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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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Autonomy and Performance: Decentralization Reforms in Zhejiang Province, China
Xun Wu,M. Ramesh,Jianxing Yu +2 more
TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the experience of Zhejiang Province where decentralization was successful in achieving and indeed exceeding initial expectations and found that performance-based decentralization not only helped overcome the problem of capacity deficits but also fostered capacity in weaker counties to assume more autonomy in the future.
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Decentralization in Asia: Survey
TL;DR: Decentralization has been popular in governance reform around the world for some decades now as discussed by the authors, and the trend gained momentum in the 1980s and reached new heights during the early 2000s (Malesky, Nguyen,...
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Second Best Governance? Governments and Governance in the Imperfect World of Health Care Delivery in China, India and Thailand in Comparative Perspective
M. Ramesh,Xun Wu,Michael Howlett +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the usefulness of different modes of governance for understanding policy outcomes by studying the experience with hierarchical and non-hierarchical governance modes in the health care sector in China, India, and Thailand.
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Re-thinking Governance in Public Policy: Dynamics, Strategy and Capacities
TL;DR: The concept of governance is not a fashion, but a firmly established lens through which to analyse the complexity of contemporary policy-making, that is the way in which a society and its political processes are organized and steered as discussed by the authors.
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Health care reform in Hong Kong: the politics of liberal non-democracy
TL;DR: This article argued that the government's fortunes changed only after it abandoned the core reform goal and decided to pursue peripheral objectives and explained the abandonment with reference to the peculiar political system in Hong Kong that makes it difficult for the government to adopt substantial policy reforms in the face of even moderate opposition.