"The objective of the book is to assess the policy actions of select Asian governments - in China, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand - to address critical health system functions from a policy design perspective. Our findings show that all governments in the region have made...

We need new governance solutions to help us improve public policies and services, solve complex societal problems, strengthen social communities and reinvigorate democracy. By changing how government engages with citizens and stakeholders, co-creation provides an attractive and feasible approach...

For several decades, higher education systems have undergone continuous waves of reform, driven by a combination of concerns about the changing labour needs of the economy, competition within the global-knowledge economy, and nationally competitive positioning strategies to enhance the...

Theorizing governance in higher education : beyond 'the republic of scholars' ontology / Giliberto Capano & Darryl S.L. Capano -- The regulatory state and the labour process / Kanishka Jayasuriya, Greg McCarthy & Xianlin Song -- Systemic governance : convergence or hybridization? / Giliberto...

"Presents cutting-edge analyses of state-society transformation in Asia under globalisation. The volume incorporates a variety of political-economy- and public-policy-oriented positions, and collectively explores the uneven evolution of new public management and neoliberal agendas aimed at...