Political Patronage in Asian Bureaucracies

B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of Government at the University of Pittsburgh, and Editor of the International Review of Public Policy. He was the founding president of the International Public Policy Association. His most recent books include Administrative Traditions: Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Administrative Behavior (2021) and Democratic Backsliding and Public Policy (Cambridge, 2021).

Colin Knox is a professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and Emeritus Professor at Ulster University (UK). His most recent books are: The Economics of Schooling in a Divided Society: The Case for Shared Education (2015) (with Vani Borooah); and Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (2016) (with Padraic Quirk).

Byong Seob Kim is an emeritus professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University. He was the president of the Korean Association for Public Administration. His most recent books is A Discussion on Leadership (『大學衍義』; 대학연의: 리더십을 말하다) (2018).