English

學術履歷

• 香港教育學院校長(2008年1月起)
• 香港城市大學公共及社會行政學系前教授、前系主任
• 香港城市大學亞洲管治研究中心前副主任

公職

現任

• 行政會議成員
• 消費者委員會主席
• 房屋委員會資助房屋小組委員會主席
• 大珠三角商務委員會委員
• 香港按揭證券有限公司董事
• 選舉委員會委員 (高等教育界)
• 賑災基金諮詢委員會成員

• 立法局議員 (1995-1997)
• 公務員薪俸及服務條件常務委員會成員
• 公務員薪酬調整機制督導委員會成員
• 薪酬趨勢調查委員會主席
• 廉政公署審查貪污舉報諮詢委員會委員

學歷

• 英國倫敦經濟及政治學院哲學博士 (政府學系) (1995)
• 英國艾斯頓大學科學碩士 (公共管理) (1984)
• 香港大學社會科學榮譽學士 (經濟學與社會學) (1974)

社會活動

政策研究

• 香港政策研究所創會董事
• 新力量網絡創會主席(2002-2005)、理事(至2008年6月)、現任顧問委員會召集人

• 西九龍民間評審聯席會議前成員

• 香港核心價值宣言發起人(2004)
• 香港社會服務聯會執委會成員(2004-2006)

近年著作

著書:

• Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong (edited), Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005
• Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shift or Business As Usual. (Co-edited with Ian Scott). London: RoutledgeCurzon, 349 pp. January 2003
• Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong: Into the 21st Century. (Co-edited with Jane Lee). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, November 2001

中文著作:

• "變與不變:危機與轉型下的管治之道" (香港:進一步多媒體, 2001)
• "公共管治策略:特區八年政策得失" (香港:CUP出版社, 2006)
• "管治香港的難題:回歸10年反思" (香港:進一步多媒體, 2007)
• "反思香港發展模式" (香港：天地圖書有限公司, 2009)

篇章:

• "How Hong Kong Universities Balance the Global and the Regional: The Challenge of Internationalization", in Bob Adamson, Jon Nixon and Feng Su(eds)The Reorientation of Higher Education:Compliance and Defiance, to be published by The Comparative Education Research Centre at The University of Hong Kong, in association with Springer(Expected: 2011).
• "香港身份: 本土性、國族性與全球性的交織" (Hong Kong Identity: The Local, The National and The Global), in 呂大樂、吳俊雄、馬傑偉 (編)香港、生活、文化(Hong Kong, Life, Culture), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, January 2011,pp.1-20.
• "NPM in Asian Countries", in Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid (eds) The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management, January 2011, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp.131-44.
• "Performance Management in Hong Kong", in Evan M. Berman (ed) Public Administration in Southeast Asia, London: CRC Francis & Taylor Group, January 2011, pp.295-314.
• "Budgeting and Finance", in Mark Bevir (ed) The SAGE Handbook of Governance, London: Sage, January 2011, pp. 270-85.
• "Checks and Balance in China's Administrative Traditions: A Preliminary Assessment", in Martin Painter and B. Guy Peters (eds) Tradition and Public Administration, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, July 2010, pp.31-43.
• "Repositioning the State and the Public Sector Reform Agenda: The Case of Hong Kong", in M. Ramesh, E. Araral Jr. and Xun Wu (eds)Reasserting the Public in Public Service, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, April 2010, pp.79-100.
• "Restoring Governability in Hong Kong: Managing Plurality and Joining Up Governance" in Julia Tao, Anthony Cheung, Martin Painter and Chenyang Li (eds) Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond, Routledge, January 2010, pp.158-85.
• "Why governance for harmony?" (with Julia Tao, Martin Painter and Li Chenyang), in Julia Tao, Anthony Cheung, Martin Painter and Chenyang Li (eds)Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond, Routledge, January 2010, pp.3-11.
• "Public Management Reform in Hong Kong" in Shaun F. Goldfinch and Joe L. Wallis (eds) International Handbook of Public Management Reform, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, September 2009, pp.317-35.
• "非典管治:行政主導的重新詮釋" (Atypical Governance: A Reinterpretation of the Executive-led System)in 張炳良、戴廷耀等, 香港經驗:文化傳承與制度創新(Hong Kong Experience: Cultural Heritage and Institutional Innovation), Hong Kong: The Commerical Press, July 2009, pp.1-16.
• "Interpreting East Asian Social Policy Development: Paradigm Shift or Policy 'Steadiness'?", in Ka-ho Mok and Ray Forrest (eds) Changing Governance and Public Policy in East Asia, London and New York: Routledge, February 2009, pp. 25-48.
• "Hong Kong's Role in Transforming China", in M.Chan (ed) China's Hong Kong Transformed: Retrospect and Prospects Beyond the First Decade, Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, Preface, November 2008, pp.xi-xvii.
• "Evaluation of the Hong Kong Integrity System", in L. Huberts, F. Anechiarico and F. E. Six (eds) Local Integrity Systems: World Cities Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, The Hague: BJU Legal Publishers, June 2008, pp. 105-15.
• "The Hong Kong System under One Country Being Tested: Article 23, Governance Crisis and the Quest for A New Hong Kong Identity", in Joseph Cheng (ed) The July 1 Protest Rally: Interpreting a Historic Event, Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, November 2005, pp. 33-70.
• "State Capacity in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan: Coping with Legitimation, Integration and Performance", in Jon Pierre and Martin Painter (eds) Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, January 2005, pp. 225-54.
