M Ramesh
Professor. UNESCO Chair of Social Policy Design in Asia
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore

Education

  • Ph.D., University of British Columbia. 1989.
  • M.A., University of Saskatchewan. 1983.
  • BA (Hons), Patna University.1979.


Citizen

 Australia


Specialization
  • Public Policy Process
  • Governance in Asia
  • Health Policy in Asia
  • Social Protection in Asia
  • Education Policy in Asia

Association
  • Vice President, International Public Policy Association

Employment

  • National University of Singapore, 2002-08, 2012-.
  • Hong Kong Institute of Education, 2010 -
  • University of Hong Kong, 2008 - 2010
  • University of Sydney, 1 997– 2002.
  • University of New England, 1993 –  1996.
  • Victoria University of Wellington, 1992 – 1993.
  • National University of Singapore, 1989-92
  • Simon Fraser University, 1988 – 1989.

Editorship

                o American Review of Public Administration, 2006-.
                o Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2006-.
                o Global Governance, 2006-.
                 o Journal of Economic Policy Reforms
                 o International Review of Public Administration. 
                 o Poverty and Public Policy. 
                o Pacific Review
                 o Revista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche
                 o Social Science and Medicine, 2010-2015


Select Publications

Books
  • Darryl Jarvis, M Ramesh, Eduardo Araral, Xun Wu (eds.), Infrastructure Regulations: What Works and Why. World Scientific, 2011.
  • Xun, M Ramesh, M Howlett, Scott Fritzen, The Public Policy Primer: Managing the Policy Process, Routledge, 2010.
  • Ramesh, E.Araral and Wu Xun (eds.), Reasserting the Public in Public Services.Routledge, 2010.
  • Fritzen, Scott and M Ramesh (eds.), Transforming Asian Governance: Rethinking Assumptions, Challenging Practices, Routledge, 2008.
  • Michael Howlett, M Ramesh, and Anthony Perl, Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems, 3rd edition, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2008, 310 p.
  • M Ramesh and Michael Howlett, Deregulation and Its Discontents: Rewriting the Rules in Asia.Edward Elgar.2006.
  • M Ramesh, Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia: Education, Health, Housing, and Income Maintenance, London: Routledge, January 2004, 230 p.
  • M Ramesh, Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia: Social Security, Health and Education Policies, one chapter with Mukul Asher, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000, 208 p.

