Books

1) Ugyel, L. (2016). “Paradigms and Public Sector Reform—Public Administration of Bhutan”. Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1) Ugyel, L., Givel, M., & Chophel, D. (2023), ‘Punctuating “Happiness”: Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and the Agenda-Setting of the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Policy in Bhutan’. Review of Policy Research.

2) Tsheten T; Tenzin P; Clements ACA; Gray DJ; Ugyel L; Wangdi K. (2022). ‘The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Bhutan: strategy and enablers’, Infectious Diseases of Poverty, vol. 11, pp. 1–6.

3) Ugyel, L. (2022). Governance Networks in the Delivery of Public Healthcare Services in the Pacific: Implementation of the Bougainville Healthy Communities Programme. Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies.

4) Ugyel, L. (2021). Relationship Between Public Sector Reforms and Culture: The Implementation of NPM-Related Performance Management Reforms in a Collectivist and Risk Averse Culture. Public Administration and Development. [Identified as one of the Top Downloaded Article for works published by the journal between 01 January 2021 – 31 December 2021].

5) Ugyel, L. & Daugbjerg, C. (2020). Successful Policy Transfer and Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries. Policy & Politics. 48(4): 603-618. [Listed as an essential reading recommendation for Public Policy, Politics and Social Policy & Politics by the journal]

6) Ugyel, L, Sause, L. & Gorea, E. (2020). Dynamics and Tensions of Agencification Reforms: Experiences of District Development Authorities in Papua New Guinea. Australian Journal of Public Administration.
7) Ugyel, L. (2019). Formal and Informal Governance Networks: Diabetes Care in Australia and India, Australian Journal of Public Administration. 78(3): 359–372.

8) Corbett, J, Veenendaal, W. and Ugyel, L. (2017). Why Monarchy Persists in Small States: The Cases of Tonga, Bhutan and Liechtenstein. Democratization, 24(4): 689-706.

9) Ugyel, L. (2017). A Decade of Performance Management Reforms in Bhutan: Problems and Prospects. South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management, 4(2): 185-190.

10) Ugyel, L. (2017). Relationship between Politics and Administration: A Comparative Analysis of Legislation and Governance in Pacific Island Governmental Systems. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 39(3): 153-162.

11) Ugyel, L. (2016). Convergences and Divergences of Public Sector Reform in Bhutan: Dynamics of Incremental and Transformational Policies. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 38(2): 118-130.

12) Ugyel, L. & O’Flynn, J. (2016). Measuring Policy Success: Evaluating Public Sector Reform in Bhutan. International Journal of Public Administration. 40:2, 115-125.

13) Ugyel, L. (2014). Explaining Hybridity in Public Administration: An Empirical Case of Bhutan’s Civil Service. Public Administration and Development, 34(2): 109-122.

Book Chapters

1) Howes, S, Sause, L. & Ugyel, L. (2022). “Decentralisation: A political analysis”. Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Society. ANU Press.

2) Ugyel L. (2020). How “Place” Shapes the Public Servant: Papua New Guinea’s Public Administration Within the Contexts of “Big Man” and “Wantok” Systems, in The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. Palgrave Macmillan.

3) Howes, S, Betteridge, A, Sause, L. & Ugyel, L. (2018). Evidence-Based Policymaking in Developing Countries, in Hybrid Public Policy Innovations: Contemporary Policy Beyond Ideology. Routledge.

Working Papers & Other Papers

1) Ugyel, L. (2023). Struggling Brand “Bhutan”, 9Dashline.

2) Ugyel, L. (2021). Moving on from the Pandemic in Bhutan, Policy Forum, Asia and the Pacific Policy Society.

3) Ugyel, L. (2019). Inequality in Bhutan: Addressing it Through the Traditional Kidu System. Journal of Bhutan Studies. Volume 39.

4) Ugyel, L. (2015). The Bhutanese State and Its Institutions: The Changing Role of Bhutanese Civil Service within the Bhutanese State. The Druk Journal.

5) Blackman, D., O’Flynn, J. & Ugyel, L. (2013). A Diagnostic Tool for Assessing Organizational Readiness for Complex Change. ANZAM Conference.

6) Ugyel, L. (2013). Dynamics of Public Sector Reforms in Bhutan: Interaction of Values within a Hybrid Administration, Working Paper Series, Crawford School of Public Policy. January 2013.

7) Ugyel, L. (2012). Diabetes referral map across the primary and tertiary care: Perspectives of the General Practitioners and Credentialled Diabetes Educators, ADEA.

8) Petarsky, B., Matthews, C., Cremer, G. & Ugyel, L. (2010). Economics of financing primary health care for people with diabetes, ADEA, report for National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) Strategic Development Grant (SDG) from the Department of Health and Ageing.