CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
RHODES, Roderick Arthur William
Contact details
Work
Professor of Government
School of Government
University of Tasmania
Hobart
Tasmania 7001
Australia
E-mail: rod.rhodes@utas.edu.au
Present Positions
Professor of Government, University of Tasmania and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Qualifications:
1985, PhD (Essex). Thesis title: ‘Understanding Intergovernmental Relations: theory and practice’.
1967-70, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, B. Litt. (Oxon.). Thesis title: ‘A Comparative Study of the Decision-Making Process within Oxford City and Oxfordshire County Councils 1963-1968′.
1964-67, Bradford University, B. Sc. (Hons) Business and Administration (Bradford).
1962-64, Bradford Technical College, HNC in Business Studies.
Citizenship:
I am an Australian and a British citizen.
APPOINTMENTS
2008 to 2010, Professor of Government, School of Government, University of Tasmania.
2007 to 2008, Director, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
2006 to date, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Fractional appointment from January 2008 to December 2010.
2003 to date, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Newcastle.
2004 -2006, Member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute for Political and Economic Governance, University of Manchester.
2003-2006, Professor of Political Science and Head of the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
2003-2004, Research Coordinator of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
1999-2003, Adjunct Professor of Politics and Public Policy, School of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane.
1998 to 2003, Adjungeret Professor of Political Science, Institut for Statskundskab, Københavns Universitet, Denmark.
1995, Jean Monnet Visiting Professor, European University Institute, Florence.
1994-1999, Director, ESRC’s Whitehall Research Programme
1994 to 2002, Professor of Politics (Research), Department of Politics, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
1991, Visiting Fellow, Federalism Research Centre, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.
1989-1994, Professor of Politics and Head of Department, University of York.
1988-89, Head of Department, Department of Government, University of Essex.
1987-89, Reader in Government, Department of Government, University of Essex.
1985-89, Visiting Professor, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht.
1979-87, Lecturer in Government, Department of Government, University of Essex.
1976-79, Lecturer in Administration, Department of Administration, University of Strathclyde.
1976, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
1973-75, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Sussex.
1970-75, Lecturer in Public Administration, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Professional Societies
2009, Winner of the Sam Richardson Prize (with John Wanna) for the best article published in the Australian Journal of Public Administration in 2008.
2004 to date, Treasurer and Secretary, Australasian Political Studies Association
2005 for life, Vice-President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
2004, Member of the Marshall Dimock Award Committee for the best article published in Public Administration Review.
2004 to date, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
2002 to date, Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK).
2002-2005, President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
2000 to date, Member of the judging panel for the Sam Richardson Award for the best article in the Australian Journal of Public Administration.
1999 to date, Chair of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom’s Specialist Group in Interpretive Politics.
1999-2002, Member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association.
1999-2002, Chair of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
1996-1999, Chair of the Public Administration Committee of the Joint University Council and Member of the Executive Committee of the Joint University Council.
1995-1998, Chair of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom’s Specialist Group in Public Administration.
1995-1997, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
1990-95, Deputy Chair, Public Administration Committee of the Joint University Council for Social and Public Administration.
1975-78, Secretary, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom
1972-74, Secretary, West Midlands Branch of the Royal Institute of Public Administration
Editor - Journals
1986-2011, Editor, Public Administration.
1977-82, Editor, Public Administration Bulletin (now Public Policy and Administration).
Editor - Book series
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.
1992 to 2005 Open University Press (McGraw Hill), Public Policy and Management.
Appointments to Research Councils and Other Government Bodies
2009 to date, Assessor/referee, European Science Foundation.
2003-6, Oz reader for the Australian Research Council.
1994, Assessor, ESRC’s Research Fellowship Competition.
1993, Examiner, ESRC’s Advanced Course Work Competition.
1992, Examiner, ESRC’s Research Studentship 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.
Membership of 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.
External Examining
(This list covers appointments for one or more years. It refers to the validation of undergraduate and postgraduate written examinations and course work, not individual PhD oral examinations)
1991-1994, External Examiner (undergraduate), University of Kent.
1991-1994, External Examiner (postgraduate), London School of Economics and Political Science.
1991-1993, External Examiner (undergraduate), University of Warwick.
