The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration maintains a special collection on Public Administration in Authoritarian Regimes that covers a variety of questions seeking to understand relationships between political systems and bureaucratic behavior and performance. The collection sheds significant light on important questions consequential for understanding public administration systems in various political systems, especially those commonly described as authoritarian.

The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration maintains a special collection of articles on Public Service Motivation that examine various questions regarding public service motivation in the public sector. The article collection has two goals. The first is to advance theoretical and practical perspectives on public service motivation across regions. The second goal is strengthening contributions about non-Western scholarship by leveraging contextual and regional distinctions.