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1 University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG) PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (as of October 2015) July December 2012 (Volume LVI No. 2) Php Revisiting the Public Sector Reform Agenda: Towards Active Citizenship and the Corruption Conundrum Active Citizenship among the Youth: Differences among Sangguniang Kabataan Leaders and Their Constituents Neoliberal Governance in the Philippines: Ideational Policy Reform in the Ramos Administration, Reflections from Scholars and Practitioners: The Antinomies of Administration: Politics Administration and the Neglected Dichotomies of Administrative Thought Danilo de la Rosa Reyes Erwin Gaspar A. Alampay and Lydia E. Angeles Robin Michael U. Garcia Danilo de la Rosa Reyes January June 2012 (Volume LVI No. 1) Php The Role of Customary Governance Systems in Enhancing Local Democracy: The Case of Ghana Enhancing the Quality of Life of the Elderly Through Elderly Clubs: A Case Study on Social Services Provision in Northeastern Thailand The Psychological and Social Foundations of Participation Among Marginalized Young People in Brazil Reflections from Scholars and Practitioners: Frontiers of Philippine Public Administration, Regulatory Policymaking and Contract Management: LTFRB, PPP and BRT Margaret Sackey Buraskorn Tarut Jody Asked January December 2011 (Volume LV No. 1&2) Php New Institutionalism and Public Administration: A Review of Theories and Concepts Exploring into the Prehistory and Early History of Philippine Public Administration: Three Models of Weberian Administrative State in Focus Rediscovering Mary Parker Follett: Rare Gem in Public Administration Scholarship in the Early 20 th Century Human Rights at the Grassroots: Ideals, Realities, Prospects Fairness and Equity in Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of Airport Infrastructure Development in the Philippines Exploring the Uses, Constraints and Opportunities of ICT for Citizen Participation in Governance Nassreena Sampaco-Baddiri Liberty Ibañez Nolasco La Rainne Abad-Sarmiento Ma. Oliva Z. Domingo Fe Villamejor-Mendoza Edwin S. Martin, Wilhelmina L. Cabo and Eleanor E. Nicolas 1

2 January December 2010 (Volume LIV Nos. 1 to 2) Php Curbing Corruption in the Philippines: Is this an Impossible Dream? Wicked Problems, government Failures: Corruption and Lesser Evils Toward A Reform Framework for Good Governance: Focus On Anti-Corruption Corruption, Contradictions, and Conscience: A Wistleblower s Story The Long and Winding Road to Infrastructure Development Reform A Proposed Integrity Model in the Administration of Labor Justice Accountability in Aid Management Whatever You Do, Never Use the C Word: An Overview of Southeast Asian Anti-Corruption Research and Applications Civil Society Anti-Millennium Challenge Corporation s of the Millennium Challenge Corporation s Engagement in Ukraine Jon S.T. Quah Alex B. Brillantes, Jr. and Maricel T. Fernandez Danilo de la Rosa Reyes Edna E.A. Co Hilario S. Caraan Diana Marie Hernandez Michael Ligthart Juhani Grossmann July October 2009 (Volume LIII No. 2) Php Inclusion and Participation of Women in Nepalese Civil Service Resistance in the Process of Women s Political Participation in Local Governance: The Bangladesh Experience Democratic Governance Beyond the Western Frontier: Democracy in War-torn Countries Challenges for Spectrum Management Policy and Regulation: Learnings in an Asian Context Philippine Public Administration in Crisis: The Need to Refocus the Dialogue Yashoda Acharya Pranab Kumar Panday Renia Corocoto Rekha Jain Don A. Cozzetto January June 2009 (Volume LIII No. 1) Php Enrolment Size, School Location, and National Achievement Test Score Network Governance in the Philippines Social Capital Formation in Selected Conflict Areas in Mindanao and Local Governance Resilience Theory as a Framework in Understanding Politico-Administrative Synergy Harnessing Geo-Information Technology for Community Empowerment and Identity: The Case of the Bukidnon Tribe in the Philippines Abraham I. Felipe Theodoro Lloydon C. Bautista Maria Faina L. Diola Pamela G. Oppus Rizalino B. Cruz April October 2008 (Volume LII Nos. 2 to 4) Php From Public Administration to Public Management, From Governance To Governmentality: Conceptual Challenges to Public Administration and Governance Ideals and Practice in the Study of Public Administration and Governance State, Market, and Civil Society in the Philippine Public Administration Philippine Public Administration as a Field of Study: Enduring and Emerging Areas, Challenges and Prospects The Study of Administrative History: Philippine Public Administrative As an Ahistorical Discipline The Philippine Administrative System as an Enabling Institution: A Framework and a Teaching Methodology Is there a Philippine Public Administration? Or Better Still, For Whom is Philippine Public Administration Jose V. Abueva Ledivina V. Cariño Eleazar E. Ricote Danilo R. Reyes Ma. Concepcion P. Alfiler Alex B. Brillantes, Jr. and Maricel T. Fernandez 2