1987-90, External Examiner (undergraduate), Sheffield City Polytechnic.
1987-89, External Examiner (postgraduate), University of Strathclyde.
1980-84, External Examiner (undergraduate), University of Ulster.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Previous
In the 1970s I received research grants from the European Research Trust (1972), the Home Office (1975), the Social Science Research Council (1977) and, in 1975, a travel Fellowship, from the German Marshall Fund of the United States (to visit Universities of Syracuse, Michigan and California Berkeley). Since then I have received the following awards.
1. The Local Authority Associations in Central-Local Relationships (1979-82). Social Science Research Council. £64,000
2. Intergovernmental Relations in the UK (1984-85). Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Personal Research Fellowship. £19,727.
3. Territorial Politics in Western Europe (1985). A European Science Foundation/ESRC research workshop. Co-director Dr V Wright, Nuffield College. £4,784.
4. Ethnic Minority Communities in Essex County (1987). Commission for Racial Equality. Jointly with S. Saggar. £2,845.
5. Policy Networks in British Government (1989). The Nuffield Foundation. Co-director Dr David Marsh (University of Essex). £1,000.
6. Implementing Thatcherite Policies (1991). The Nuffield Foundation. £4,000.
7. The Core Executive in Britain (1992). Economic and Social Research Council. £6,000.
8. ESRC Whitehall Programme: The Changing Nature of British Central Government. Programme Director 1994-1999. ESRC. Initial funding 1 October 1994 to 31 March 1998 to value of £278,210. Extended from 1 April 1998 to 30 June 1999 to value of £25,272. Final report was submitted 30 September 1999. The ESRC sought referees’ reports on, and employed an external consultant to evaluate, my final report. The reports are available on request.
9. Departmental Secretaries: Influence and Impact. Co-funded by Australian Research Council, Danish Research Council and ESRC. Each contributes the equivalent of Kr. 40,000 (about £3,500). Published as The Changing World of Top Officials. Mandarins or Valets? (2001).
10. Beyond Whitehall: A Study of the Civil Services of the United Kingdom. ESRC. £66,373. 1 November 1997 to 30 October 2000. Final report submitted 31 December 2000.
11. The Changing Governance of Australia. Australian Research Council. A$244,930 (about £102,000). 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2000. My contribution completed 31 March 2000.
12. Australian Governance and Regulation Network (AgaRN). A$10,000 for 6 months. Completed 28 February 2004.
13. Up Close and Personal: the ethnography of government elites (With Paul ‘t Hart and Mirko Noordegraaf, Utrecht University, Netherlands). This project describes, compares and and interprets the beliefs and practices of governmental elite at the local, national and supranational levels of government. The first workshop was held in Leiden in April 2006. It was co-funded by the Netherlands Institute for Government (NIG) and the Interpretive Political Science Group of the Political Studies Association of the UK. The book was complete in December 2006 and published in 2007.
14. Comparing Westminster (with Professor J. Wanna, Professor Patrick). An Australian Research Council Discovery Award, totalling A$165,000. The project explored why Westminster systems, which have been adopted across the world, have been so resilient in different environments? It explored how different nations adapted the Westminster core executive by combining local traditions with inherited practices. The project identified the conditions that provided stability and security. By comparing performance across nations, it will explain why Westminster practices were so adaptable. This study is the first longitudinal explanation of political development in societies that inherited executive practices from the same source. We completed the book in September 2008 and the book will be published in October 2009).
15. The Australian Study of Politics. Funded by the Australasian Political Science Association (APSA) this project documents the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether it is described as political studies or political science. It focuses on the twentieth century and covers the main institutions, fields, themes, and people. Duration 2007-9. Amount $30,000. The manuscript was submitted in March 2009 and the book will be published in December 2009 by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Current Research Projects
(i) Everyday Life in a Ministry
This book will be an anthropological study of life in a ministry as experienced by both ministers and their top civil servants. I will write an ‘insider’ account of ‘life at the top’. I collected the information in three ways. First, I interviewed ministers and permanent secretaries on how they see their world. I conducted three x 2 hours interviews with each person. Second, I sat in the private office and watch its comings and goings as a non-participant observer. Finally, I ‘shadowed’ the minister and permanent secretary; that is, literally followed them around for a week. I completed the fieldwork in April 2005. I will complete the book in 2009. It will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010.
