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Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia pp 45–63Cite as

Network Governance and Policy Making: Developments and Directions in Asia

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Network governance is conceived of as horizontally organized social subsystems with sensibilities and rationalities that are expected to influence policy development and contribute to policy evaluation. In Asia, policy networks exist and operate within civil society in various forms, and they exhibit common or dissimilar attributes. Evidence suggests that notable breakthroughs have been achieved in some of these countries and in specific development sectors, but there is a lack of coherence and consistency in the way network governance works. Lessons from successful enterprises can be drawn and applied to situations where headway has been constrained by social, political, and bureaucratic factors.

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  1. School of Behavioral, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

    Habib Zafarullah

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  1. Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Ishtiaq Jamil

  2. Department of Public Administration, University of Dhaka and PPG Program, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman

  3. Department of Political Science and Sociology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Sk. Tawfique M. Haque

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Zafarullah, H. (2015). Network Governance and Policy Making: Developments and Directions in Asia. In: Jamil, I., Aminuzzaman, S., Haque, S. (eds) Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia. Public Administration, Governance and Globalization, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15218-9_4

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