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Unveiling the impact of policy entrepreneurs on South Korea’s social economy: a media analysis Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jiae Seo
This study examines the influential role of policy entrepreneurs in shaping social economy (SE) policies in South Korea. By analysing 423 news articles from 18 diverse media outlets over two decade...
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The impact of open government data on entrepreneurial activity: a quasi-experiment with machine learning Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Yuqiong Lei, Jun Yang, Zhanyu Liu
Open government data (OGD) is a philosophy advocating for the public release of government-held data to citizens and stakeholders. While numerous countries are increasingly adopting this approach, ...
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The impact of fiscal decentralization on health outcome in Vietnam: a focus on the role of public service delivery and corruption Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Hung Dao, Minjun Hong
This study examines the applicability of fiscal decentralization theory, originally developed in Western countries, to Vietnam at the provincial level. The aim is to explore the indirect impact of ...
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The heterogeneous impact of social distancing on household-level economic performances: evidence from a large survey in Vietnam Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Dao Le-Van
This study utilizes a large dataset surveyed by Facebook and several academic institutions to examine the heterogeneous impact of social distancing on household-level economic performances, employi...
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The effects of quality of bureaucrats, regulations, and e-government on the efficiency of economic regulatory policy: focusing on the effect on time Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Jisu Jeong
ABSTRACT This study aims to discuss and analyse the influence of bureaucrats, regulations, and e-government on the efficiency of economic regulations. Specifically, it focuses on economic regulations related to import and export and considers the waiting time of policy services to measure efficiency. All indices use panel data from at least 110 countries with an average of 10 years. The data were analysed
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Factors affecting the acceptance of online tax filing and payment system by micro small medium enterprises in Vietnam Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Trung Quang Nguyen, Thi Anh Ngoc Pham, Ai Phuong Hoang, Thi Huong Nhu Do, Daniel Fuller
ABSTRACT The adoption of the online tax filing and payment system by enterprises offer several benefits such as less transaction costs, efficient public management, avoiding human errors, and eliminating repetitive hand tasks. This study analyses the factors affecting the adoption of the online tax filing and payment system by 437 micro, small, and medium enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The
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Changing welfare solidarity: social policy and solidarity ventures during COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Nurhadi Nurhadi, Tauchid Komara Yuda, Kafa Abdallah Kafaa, Pinurba Parama Pratiyudha
ABSTRACT This study aims to draw the solidarity patterns of welfare providers, i.e. state and non-state responders to COVID-19, and how their acts of solidarity reacted to the crisis and its impacts. These data are based upon secondary literature and semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders associated with each particular case. We suggest that interactional patterns of solidarity between
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Knock knock: can doorstep public service improve community outcomes? Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Jongseong Lee, Naon Min, Chungeun Yoon
ABSTRACT Governments across the globe have been striving to improve the delivery of public service. Doorstep public service is an initiative that aims to enhance social and health services for vulnerable populations. This study examines the effectiveness of a typical doorstep service: a home visiting program. We specifically investigate whether home visits influence community health outcomes, including
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Experiences of working women in India under family-friendly policies: straight from the horse’s mouth Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Lina Vyas
ABSTRACT Achieving work-life balance is one of the major challenges faced by women around the world. This study adopts a qualitative approach to examine professional women’s perspectives on their work situations and family-friendly policies, taking India as an example. The goal is to explore and explain some of the major issues confronting Indian working women when they try to balance their work and
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The impact of Vietnam’s 2013 extension of paid maternity leave on women’s labour force participation Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Caroline M. Joyce, Tuan T. Nguyen, Toan N. Pham, Roger Mathisen, Arijit Nandi
ABSTRACT In 2013, Vietnam expanded its paid maternity leave from four to six months. This study evaluated whether the expansion of Vietnam’s paid maternity leave policy was associated with improved long-term labour market outcomes for Vietnamese women. We used a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the impact of this policy on the probability of women holding a job and a formal labour contract
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Public policy education in Asia: convergence and divergence Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Kris Hartley
ABSTRACT Asia’s global rise highlights a host of policy opportunities and challenges. Historically, the region’s developmentalist governments were single-minded of purpose, aiming principally for rapid economic growth. As growth stabilized and economies matured, a variety of other concerns – environmental, social, and political, among others – began to warrant policy intervention. Public administrators
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What characteristics of performance information matter to citizens? Evidence from a survey experiment in South Korea Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Yujin Choi
This study examines the effects of multiple types of performance information on citizens’ performance evaluations of the energy voucher programme in South Korea, using an online survey experiment....
