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An Asian perspective on policy instruments: policy styles, governance modes and critical capacity challenges

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  • Ishani Mukherjee
  • Michael Howlett

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Does Asia have a distinct policy style? If so, what does it look like, and why does it take the shape it does? This article argues that in the newly reinvigorated emphasis of policy studies on policy instruments and their design lies the basis of an analysis of a dominant policy style in the Asian region, with significant implications for understanding the roles played by specific kinds of policy capacities. There is a distinctly Asian policy style based on a specific pattern of policy capacities and governance modes. In this style, a failure to garner initial policy legitimacy in the articulation of instrument norms often results in later mismatches between instrument objectives and specific mechanisms for their achievement. The formulation of payments for ecosystem services policy is used to illustrate the capacities required for policy designs and action to meet policy goals effectively.

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  • Ishani Mukherjee & Michael Howlett, 2016. "An Asian perspective on policy instruments: policy styles, governance modes and critical capacity challenges," Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(1), pages 24-42, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rapaxx:v:38:y:2016:i:1:p:24-42
    DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2016.1152724
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    1. Lewis Husain & Gerald Bloom & Yue Xiao, 2023. "Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China’s health system," Policy and Society, Darryl S. Jarvis and M. Ramesh, vol. 42(1), pages 28-48.
    2. Ishani Mukherjee & M. Kerem Coban & Azad Singh Bali, 2021. "Policy capacities and effective policy design: a review," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 54(2), pages 243-268, June.
    3. Joshua Newman & Emi Patmisari & Ida Widianingsih, 2022. "Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 55(3), pages 469-485, September.
    4. Ishani Mukherjee, 2022. "Fueling green connections: Networked policy instrument choices for sustainability regulation," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 39(5), pages 602-631, September.
    5. Dennis Vicencio Blanco, 2017. "Anti-money laundering governance in the Philippines: legal foundations, institutional dynamics and policy challenges," Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(1), pages 51-62, January.

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