Anthony Michael Bertelli

Tony Bertelli

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    New Research – Policy Agendas in British Politics

    Tony Bertelli

    A new book entitled Policy Agendas in British Politics will be available from Palgrave-Macmillan this Summer.  It is a product of an inspiring collaboration with Peter John (University College London), Will Jennings (University of Southampton) and Shaun Bevan (University of Mannheim). Using a unique dataset covering half a century of policymaking in Britain, this book traces…

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    Shrinking the State

    Tony Bertelli

    This spring, I was pleased to begin a three year project with Matt Flinders (University of Sheffield) and Chris Skelcher (University of Birmingham) that will analyze the UK Coalition Government’s major reform of ‘arm’s length bodies’ (ALBs – often called ‘quangos’). Quangos are a frequent focus for public, political and media criticism, regarded as unaccountable, wasteful…

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    Public Policy Investment

    Tony Bertelli

    I am very pleased to announce that a paper long in progress with Peter John (University College London) has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Political Science.  An earlier version of the paper was mentioned in this post, but the forthcoming paper can be found here and an abstract as follows: We set…

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    The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance

    Tony Bertelli

    I am delighted to announce that the book I mentioned in this post is now published and available from Cambridge University Press.  Designed for students and empirical researchers, the book is meant to be a general, nontechnical introduction to core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to topics in public management and policy. I am grateful…

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    Cabinet-Congress-President Ideal Point Data Available

    Tony Bertelli

    I am pleased to announce that Christian Grose and I have released a datafile including the ideology estimates for U.S. presidents, legislators and cabinet secretaries used in Anthony M. Bertelli and Christian R. Grose. 2011. “The Lengthened Shadow of Another Institution? Ideal Point Estimates for the Executive Branch and Congress.” American Journal of Political Science…

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    Strategic Capacity Building

    Tony Bertelli

    I’ve been occupied over the past few weeks with finishing a textbook, The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance, for Cambridge University Press.  I’ve been told it will be in print next summer.  The book seeks to bring core ideas from the theoretical literature of — for want of a better term — the political economy…

  • Why teach in a Distance MPA?

    Tony Bertelli

    Starting in August, I will be teaching a distance course at the MPA (Master’s of Public Administration) level for the first time.  The School of Policy, Planning and Development is launching a new distance program this fall and my course is among the initial offerings.  The distance medium is intensely challenging for a beginner like me.…

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    Risk and Return in British Politics

    Tony Bertelli

    This week, my frequent collaborator Peter John will be presenting the first paper in a larger project on the prioritization of public policies by governments at the European Political Science Association meeting in Dublin. We argue that governments seek to enhance their chances of re-election by managing their risks from attending to particular policy problems. In…

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    Measuring Latent Concepts in Public Management

    Tony Bertelli

    I just returned from the Public Management Research Conference in Syracuse — a wonderful event.  My USC PhD students Jennifer Connolly (2nd year) and Dyana Mason (1st year) presented preliminary results from an ongoing project that develops longitudinal, survey-based, agency-level measures of concepts used widely in public management research between 1998-2010.  The project’s goal is…

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    Ideology in Federal Administrative Agencies

    Tony Bertelli

    Josh Clinton, Dave Lewis, Dave Nixon, Christian Grose and I have developed measures of bureaucratic ideology in an ongoing project that was also featured on the Monkey Cage.  The measurement strategy used agency executives’ responses to questions on the Survey on the Future of Government Service that three of us (Bertelli, Lewis, and Nixon) implemented.