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Data literacy for Public policymaking – Lessons from Covid-19 crisis in India Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Pratik Phadkule
ABSTRACT It is expected that public policy should be based on evidence rather than on any ideology, or any pre-decided goal. Public policymaking should ideally be ‘evidence-based.’ Data and information constitute evidence. Data needs to be processed and analysed to be used as evidence. To process and analyse data, we need data literacy. The Covid-19 crisis revealed the importance of data and data literacy
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A behavioural model of managerial performance information use: evidence from survey experiment in South Korea Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Il Hwan Chung, Si Kyung Seong
ABSTRACT There has been increased scholarly interest in behavioural perspectives on performance information use. However, limited information about how public managers process performance information is available. We performed a survey experiment focusing on a sample of public managers with the same job attributes and analysed the impacts of comparison type and performance gap on the assessment of
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Bridging developmental state and entrepreneurial state theory: A typology of startup policies’ incumbent firm benefits Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Robyn Klingler-Vidra, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
ABSTRACT Developmental state literature primarily focuses on the state’s (evolving) direct relationship with large incumbent firms. This article bridges developmental state and entrepreneurial state theories by employing an open innovation logic. We study Japan (1991-2021) as an archetypal developmental state; we hand coded 83 startup policies and a corpus of media coverage of the policies’ launch
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Policy education in South Korea and Japan: similar beginnings but different directions? Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 M. Jae Moon, Masao Kikuchi, Sabinne Lee
ABSTRACT Examining the evolution of public administration and policy education in South Korea and Japan, this study analyzes how such education in the two countries has developed in response to social needs as well as socioeconomic and political changes. In both South Korea and Japan, public administration and policy education originated as a type of law education, but policy education in Korea has
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Humanitarian action in the Asia-Pacific during COVID-19: new challenges, modalities, and cooperation Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Alistair D.B. Cook, Christopher Chen
ABSTRACT As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat of natural hazards still looms large. While pandemic response remains dominant, states and societies also need to be prepared for concurrent risks and hazards. If unaccounted for, the overlapping effects of a pandemic and a natural hazard for example, can compound socio-economic vulnerabilities in countries. This article
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The battle for legitimacy of ‘student involvement’ in external quality assurance of higher education from Asian QA perspectives – does policy contextualization matter? Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Angela Yung Chi Hou, Christopher Hill, Arianna Fang Yu Lin, Dewin Justiniano
ABSTRACT Student involvement, through formal representation in external quality assurance (EQA) has attracted the attention of governments, higher education institutions (HEIs) and quality assurance agencies worldwide. This study aims to explore current developments and the legitimacy of student involvement in EQA agencies in the Asian context. There are several major findings. First, more than a half
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North Korea’s legislative response to COVID-19: a way forward or backward? Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Kyungok Do, Yejoon Rim
ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea adopted the Emergency Communicable Disease Control Act. The DPRK’s legislative response is noteworthy in five dimensions: effectiveness of communicable disease control; predictability of the authority’s response; response to emerging non-traditional security challenges; development of legal techniques; and the role of
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Is fiscal decentralization a seasonal illusion? Evidence from Korean local governments Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 HyungGun Park, Ji Hyung Park
ABSTRACT In this paper, we suggest that the extent to which local governments acquire greater fiscal autonomy is determined by local officials’ pursuit of re-election, as well as the corresponding fiscal response from the central government. Using Korean local government data, we find a pattern that the degree of fiscal decentralization is lowest during the election year and increases thereafter. Our
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Economic crises and fiscal measures in South Korea: Asian Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, and COVID-19 Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Taiwon Ha
ABSTRACT . This study conducts a changes-in-changes analysis to identify the adverse effects of three economic crises and the countercyclical stabilisation effect of the welfare system in South Korea. First, the crises commonly delivered disproportionate effects and the economically vulnerable experienced more severe damages. Second, even though the welfare system has better mitigated negative impacts