• "Civil Service Pay Reform in Hong Kong: Principles, Politics and Paradoxes", in Anthony B. L. Cheung (ed) Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005, pp. 157-92.
• "Introduction", in Anthony B. L. Cheung (ed) Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005, pp.1-18.
• "The Politics of International Policy Learning in Public Administration: Limits of Interdependence and Convergence under Globalization", in A. Farazmand (eds) Sound Governance: Policy and Administrative Innovations, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, December 2004, pp. 57-73.
• "Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong and Singapore: Reform Trajectories and Explanations", in Akira Nakamura (ed) Comparative Studies of Public Administration VIII: Public Reform, Policy Change, and New Public Management – From the Asia and Pacific Perspective, EROPA (Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration) Local Government Center, Tokyo, Japan, March 2004, pp. 1-28.
• "Health Finance", in Linda Wong, Lynn White and Gui Shixun (eds) Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities, Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, February 2004, pp. 23-52.
• "Political Participation" in Y. M. Yeung and K. Y. Wong (eds) Fifty Years of Public Housing in Hong Kong: A Golden Jubilee Review and Appraisal, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, December 2003. pp. 207-34. [With separate Chinese edition]
• "The Civil Service and Political Reform", in Christine Loh & Civic Exchange (ed) Building Democracy: Creating Good Government for Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, September 2003, pp. 71-83.
• "Hong Kong's Healthcare Policy (香港醫療政策研究)", in Gui Shixun and Linda Wong (eds): A Comparative Study of Social Policy in Shanghai and Hong Kong (上海與香港社會政策比較研究), Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, April 2003, pp. 166-87.
• "Public Service Reform in Singapore: Reinventing Government in a Global Age", in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 138-62.
• "Government Reinvention in Taiwan: Administrative Modernization and Regime Transition", in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 90-116.
• "Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigms, Paradoxes and Dilemmas" (with Ian Scott), in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 1-24.
• "Transformation of the Civil Service System", in M. K. Chan and A. Y. So (eds) Crisis and Transformation in China’s Hong Kong, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, August 2002, pp. 166-88.
• "The Changing Political System: Executive-led Government or ‘Disabled’ Governance?", in S. K Lau (ed) The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, July 2002, pp. 41-68.
• "The Politics of New Public Management: Some Experience from Reforms in East Asia", in Kate McLaughlin, Stephen Osborne and Ewan Ferlie (eds) The New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects, London: Routledge, February 2002, pp. 243-73.
• "Health Policy Reform", chapter in L Wong and N Flynn (eds) The Market in Chinese Social Policy, Hampshire: Palgrave, June 2001, pp. 63-87.
• "Between Autonomy and Accountability: Hong Kong’s Senior Civil Servants in Search of an Identity", chapter in R Chapman (ed) Ethics in Public Service for the New Millennium, Aldershot: Ashgate, August 2000, pp 185-202. [With translation in Czech and Albanian published in 2003 and 2004 respectively]
• "Social Conflicts: 1975-1986". (With K S Louie) Chapter in S K Lau (ed) Social Development and Political Change in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, March 2000, pp 63-114. (Contribution: 50%)