(ii) Public Administration 25 years of analysis and debate, 1986-2011.
In 2011 I will have been editor of Public Administration for 25 years. Blackwell agreed to publish a 100,000 word selection of articles published in the journal during that time. I will write an introductory essay and there will be a short ‘afterword’ on each essay by its author. It will be published by in 2011.
LEADERSHIP
University of Tasmania
I am a member of the Faculty Research Committee and a member of the University’s IRGS assessment panel.
Australian National University
I became Director of the Research School of Social Sciences on 19 February 2007. With my colleagues on the School Executive, I produced a strategic plan for the Research School following a highly critical external review. This plan was accepted by both the School at large and the Chancelry and I negotiated its implementation with the several parties. When I stood down view, the Research School had settled down after a distressing period and colleagues were once again focused on research and higher degree teaching.
Previously, I was head of the Political Science Program. When I went to ANU in 2003, the (then) Director of the Research School told me my priority as Head of Program was to turn political science into a world-class Program or it would be closed. Then the Program had four academic staff members. By the end of 2007, the Program had 9 academic staff members and a world class reputation.
In 2005, the assessor’s report for the ANU Review Committee concluded that political science in RSSS was world class.
The [RSSS] group of researchers has a number of quite outstanding individuals, who are recognised as international leaders in the field. The overall quality of the work is very impressive, and marks RSSS out as one of the top research institutions in the world for political theory and political science.
It was the only political science group at ANU so rated.
Also in 2005, Simon Hix’s analysis of publications in the top 61 political science journals showed RSSS at 19, the only Australian University in the top 75 and 5th in the world outside the USA (see Political Studies Review 3/1 2005: 293-313). The Research Evaluation and Policy Project (REPP) at the Australian National University is the leading independent centre for citation analysis in Australia. REPP ranked political science in RSSS number 1 with 7,354 cites. The second department had 1,877 cites.
The second major initiative was the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). It was founded in 2003 by the governments of the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand, with the State Governments of New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. Initially it was a teaching-only initiative but I persuaded the Vice-Chancellor of the ANU, the chair of the ANZSOG Board and the Australian Public Service Commission that ANU should become the nodal university for ANZSOG’s research network. I was the founding research coordinator. Negotiations with the Commonwealth led to funding of $200,000 a year for three years for the Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, based in the Political Science Program. John Wanna took up his appointment as the Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration in July 2004. Subsequently, the Commonwealth agreed to provide ANZSOG with a $10 million to guarantee the chair’s funding.
The third major initiative was the development of master’s degree teaching in public policy and administration with The Crawford School. The Vice-Chancellor contributed two academic posts. The Crawford School and ANZSOG contributed a further academic post. The initiative was a rationalisation and development of existing courses and had over 100 master’s degree students.
Fourth, the Program resumed its historic role as a nodal point of the Australasian political science profession. When I arrived the Program edited no journals. By 2005, we edited four major journals: Australian Journal of Political Science (edited by Ian McAllister since 2004), Australian Journal of Public Administration (edited by John Wanna since 2004), The Journal of Theoretical Politics (edited by Keith Dowding from July 2007), and Public Administration: an international quarterly (edited by Rod Rhodes since 2003). We also created and continue to house the Australasian Political Studies Association’s National Office. I remain the Association’s Treasurer.
Finally, in RSSS, I chaired the School Executive. I was a member of the Head of Programs Committee, Scholarships Committee, Planning Committee, and Promotions Committee. For the ANU, I was a member of the Vice-Chancellors’ Research Development Working Group and the Divisional Scholarship Committee. In the College of Arts and social Sciences (CASS), of which RSSS is a part, I was on the CASS Executive and its Research Committee.
Other universities
At Newcastle I was a member of the Statutory Committee on Professors and Readers and the Departmental Research Committee that supervised the department’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) submission. Every UK department must submit an account of their research performance to the government every five years. The documentation includes four published items for every member of staff and they are subject to peer review. The research output is graded from 1 (poor) to 5 (of international standing). In 2001 the department improved from a grade 4 to a grade 5.
