing reduce employee job satisfaction? A test of new public management orthodoxy pp. 47-61

Shinwoo Lee and Gyeo Reh Lee

Volume 42, issue 4, 2020

Public sector use of new technology: opportunities and challenges pp. 207-208

Andrew Podger

Improving public services using artificial intelligence: possibilities, pitfalls, governance pp. 209-221

Paul Henman

Understanding the evolution of public–private partnerships in Chinese e-government: four stages of development pp. 222-247

Te Liu, Xuemin Yang and Yueping Zheng

Managing technology effectively in large public organisations pp. 248-261

Dennis Trewin

Enhancing civil service capability: emergence of the professions model pp. 262-273

Richard Bartlett

When the power of the purse meets the power of technology: a case study of Guangzhou People’s Congress in China pp. 274-289

Meili Niu and Muhua Lin

Performance management and evaluation meets culture and politics: Australia’s experience pp. 290-302

J. Rob Bray, Matthew Gray and David Stanton

Thank you to Professor Roger Wettenhall pp. 303-303

Jim Perry and Wai-Fung Lam

Volume 42, issue 3, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic: why are some countries coping more successfully than others? pp. 153-169

Hasan Muhammad Baniamin, Mizanur Rahman and Mohammad Tareq Hasan

Creating institutional advantage: local government co-production with community groups pp. 170-187

Yukio Kinoshita, Brian Dollery and Keiichi Yamazaki

Diffusing participatory budgeting knowledge: lessons from Korean-language research pp. 188-206

B. Shine Cho, Won No and Yaerin Park

Volume 42, issue 2, 2020

Advice on navigating our new roles pp. 61-62

Beryl A. Radin

Co-editors’ reply pp. 63-65

James L. Perry and Wai-Fung Lam

Economic performance, income inequality and political trust: new evidence from a cross-national study of 14 Asian countries pp. 66-88

Daewoo Lee, Chae Young Chang and Hyunkang Hur

Fostering problem driven collaboration in a development context: The ASEAN study of health workforce governance pp. 89-110

Wesley Teter

Conditions for open innovation in public organizations: evidence from Challenge.gov pp. 111-131

Taha Hameduddin, Sergio Fernandez and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu

Responsiveness of local government officials: insights and lessons from participatory planning and budgeting pp. 132-151

Pranab Kumar Panday and Shuvra Chowdhury

Volume 42, issue 1, 2020

Democracy without capacity? pp. 1-3

Aditya Dasgupta

The hubris of public administration pp. 4-5

Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili

Responding to the populist attack on public administration pp. 6-8

David Arellano-Gault

Four elements of successful reform pp. 9-11

Calin Emilian Hintea

Problems of democratic statecraft pp. 12-14

Alasdair Roberts

Democratic governance in turbulent times pp. 15-16

Veronica Junjan

A critique of the role of NGOs as partners in governance pp. 17-32

M. Shamsul Haque

Government control, governance and spatial distribution: what we have learned from the Research Infrastructure of Chinese Foundations pp. 33-45

Qun Wang

Quality of government, public service delivery and institutional impartiality in ethnically polarised societies: evidence for policy makers pp. 46-60

Ramesh Ramasamy