學術期刊:

• "Public Governance Reform in Hong Kong: Rebuilding Trust and Governability", International Journal of Public Sector Reform, special issue on Public Sector Reform and Governance in Asia (expected 2011/2012).
• "Overview", International Review of Administrative Sciences, special issue on Public Administration in East Asia: Legacies, Experiences adn Reforms (expected 2011/2012).
• "One country, Two Experiences: Administrative Reforms in China and Hong Kong", International Review of Administrative Sciences, special issue on Public Administration in East Asia: Legacies, Experiences and Reforms (expected 2011/2012).
• "Global Aspirations and Strategizing for World-Class Status: New Form of Politics in Higher Education Governance in Hong Kong" (jointly with Ka-ho Mok, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, special issue on Leadership, Culture and Change in Higher Education: Theory and Practice in East Asia(expected 2011).
• "In Search of Trust and Legitimacy: The Political Trajectory of Hong Kong as Part of China", International Public Management Review, Vol.11, No.2, 2010, pp. 38-63.
• "A Response to 'Building Administrative Capacity for the Age of Rapid Globalization: a Modest Prescription for the Twenty-First Century'",Public Administration Review, November/December 2009,pp. 1034-36.
• "Evaluating the Ombudsman System of Hong Kong: Towards Good Governance and Citizenship Enhancement",Asia Pacific Law Review, Vol.17, No.1, 2009 pp.73-94.
• "The Story of Two Administrative States: State Capacity in Hong Kong and Singapore", The Pacific Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, May 2008, pp. 121-45.
• "Combating Corruption as a Political Strategy to Rebuild Trust and Legitimacy: Can China Learn from Hong Kong?", International Public Management Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 2007, pp. 48-71.
• "Policy Capacity in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Constrained Institutions Facing a Crowding and Differentiated Polity" , The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 29, No. 1, June 2007, pp. 51-75.
• "Executive-led Governance or Executive Power 'Hollowed-Out' – The Political Quagmire of Hong Kong" , Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 15, No. 1, April 2007, pp. 17-38.
• "Judicial Review and Policy Making in Hong Kong: Changing Interface between the Legal and the Political" (jointly with Max W. L. Wong), The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 28, No. 2, December 2006, pp. 117-41.
• "How Autonomous are Public Corporations in Hong Kong? The Case of the Airport Authority", Public Organization Review: A Global Journal, Vol. 6, September 2006, pp. 221-36.
• "Reinventing Hong Kong’s Public Service: Same NPM Reform, Different Contexts and Politics", International Journal of Organizational Theory & Behaviour, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 212-34.
• "Budgetary Reforms in the Two City States: Impact on Central Budget Agency in Hong Kong and Singapore", International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 341-61.
• "Bureaucrats-Enterprise Negotiation in China’s Enterprise Reform at the Local Level: Case Studies in Guangzhou", Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 14, No. 45, 2005, pp. 695-720.
• "Whose Reason? Which Rationality? Understanding the ‘Real Worlds’ of Hong Kong’s Public Managers" (with Brian Brewer and Julia Tao), Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice), Vol. 5 No. 1, 2005, pp. 3-14
• "What’s in a Pamphlet? – Shortfalls and Paradoxical Flaws in Hong Kong’s Performance Pledges", Public Management Review (UK), Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2005, pp. 341-66.
• "The Politics of Administrative Reforms in Asia: Paradigms and Legacies, Paths and Diversities", Governance, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 257-82.
• "Hong Kong’s Post-1997 Institutional Crisis: Problems of Governance and Institutional Incompatibility", Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, January-April 2005, pp. 135-67.
• "Who Advised the Hong Kong Government? The Politics of Absorption before and after 1997" (with Paul C. W. Wong), Asian Survey, Vol. 44, No. 6, November/December 2004, pp. 874-94.
• "Strong Executive, Weak Policy Capacity: The Changing Environment of Policymaking in Hong Kong", The Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2004, pp. 1-30.
• "Customizing the Tenants, Empowering the Managers: Impact of Public Housing Governance Reform in Hong Kong" (with N. M. Yip), Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2003, pp.98-109.
• "Health Finance", The Chinese Economy (with Gu Xingyuan), Vol. 35, No. 6, November-December 2002, pp. 34-67.
• "Citizenship: Re-building of Trust between the Government and the Public", Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 6, No 1, January 2003 (in Chinese), pp 56-62.
• "Modernizing Public Healthcare Governance in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Professional Power in New Public Management", Public Management Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2002, pp. 343-65.
• "The Paradox of China’s Wage System Reforms: Balancing Stakeholders’ Rationalities" (with Kitty Poon) Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 2000 [printed in early 2002], pp. 491-521
• "Public Enterprises and Privatization in East Asia: Paths, Politics and Prospects" Public Finance and Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2002,, pp. 67-96.
• "The New Two-Pronged Strategy of Enterprise Reform in China", (With Ma Ngok and Mok Ka-ho), Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 48, No. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 52-61
• "Civil Service Reform in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Political Challenges, Managerial Responses", International Journal of Public Administration, Vol.24, No.9, August 2001, pp. 929-50.
• "Globalization versus Asian Values: Alternative Paradigms in Understanding Governance and Administration", Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 2, December 2000, pp. 1-16.
• "The Formation of Leaders in Party Politics: The Limitations in Hong Kong", Journal of Youth Studies, Vol 3, No 2, July 2000 (in Chinese), pp 29-35.
• "New Interventionism in the Making: Interpreting State Interventions in Hong Kong after the Change of Sovereignty", Journal of Contemporary China, Vol 9, No 24, July 2000, pp 291-308.