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Policy education in Australia and New Zealand: towards a decolonized pedagogy Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Michael Mintrom, Deirdre O’Neill
ABSTRACT Policy Education in Australia and New Zealand has flourished in recent years. As governments in each country have sought to redress the legacies of colonization, more effort has been made to incorporate indigenous perspectives into policy development. However, considerably more work is required with respect to codifying good practice. Much more could also be done to give indigenous issues
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Public policy education in Thailand: from caged pedagogy to disciplinary Independence? Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Theerapat Ungsuchaval, Piyapong Boossabong, Kris Hartley
ABSTRACT This study examines the state and development of public policy education in Thailand, including its dynamics over time, its institutional setting, and emerging forces acting upon it. It focuses on policy educational institutions, policy courses offered in universities, and national socio-political contexts that shape the academic profession. Policy education has heavily been developed and
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Agency power and organizational identification among Korean government employees Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 ByeongJo Kim, Jonghwan Eun
ABSTRACT While the effect of organizational prestige on members’ organizational identification has been overestimated, the potential role of individual experience stimulating positive affect has not been well-explored. The present study examines the effect of perceived satisfaction with interpersonal relationships as an individual-level affective antecedent on organizational identification among government
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Agenda-Setting for sustainable development on Twitter: actors, motivations, and issues in Turkey Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Volkan Göçoğlu
ABSTRACT Twitter has emerged as an alternative way for actors in agenda-setting on specific issues, creating trending topics, and reaching decision-makers. This open digital environment causes rapidly-changing agendas as it welcomes all the actors and individuals. Thus, it becomes a complex agenda-setting process on Twitter for such a significant issue as sustainable development. This study carried
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The usual suspects?: attitudes towards immigration during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Sung Eun Kim, Adrian J. Shin, Yujeong Yang
ABSTRACT COVID-19 has intensified public apprehension about foreigners. In this article, we examine two questions related to public opinion on immigration. First, we assess the importance of cultural and economic factors in studying why individuals support or oppose immigration. Second, we examine the role of public health concerns in shaping attitudes towards open borders by priming the vaccination
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The role of tool calibrations and policy specifications in policy change: evidence from healthcare reform efforts in Korea 1990-2020 Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, Giliberto Capano
Policy studies have addressed many issues on the topic of policy change, generally following the ideas about policy composition set out by Hall and others. These typically view ‘significant’ policy...
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Poverty alleviation in Asia: future directions in measurement, monitoring, and impact evaluation Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Qin Gao, Alex Jingwei He
ABSTRACT This essay introduces a special issue focusing on poverty alleviation in Asia. We argue that expanding the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and using a variety of methodologies to study poverty issues can help inform more effective, sustainable policy solutions in Asia and globally. Drawing on a set of new empirical studies across various Asian countries and regions, we suggest
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Sustaining Asia’s development amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: capacity development and governance innovation Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 M. Jae Moon, Xun Wu
ABSTRACT Resilience is of paramount importance in dealing with a prolonged pandemic such as COVID-19, in which all countries inevitable suffer through multiple stages of adversity. Many Asian countries were initially hard hit by the pandemic, but some of them displayed the remarkable ability to withstand these shocks, overcome despair, and bounce back quickly. This special issue examines two aspects
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‘Singapore-West’ hybridization: policy learning in the development of leadership training in the Singapore Public Service Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 James Low
An assumption by Rose and Dolowitz and Marsh was that policy-makers looked overseas for solutions when faced with policy problems. In setting up the first leadership training scheme in the Singapor...
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Technocratic and deliberative nexus in policy analysis: Learning from smart city planning in Chiang Mai, Thailand Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Noe John Joseph E. Sacramento, Piyapong Boossabong
Strengthened by rigorous developments in foundational principles and methods, the technocratic-vs-deliberative debate has long lapsed in policy analysis discourse. We attempt to remedy this debate ...
