"The book explores how politicians use discretionary powers to appoint individuals to key positions in the public sector. It compares this practice across Asia: Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam"--

1. Patronage in Asian political systems: a framework for research B. Guy Peters; Part I. One-party Dominated Systems: 2. Governing the global city's mandarinate: politically motivated appointments in Singapore's public sector Assel Mussagulova and George Wong; 3. Patronage and politicisation in the Indian administrative service Naresh Chandra Saxena; 4. Political patronage, civil service politicisation and the ordeals of career civil servants: insights from Bangladesh Mohammad Mizanur Rahman; Part II. Two-party/Multi-party Systems: 5. Patronage appointment in Japanese politics: political representation in a large bureaucracy Masao Kikuchi; 6. Patronage in Mongolia Oyunsuren Damdinsuren, Julian Dierkes and Byambakhand Luguusharav; 7. Loyalty or expertise? The practice of political patronage in Taiwan Tong-yi Huang and Zong-xian Huang; 8. Patronage in South Korea Min Han Kim, Byongseob Kim and Hyejin Kang; 9. Patronage appointments in the Philippine public service Maria Fe Villamejor-Mendoza; Part III. Autocracies: 10. Varieties of patronage in a single party state: ministers in China Jiangnan Zhu, Siqin Kang and Yaowensong Song; 11. Party patronage in Kazakhstan Colin Knox and Saltanat Janenova; 12. Political patronage in Vietnam Minh-Quang Le, Chi-Kien Phung and Quang-Minh Le; 13. Conclusions Colin Knox and B. Guy Peters; Index.