SNAPSHOTS: FEATURED MEMBERS
Group Member
Institute of Public Administration Australia
Individual Member
Prof. Jon S.T. Quah
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The Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) is the Australian professional association for those who see public administration as their profession, whether in the public service, politics, other public sector employment, academia, or the private and the not-for-profit sectors supporting public policy and public programs.
While IPAA’s State and Territory divisions provide members with most day-to-day services (including a wide range of professional development activities such as seminars, workshops and training courses), its National Office serves as the voice of the profession, drawing on the expertise of members and on research and international contacts to communicate with authority both to the membership and to the Australian public on contemporary public administration issues.
The main national activities are:
- The national conference held annually (the 2009 conference will be held in Brisbane in November);
- Roundtables of invited experts to examine in detail issues of national importance (in 2009 roundtables will be held on health governance (March) and the long-term consequences for government of the global financial crisis (July);
- Two journals, the Australian Journal of Public Administration, the peer-reviewed professional journal, and Public Administration Today, a magazine which focuses more on exchange of experiences by practitioners;
- Developing and maintaining international partnerships with like-minded organisations, including New Zealand, Canada, China, the US, CAPAM and EROPA, and contributing to improved public administration amongst Australia’s near neighbours;
- Developing the national IPAA website as a means of improving members’ access to material on good practice.
The Australian Journal of Public Administration (AJPA)
The AJPA is published quarterly and is committed to the study and practice of public administration, public management and policy making. It is a peer-reviewed journal accepting contributions from both academics and practitioners.
The journal focuses primarily on the interests of its Australian readers, but has an increasing international readership. It welcomes manuscripts relating to international developments of relevance to the Australian experience.
>>Visit www.ipaa.org.au for further information.
FEATURED INDIVIDUAL
PROF. JON S.T. QUAH, PhD.
Jon S.T. Quah, Ph.D., was Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Co-editor of the Asian Journal of Political Science until his retirement in June 2007, after 35 years of service. His administrative appointments at the NUS included being Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from July 1990 to June 1991, Coordinator of the European Studies Programme from July 1990 to June 1998, Head of the Department of Political Science from July 1992 to June 1998, and Member of the Board of Discipline of the Senate from July 2002 to June 2007.
He is a Singapore citizen by birth and obtained his B.Soc.Sci. Honours in Political Science from the University of Singapore in June 1969, and his M.Soc.Sci. in Political Science from the University of Singapore in March 1971. He was a Fulbright-Hays Scholar at the Department of Government, Florida State University, USA, where he received his Ph.D. in Political Science specializing in Public Administration in June 1975.
He was seconded for two years (June 1988 to June 1990) to the Institute for Policy Studies in Singapore, where he served as Deputy Director and Acting Director from January 1989. He was a member of the following public organizations in Singapore: Science Council of Singapore (November 1978 to November 1982); Advisory Council on Social and Psychological Defence, Ministry of Community Development (1989 to 1993); Board of Trustees, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (November 1993 to October 1999); National Courtesy Council (March 1999 to March 2001); National Crime Prevention Council and Chairman, Research Committee (July 1999 to June 2005).
Prof. Quah was awarded a fellowship at the Culture Learning Institute, East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i from February to March 1978, and a Harvard-Yenching Fellowship at Harvard University from September 1979 to June 1980. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at these institutions: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley (September 1986 to May 1987); Harvard Institute for International Development (August 1993 to March 1994); Harvard-Yenching Institute (July to September 1997); Stanford Program in International Legal Studies, Stanford University (October to December 1997); National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University (August to December 2002); and Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University (January to June 2006).
He received a High Commendation Award from the Commissioner of Police in Singapore on February 19, 1983 for rendering valuable services to the Singapore Police Academy from 1977 to 1982. He was also awarded a Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Palmes Academiques (Academic Order of the Palms) by the French Minister of Education in February 1993 for contributing to the enhancement of French culture and education in Singapore.
Prof. Quah is a lifetime member of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA). He is a Vice President of the Asian Association for Public Administration (AAPA), and a member of these organizations: International Advisory Board, East Asia Institute, South Korea; Advisory Board, Asia-Pacific Governance Institute, Washington D.C.; Consultative Committee, National Assessment Survey on Anti-Corruption Agencies, Lisbon; and an associate of the Rutgers Institute of Corruption Studies, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J., USA.
PROF. QUAH’s AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Corruption and Governance in Asian Countries
Prof Quah conducted his first research project on corruption in Singapore in 1977 when he examined the administrative and legal measures for combating bureaucratic corruption and the various forms of police corruption. Since then, he has proceeded to initiate research on the anti-corruption strategies in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. He taught a module on Corruption and Governance in Asia focusing on the anti-corruption strategies in ten Asian countries for six years at the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore.