3 Philippine Public Administration: From Classical, to New Public Administration, to New Public Management The Public Administration in the Eyes of Private Business: Perspectives on Perceptions, Expectations, and Public Leadership Is There a Philippine Public Administration? The Relevance of Public Administration to Muslim Minorities A Policy Study on Environmental Protection in the Philippines Let s Be Merci-ful : Building Integrity, Service and Openness in Government What is your Desired Future for the Civil Service in the Philippines Nestor N. Pilar Teodoro Kalaw IV Sukarno D. Tanggol Carlos M. Magtolis and Jojema D. Indab Ricardo L. Saludo Antonio La Viña January 2008 (Volume LII No. 1) Php Mapping ICT4D Projects in the Philippines Opportunities and Challenges in Philippine Local Governance of Public Health Alternative Health Delivery System Through NGO-Managed Cost-Effective Regional Medical Centers Innovation in the Lantern Industry of Pampanga Documentation Section: Magna Carta of Public Health Workers Erwin A. Alampay and Noriel C. Tiglao Ramon U. Ponce Christopher M. Sanguyu January October 2007 (Volume LI Nos. 1 to 4) Php Federalism: Logical Step After Devolution? Exploring Accountability Initiatives in Philippine Local Governance Beyond Federalism: A Cautionary, Comparative Perspective The Political Economy of Regulation in the Philippine Power Sector Organization and Individual Responses to the Adoption of GIS for the Land Distribution Program of the Department of Agrarian Reform, Philippines Enhancing Corporate Governance and Reforms in the Public Sector Assessing Governance Performance of Primary Cooperatives in the Philippines Transnational Third Sector Research: Preliminary Notes on Scope and Purview Impact of Some Government and Non-government Inputs on the Results of a National Secondary Level Examination Alex B. Brillantes, Jr. and Raphael N. Montes, Jr. Wilhelmina L. Cabo Belinda A. Aquino Minerva S. Baylon Jocelyn C. Cuaresma Maria Fe Villamejor-Mendoza Cristina A. Salvosa Ledivina V. Cariño Abraham I. Felipe and Carolina C. Porio January October 2006 (Volume L Nos. 1 to 4) Php From Traditional Public Administration to Governance: Research in NCPAG, 1952 to 2002 A Decade of Governance Innovations and Gaps in Poverty Alleviation Public Administration and Governance: How Do They Affect Government Efficiency and Effectiveness? Assessing the Need for Integrating Ethics in the Managerial Decision Making Participatory Governance: A Future Chartered with the People, for the People Civil Service: An Emerging Policy on Governance in East Asia and the Pacific Interim Findings on Universal Access to Information and Communication Technologies: The Case of Carmona and Puerto Princesa Ledivina V. Cariño Patricia A. Sto. Tomas and Joel V. Mangahas Tomas A. Sajo Francis B. Lucas and Maricel A. Tolentino Edna A. Co Erwin A. Alampay 3

4 Urban Poverty Morphology, Remote Sensing and GIS: Towards Sensitizing Public Management Spatial Microsimulation of Household Characteristics in Metro Manila: Identifying Informal Settlements and Its Implementations to Urban and Housing Policy Is There Water After Privatization? The Case of the Metropolitical Waterworks and Sewerage System Regulation (and Competition) in the Philippine Electric Industry Bureaucracies and Networks: Organizational Transformations in an Australian Setting Financing Development in the Time of Cholera Book Review: President ERAP: A Socio-Political and Cultural Biography of Joseph Ejercito Estrada May Celine T.M. Vicente, Ma. Aileen Leah G. Guzman and Gerald A. Galgana Noriel Christopher C. Tiglao Jocelyn C. Cuaresma Maria Fe V. Mendoza Vicente C. Reyes, Jr. Leonor Magtolis-Briones Ricardo T. Jose July October 2005 (Volume XLIX Nos. 3 & 4) Php An Analysis of Development Frameworks for Children Finding Parallelism Between Postmodern s Discourse Theory and the New Public Administration s Minnowbrook Perspective Indigenization as Refounding in Philippine Public Administration and Governance Political Economy and Civil Service Reform Rethinking the Five Pillars of the Criminal Justice System Convention on the Rights of the Child Leonilla D. de Jesus Eleazar E. Ricote Leonor M. Briones Geronimo L. Sy January April 2005 (Volume XLIX Nos. 1 & 2) Php Institutional and Politico-Administrative Responses to Armed Conflicts Democratization, Governance and Poverty Alleviation in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Poverty Alleviation and Peace Building in Multiethic Societies: The Need for a Multiculturialist Governance in the Philippines Strengthening the Academic Curriculum for Teaching Public Administration in the Philippines: Building Institutional Capacities to Attain the Millennium Development Goals Community Organizing and Governance Reinventing Philippine Governance for Globalization Alex B. Brillantes, Jr. and Jose O. Tiusongco Sukarno D. Tanggol Macapado A. Muslim Joel V. Mangahas Oscar P. Ferrer Ledivina V. Cariño, Leonor M. Briones, Ebinezer R. Florano and Kristine C. Follosco October 2004 (Volume XLVIII No. 4) Php Spatial Dimension of Public Administration Transformative Citizenship: Exploring its Challenges to Philippine Public Administration Regulating Vehicular Emissions in Three Asian Cities: Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Program Design Human Resources Development Reforms in the Bureaucracy Fermin P. Manalo, Jr. Francisco G. Delfin, Jr. Perla E. Legaspi 4

