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New Book Democracy Administered – Coming in July
I am delighted to announce that my new book, Democracy Administered: How Public Administration Shapes Representative Governance, will be published in July 2021 by Cambridge University Press. How does representative government function when public administration can reshape democracy? I argue that the traditional narrative of public administration balances the accountability of managers, a problem of…
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Public Policy Investment Book
I am pleased to announce that my new book with Peter John has been released. Public Policy Investment addresses one of the enduring questions of democratic government: why do governments attend to some public policies but not others? Political executives focus on a range of policy issues, such as the economy, social policy, and foreign policy,…
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New Research – Policy Agendas in British Politics
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
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
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
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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Risk and Return in British Politics
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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