MoHA 2015: Capacity Building in Research

This volume studies the management settlement of conflict and disputes in East Asia. Drawing on expertise in Peace and Conflict, International Relations, and International Law it presents a general picture of how conflict can be managed at the international and regional levels through various mechanisms, in particular, through prominent regional organizations. Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record

This volume is based on the papers presented and discussed at the thirty-first Indonesia Update Conference held at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, on 20-21 September 2013.
The volume features contributions by over 40 writers with deep expertise on Indonesia. The book provides a timely, comprehensive and analytical assessment of the country's regional development dynamics in the post-decentralization environment. It explores historical, political and development patterns at the regional level; the relationshipbetween decentralization and governance; local-level perspectives; migration, cities andconnectivity; and the challenges confronting the peripheral regions of Aceh and Papua. Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record

The book provides an introduction to sustainable development, technology and infrastructure outlines, codes, standards, and guidelines written by experts from across the globe. Includes methods for the green use of natural resources in built communities Clearly explains the most cutting edge green technologies Provides a common approach to building green communities Covers green practices from architecture to construction. Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record.

Over the last three decades, a considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management. This volume presents up-to-date, cutting-edge research by respected scholars with an emphasis on theoretical and mathematical constructs in the area of peace economics and peace science. Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record

This volume defines how public policies, governance, legal framework and field studies' lessons can help decision makers to identify the major factors that may shape the attitude of both Islamic Financial Institutions and customers towards safe and sound services and through defining main determinants for successful, strategic inclusion of the Islamic Financial System into real sustained development nationally, regionally and internationally. Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record

The contents fall into three categories: corruption and anti-corruption initiatives, public financial management reforms, and public management reforms with emphasis on performance and results. Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record

'Public Management and Administration' introduces and assesses the principles and theories underlying changes in the management of the public sector. Systematically revised and updated throughout, the third edition of this highly successful text includes an entirely new chapter on the impact of e-governance and expanded coverage of financial and performance management. Source: From the book jacket in UniSC catalogue record.

Over the past decade, Indonesia has developed into an important regional and global economy, as well as an active participant in the G20. The chapters in this book document the substantial improvements in the quality of macroeconomic policy that Indonesia has achieved, while also clearly laying out an agenda of measures that should be taken to safeguard these gains and further lower vulnerabilities going forward. Rather than just demonstrating progress in key macroeconomic indicators, the contributors have delved into the ways that global volatility, especially since 2008, has affected Indonesia. Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record

Introduction -- Rationality, individuality and public choice -- Ideology, power and public policy -- Pluralism, corporatism, and public policy -- The policy sciences -- Problem definition and agenda setting -- Policy analysis and policy instruments -- Consultation and decision-making -- Implementation, evaluation and policy change -- Interest groups and the media -- Policy resources and institutional learning -- Evidence and research in public policy. Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record

Assessing the trajectory of democratisation in East Asia, this text offers a systematic and tightly integrated analysis of party system development in countries across the region. The authors utilise unprecedented cross-national survey data to examine the institutional structure of party systems. Source: UniSC catalogue record

Introduction -- New states, old nations and nationalism -- Political culture, social values: affinity and diversity -- Modernization strategies and multiple modernities -- Developmental states and beyond -- Industrial policies -- Agriculture -- Financial sector -- Patterns of business across Pacific Asia -- Welfare societies -- Political development and democratization -- Tribulations of democratic consolidation -- Regionalism and regionalization in Pacific Asia -- Conclusion. Source: UniSC catalogue record

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Some fledging democracies in the world have encountered setbacks due to political parties trying to grapple with the expectations of sophisticated electorates and introducing gradual political reforms over the years. This book describes how democracy is evolving in East Asia and how it assumes different forms in different countries, with political parties adapting and evolving alongside. It has a two-fold intent. First, it contends that the existing variety of party systems in East Asia will endure and may even flourish, rather than converge as liberal democracies. Second, it highlights the seeming political durability of one party systems unlike two-part or multi-party systems in the US and Europe and their enduring predominance in countries such as Cambodia, China, Singapore and Vietnam. Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record

Contents: Introduction / Ian Marsh -- Political culture and democratic consolidation / Richard Sinnott -- Parties and party systems / Jean Blondel -- The national executives / Jean Blondel -- Bureaucratic performance, policy capacity, and administrative reform / Martin Painter -- Economic governance and global engagement : independent and dependent linkage / Ian Marsh -- Regionalism and state capacity / John Ravenhill -- Has the Japanese model ceased to be a magnet in Asia? / Takashi Inoguchi -- The "Asian values" debate / Jean Blondel -- Democratisation, regionalism, and state capacity in east and southeast Asia / Ian Marsh. Source: UniSC catalogue record

What does democracy look like in Pacific Asia? Can democratic governance in the region survive the challenges of corruption, violence, and soft authoritarianism? What impact are economic pressures likely to have? These are among the broad questions tackled in Pacific Asia in Quest of Democracy, a comparative study of democratic structures and practices in Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. the institutions and legal underpinnings of democracy, the roles of political parties and politicians, the significance of a changing political culture. He also draws on his long experience living and working in the region to explore the public conversations taking place and the media that facilitates them. Asia lack a long democratic tradition, much more significant are the innovative democratic design and the enthusiasm for democratic participation exhibited there. Source: Source: UniSC catalogue Syndetics record