M
M. Ramesh
Researcher at National University of Singapore
Publications - 159
Citations - 5779
M. Ramesh is an academic researcher from National University of Singapore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Government & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 115 publications receiving 4722 citations. Previous affiliations of M. Ramesh include University of Sydney & University of Hong Kong.
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Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems
Michael Howlett,M. Ramesh +1 more
TL;DR: This book discusses the development of public policy levels, methods, and units in the post-modern era, as well as some of the aspects of policy formation and change that have changed over the years.
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Policy capacity: A conceptual framework for understanding policy competences and capabilities
Xun Wu,M. Ramesh,Michael Howlett +2 more
TL;DR: Although policy capacity is among the most fundamental concepts in public policy, there is considerable disagreement over its definition and very few systematic efforts try to operationalize and define policy capacity as mentioned in this paper.
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Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a collection of essays to gain insights into the different national-level state responses to COVID-19 around the world and the conditions that shaped them.
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Patterns of Policy Instrument Choice: Policy Styles, Policy Learning and the Privatization Experience
Michael Howlett,M. Ramesh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory of policy instrument choice which is capable of dealing with instances of long-term, cross-national changes in policy instrument usage, and argue that reconceptualization of instrument choices in terms of policy learning can aid in this theoretical project.
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Policy Subsystem Configurations and Policy Change: Operationalizing the Postpositivist Analysis of the Politics of the Policy process
Michael Howlett,M. Ramesh +1 more
TL;DR: The role of politics in the policy process has taken several different shapes over the past two decades as mentioned in this paper, and this approach can be contrasted usefully with postpositivist analyses, which emphasize the role played by policy discourses in policy process.