"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...

1. Introduction : reasserting the role of the state in public services / M. Ramesh and Eduardo Araral -- 2. The role of the State in governing : governance and metagovernance / B. Guy Peters -- 3. Reversing privatization, rebalancing government reform : markets, deliberation and planning /...