This book serves the needs of those who wish to learn how government works in Southeast Asia, focusing on the systems of public administration. Whether readers are practitioners, professors, students, or just those with plain curiosity, nowhere else will they find a book that provides such a comprehensive treatment of public administration in Southeast Asia as presented. For many years, people have been fascinated with the cultures, peoples, and governments of Southeast Asia, and
now they have a book that discusses the apparatus of governments in Southeast Asia—their agencies, contexts, processes, and values.