M Ramesh - Vitae

Education

Employment

Administrative

Chair, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, 2002.
Director, Graduate International Studies programs, University of Sydney, 1997 - 2002.
Director, Distance Education programs, University of Sydney, 1997 - 2002..
Chair, Public Policy Program, University of New England, 1993 – 1994.

Editorial

Editor, Policy and Society, 2002-present.
Editor, Routledge Series in Public Policy in Asia, 2006-present.
Co-Editor, World Political Science Review, 2005-present.
Advisory Editor, Social Science & Medicine, 2009-2011.
Co-President, Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA). 2005-2007.
Member, Editorial Board:.

Select Recent Publications

Books

Wu Xun, M Ramesh, M Howlett, Scott Fritzen, The Public Policy Primer: Managing the Policy Process, Routledge, forthcoming 2010.
M Ramesh (ed.), Reasserting the Public in Public Services. Routeldge, forthcoming 2010.
Fritzen, Scott and M Ramesh (Eds.), Transforming Asian Governance: Rethinking Assumptions, Challenging Practices, Routledge, 2008.

M Ramesh and Michael Howlett, Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems, 3^rd 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 co-authored with Mukul Asher, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000, 208 p.
M Ramesh and Michael Howlett, The Political Economy of Canada, 2^nd edition, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1999, 378 p.

Journal articles

M. Ramesh, “Economic Crisis and its Social Impacts: Lessons from the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis”, Global Social Policy, 9: 1, 2009, pp. 79-99
M Ramesh and Wu Xun, “Health Policy Reform in China: Lessons from Asia”, Social Science and Medicine, 68: 12, 2009, pp.2256-2262 .
Wu Xun and M Ramesh, “Healthcare Reforms in Developing Asia : Potentials and Realities” Development and Change. 40: 3, 2009, pp. 531-549.
M Ramesh and Wu Xun, "Realigning Public and Private Health Care in Southeast Asia". Pacific Review, 21: 2, 2008, pp. 171–187.
M Ramesh, Reasserting the role of the state in the healthcare sector: Lessons from Asia", Policy and Society, 27: 2, 2008.
M Ramesh, “Competition and Control in Public Hospital Reforms in Singapore", American Review of Public Administration, 38: 1, 2008, pp. 62-79.
M Ramesh and Michael Howlett, “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.
M Ramesh and Michael Howlett, 'The Policy Effects of Internationalization: A Subsystem Adjustment Analysis of Policy Change', Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, , 4: 1, 2002, pp. 31-50.
M Ramesh and John Hobson, “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.

Book chapters

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 M Ramesh and Scott Fritzen (Eds.), Transforming Asian Governance, Routledge. Routledge, 2009.

M Ramesh, “Public Management Reforms in Hong Kong and Singapore: The Case of Public Hospitals”. In Ka Ho Mok (ed.) Asian Perspectives on Changing Governance and Public Policy Paradigms, 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. (ed.) Encyclopedia 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. forthcoming 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

Executive Training

Extensive experience in providing training modules on public policy, globalization, social policy. List available on request.

M Ramesh, Professor, University of Hong Kong