At York, I was Head of the Department of Politics from 1989 to 1994 during which time the Department’s grade in the RAE improved from grade 2, which I inherited, to a 4. I founded and directed the MA in Public Administration and Public Policy. It began in 1991 and recruited about 12 students a year. I was also at various times: Director of the Philosophy,Politics and Economics degree; a member of the Long-Term Planning Group; chair of the Working Party on Modularization; and a member of Professorial Board, the Library Advisory Committee, and Promotions Committee.
At Essex, I was the Director of the BA in Policy Making and Administration (PMA). I was responsible for designing and implementing the new PMA degree. It was offered to undergraduates from October 1979. It was also possible to gain professional recognition for holders of the degree, most notably from the (then) Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.
In addition I held the following administrative posts at various times: member, Board of Social Sciences; member, Admissions Committee; member, University-Industry Liaison Committee; member, Post-Experience Committee; member, Board of the School of Law; Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Degree Courses for the Police; Editor, Essex Papers in Politics and Government; Chairman, Working Party on Trans-Binary Initiatives; member, Board of Comparative Studies; and member, Examinations and Syllabus Committee.
Finally, I was Chairman of the Department of Government in 1988 and 1989 when the Department was awarded a 5 in RAE.
At Birmingham and Strathclyde, I was responsible for developing teaching in policy studies. At Birmingham, I was the Graduate Admissions Tutor and I re-designed the M.Soc.Sc. At Strathclyde, I was the convenor for the MSc and, with Professor Gunn, I developed undergraduate policy studies teaching. In addition, at both universities, I organised (and taught on) a wide variety of courses for senior local government officers and civil servants from both Britain and overseas.
TEACHING
At UTas, I team teach on several undergraduate courses including the first year and I supervise honours students. I also supervise two PhD students.
At ANU, I was a research professor with no undergraduate teaching. I was the principal supervisor and panel chair for three full-time PhDs. I was also on two other supervisory panels and I taught on the Masters in Public Policy
At Newcastle, as a research professor, I had no undergraduate teaching duties, although I contributed the occasional lecture to first year students. My main teaching duties were supervising doctoral students. I supervised six full-time doctoral students between 1994 and 2001, 3 of whom successfully completed in the stipulated four years. None of the remaining students were overdue when I left. I also contributed regularly to the Faculty and departmental research training courses.
At York I taught the following courses:
Who Rules Britain; Topics in British Government; Politics A (a series of lectures to the first year course); Public Organisation Theory (MA); and Policy Analysis and Public Management (MA).
At Essex, I taught the following courses:
The Politics of Organisations (MA); British Political System; The Politics of Bureaucracy; Public Policy Making; and Territorial Politics in Britain.
At Birmingham, I was responsible for the following courses:
Theory of Public Administration (M.Soc.Sc/Dip); The Study of Public Policy Making (M.Soc.Sc); Comparative Local Government (undergraduate); Local Government in England and Wales (undergraduate).
At Strathclyde, I taught the following courses:
Government Administration; Administration I; and Administration II. I also taught the following master’s degree courses: Policy Analysis; Policy Studies (settings, structures, processes) and Urban Development (jointly for University of Glasgow).
MEDIA AND CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE
Media
My broadcasting experience includes regular local radio broadcasts (BRMB, Essex, Leeds, Orwell, York) and intermittent appearances on Radio 1, Radio 4, ATV, TTTV, YTV, BBC1 and BBC 2. The topics covered included: general elections, local government elections, developments in local government, reform of the civil service and the budget. Since arriving in Australia, I have continued this work with broadcasts for the ABC and bye-lines in the Canberra Times.
Consultancy
I have acted as a consultant to the Local Government Training Board, the Federal Trust, the OECD, the Cabinet Office, the Home Office, the National Audit Office, the local authority associations and a variety of individual local authorities. The work included the following reports: Report on Training for Cumbria County Council; The Training Implications for Local Government of British Membership of the European Community (Report to the Local Government Training Board); and The Councillor, Information and Urban Deprivation (Report to the Home Office). Latterly, I preferred to do seminars and workshops aimed specifically at top civil servants. The high point was a one-day workshop for the Civil Service College on my work about governance. Since arriving in Australia I have continued this work by contributing to, for example, the ANZSOG Executive Fellows Program, the APS Leadership Development Network and the Public Service Commission’s Planning Retreat.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
A bibliography of some 600 items that also includes book reviews, conference papers, discussion or occasional papers, newspaper articles and interviews, and other journalism is available on request. See: http://www.rodrhodes.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/bibliography-1970-2007.pdf
Books
In Preparation
Everyday life at the top (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
(Ed.) Public Administration: 25 years of analysis and debate, 1986-2011. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
In press
(With Mark Bevir), The State as Cultural Practice. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Published
(Ed.) A History of Australian Political Studies. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009).
