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Governance in Asia: Culture, Ethics, Institutional Reform and Policy Change
An International Conference on
Governance in Asia
5-7 December 2002
City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, CHINA
This conference, organized by the Centre for Comparative Public Management and Social Policy, a multi-disciplinary research centre on policy and governance issues at the City University of Hong Kong, will explore various challenges to governance in Asia in the midst of globalization and demands for institutional and policy changes, focusing on the issues of policy, values, culture and reform. It aims at bringing together scholars and researchers from various backgrounds, particularly from within Asia, in a structured and empirically-informed inter-disciplinary dialogue that can produce an agenda for future research and reform directions. Apart from research sessions, the conference will also provide a practitioner session to facilitate an exchange among senior administrators and practitioners of Asian countries.
The conference will be conducted around four sub-themes:
Challenge to Governance in Asia -Culture, Ethics and Risk
Institutional Reforms in Asia - Opportunities, Motives and Pitfalls
Making Policy Work in Asia - Values, Process and Implementation
Dilemmas of Governance in Asia - Problems, Demands and Solutions (practitioner sessions)Principal keynote speakers will be invited for the plenary session of each sub-theme, while other contributors of papers will make their presentations at workshop sessions.
Contributions are now invited on the sub-themes of the conference. Abstracts of around 500 words (in English) - with name and institutional affiliation of author, postal address, telephone and fax numbers and email address included - should reach the conference secretariat by 4 May 2002. Where possible, contributors should indicate which sub-theme(s) their proposed contribution relates to. Contributors will be notified of acceptance decision by 1 June 2002. Final draft papers should be submitted to the conference secretariat by 1 November 2002 in softcopy.
All paper contributors will have to pay the registration fee and to cover their own traveling and accommodation expenses.
For enquires, please contact:
Ms Barbara Ho
rmpkho@cityu.edu.hkProfessor Anthony B.L. Cheung
Acting Director Centre for Comparative Public Management and Social Policy
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue,
Kowloon
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
CHINA
