Public Service Excellence in the 21st Century

✍ Scribed by Alikhan Baimenov, Panos Liverakos

• Publisher: Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book combines academic wisdom and practitioners’ insights to critically examine the challenges faced by civil service systems in the 21st Century. Moreover, the book evaluates what types of civil servants are needed to tackle critical issues such as rapidly ageing populations, increased urbanisation, environmental degradation, swift technological advancement, and globalisation of the market place in the social and economic realm of the 21st Century.
Its topics range from civil service development in post-Soviet countries indicating that peer-to-peer learning is the way forward, to civil service reforms in China, Japan, and Korea in their quest to satisfy their citizens demands and expectations in the 21st Century. Other topics span across regional analyses by focusing on current dominant trends and challenges confronting administrative and civil service systems, vis-à-vis technology, innovation and “big data”, and their disruptive effects on society and government.
This book will be of interest to both academics and practitioners, and would-be builders of the 21st Century world.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xlv
Reclaiming Public Space: Drawing Lessons from the Past as We Confront the Future (Chester Newland, Demetrios Argyriades)....Pages 1-30
Fear and Loathing of Technological Progress? Leveraging Science and Innovation for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Pedro Conceição)....Pages 31-52
Lessons from Lagash: Public Service at the Start of History and Now (Max Everest-Phillips)....Pages 53-104
The Emergence of a New Model? Trajectories of Civil Service Development in the Former Soviet Union Countries (Alikhan Baimenov, Saltanat Janenova)....Pages 105-143
Japan’s Attempts to Digitalise Government: An Introduction of “My Number” System in Reforming Public Management (Akira Nakamura, Kiyoshi Suzuki)....Pages 145-167
The Role of Civil Service and the Human Resource Management Policies Required for the Government of the Future (Byeong-soo Yoon)....Pages 169-202
China’s Public Service and Civil Service Capacity Building (Li Junpeng, Zhang Xian)....Pages 203-235
Disruptive Technologies and the Public Sector: The Changing Dynamics of Governance (Christine Leitner, Christian M. Stiefmueller)....Pages 237-274
Big Data-Driven Public Service in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of Big Data (Max Everest-Phillips)....Pages 275-318
Cooperation and Partnerships for International Development in the Era of the SDGs (Alikhan Baimenov, Panos Liverakos)....Pages 319-339
Back Matter ....Pages 341-345

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; Governance and Government; Russian and Post-Soviet Politics; International Organization