Journal Articles
  • Xun Wu, M. Ramesh, Jianxing Yu, “Autonomy And Performance: Decentralization Reforms In Zhejiang”, Public Administration and Development, forthcoming, DOI: 10.1002/pad.1786
  • Azad S Bali and M Ramesh, Designing Effective Health Care: Matching Policy Tools to Problems, Public Administration and Development, Early online Publication Feb 2017.
  • Namrata Chindarkar, Howlett, Michael P, and M Ramesh, "Effective Social Policy Design : Design Spaces and Capacity Challenges". Public Administration and Development, Early online Publication Feb 2017 .
  • WU Xun, M. Ramesh, Michael Howlett And Gu Qingyang, “Local Government Entrepreneurship and Global Competitiveness: A Case Study of Yiwu Market in China”, China International Journal, Vol 14 Num 3, 2016, pp. 51 – 66
  • J. J. Woo, M Ramesh and Michael P Howlett, "Legitimation capacity: System-level resources and political skills in public policy". Policy & Society, 34, no. 3 (2015): 271-283.
  • Wu, X, M Ramesh and Michael P Howlett, "Policy capacity: A conceptual framework for understanding policy competences and capabilities". Policy & Society:, 34, no. 3 (2015): 165-171.
  • Gilberto, Capano, Michael P Howlett and M Ramesh, "Bringing governments back in: Governance and governing in comparative policy analysis". Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 17, no. 4 (2015): 311-321.
  • Azad S Bali and M Ramesh, “Mark Time: India’s March to Universal Healthcare Coverage” Social Policy and Administration, forthcoming, DOI: 10.1111/spol.12166.
  • Azad S Bali and M Ramesh, “Healthcare Reforms in India: Getting it Wrong” Public Policy and Administration, 2015,. 30: 3-4 , pp. 300-319.
  • M Howlett, M Ramesh, Wu Xun, “Understanding the persistence of policy failures: The role of politics, governance and uncertainty” Public Policy and Administration, 2015,. 30: 3-4 , pp. 300-319.
  • M. Howlett and M Ramesh, “The Achilles Heel of Governance: Critical Capacity Deficits and Their Role in Governance Failures" Regulation & Governance, forthcoming, DOI: 10.1111/rego.12091.
  • M Ramesh, Wu Xun, and Michael Howlett, “Second Best Governance? Governments and Governance in the Imperfect World of Health Care Delivery in China, India and Thailand”, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. 17: 4, 2015, pp. 342-358.
  • M. Howlett and M Ramesh, “The two orders of governance failure: Design mismatches and policy capacity issues in modern governance”, Policy and Society, 2014, 33: 4, pp. 317-327.
  • M. Howlett and M Ramesh, “The two orders of governance failure: Design mismatches and policy capacity issues in modern governance”, Policy and Society, 2014, 33: 4, pp. 317-327.
  • Capano, G, Michael P and M Ramesh*, "From Governance to Governing? The Post-Governance Debate on the Role of Government". Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2014.
  • M Ramesh, Social Protection in Indonesia And The Philippines: Work In Progress, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 2014, 31: 1, pp. 40-56.
  • Alfred Wu and M Ramesh, “Poverty Reduction In Urban China: The Impact Of Cash Transfers”, Social Policy and Society, 2014, 13: 2, pp. 285-299. 
  • Xun Wu and M. Ramesh. “Market imperfections, government imperfections, and policy mixes: policy innovations in Singapore” Policy Sciences, 2014, 47: 3, pp. 305-320. 
  • M Ramesh, “Decentralization in Asia: Survey”, Policy and Society, 2013, 32: 1, pp. 1-5. § M Ramesh, "Health Care Reforms in Vietnam: Chasing Shadows", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2013, 43: 3, pp. 399-412 . 
  • M Ramesh, Wu Xun and Alex He, "Health Governance and Health Care Reforms in China" Health Policy and Planning, Published online 2013, doi: 10.1093/heapol/czs109. 
  • M Ramesh, "Health Care Reforms in Hong Kong: Politics of Liberal Non-Democracy", Pacific Review, 25: 4, 2013, pp. 455-471.
  • M Ramesh, “Citizenship and Governance”, Public Organization Review, 2012, 12: 3, pp. pp. 251-254. 
  • M. Ramesh, “Economic Crisis and its Social Impacts: Lessons from the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis”, Global Social Policy, 2009, 9: 1, pp. 79-99.
  • Wu Xun and M Ramesh, “Healthcare Reforms in Developing Countries: Potentials and Realities” Development and Change, 40: 3, 2009, pp. 531-549.
  • M Ramesh and Wu Xun, “Health Policy Reform in China: Lessons from Asia”, Social Science and Medicine, 68: 12, 2009, pp.2256-2262.
  • M Ramesh and Wu Xun, "Realigning Public and Private Health Care in Southeast Asia". Pacific Review, 21: 2, 2008, pp. 171–187.
  • M Ramesh, “Competition and Control in Public Hospital Reforms in Singapore, American Review of Public Administration, 38: 1, 2008, pp. 62-79.
  • M Ramesh, “Reasserting the role of the state in the healthcare sector: Lessons from Asia”, Policy and Society, 27: 2, 2008, pp. 99-101.
  • M Ramesh and Wu Xun, "Neuorientierung des Verhaltnisses offentlicher und privater Trager der Gesundheitsversorgung in Sudostasien", Focus ASIEN, 23. 1, 2006, pp. 23-34. 
  • Michael Howlett and M Ramesh, “Globalization and the Choice of Governing Instruments: The Direct, Indirect and Opportunity Effects of Internationalization”, International Public Management Journal, 8: 3, 2006, pp. 175-194.
  • M Ramesh, “Review: Issues in Globalisation and Social Welfare in Asia”, Social Policy and Society, 3: 3, 2004, pp. 321-327.
  • M Ramesh, “Health Policy in the Asian NIEs” Social Policy and Administration, 37: 4, 2003, pp. 361-75.
  • M Ramesh, "Privatization of Social Security in Southeast Asia", The Review of Policy Research, 19: 3, 2002, pp. 141-160.
  • Michael Howlett and M Ramesh, 'The Policy Effects of Internationalization: A Subsystem Adjustment Analysis of Policy Change', Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, , 4: 1, 2002, pp. 31-50.
  • John Hobson and M Ramesh, “Globalisation Makes of States What States Make of It: Between Agency and Structure in the State/Globalisation Debate', New Political Economy, 7: 1, 2002, pp. 5-22.
  • M Ramesh and Ian Holliday, “The Health Care Miracle in Southeast Asia: Activist State Provision in Post-Colonial Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore” Journal of Social Policy, 30: 4, 2001, pp. 637-652.
  • M Ramesh, “Compulsory Savings in Hong Kong: Lessons from Singapore”, Public Administration and Policy, 10: 1, 2001, pp. 21-31.
  • M Ramesh, “The State and Social Security in Indonesia and Thailand”, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 30: 4, 2000, pp. 534-46.
  • M Ramesh, “The Politics of Social Security in Singapore”, Pacific Review, 13: 1, 2000, pp. 242-253.
 
