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Public Management as a Building Block for Governance: Drawing on the Experiences of Hong Kong

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Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia

Part of the book series: Public Administration, Governance and Globalization ((PAGG,volume 15))

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Developing countries strive for good governance because it ensures a number of features and arrangements that contribute to an effective and equitable system for governing. Despite substantial investments in resources and reorganization, the limited capacity of developing countries hinders the achievement of governance. An alternative approach could be to aim for attaining the desired outcome of governance by carefully designing and effectively implementing programs of public management with a limited scope, and by building the framework of governance gradually. This chapter discusses the case of Hong Kong in order to demonstrate that public management programs can serve as building blocks for creating a framework of governance; over time, the integration of these efforts can help ensure the benefits of governance without undertaking enormous risks by attempting comprehensive changes that may not succeed.

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    I do not mean to imply that there are no problems related to implementing private sector features in the public sector. Some of these are discussed by Haroon Khan (Chap. 8 in this volume) and Mei Li (Chap. 12 in this volume).

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  1. Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

    Ahmed Shafiqul Huque

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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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Huque, A. (2015). Public Management as a Building Block for Governance: Drawing on the Experiences of Hong Kong. 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_5

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