(With J. Wanna and P. Weller), Comparing Westminster. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
(With Paul ‘t Hart and M. Noordegraaf)) (Eds.), Observing Government Elites: up close and personal. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007).
(With S. Binder and B. Rockman) (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Paperback edition 2008).
(With Mark Bevir), Governance Stories London: (Routledge 2006. Paperback edition 2007).
(With M. Bevir), Interpreting British Governance. (London: Routledge, March 2003).
(With P. Carmichael et al) Decentralising the UK Civil Service: from unitary state to differentiated polity. (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2003).
(With P. Weller) (Eds.), The Changing World of Top Officials. Mandarins or Valets? (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001).
(Ed.), United Kingdom. 2 volumes. (Aldershot and Brookfield, Vermont: Dartmouth 2000).
(Ed.), Transforming British Government. Volume 1. Changing Institutions. Volume 2. Changing Roles and Relationships. (London: Macmillan, 2000).
(With B. G. Peters and V. Wright) (Eds.), Administering the Summit. (London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000).
Control and Power in Central-Local Government Relationships. (Aldershot and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1999). Originally published in 1981, reprinted with a new preface and three additional chapters.
Understanding Governance. (Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1997. Reprinted 1999).
(With H. Bakvis, P. Weller) (Eds.) The Hollow Crown. (London: Macmillan, 1997).
(With Bruno Dente, Marco Cammelli and others), Reformare la Pubblica Amministrazione. (Torino: Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1995).
(With P. Dunleavy) (Eds, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive. (London: Macmillan, and New York : St Martins Press, 1995).
(With D Marsh) (Eds.), Implementing Thatcherite Policies: audit of an era. (Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1992).
(With D. Marsh) (Eds, Policy Networks in British Government. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
Beyond Westminster and Whitehall: The Sub-Central Governments of Britain. (London and Winchester, Mass: Unwin-Hyman/Allen & Unwin, 1988; corrected edition with new Preface and bibliographical addendum, London: Routledge, 1992. Digital edition 2003).
(With V Wright) (Eds.), Tensions in the Territorial Politics of Western Europe. (London: Frank Cass, 1987).
The National World of Local Government. (London and Winchester, Mass: Allen and Unwin, 1986).
(With I Budge, D McKay et al), The New British Political System: Government and Society in the 1980s. (London and New York: Longman, 1983; reprinted 1984; revised edition, 1985). New edition as: The Changing British Political System: Into the 1990s (London and New York: Longman 1988).
Control and Power in Central-Local Government Relations. (Aldershot: Gower and Brookfield VT: Ashgate Pub., 1981, reprinted 1983 and 1986, Japanese translation, 1987).
Social Science Research Council (Committee member and co-author), Central-Local Government Relations: A Panel report to the Research Initiatives Board. (London: SSRC, 1979).
Public Administration and Policy Analysis. (Farnborough: Saxon House, 1979, reprinted Gower, 1981).
(Editor), Training in the Civil Service. (London: Joint University Council for Social and Public Administration, 1977).
(With C Hull), Intergovernmental Relations in the European Community. (Farnborough: Saxon House, 1977; reprinted, Gower paperback, 1983).
Pamphlets
The Governance Narrative. (London: Public Management and Policy Association, 2000).
The New Governance: governing without government. (London: Royal Society of Arts and Economic and Social Research Council, 1995).
European Policy Making, Implementation and Sub-Central Governments: a survey. (Maastricht: European Institute of Public Administration, 1986).
(With M J Goldsmith), Register of Research and Research Digest on Central-Local Government Relations in Britain. (London: Economic and Social Research Council, 1986).
Local Government and the European Community. (Birmingham: Institute of Local Government Studies, 1973).
