John P. BURNS卜约翰 (Fellow)
Fields of Study:
Public sector human resource management
Civil service reform
Party-state relations
Public sector reform
Profile:
John P. Burns is an honorary professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. Until his retirement, Burns was dean of HKU's Faculty of Social Sciences from 2011 to 2017. He is a Life Member of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.
Burns is the author of titles such as Government Capacity and the Hong Kong Civil Service. His research interests include comparative politics and public administration (especially in China and Hong Kong).
He obtained undergraduate degrees from St. Olaf College and Oxford University and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. His early research focused on rural politics in China during the Cultural Revolution (Political Participation in Rural China, UC Press, 1988). More recently he has focused on public management and administration in China, specializing in public sector human resource management, civil service reform, party-state relations, and public sector reform (e.g., The Chinese Communist Party's Nomenklatura System, Sharpe, 1989).
His most recent book is Government Capacity and the Hong Kong Civil Service (Oxford, 2004). He is the author or editor of eight books, and his articles have appeared in the China Quarterly, Journal of ContemporaryChina, Pacific Affairs, and Public Administration and Development. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the China Quarterly until 2012.
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