¿This will be a very important and unique book in the study of ethical pluralism and

public policy in Hong Kong.¿

¿ Professor Sonny Lo Shiu Hing

¿Public policy both reflects and shapes social values and social norms. However, the so-

cial values and ethical dimensions of public policy are often left implicit and unexplored

in policy analysis and policy formulation. The big questions ¿ what kind of society do

we want to create? What is at stake here? Whose values? ¿ are debated and discussed

in some other context which is more distant from the applied world ofpolicymaking.

This book takes a different position and puts ethical issues and social values up front in

an exploration of a number of key public policy issues in Hong Kong. In doing so, the

book makes a very timely intervention in Hong Kong¿s increasingly contentious public

affairs and makes an important contribution to the general literature.¿

¿ Professor Ray Forrest