Edited Books 
  • Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh (eds.) Varieties of Governance Dynamics, Strategies, Capacities, 2015, Palgrave Macmillan. 
  • Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Public Policy, 2013 Routledge.
  • Darryl Jarvis, M Ramesh, Eduardo Araral, Xun Wu (2011). Infrastructure Regulations: What Works and Why. Singapore: Singapore: World Scientific. 
  • M Ramesh, Eduardo Araral, Wu Xun (Eds) Reasserting the Public in Public Services, Routledge, January 2010.
  • M Ramesh and Scott Fritzen (Eds.), Transforming Asian Governance: Rethinking Assumptions, Challenging Practices, Routledge, 2008. 
  • M Ramesh and Michael Howlett (Eds.), Deregulation and Its Discontents: Rewriting the Rules in Asia. Co-Editor: Michael Howlett. Edward Elgar. 2006. 

Book Chapters

  • Book Chapters Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh, “Re-Thinking Governance in Public Policy. Dynamics, Strategy and Capacities” in Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh (eds.) Varieties of Governance: Dynamics, Strategies, Capacities, 2015, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • M. Ramesh, Wu Xun and Michael Howlett “Governing Health Care in an Imperfect World: Hierarchy, Markets, And Networks In China And Thailand”, in Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh (eds.) Varieties of Governance Dynamics, Strategies, Capacities, 2015, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • M Ramesh, “Patterns of Health Care Reforms in Asia”, in Law C. K. (ed.) Health systems: challenges, visions and reforms from a comparative global perspective, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2013, pp. 309-330.
  • M Ramesh, “Social safety nets in Indonesia and the Philippines”, in Shiladitya Chatterjee (ed.) Ending Asian Deprivations, Abingdon: Routledge pp. 243-258.
  • M Ramesh, “Global Economic Crisis and Social Security in Southeast Asia” in In Aris Ananta and Richard Barichello (eds.) Poverty and Global Recession in Southeast Asia,. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012, pp. 45-80.
  • M Ramesh, “Social Policy in East Asia”, in Mark Beeson and Richard Stubbs (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism, London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 200-215.
  • Mukul Asher and M Ramesh, “Medical savings accounts in Singapore: Medisave and its policy context”, in Sarah Cook (ed.), Private Health Insurance and Medical Savings Accounts, Cambridge University Press. 2014 forthcoming.
  • M Ramesh, “Policy Change in International Organizations: The World Bank and Pension Reforms”, In Giliberto Capano and Michael Howlett (eds.) Policy Change in Europe and North America: Policy Drivers and Policy Dynamics, Routledge, 2009.
  • M Ramesh, “Healthcare Reforms in Thailand: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom”. In Scott Fritzen and M Ramesh (Eds.), Transforming Asian Governance, Routledge. 2008. 
  • M Ramesh, “Public Management Reforms in Hong Kong and Singapore: The Case of Public Hospitals”. In Ka Ho Mok and Ray Forrest (eds.) Changing Governance and Public Policy in East Asia, Routledge, 2008.
  • M Ramesh, “The World Bank and Pension Reforms”. In Diane Stone and Chris Wright (eds.) The World Bank’s Decade of Reform and Reaction, Routledge, 2006.
  • M Ramesh, “Health Policy in Singapore”. In J. Rabin, J. and Aaron Wachhaus; (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006. 
  • M Ramesh, “Malaysian Health Policy in Comparative Perspective”, Chee Heng Leng (ed.) Paying for Health: Financing and Access in Malaysian Healthcare, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2006.
  • M Ramesh, “Globalisation and National Regulations: Race to the Bottom, Top, and Middle”, M Ramesh and Michael Howlett (Eds) Deregulation and Its Discontents: Rewriting the Rules in Asia,. Edward Elgar. 2006.
  • M Ramesh, “One and a Half Cheers for Provident Funds in Malaysia and Singapore”, Huck-Ju Kwon (ed.), Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia, Houndmills: Palgrave, 2004.
  • M Ramesh, “Globalisation and Social Security Expansion in East Asia”. In Linda Weiss (ed.), States in the Global Economy: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 83-100. 
  • M Ramesh, “Social Policies as Collective Goods: Malaysia and Singapore”. In Sally Sargeson (ed.), Shaping Common Futures: Collective Goods, Collective Actions in East and Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 147-61.

Courses Taught

  • Asian Pacific Politics
  • Comparative Public Policy
  • Economic and Social Policies in East Asia
  • Globalisation and Public Policy
  • Government and Business
  • International Political Economy
  • Public Policy: Introduction
  • Social Policy: Issues and Options
  • World Politics