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Reward for high public office : Asian and Pacific-rim states / edited by Christopher Hood and B. Guy Peters with Grace O.M. Lee.

Title
Reward for high public office : Asian and Pacific-rim states / edited by Christopher Hood and B. Guy Peters with Grace O.M. Lee.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Lee, Grace O. M.
  • Hood, Christopher, 1947-
  • Peters, B. Guy
Description
xviii, 194 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
An examination of rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems including case studies focusing on Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Singapore.
Series Statement
Routledge research in comparative politics ; 3
Uniform Title
Routledge research in comparative politics ; 3.
Subject
  • Performance awards > Pacific Area
  • Public officers > Salaries, etc. > Pacific Area
  • Government executives > Salaries, etc. > Pacific Area
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Alike at the summit? / Christopher Hood [and others] -- Rewarding comrades at the top in China / John P. Burns -- Rorts, perks and fat cats: rewards for high public office in Australia / Martin Painter -- New Zealand-the end of egalitarianism? / Robert Gregory -- Japan's pattern of rewards for high public office: a cultural perspective / Akira Nakamura and Kosaku Dairokuno -- The politics of rewards for high public office in Korea / Pan-Suk Kim -- Hong Kong-institutional inheritance from colony to special administrative region / Grace O.M. lee -- Paying for the 'best and the brightest': rewards for high public office in Singapore / Jon S.T. Quah -- The top pay game and good governance-where immodest theories meet slippery facts / Christopher Hood and B. Guy Peters.
ISBN
0415303494
OCLC
643496172
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library