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Exploring the role of citizen participation in the policy acceptance process: the case of Korean nuclear facilities Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-11-07 Jisoo Kim, Junseop Shim, Ji Hyung Park
The application of the procedural justice theory is absent from our understanding of environmental policies, particularly in the process of nuclear policy decisions. We explore the relationship bet...
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Forging ahead or falling behind: the state of public participation in a ‘people-centred’ ASEAN Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Christopher L. Atkinson, Mandy L. Mahaffey
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has historically relied upon state-centred approaches to governance. However, there have been a number of instances where ASEAN has sought to shif...
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Translating participatory budgeting into an administrative system: the case of Taipei City Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Kai-Jo Fu
Recently, participatory budgeting (PB) has received widespread attention and has been widely adopted and implemented all over the world. Although the vast part of the literature on PB demonstrates ...
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Social network analysis and public policy: what’s new? Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Wei Zhang, Mingyang Zhang, Ling Yuan, Fengchun Fan
ABSTRACT As a mature paradigm of network analysis, social network analysis (SNA) is suitable for exploring complicated and interactive relationships in policy research and is of great significance to the innovation and development of public policy research. In this paper, 45 typical articles published in high-ranking journals in the field of public administration were analysed using co-word analysis
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Dealing with COVID-19 in South Korea: reflections on state theories Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Jiho Jang, Chonghee Han, Sunhyuk Kim
ABSTRACT In this paper, we reflect on South Korea’s relative success in dealing with COVID-19 from the perspective of state theories. Korea’s success was due to the legacies of the developmental state, combined with the elements of the regulatory state and the network state, and facilitated by IT development. We also argue that we are witnessing a new state type that no longer features the existing
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Why the initiative of free childcare failed to be an effective policy implementation of universal childcare in South Korea Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Sung-Hee Lee
ABSTRACT The paper is aimed at exploring how the meaning of universal free childcare was communicated during the first policy initiation process in 2012. In order to do so, interpretative policy analysis was utilised as a methodological approach, whilst relevant policy documents and in-depth interviews were used for data collection. I argue that failings occurred because the policy implementation was
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Examining the policy narratives and the role of the media in policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Indonesia Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Indri Dwi Apriliyanti, Wisnu Prasetya Utomo, Erwan Agus Purwanto
ABSTRACT This paper aims to investigate the related narratives presented in the media and their role in influencing the policy-making process related to the COVID-19 response in Indonesia. This study is based on the content analysis of online news and in-depth interviews with the political advisors of the president and the minister as well as the public health experts invited into the core group of
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COVID-19 pandemic response in Iran: a dynamic perspective on policy capacity Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Hamid Sajadi, Kris Hartley
ABSTRACT Iran’s policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates how countries with pre-existing challenges manage acute crises. Already economically weakened by international sanctions, Iran’s government was forced to consider short-term tradeoffs between public health and social stability in pandemic response, with imminent unemployment and food insecurity used to justify a policy pivot from
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Civil society as policy entrepreneur in agriculture and forestry sector amidst COVID-19 lockdown in India Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Gautam Prateek, Kaustubh Kumar, Pranamesh Kar, Aathira Krishnan
ABSTRACT With the nation-wide lockdown announced on 24 March 2020, India came to a standstill. Despite substantial constraints, multiple initiatives by civil society actors in providing the much needed relief and assistance to vulnerable populations during the lockdown have emerged. Considering lockdown as a wicked policy problem, we examine the roles and strategies of two civil society actors in opening
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Managing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and changing welfare regimes Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Ka Ho Mok, Yeun-Wen Ku, Tauchid Komara Yuda
ABSTRACT This article aims at setting out a broader context for the debates and discussions on welfare transformations driven by rapid global challenges and restructuring. Confronted with challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and societies across the globe must rethink and reimagine their social welfare approaches to make them appropriate and effective to manage the risks and
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Correction Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-01-11
(2021). Correction. Journal of Asian Public Policy: Vol. 14, Managing Rapid Socio-Political and Economic Changes: Challenges for Welfare Systems and Social Policy Innovations in Asia, pp. iii-iii.