• President, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Former Professor and former Head, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong
• Former Associate Director, Govermance in Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong

Public Service

Current

• Member, Executive Council
• Chairman, Consumer Council
• Chairman, Subsidized Housing Committee, Hong Kong Housing Authority
• Member, Greater Pearl River Delta Region Business Council
• Director, The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited
• Member (Higher Education Sub-Sector), Election Committee, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• Member, Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee

• Member, Legislative Council (1995-1997)
• Member, Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service
• Member, Steering Committee on Civil Service Pay Adjustment Mechanism
• Chairman, Pay Trend Survey Committee
• Member, ICAC Operations Review Committee

Qualifications

• PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, UK (Government) (1995)
• M Sc, University of Aston, UK (Public Sector Management) (1983)
• B Soc Sc (Hons), University of Hong Kong (Sociology and Economics) (1974)

Community Service

Policy Research

• Founding Director, Hong Kong Policy Research Institute
• Founding Chairman (2002-2005), Director (upto June 2008) and currently Convenor of the Board of Advisory Panel, SynergyNet - a policy think-tank

• Former Member, People's Panel on West Kowloon

• Founder, Hong Kong Core Values Declaration (2004)
• Member, Executive Committee of Hong Kong Council of Social Service (2004-2006)

Recent Publications

Books:

• Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong (edited), Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005
• Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shift or Business As Usual. (Co-edited with Ian Scott). London: RoutledgeCurzon, 349 pp. January 2003
• Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong: Into the 21st Century. (Co-edited with Jane Lee). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, November 2001

Books in Chinese:

• "變與不變:危機與轉型下的管治之道" (香港:進一步多媒體, 2001)
• "公共管治策略:特區八年政策得失" (香港:CUP出版社, 2006)
• "管治香港的難題:回歸10年反思" (香港:進一步多媒體, 2007)
• "反思香港發展模式" (香港：天地圖書有限公司, 2009)

Book chapters in edited books:

