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1. Challenges for the Regulatory State in Asia

   Governance Change in Telecommunications, Higher Education and Health Management

   Edited by Martin Painter, Ka Ho Mok, M. Ramesh

   Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

   In the contemporary age of globalization, strong pressures exist on all states to utilise a common recipe of policy measures to meet public policy objectives: privatization, removal of barriers to trade and foreign investment, deregulation and re-regulation to strengthen competitive pressures. This...

   To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge
2. Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China

   Welfare Regimes in Transition

   Edited by Ka Ho Mok, Maggie K. W. Lau

   Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

   East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful ‘competition states’. These changes have resulted in...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Internationalization of Higher Education in East Asia

   Trends of student mobility and impact on education governance

   Edited by Ka-Ho Mok, Kar Ming Yu

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education

   The rise in demand for higher education in the Asia-Pacific region is an undeniable reflection of the growing pace of globalization and the subsequent pressures imposed by it. Aspiring to become globally competitive and to position favourably in the global university league tables, governments in...

   To Be Published October 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia

   By Ka-ho Mok

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Changing Governance and Public Policy in East Asia

   Edited by Ka Ho Mok, Ray Forrest

   Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

   The search for good governance has become an increasingly important element of public policy and public management and is high on the political agenda of East Asian countries. The need for robust governance structures and institutions was brought into sharp focus by the Asian Financial Crisis which...

   Published May 16th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education

   Edited by Malcolm Tight, Ka Ho Mok, Jeroen Huisman, Christopher Morphew

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination...

   Published April 12th 2009 by Routledge