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Impact of COVID-19 on ASEAN tourism industry Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Loo-See Beh, Woon Leong Lin
ABSTRACT This article aims to examine the extent of the COVID-19 on the tourism industry in ASEAN countries. This study utilized a Panel Vector Autoregression approach to examine the possible bi-directional causality that exists between COVID-19 and tourist arrivals. Data from seven ASEAN nations were used wherein accumulated numbers of cases are hypothesized due to variations in the levels of inbound
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International Migration, Remittances and COVID-19: Economic Implications and Policy Options for South Asia Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Matt Withers, Sophie Henderson, Richa Shivakoti
ABSTRACT COVID-19 has disrupted the flow of international remittance that many South Asian economies depend upon. This ‘remittance shock’ is likely to catalyse a downturn in foreign exchange earnings, worsen structural unemployment and threaten the welfare of millions of low-income families. We situate the pandemic as an unprecedented challenge to the migration-development nexus in South Asia and examine
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Policy capacity, local autonomy, and human agency: tensions in the intergovernmental coordination in Indonesia’s social welfare response amid the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Sulikah Asmorowati, Violeta Schubert, Ayu Puspita Ningrum
ABSTRACT The challenges of COVID-19 have particularly invited closer attention to localised impacts and the extent that intergovernmental coordination, policy capacity, and local autonomy are implicated in the effectiveness of government responses to the pandemic. Drawing on our case study of the implementation of social safety nets in Jakarta, we explore the tensions between national-local government
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Does revenue-sharing improve government service quality? Evidence from Seoul metropolitan districts Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Min-Gon Kim, Ji Hyung Park, HyungGun Park
ABSTRACT As a way to narrow the fiscal disparity across local governments with different revenue capacity, revenue-sharing institutionalizes relatively affluent governments to transfer some revenues for the poor. However, effects of the shared revenue, for both transfer-losing and transfer-gaining governments, on individual governments’ service quality are unknown. In this study, we investigate the
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“Localization” in Fragile Spaces: A Comparative Networks Evaluation of Community-Based Programmes in Pakistan and Afghanistan Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Elsa Talat Khwaja
ABSTRACT Conventional externally-driven development interventions have shifted towards ‘localized,’ ‘bottom-up,’ participatory approaches, such as Community-Driven Development (CDD). However, structural dynamics of conflict-prone spaces continue to challenge their sustainability. Integrating content analysis, social network analysis (SNA), and qualitative comparisons (archival research and over 100
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Social entrepreneurship in context: pathways for new contributions in the field Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Yanto Chandra, Janelle A. Kerlin
ABSTRACT In this Special Issue, we hope to reframe the conversation about context and bring back context to the front and centre of our way of knowing and theorizing in the field of social entrepreneurship. We philosophize about context and then propose a typology of context in the field of social entrepreneurship (broadly defined) and identify domains of context that constitute existing and fertile
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Does poverty alleviation help enhance social investment? The case of South Korea Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Sam Han, Qin Gao
ABSTRACT Using the 2015 Korean Welfare Panel Study data and a regression discontinuity design, this study examines the effects of the National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS) participation on social investment through evaluating its impact on changes in family consumption patterns. We find that NBLSS participation was associated with increased educational expenditures. The effects were larger
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A corporate-centred conservative welfare regime: three-layered protection in Japan Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 Masato Shizume, Masatoshi Kato, Ryozo Matsuda
ABSTRACT The Japanese welfare model is identified by the unified typology method of welfare and production regime (Schröder 2013) as the corporate-centred conservative welfare regime (CCWR), a subgroup of the conservative welfare regime. The major company cross-class alliance (Ito, 1988) has played a pivotal role in constructing the CCWR under the group-based coordinate market economy (Hall & Soskice
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Intergenerational mobility and preference for redistribution: evidence from East Asia Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-10-11 Ding-Yi Lai, Jen-Der Lue, Wen-Chin Wu
ABSTRACT Conventional wisdom posits that intergenerational social mobility reduces individual preference for redistribution. Yet, this thesis is drawn from the case of democracies, where electoral competition plays a key role in redistribution. In this study, we argue that intergenerational social mobility’s effect on individual preference for redistribution differs in dictatorships, where the state