• "How Hong Kong Universities Balance the Global and the Regional: The Challenge of Internationalization", in Bob Adamson, Jon Nixon and Feng Su(eds)The Reorientation of Higher Education:Compliance and Defiance, to be published by The Comparative Education Research Centre at The University of Hong Kong, in association with Springer(Expected: 2011).
• "香港身份: 本土性、國族性與全球性的交織" (Hong Kong Identity: The Local, The National and The Global), in 呂大樂、吳俊雄、馬傑偉 (編)香港、生活、文化(Hong Kong, Life, Culture), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, January 2011,pp.1-20.
• "NPM in Asian Countries", in Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid (eds) The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management, January 2011, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp.131-44.
• "Performance Management in Hong Kong", in Evan M. Berman (ed) Public Administration in Southeast Asia, London: CRC Francis & Taylor Group, January 2011, pp.295-314.
• "Budgeting and Finance", in Mark Bevir (ed) The SAGE Handbook of Governance, London: Sage, January 2011, pp. 270-85.
• "Checks and Balance in China's Administrative Traditions: A Preliminary Assessment", in Martin Painter and B. Guy Peters (eds) Tradition and Public Administration, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, July 2010, pp.31-43.
• "Repositioning the State and the Public Sector Reform Agenda: The Case of Hong Kong", in M. Ramesh, E. Araral Jr. and Xun Wu (eds)Reasserting the Public in Public Service, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, April 2010, pp.79-100.
• "Restoring Governability in Hong Kong: Managing Plurality and Joining Up Governance" in Julia Tao, Anthony Cheung, Martin Painter and Chenyang Li (eds) Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond, Routledge, January 2010, pp.158-85.
• "Why governance for harmony?" (with Julia Tao, Martin Painter and Li Chenyang), in Julia Tao, Anthony Cheung, Martin Painter and Chenyang Li (eds)Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond, Routledge, January 2010, pp.3-11.
• "Public Management Reform in Hong Kong" in Shaun F. Goldfinch and Joe L. Wallis (eds) International Handbook of Public Management Reform, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, September 2009, pp.317-35.
• "非典管治:行政主導的重新詮釋" (Atypical Governance: A Reinterpretation of the Executive-led System)in 張炳良、戴廷耀等, 香港經驗:文化傳承與制度創新(Hong Kong Experience: Cultural Heritage and Institutional Innovation), Hong Kong: The Commerical Press, July 2009, pp.1-16.
• "Interpreting East Asian Social Policy Development: Paradigm Shift or Policy 'Steadiness'? ", in Ka-ho Mok and Ray Forrest (eds) Changing Governance and Public Policy in East Asia, London and New York: Routledge, February 2009, pp. 25-48.
• "Evaluation of the Hong Kong Integrity System", in L. Huberts, F. Anechiarico and F. E. Six (eds) Local Integrity Systems: World Cities Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, The Hague: BJU Legal Publishers, June 2008, pp. 105-15.
• "The Hong Kong System under One Country Being Tested: Article 23, Governance Crisis and the Quest for A New Hong Kong Identity", in Joseph Cheng (ed) The July 1 Protest Rally: Interpreting a Historic Event, Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, November 2005, pp. 33-70.
• "State Capacity in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan: Coping with Legitimation, Integration and Performance", in Jon Pierre and Martin Painter (eds) Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, January 2005, pp. 225-54.
• "Civil Service Pay Reform in Hong Kong: Principles, Politics and Paradoxes", in Anthony B. L. Cheung (ed) Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005, pp. 157-92.
• "Introduction", in Anthony B. L. Cheung (ed) Public Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, January 2005, pp.1-18.
• "The Politics of International Policy Learning in Public Administration: Limits of Interdependence and Convergence under Globalization", in A. Farazmand (eds) Sound Governance: Policy and Administrative Innovations, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, December 2004, pp. 57-73.
• "Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong and Singapore: Reform Trajectories and Explanations", in Akira Nakamura (ed) Comparative Studies of Public Administration VIII: Public Reform, Policy Change, and New Public Management – From the Asia and Pacific Perspective, EROPA (Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration) Local Government Center, Tokyo, Japan, March 2004, pp. 1-28.
• "Health Finance", in Linda Wong, Lynn White and Gui Shixun (eds) Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities, Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, February 2004, pp. 23-52.
• "Political Participation" in Y. M. Yeung and K. Y. Wong (eds) Fifty Years of Public Housing in Hong Kong: A Golden Jubilee Review and Appraisal, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, December 2003. pp. 207-34. [With separate Chinese edition]
• "The Civil Service and Political Reform", in Christine Loh & Civic Exchange (ed) Building Democracy: Creating Good Government for Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, September 2003, pp. 71-83.
• "Hong Kong’s Healthcare Policy (香港醫療政策研究)", in Gui Shixun and Linda Wong (eds): A Comparative Study of Social Policy in Shanghai and Hong Kong (上海與香港社會政策比較研究), Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, April 2003, pp. 166-87.
• "Public Service Reform in Singapore: Reinventing Government in a Global Age", in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 138-62.
• "Government Reinvention in Taiwan: Administrative Modernization and Regime Transition", in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 90-116.
• "Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigms, Paradoxes and Dilemmas" (with Ian Scott), in Anthony Cheung and Ian Scott (eds) Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shifts or Business As Usual?, London: RoutledgeCurzon, January 2003, pp. 1-24.
• "Transformation of the Civil Service System", in M. K. Chan and A. Y. So (eds) Crisis and Transformation in China’s Hong Kong, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, August 2002, pp. 166-88.
• "The Changing Political System: Executive-led Government or ‘Disabled’ Governance?", in S. K Lau (ed) The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, July 2002, pp. 41-68.
• "The Politics of New Public Management: Some Experience from Reforms in East Asia", in Kate McLaughlin, Stephen Osborne and Ewan Ferlie (eds) The New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects, London: Routledge, February 2002, pp. 243-73.
• "Health Policy Reform", chapter in L Wong and N Flynn (eds) The Market in Chinese Social Policy, Hampshire: Palgrave, June 2001, pp. 63-87.
• "Between Autonomy and Accountability: Hong Kong’s Senior Civil Servants in Search of an Identity", chapter in R Chapman (ed) Ethics in Public Service for the New Millennium, Aldershot: Ashgate, August 2000, pp 185-202. [With translation in Czech and Albanian published in 2003 and 2004 respectively]
• "Social Conflicts: 1975-1986". (With K S Louie) Chapter in S K Lau (ed) Social Development and Political Change in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, March 2000, pp 63-114. (Contribution: 50%)

