Great Policies: Strategic Innovations in Asia and the Pacific Basin (Bibliographies and Indexes in World) - Hardcover

"This book is intended for use in public policy courses....The case studies in the book are interesting examples of strategic policy innovations, an important area of policy studies. As well as the intrinsic interest of the case studies and the analysis of policy innovation the work draws attention to the increasing importance of comparative studies as an accepted area of academic interest within the broad field of international studies."-Political Science ?This book is intended for use in public policy courses....The case studies in the book are interesting examples of strategic policy innovations, an important area of policy studies. As well as the intrinsic interest of the case studies and the analysis of policy innovation the work draws attention to the increasing importance of comparative studies as an accepted area of academic interest within the broad field of international studies.?-Political Science

Scholars of public policy and regional and international studies describe large-scale policy changes of Asian and Pacific countries. Among them are land reform and export-led growth in Taiwan, Japanese educational innovations, China's study-abroad policy in 1978-93, rural development in Thailand, an