On-Going Projects
REINTEGRATE. This project will develop a conceptual understanding of what is reintegration governance, its implementation and effectiveness and a new theoretical framework of how different forms of reintegration governance shape returnees’ reintegration outcomes across an in-depth comparative analysis of four different states: Nepal, Nigeria, Serbia and the Philippines. The project is rooted in the nexus between policies and migrants agency and aims to illustrate the role that returnees play in their own reintegration outcomes.
Universal but Poor-Quality Education? Designing Solutions to Problem Nexuses in the Philippines. This proposed project seeks to relate the on-going global learning crisis to ideational conflicts in education policy. It offers a novel conceptualization of the learning crisis as a ‘problem nexus’ that demands cross-sectoral collaboration. Through a case study of the Philippines, it will examine how ideas about educational expansion conflict with ideas about quality of education across different policy actors. It dubs the intersection of these problem definitions as the ‘education problem nexus’, a nexus that demands multiple interventions beyond the educations sector. It hopes to establish a framework to conduct policy design research and to shape we find solutions to the global learning crisis.
Policy Analysis in the Philippines.
Publications
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Peer reviewed articles
Bringing Governance Back into Education Reforms: The Case of the Philippines. (with M Ramesh) International Review of Public Policy, 159-177. (2020)
Returning broke and broken? Return migration, reintegration and transnational social protection in the Philippines. Migration and Development, 352-368. (2020)
How Do Middle Managers Matter in Policymaking? Examining Managerial Work and Influence in Brazil. (with Pedro Palotti) International Journal of Public Administration, 1-10. (2020)
Policy Transfer and Instrument Constituency: Explaining the Adoption of Conditional Cash Transfer in the Philippines. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 6(3), 352-366. (2019)
Capacity, control, and content: the supply of think tank policy advice in India. (with Nihit Goyal) Policy Studies, 40(3-4), 337-352. (2019)
Designing effective governance of education. Policy Design and Practice, 2(2), 182-197. (2019)
Why the poor do not benefit from community-driven development: Lessons from participatory budgeting. World Development, 112, 220-232. (2018)
Diffusion of CCTs from Latin America to Asia: The Philippine 4Ps Case. Revista Adm Publica (2018)
Policy consulting in developing countries: evidence from the Philippines Journal of Asian Public Policy (2018).
Policy work and capacities in a developing country: evidence from the Philippines. (with Michael Howlett and M Ramesh) Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration (2018)
Actors in Global City Formation: The Case of the Entertainment City in Metro Manila. International Journal of Policy Studies (2017).
Administrative Reforms and Policy Capacity in Asia: an Analysis of ADB’s Public Sector Management Projects. CMU Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (2016).
Critical Challenges in Implementing the Citizen's Charter Initiative: Insights from Selected Local Government Units. Philippine Journal of Public Administration (2013).
Working Papers
"Policy capacity for policy integration: Implications for the Sustainable Development Goals." LKYSPP Research Paper 18-06 (2018). (with M. Howlett). Available online: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3157448
"Measuring individual-level analytical, managerial and political policy capacity: A survey instrument." LKYSPP Research Paper 16-07 (2016). (with Ramesh, M., Michael P. Howlet). Available online: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2777382
"Rethinking Governance Capacity As Organizational and Systemic Resources." LKYSPP Research Paper 16-12 (2016) (with Ramesh, M., Howlett, M. P., & Wu, X. )