Articles in externally refereed journals:

• "Public Governance Reform in Hong Kong: Rebuilding Trust and Governability", International Journal of Public Sector Reform, special issue on Public Sector Reform and Governance in Asia (expected 2011/2012).
• "Overview", International Review of Administrative Sciences, special issue on Public Administration in East Asia: Legacies, Experiences and Reforms (expected 2011/2012).
• "One country, Two Experiences: Administrative Reforms in China and Hong Kong", International Review of Administrative Sciences, special issue on Public Administration in East Asia: Legacies, Experiences and Reforms (expected 2011/2012).
• "Global Aspirations and Strategizing for World-Class Status: New Form of Politics in Higher Education Governance in Hong Kong" (jointly with Ka-ho Mok, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, special issue on Leadership, Culture and Change in Higher Education: Theory and Practice in East Asia(expected 2011).
• "In Search of Trust and Legitimacy: The Political Trajectory of Hong Kong as Part of China", International Public Management Review, Vol.11, No.2, 2010, pp. 38-63.
• "A Response to 'Building Administrative Capacity for the Age of Rapid Globalization: a Modest Prescription for the Twenty-First Century'",Public Administration Review, November/December 2009,pp. 1034-36.
• "Evaluating the Ombudsman System of Hong Kong: Towards Good Governance and Citizenship Enhancement",Asia Pacific Law Review, Vol.17, No.1, 2009 pp.73-94.
• "The Story of Two Administrative States: State Capacity in Hong Kong and Singapore", The Pacific Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, May 2008, pp. 121-45.
• "Combating Corruption as a Political Strategy to Rebuild Trust and Legitimacy: Can China Learn from Hong Kong?", for International Public Management Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 2007, pp. 48-71.
• "Policy Capacity in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Constrained Institutions Facing a Crowding and Differentiated Polity" , The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 29, No. 1, June 2007, pp. 51-75.
• "Executive-led Governance or Executive Power 'Hollowed-Out' – The Political Quagmire of Hong Kong" , Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 15, No. 1, April 2007, pp. 17-38.
• "Judicial Review and Policy Making in Hong Kong: Changing Interface between the Legal and the Political" (jointly with Max W. L. Wong), The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 28, No. 2, December 2006, pp. 117-41.
• "How Autonomous are Public Corporations in Hong Kong? The Case of the Airport Authority", Public Organization Review: A Global Journal, Vol. 6, September 2006, pp. 221-36.
• "Reinventing Hong Kong’s Public Service: Same NPM Reform, Different Contexts and Politics", International Journal of Organizational Theory & Behaviour, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 212-34.
• "Budgetary Reforms in the Two City States: Impact on Central Budget Agency in Hong Kong and Singapore", International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 3, September 2006, pp. 341-61.
• "Bureaucrats-Enterprise Negotiation in China’s Enterprise Reform at the Local Level: Case Studies in Guangzhou", Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 14, No. 45, 2005, pp. 695-720.
• "Whose Reason? Which Rationality? Understanding the ‘Real Worlds’ of Hong Kong’s Public Managers" (with Brian Brewer and Julia Tao), Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice), Vol. 5 No. 1, 2005, pp. 3-14
• "What’s in a Pamphlet? – Shortfalls and Paradoxical Flaws in Hong Kong’s Performance Pledges", Public Management Review (UK), Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2005, pp. 341-66.
• "The Politics of Administrative Reforms in Asia: Paradigms and Legacies, Paths and Diversities", Governance, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 257-82.
• "Hong Kong’s Post-1997 Institutional Crisis: Problems of Governance and Institutional Incompatibility", Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, January-April 2005, pp. 135-67.
• "Who Advised the Hong Kong Government? The Politics of Absorption before and after 1997" (with Paul C. W. Wong), Asian Survey, Vol. 44, No. 6, November/December 2004, pp. 874-94.
• "Strong Executive, Weak Policy Capacity: The Changing Environment of Policymaking in Hong Kong", The Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2004, pp. 1-30.
• "Customizing the Tenants, Empowering the Managers: Impact of Public Housing Governance Reform in Hong Kong" (with N. M. Yip), Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2003, pp.98-109.
• "Health Finance", The Chinese Economy (with Gu Xingyuan), Vol. 35, No. 6, November-December 2002, pp. 34-67.
• "Citizenship: Re-building of Trust between the Government and the Public", Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 6, No 1, January 2003 (in Chinese), pp 56-62.
• "Modernizing Public Healthcare Governance in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Professional Power in New Public Management", Public Management Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2002, pp. 343-65.
• "The Paradox of China’s Wage System Reforms: Balancing Stakeholders’ Rationalities" (with Kitty Poon) Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter 2000 [printed in early 2002], pp. 491-521
• "Public Enterprises and Privatization in East Asia: Paths, Politics and Prospects" Public Finance and Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2002,, pp. 67-96.
• "The New Two-Pronged Strategy of Enterprise Reform in China", (With Ma Ngok and Mok Ka-ho), Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 48, No. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 52-61
• "Civil Service Reform in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Political Challenges, Managerial Responses", International Journal of Public Administration, Vol.24, No.9, August 2001, pp. 929-50.
• "Globalization versus Asian Values: Alternative Paradigms in Understanding Governance and Administration", Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 2, December 2000, pp. 1-16.
• "The Formation of Leaders in Party Politics: The Limitations in Hong Kong", Journal of Youth Studies, Vol 3, No 2, July 2000 (in Chinese), pp 29-35.
• "New Interventionism in the Making: Interpreting State Interventions in Hong Kong after the Change of Sovereignty", Journal of Contemporary China, Vol 9, No 24, July 2000, pp 291-308.