An Asian perspective on policy instruments: policy styles, governance modes and critical capacity challenges

• Main Authors: MUKHERJEE, Ishani, HOWLETT, Michael
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Asian policy style; policy instruments; governance modes; policy capacity; payments for ecosystem services; environmental governance; Cambodia; China; Indonesia; Nepal; the Philippines; Thailand; Vietnam; Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2530; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3787/viewcontent/An_Asian_perspective_on_policy_instruments_policy_styles_governance_modes_and_critical_capacity_challenges.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Does Asia have a distinct policy style? If so, what does it look like, and why does it take the shape it does? This article argues that in the newly reinvigorated emphasis of policy studies on policy instruments and their design lies the basis of an analysis of a dominant policy style in the Asian r...