Network Governance and Policy Making: Developments and Directions in Asia

Abstract

Governance, understood as a complex dynamic phenomenon, strives to bring about excellence in governmental operations within a democratic setup. Designed to be sensitive to citizen and societal demands, it is concerned with a complex matrix of interactions and interrelations between different actors and institutions (society, state, civil society, the market, global regimes etc.), and between different sets of ideas and practices (capitalism, neo-liberalism, social democratic, etc.). Governance this has significant implications for policy-making and implementation, and, to that end, development (Zafarullah and Haque 2012).