This book is the first result of an international joint research project, Academic Network for the Development of Asia (ANDA). ANDA is sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science USPS), and the Graduate School of lntemational Development (GSID), Nagoya University, Japan took the initiative for the network. ANDA has had 12 research groups and one of them is the governance group.

Ten universities are at the core of ANDA which are as follows: Nagoya University, Korea University, Tsinghua University (China), Vietnam National University Ho Chi Min City, National University of Laos, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Chulalongkom University (Thailand), University of the Philippines-L05 Banos, Gadjah Mada University (lndonaia), National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay. There are 16 other universities participating in this project. Every year for the last three years, ANDA has organized annual international seminar at: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok in January 2009; Royal University of Phnom Penh in January 2010; and at Nagoya University, Japan in March 2011.

The governance group of ANDA consists of four-university member network delegata, They are Dr. Kimura, Hirotsune, Professor of GSID, Nagoya University, Japan; Dr. Aser B. Javier, Associate Professor of the Institute of Development Management and Governance, College of Public Affairs, University of the Philippines Los Banos; Dr. Ake Tangsupvattana, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University; and Dr. Suharko, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Social and Political Science, Gadjah Mada University. The governance group has been especially prominen among ANDA research groups because it had organized international joint researc programs twice already and conducted two international seminars last 2001 and 2007 respectively.