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42
Citations
13431
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422
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

M. Ramesh is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans several areas within the social sciences, with a particular concentration on political science, public administration, and health professions.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these, their subfields of study are:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • General Health Professions
  • Finance
  • Public Administration
  • Economics and Econometrics

The primary topics covered in their work focus on:

  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security

Ramesh's publication record shows frequent contributions to specific journals and venues:

  • Policy and Society
  • Journal of Asian Public Policy
  • Policy Design and Practice
  • Public Administration
  • International Review of Administrative Sciences

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses" (2020), published in Policy and Society
  • "Procedural policy tools in theory and practice" (2021), published in Policy and Society
  • "Assessing the regulatory challenges of emerging disruptive technologies" (2021), published in Regulation & Governance
  • "Designing for adaptation: Static and dynamic robustness in policy-making" (2022), published in Public Administration
  • "Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state" (2022), published in Policy and Society

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Michael Howlett
  • Azad Singh Bali
  • Giliberto Capano
  • Alex Jingwei He

Regarding book publications, Ramesh has contributed to work published by Cambridge University Press, including the book Health Policy in Asia (2021).

Best Publications

  • Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems

    Michael Howlett;M. Ramesh

  • Policy capacity: A conceptual framework for understanding policy competences and capabilities

    Xun Wu;M. Ramesh;Michael Howlett

  • Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses

    Giliberto Capano;Michael Howlett;Darryl Stuart Jarvis;M. Ramesh

  • Patterns of Policy Instrument Choice: Policy Styles, Policy Learning and the Privatization Experience

    Michael Howlett;M. Ramesh

  • Policy Subsystem Configurations and Policy Change: Operationalizing the Postpositivist Analysis of the Politics of the Policy process

    Michael Howlett;M. Ramesh

  • Achilles' heels of governance: Critical capacity deficits and their role in governance failures

    Michael Howlett;Michael Howlett;M. Ramesh

  • The Public Policy Primer: Managing the Policy Process

    Xun Wu;M. Ramesh;Michael Howlett;Scott A. Fritzen

  • Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia: Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance

    M. Ramesh

  • Routledge Handbook of Public Policy

    Eduardo Araral;Scott Fritzen;Michael Howlett;M. Ramesh

  • Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia: Social Security, Health and Education Policies

    Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt;M. Ramesh;Mukul Asher

  • The Policy Effects of Internationalization: A Subsystem Adjustment Analysis of Policy Change

    Michael Howlett;M. Ramesh

  • Understanding the persistence of policy failures: The role of politics, governance and uncertainty

    Michael Howlett;M Ramesh;Xun Wu

  • The two orders of governance failure: Design mismatches and policy capacity issues in modern governance

    M. Howlett;M. Howlett;M. Ramesh

  • Bringing Governments Back in: Governance and Governing in Comparative Policy Analysis

    Giliberto Capano;Michael Howlett;M Ramesh

  • Guia de políticas públicas: gerenciando processos

    Xun Wu;M. Ramesh;Michael Howlett;Scott Fritzen

  • Globalisation Makes of States What States Make of It: Between Agency and Structure in the State/Globalisation Debate

    John M. Hobson;M. Ramesh

  • Political Economy of Canada: An Introduction

    Michael H. Howlett;M. R. Ramesh;Alex N. Netherton

  • Health governance and healthcare reforms in China.

    M Ramesh;Xun Wu;Alex Jingwei He

  • Health policy reform in China: lessons from Asia.

    M. Ramesh;Xun Wu

  • Anticipating and designing for policy effectiveness

    Azad Singh Bali;Giliberto Capano;M. Ramesh

  • Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia

    M. Ramesh;Mukul G. Asher

  • Policy Capacity and Governance

    Xun Wu;Michael Howlett;M Ramesh

  • Procedural policy tools in theory and practice

    Azad Singh Bali;Michael Howlett;Jenny M. Lewis;M. Ramesh

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Howlett
Michael Howlett Simon Fraser University
Giliberto Capano
Giliberto Capano University of Bologna
Naoki Ikegami
Naoki Ikegami Keio University
Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira Fundação Getulio Vargas
Gerald Bloom
Gerald Bloom Institute of Development Studies
Daniel Béland
Daniel Béland McGill University
M. Shamsul Haque
M. Shamsul Haque National University of Singapore

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