As the lead consultant for the United Nations Development Programme Mission to Mongolia from September to November 1998, he formulated a National Anti-Corruption Plan for the Mongolian Government. He prepared a background report on “Bureaucratic Corruption in Indonesia: Some Suggestions for Reform” for the World Bank’s Jakarta Office in June 2002. He is the author of Curbing Corruption in Asia: A Comparative Study of Six Countries (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2003) and National Integrity Systems Regional Overview Report East and Southeast Asia 2006 (Berlin: Transparency International, 2007).
Administrative Reforms in Singapore
His interest in administrative reforms in Singapore began in 1972 when he initiated fieldwork for his doctoral dissertation on the former Singapore Improvement Trust and the Housing and Development Board. He completed his Ph.D. dissertation on “Administrative Reform and Development Administration in Singapore: A Comparative Study of the Singapore Improvement Trust and the Housing and Development Board” for the Florida State University in June 1975. In addition to Singapore, he has also done research on administrative reforms in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand.
Public Personnel Management in Asian Countries
Prof Quah’s interest in public personnel management can be traced to his M.Soc.Sci. thesis on “The Public Service Commission in Singapore” which was submitted to the University of Singapore in August 1970. He taught a course on Public Personnel Management at NUS for many years which focused on Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Apart from publishing on public personnel management in these five countries, he prepared a report for the Commonwealth Secretariat in London in 1993 on Human Resource Development in Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. He was invited by the Government of Macau Special Administrative Region to evaluate the Public Personnel System in Macau in July 2000.
Public Policy in Singapore
He taught an Honours Year module on Public Policy in Singapore for 30 years at NUS and has published extensively on various public policies in Singapore. He was Honorary Consultant for the Neighbourhood Police Post Project for the Singapore Police Force from August 1982 to May 1986 and co-authored with Stella R. Quah, Friends in Blue: The Police and the Public in Singapore(Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1987). As a consultant for the Religion Project for the Ministry of Community Development in Singapore from August 1987 to October 1988, he co-authored the final report on Religion and Religious Revivalism in Singapore (Singapore: Ministry of Community Development, October 1988). As Acting Director of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), he chaired the Study Group on National Values and edited In Search of Singapore's National Values (Singapore: Times Academic Press for the IPS, 1990).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
His latest book is Public Administration Singapore-Style (Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing, 2010). The paperback edition is published by Talisman Publishing in Singapore for Southeast Asia (see details here). His next book on Taiwan’s Anti-Corruption Strategy: Suggestions for Reform will be published by the University of Maryland’s School of Law as a monograph in the Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies in October 2010. He is also the author of Combating Corruption Singapore-Style: Lessons for Other Asian Countries (Baltimore: School of Law, University of Maryland, 2007).
Other recent publications include the following:
“Asia-Pacific States: Building an Inclusive, Responsive and Capable State.” In Building an Inclusive, Responsive and Capable State: Background Papers. Oslo: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2010,pp. 61-85.
“Defying Institutional Failure: Learning from the Experiences of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Four Asian Countries,” Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 53, No. 1 (February 2010): 23-54
“Benchmarking for Excellence: A Comparative Analysis of Seven Anti-Corruption Agencies in Asia,” Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 31, No. 2 (December 2009): 171-195.
“Governance and Corruption: Exploring the Connection,” American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2 (October 2009): 119-135.
“Combating Corruption in the Asia-Pacific Countries: What do we know and What needs to be done?” International Public Management Review, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2009): 5-32. See http://www.ipmr.net.
“Benchmarking the Performance of Anti-Corruption Agencies in the Asia-Pacific Countries.” In Anuradha Rajivan and Ramesh Gampat (eds.), Perspectives on Corruption and Human Development. Vol. 2. Delhi: Macmillan India, 2009. Chapter 18, pp. 763-805.
“Civil Service and Corruption.” In Anuradha Rajivan and Ramesh Gampat (eds.), Perspectives on Corruption and Human Development. Vol. 2. Delhi: Macmillan India, 2009. Chapter 19, pp. 806-842.
“Curbing Corruption in a One-Party Dominant System: Learning from Singapore’s Experience.” In Ting Gong and Stephen K. Ma (eds.), Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity. London: Routledge, 2009. Chapter 9, pp. 131-147.
“Public Administration: Change in Style and Continuity in Policy.” In Bridget Welsh, James Chin, Arun Mahizhan and Tan Tarn How (eds.), Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press, 2009, Chapter 4, pp. 50-60.
“Curbing Corruption in India: An Impossible Dream?” Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 16, No. 3 (December 2008): 240-259.
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