Editing and Editorial Boards
Journals
1986 – 2011 Editor, Public Administration.
1977-82, Editor, Public Administration Bulletin (now Public Policy and Administration).
Book series
1992 to 2005 Open University Press (McGraw Hill), Public Policy and Management.
1996 to date, Palgrave-Macmillan, Transforming Governance.
2004 to date (with John Wanna), University of New South Wales Press, ANZSOG Book Program in Government, Politics and Public Administration.
Editorial Boards
2005 to date, Member, International Advisory Board, Public Policy and Administration
2005 to date, Member, Editorial Board, ANZSOG Research Monograph Series.
2005 to date, Member of the Editorial Board of British Politics
2004 to date, Member of the Executive Committee, Australasian Parliamentary Review.
2002 to date, Member of the Editorial Board of Public Administration Review. Renewed 2005 for a further three years.
2000 to date, Member of the Editorial Board, American Review of Public Administration.
1998 to 2008, Member, Editorial Board, Talking Politics.
1997 to date, Member, Editorial Board, Regional Studies. Renewed 2004 for a further five years.
1995 to date, Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Australian Journal of Public Administration.
1992-1995, Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Regional Policy and Politics.
1991-2009 Member, Advisory Board, Politics Review.
1984-86, Editorial Board, Public Administration.
1982-86, Commissioning Editor, Politics.
1982 to 2003, Editorial Board, Local Government Studies.
Government bodies
1994, Assessor, ESRC’s Research Fellowship Competition.
1993, Examiner, ESRC’s Advanced Course Work Competition.
1992-1998, Chair of the Steering Committee of the ‘Local Governance’ Research Programme.
1992-1993, Assessor, ESRC’s Advanced Course Work Recognition Exercise.
1992, Member, Higher Education Funding Council’s Panel for Politics and International Studies.
1991, Member, ESRC’s Seminars Competition Panel.
1990-92, Committee Member, Economic and Social Research Council’s Society and Politics Research Development Group; and Election Studies Advisory and Management Committee.
1978-79, Committee Member, Social Science Research Council’s Panel on Central-Local Government Relationships.
