Symposium – In Celebration of Public Administration: A Vital Sustaining Force in Public Management and Governance? - Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong

Monday 9 December 2013	Tuesday 10 December 2013
9.00am – 9.30am Welcoming speech (Professor John Burns, Dean of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong); Introductory remarks (Professor Eliza Lee and Professor Ian Thynne, The University of Hong Kong).	9.00am – 10.00am “The Motivational Bases of Public Service: Foundations for a Third Wave of Research”, by Professor James Perry, Indiana University, Bloomington.
9.30am – 10.30am “Public Administration and the Rule of Law in Asia: Breadth without Depth?” by Dr. Bjoern Dressel, Australian National University.	10.00am – 11.00am “Administrative Values in the Chinese and Hong Kong Public Services: A Comparative Analysis”, by Professor Gong Ting and Professor Ian Scott, City University of Hong Kong & The University of Hong Kong.
10.30am – 11.00am Tea & coffee	11.00am – 11.30am Tea & coffee
11.00am – 12.00noon “Who Should be in Charge? Citizens’ Perceptions of Public Service Privatization in South Korea”, by Professor Heung-suk Choi, Korea University.	11.30am – 12.00noon “Intellectual Disarray in Public Administration: A Challenge to Administrative Study in Southeast Asia”, tabled by Professor Shamsul Haque, National University of Singapore.
12.00noon – 1.30pm Lunch (by invitation)	12.00noon – 12.30pm Discussion of the Symposium publication; Closing remarks (Professor Eliza Lee and Professor Ian Thynne, The University of Hong Kong).
1.30pm – 2.30pm “Capacity Building for Societal Governance: A Case of Collaborative Community Development in Taiwan”, by Professor Ching-Ping Tang, National Chengchi University.	12.30pm – 2.00pm Lunch (by invitation)
2.30pm – 3.30pm “The Increasingly Hollow State: Challenges and Dilemmas for Public Administration”, by Professor Brinton Milward, University of Arizona.	(End of Symposium)
3.30pm – 4.00pm Tea & coffee
4.00pm – 5.00pm “Public Administration and the Promise of Evidence-based Policy: Experience in and beyond Australia”, by Professor Brian Head, University of Queensland.
6.30pm – 9.30pm Symposium dinner (by invitation)