Anthony B. L. Cheung

Broschiertes Buch

Can Hong Kong Exceptionalism Last?: Dilemmas of Governance and Public Administration Over Five Decades, 1970s-2020

Beschreibung

This book carries decades of academic observations and the author's personal political experience. It reviews and refects on the past trajectory of governance and administration, identifying strengths and capabilities as well as constraints and vulnerabilities of Hong Kong as a polity and society, while charting its course of 'exceptionalism' within a new context and under changing conditions.

Autor

Professor Anthony B.L. Cheung is the former President of the Education University of Hong Kong. He joined the civil service under the British administration in the 1970s and worked for various departments over the course of his service before starting his academic career in 1986 at CityUniversity of Hong Kong. He has taken part in local politics and was one of the founders of the Democratic Party (in 1994) as well as a member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council. He was also active in think-tanks like Hong Kong Policy Research Institute and The SynergyNet.From 2012–2017, he served in the government as Secretary for Transport and Housing. As an academic, his research focus has been on governance and public administration in Hong Kong as well as comparative public administration in Asia, writing extensively on public sector reform and civil service reform, privatisation, corporatisation, and Asian administrative reforms. He haspublished numerous journal articles and books on these topics. He helped set up the Governance in Asia Research Center (2002) at The City University of Hong Kong and the Center for Governance and Citizenship (2009) at The Education University of Hong Kong, and was the co-founder of theAsian Forum on Public Management (2001), now the Asian Association for Public Administration (2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: City University of Hong Kong Press
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9789629375911
• ISBN-10: 9629375915
• Artikelnr.: 62889540