Variation in Access to Safe Drinking Water across Different Countries

An Explanatory Framework

Bibliographic Data

ID13026490
AuthorsShin-Kue Ryu (0000-0002-6687-4566, Idaho State University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume8
Issue2
Pages68-68
Publication date2019-02-21
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci8020068
OpenAlexW2917051208
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

Building upon extensive field interviews with past and current public officials from domestic agencies and international organizations who are involved in safe drinking water policy in Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea, the research identifies and clarifies the causal mechanisms behind the different rates of expansion in access to safe drinking water among these five countries. It then examines how well theories in public administration, particularly with emphasis on theoretical frameworks in implementation scholarship, help capture and explain these mechanisms. Both strengths and weaknesses of public administration theory are examined where efforts to improve existing frameworks are suggested with their merger with theories from comparative politics. This opens the discussion on how public administration scholars should be involved in addressing and offering insights and advice to tackle the outstanding global challenge of 663 million people still living without access to safe drinking water

Administration (probate law · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public relations · Scholarship · Strengths and weaknesses · International Development and Aid · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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