BA Hons (Hull), B Phil (Liverpool), PhD (Hull)
Professor
Faculty of Business and Government
University of Canberra
Phone: 02 6201 2735
Fax: 02 6201 5239
Email: Mark.Turner@canberra.edu.au

Research interests:

• Development management
• Good governance in developing countries
• Decentralization
• Educational management
• Complex political emergencies
• Kidnapping
• SE Asian politics

Professor Turner has extensive research experience in many countries of the Asia-Pacific particularly the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

Mark has recently been appointed to the United Nations Development Programme's Governance Advisory Panel for Asia-Pacific. He was invited by the UN as a 'distinguished expert' on governance in Asia-Pacific along with a select group of other distinguished politicians, civil society leaders and academics from the region. The purpose of the Panel is to provide strategic direction to UNDP's programs in the region.

Mark has also been invited to join the 'Eminent Scholar's Study Group on Decentralizing Governance' at the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The Group has been convened to examine the state of the art of democratic governance and is comprised of about 15 scholars from the USA and abroad. The Group will produce a book to be launched at the UN's 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government.

Recent publications:

Central-Local Relations in Asia-Pacific: Convergence or Divergence? London and New York: Macmillan and St Martins. Editor. 1999.

Governance, Administration and Development: Making the State Work. London and West Hartford, Conn.: Macmillan and Kumarian, 1997. With D. Hulme.

'Whatever happened to deconcentration? Recent initiatives in Cambodia', Public Administration and Development, 22(4) 2002, 353-364.

'Choosing items from the menu: new public management in Southeast Asia', International Journal of Public Administration, 25(12) 2002, 1493-1512.

'Kidnapping', in D. Levinson (ed.) Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, Volume 3. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2002, pp996-1000.

'Implementing Laws 22 and 25: The Challenge of decentralization in Indonesia', Asian Review of Public Administration, 13(1) 2001, 69-82.

'Local government reform and community-driven development: Asia-Pacific experiences', in P. Collins (ed.) Applying Public Administration in Development: Signposts to the Future. Chichester: John Wiley, 2000, pp115-131.

'Government-business relations and Southeast Asian Subregional Economic Growth Triangles, in S. Nagel (ed.) Handbook of Global Economic Policy. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000, pp.219-240. With Gwyn Singleton.

'Managing education in Thailand and Laos: comparative approaches', in P.Thomas and S. Bessell (eds) Education for Sustainable Development: Getting it Right. Canberra: Development Studies Network, 1999, pp.186-191.

'Central-local relations: themes and issues', in M.Turner (ed) Central-Local Relations in Asia-Pacific: Convergence or Divergence? London and New York: Macmillan and St Martins, 1999, pp. 1-18.

'Philippines: from centralism to localism', in Central-Local Relations in Asia-Pacific: Convergence or Divergence? London and New York: Macmillan and St Martins, 1999, pp.97-122.

"Conclusion: learning from the case studies', in Central-Local Relations in Asia-Pacific: Convergence or Divergence? London and New York: Macmillan and St Martins, 1999, pp.236-246.

'Bureaucracy and its alternatives in East and Southeast Asia', in K. Henderson and O. Dwivedi (eds) Bureaucracy and Its Alternatives in World Perspective, London and New York: Macmillan and St Martin's, 1999, pp129-159. With John Halligan.

'Central-local relations in the Asia-Pacific: convergence or divergence?', in M. Minogue, C. Polidano and D. Hulme (eds) Beyond the New Public Management, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999, pp.246-259.

'Kidnapping and politics', International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 26, 1998, 145-160.