Public Policy for the Developing Countries

Public policy is a key success for developing countries, but is that much neglected. As political development becomes more fascinating and the policy process transforms into a dry and technical law-making process, the leaders and institutional decision-making is trapped into interest bargaining among elites. This book is a codification of my lecturer and experience in teaching and assisting the policy development in Indonesia and some developing countries in Asia. In fact, public policy is a product of any political system, whatever the systems are. In the pragmatism approach, it might be understood that no matter what is the political system, what people seek is how excellence is the public policy. China, Singapore, Malaysia are developing a pragmatic approach. South Korea and Taiwan have their democratic maturity side by side with excellent policies. India, Indonesia, Philippines are the other different stories.