5 July 2004 (Volume XLVIII No. 3) Php Improving the Delivery of Extension Services in the Philippines: Lessons Learned and Future Directions A Critique of the Local Poverty Diagnosis and Planning System Reform as Policy Theory: The Case of Public Management Reform in the Philippines Public Administration and Political Determination: A Review of Theoretical and Rhetorical Notions in Healing the Nation Postmodernism in 21 st Century Medicine: Implications for Philippine Healthcare and Public Administration Remigio D. Ocenar, Alex B. Brillantes, Jr., Sandy Cuthbertson and Michael A. Tumanut Simeon A. Ilago Ananda Devi Domingo- Almase Julius A. Lecciones January April 2004 (Volume XLVIII Nos. 1 & 2) Php Indigenous Leadership and Governance Coming to Terms with Indigenous Governance Institutions in the Cordillera Region: A Preliminary Look at the Kalinga Experience The Bontok Igorot Tribe: An Internal Scanning of its Governance System Exploring the Indigenous Local Governance of Manobo Tribes in Mindanao The Traditional Maranaw Governance System: Descriptives, Issues and Imperatives for Philippine Public Administration Ma. Oliva Z. Domingo Ma. Carmen V. Peñalosa Susana Evangelista-Leones Ma. Leny E. Felix Liberty Ibañes Nolasco January October 2003 (Volume XLVII Nos. 1 to 4) Php Local Regulatory Governance in the Philippines: Focus on Quezon City Institutions, Regulation and Performance: The Case of the Philippine Telecommunications Transaction Cost Politics, Rent Seeking, Institutions for Commitment and Regulation An Analysis of the Philippine Electric Industry Electricity Rate Regulation and Public Interest: The Case of the Energy Regulatory Board and the Manila Electric Company Regulatory Governance and the Improvement of Public Services Regulatory Impact Assessment in Sri Lanka: The Bridges That Have to be Crossed Regulatory Governance of the Water Sector in South Africa The Importance of Legal Infrastructure for Regulation (and Deregulation) in Developing Countries Regulating Campaign Finance in the Philippines: Limits and Challenges Occupational Health Regulation: The Case of Women Workers in Selected Economic Zones in the Philippines The Internationalization of Regulation: Implications for Developing Countries Documents Section: Let Us Bring the Ladder Back: Why Proactive Governance Matters for the Poor Challenges to Effective Regulation Perla E. Legaspi Edna A. Espos S. Mansoob Murshed Epictetus E. Patalinghug Ma. Fe V. Mendoza Martin Minogue Malathy Knight-John, Shantha Jayasinghe and Andrew Perumal Kobus Muller and Frederick M. Uys Anthony Ogus Eduardo T. Gonzales Jinky Leilani Lu Giandomenico Majone Wigberto Bobby Tañada Lilia R. Bautista 5