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The role of Indonesian Think Tanks as policy entrepreneurs in policy development of village governance Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-10-11 Iskhak Fatonie
ABSTRACT The role of Indonesian think tanks as policy entrepreneurs is evolving as the government has become more open to the involvement of non-state actors.They are non-partisan, groups of intellectual, and have the power to determine their own research agenda, policy focus, and public purpose. Using the case study of the poverty alleviation-oriented Village Law, this paper examines how Indonesian
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Determinants of e-government service adoption: an empirical study for business registration in Southeast Vietnam Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Hoai Nguyen Trong, Thanh Vu Dang, Vien Nguyen, Tung Thanh Nguyen
ABSTRACT The study aims to examine the determinants affecting the adoption of e government services in Vietnam. An extended version of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model is employed to build the research model. The model is investigated through asurvey of 433 responses from small and medium enterprise (SMEs) owners in three Southeast provinces in Vietnam, and analysed using
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The role of social entrepreneurship for youth purpose development Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 Dalphine Ong, Liang Shang, Yanto Chandra, Mashitah Hamidi, Haris Abd Wahab
ABSTRACT Despite the burgeoning research on social entrepreneurship in recent years, there is limited research on youths as a context for theorizing. This article examines the influence of social entrepreneurship on youth development through the positive youth development perspective. It explores how youth participation in social entrepreneurial activities helps develop their sense of purpose in life
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Social entrepreneurship research in the Greater China Region: a scoping review and new research framework Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Yanto Chandra, Simon Teasdale, Fandy Tjiptono
ABSTRACT This article seeks to appraise the state of the art of the intellectual development of social entrepreneurship (SE) scholarship in the Greater China Region. We conducted a scoping review and critically analysed 46 peer-reviewed articles published on SE in the Greater China. Overall, we found that the Greater China SE scholarship lacks novelty and follows the similar ‘style and taste’ of SE
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Dynamics in policy shifts: multiple streams analysis and the K to 12 basic education programme of the Philippines Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Ronald A. Pernia
ABSTRACT Much of the extant studies on the transition to a K to 12 basic education programme in the Philippines have narrow scope and lack analytical rigour. Anchored on John Kingdon’s multiple streams analysis, this study analysed the dynamics of the educational shift by specifically looking into the streams of problem, policies, and politics. The findings demonstrated the viability of using the theory
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Social entrepreneurship for systemic change: the case of Southeast and South Asian countries Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-07-22 Meng Zhao
ABSTRACT This paper distinguishes two levels of system elements that accommodate social entrepreneurs’ strategic role in driving systemic change while also recognizing their limitation of doing so. Relying on the dynamics of system elements to operationalize systemic change, I explore how social entrepreneurs can drive systemic change. This paper identifies 84 “systemic-change companies” out of 191
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Perception of organizational constraints and local implementation of sustainability policies Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Ssu-Hsien Chen
ABSTRACT This study explored the impact of organizational constraints on sustainability policy implementation in local administrative bodies. The analytical units were municipal governments, districts and villages. A questionnaire survey was conducted. Stepwise ordinal least square regressionwas employed. The research findings indicated that perceptions of the external factors were fundamental to local
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Energy poverty alleviation in Southeast Asian countries: policy implications for improving access to electricity Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-06-28 Chian-Woei Shyu
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the improvement of access to electricity in Southeast Asia has been substantial. The electrification rate in this region has improved from approximately 60% in 2000 to more than 70% in 2010 and more than 90% in 2018. However, there are still 45 million people without access to electricity living mainly in Cambodia and Myanmar where other poverty issues coexist. This
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The emergence and contested growth of social enterprise in Thailand Journal of Asian Public Policy (IF 1.591) Pub Date : 2020-06-13 Bob Doherty, Pichawadee Kittipanya-Ngam
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the development of the Social Enterprise (SE) in Thailand. Emerging from the non-profit sector in the 1970s, Thailand is now experiencing the development of new state-private policy interventions to stimulate development of SE. We combine the work of Kerlin on the socio-economic environment with the theories of market creation from economic sociology. We pinpoint for