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Public sector reform in Hong Kong : key concepts, progress-to-date and future directions
- Title
- Public sector reform in Hong Kong : key concepts, progress-to-date and future directions / edited by Jane C.Y. Lee and Anthony B.L. Cheung.
- Publication
- Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, ©1995.
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- Description
- xi, 324 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- This volume brings together, for the first time, a collection of essays on public sector reform in Hong Kong. Public sector reform has come rather belatedly to Hong Kong, being launched officially since 1989. The underlying themes as well as key initiatives of the reform package are undoubtedly in line with similar reform trends prevailing in Western Europe, North America and the Australasia dating from the rise of privatization policies in governments in these places since the late 1970s. In Hong Kong, however, little discussion has taken place in the community over the government's guide public sector reform programme. Even within the civil service, interest in the programme has been limited to those senior officers tasked with implementing the reform measures. Little is actually written on the subject which should have important implications for the future shape of public administration in Hong Kong. Being the first volume of its kind in the local print, this book tries to capture the basic objectives and features of public sector reform as well as raise some fundamental issues and questions for further debate. The chapters are so arranged as to provide multi-dimensional perspectives from local academics, government officials as well as overseas experiences. This book should be of interest to general readers and of particular use to students of government and public administration as well as practitioners in the field.
- Series Statement
- Hong Kong series
- Uniform Title
- Hong Kong series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Some chapters taken from rewritten versions of papers presented at the 1991 Conference on Hong Kong Public Sector Reform.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Jane C. Y. Lee and Anthony B. L. Cheung -- 1. Public Sector Reform: Key Issues and Future Directions / Donald Tsang -- 2. Public Sector Reform: Past Developments and Recent Trends / Colin Sankey -- 3. Financial, Managerial and Political Dimensions of Public Sector Reform / Anthony B. L. Cheung -- 4. Public Sector Reform and Public Sector Accountability / Jane C. Y. Lee -- 5. Pilot Study One: The School Education Programme: Redefining the Relationship between Policy Branch and Department / Chris D. Godwin -- 6. Pilot Study Two: Trading Fund Concepts in the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department / Alan Richardson -- 7. Pilot Study Three: Business Plan in the Marine Department / Peter Crisp -- 8. The Experience of Public Sector Management in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and Implications for Hong Kong / Richard A. Chapman -- 9. Implications of Overseas Experiences for Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong: Perspective and Limitations / Roy Leherissier.
- 10. Accountability and Choice: New Directions in the Delivery of Public Services / Anton Cooray -- Appendix A Finance Branch, Public Sector Reform (March 1989) -- Appendix B Education and Manpower Branch and Education Department: The School Management Initiatives (March 1991) -- Appendix C Trading Fund Ordinance (May 1993)
- ISBN
- 9622016553
- 9789622016552
- LCCN
- 96118897
- OCLC
- ocm35919463
- 35919463
- SCSB-14447495
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library