6 January October 2002 (Volume XLVI Nos. 1 to 4) Php Overview of Decentralization Worldwide: A Stepping Stone to Improved Governance and Human Development Overcoming the Obstacles to Decentralization in Asia Making Decentralization Work: Uganda Country Paper The Paradox of Centralization and the Paradox of Decentralization: Institutional Impact of Central-Local Relations on Local Governance in Postwar Japan Two Cases of Deflected Decentralization: Pakistan and Nepal Decentralization in Indonesia: A Measure of Innovation and Change Decentralizing the State: Key Issues and Challenges for Cambodia Federalism: The Case of Switzerland Local Capacity Building and Local Development in the Philippines: Appreciating Capacity Building for Decentralization Local Governance Without Local Leadership?: Emerging Lessons Learned from an Ongoing Study Response to the Usual Objections to Federalization and Parliamentary Government The Development Payoffs of Good Governance: Emerging Results of a Social Experiment in Bulacan and Davao del Norte Local Governance for the Environment: Policy Directions in Solid Waste Management The Minimum Basic Needs Approach to Development: The Davao Del Norte Innovation Engendering Local Governance United Nations Millennium Development Goals Robertson Work Nathanial von Eisiedel Edward A. Mugabi Wataru Kitamura Paul A. Lundberg Siti Nurbaya and Christine Fletcher Ernesto Bautista, Sak Setha and Prum Sokha Wolf Linder Austere A. Panadero Robert Dickey Jose V. Abueva Joseph J. Capuno, Ma. Melody S. Garcia, Janette S. Sardalla and Lorna G. Villamil Ma. Lourdes G. Rebullida Rodolfo P. del Rosario Proserpina Domingo Tapales October 2001 (Volume XLV No. 4) Php Strengthening NGO Capability for Advocacy: An Assessment FORGE, Inc.: Examining the Organization and Its Capability- Building Needs for Policy Advocacy Balay Mindanaw Foundation, Inc. (BFMI): An Assessment of Advocacy Capabilities Philnet-Rural Development Institute-Cebu and Leyte: Understanding the Organization and Gearing for Capability-Building for Advocacy Case Study of Community Action for Rural Development United Nations Millennium Declaration Ma. Concepcion P. Alfiler Rizalino B. Cruz Ivy P. Perucho Edna Estifania A. Co Eleanor E. Nicolas July 2001 (Volume XLV No. 3) Php The Formula for Public Sector Reforms: Public Enterprise Reform in Fiji Island and Good Governance in Oceania The National Wealth Tax on Indigenous Energy Resources: Policy Framework and Implementation The BLISS Housing Program: Blissful or Blistering? An Overview of Current Developments in the Study and Practice of Public Administration Devolution for Democracy: Good Practice Cases from the Philippines Roman Dubsky and R.D. Pathak Francisco G. Delfin, Jr. Ma. Oliva Z. Domingo Danilo R. Reyes Ledivina V. Cariño and Edel C. Guiza 6

7 January and April 2001 (Volume XLV Nos. 1 & 2) Php Benchmarking for Local Governments in Asia Developing Indicators of Local Governance in the Philippines: Towards and ISO for LGUs Tracking Good Governance and Local Developments: Is GOFORDEV Index a Valid Measure? Innovation Strategies in Australian Local Government Doing Things Differently: Innovations in Local Governance in the Philippines Performance Measurement in Public Sector Organizations: Focus on Local Governments Mandates and Funding: The Divorce of Implementation from Policy Ma. Mildred R. Villareal Alex B. Brillantes, Jr. Joseph J. Capuno, Ma. Melody S. Garcia and Janette S. Sardalla John Francis Martin Alex B. Brillantes, Jr. Bootes P. Esden Maria Ernita T. Joaquin July October 2000 (Volume XLIV Nos. 3 & 4) Php (Less 50%) Devolution and Public Sector Governance: A Critical Reappraisal Local Goverments and Fisheries Conservation and Management in the Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion: An Institutional Development Study Policy Making and Administrative Reforms in Japan: Comparative Pointers for the Philippines National and International Efforts for Mindanao s Development Towards New Beginnings Niceto S. Poblador Alex B. Brillantes, Jr. Fermin D. Adriano Joseph Ejercito-Estrada January April 2000 (Volume XLIV Nos. 1 & 2) Php (Less 50%) Heterogeneity and Cooperation: Youth and Social Engagement in the Philippines Social Development and Philippine Overseas Employment Policy ( ): Issues, Problems and Prospects Explaining Social Welfare Expansion in Hong Kong and South Korea: The Relevance of Comparative Policy Paradigms of Industrialization and Labor Mobilization Public Service Accountability and Control Mechanisms in Papua New Guinea An Appraisal of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers in Nigeria Edna Estafania A. Co and Anthur Neame Jorge Tigno, Ranjit Singh Rye and Teofino Macabiog Kwon-Leung Tang and Sun-Woo Lee Hengeni Payani A.A. Idowu OCCASIONAL PAPERS Bautista, Victoria A. Tungo sa Kaunlarang Sosyal na Nakatutok sa Tao sa Rehimeng Aquino. Occasional Paper No Newsprint: Php Bautista, Victoria A. Kahulugan, Sakop at Kasaysayan ng Disiplina ng Administrasyong Pampubliko sa Pilipinas. Occasional Paper No Newsprint: Php 5.00 Cariño, Ledivina V., Danilo R. Reyes and Luzviminda G. Tancangco. Pananagutan at Katiwalian: Koleksyon ng mga Tala. Occasional Paper No Newsprint: Php

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