Perspectives on Organisations; an introduction to organisation theory. (London: Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants, 1972).
Journal Articles
Published
‘Scenes from the departmental court’, Public Policy and Administration 24 (2) 2009: 437-56.
(And John Wanna), ‘Bringing the Politics Back In’, Public Administration, 87 (2) 2009: 161-83
‘From private office to departmental court’, Public Money and Management 29 (3) 2009: 191-4.
(And John Wanna and P. Weller), ‘Reinventing Westminster - How Public Executives Reframe Their World’, Policy and Politics 36 (4) 2008: 461-79.
(And Mark Bevir), ‘Politics as Cultural Practice’ Political Studies Review 6 (2) 2008: 170-77.
(And Mark Bevir), ‘The differentiated polity as narrative’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 10 (4) 2008: 729-734.
(And John Wanna), ‘Stairways to Heaven: a reply to Alford’, Australian Journal of Public Administration 67 (3) 2008: 267-70.
(With John Wanna), ‘‘The Limits to Public Value, or Rescuing Responsible Government from the Platonic Guardians’, Australian Journal of Public Administration 66 (4) 2007: 406-421.
‘Understanding Governance: ten years on’, Organization Studies, 28 (8) 2007: 1243-1264.
(With Mark Bevir), ‘Prime ministers, Presidentialism and Westminster Smokescreens’, Political Studies, 54(4) 2006: 671-90.
(With Mark Bevir), ‘The Life, Death and Resurrection of Governance’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 65(2) 2006: 59-69.
(With Mark Bevir), ‘Defending Interpretation’, European Political Science, 5(1) 2006. 69-83.
(With Mark Bevir), ‘Disaggregating Structures as an Agenda for Critical Realism: A reply to McAnulla’ British Politics, 1(3) 2006: 397-403.
(With Mark Bevir), ‘Interpretive Approaches to British Government and Politics’, British Politics, 1(1) 2006: 1-29. Reprinted as ‘La governance in Gran Bretagna’, Confronti Number 1, nuova serie gennaio, aprile, 2009, pp. 125-140.
(with Mark Bevir), ‘Interpretation and Its Others’, Australian Journal of Political Science 40 (2) 2005: 169-87.
(With Jenny Fleming), ‘Bureaucracy, Contracts and Networks: The Unholy Trinity and The Police’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 38 (2) 2005: 192 - 205.
Everyday life in a ministry: Public administration as anthropology’, American Review of Public Administration, 35 (1) 2005: 3-26.
(With M. Bevir), ‘Interpreting British Governance’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 6 (2) 2004: 130-36.
(With M. Bevir), ‘Interpretation as Method, Explanation and critique’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6 (1) 2004: 28-36.
(With M. Bevir and P. Weller), ‘Traditions and comparative governance: interpreting the changing role of the public sector in comparative and historical perspectives’, Public Administration, 81 (1) 2003: 1-17.
(With M. Bevir), ‘Searching for Civil Society: changing patterns of governance in Britain’, Public Administration, 81 (1) 2003: 41-62.
(With M. Bevir and P. Weller), ‘Comparative Governance: prospects and lessons’, Public Administration, 81 (1) 2003: 191-210.
(With M. Bevir), ‘Analysing Networks: from typologies of institutions to narratives of beliefs’, Science and Society, No. 10 Spring, 2003: 21-56. (In Greek).
‘Putting the People back into Networks’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 37 (3) 2002: 399-415.
‘A Guide to the ESRC’s Whitehall Programme, 1994-2000′, Public Administration, 78, 2000: 251-82.
‘New Labour’s Civil Service: summing up joining-up’, Political Quarterly, 71 (2) 2000: 151-66.
‘The UK Economic and Social Research Council’s ‘Whitehall Program’ and the Governance narrative’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 59 (2) 2000: 123-7.
(With M. Bevir), ‘Decentering Traditions: interpreting British government’, Administration and Society, 33 (2) 2000: 107-32.
‘The Governance Narrative: Lessons from the Whitehall Programme’, Public Administration, 78 (2): 2000: 344-62. Reprinted in: R. A. W. Rhodes (Ed.) Public Administration: 25 years of analysis and debate, 1986-2011. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
(With M. Bevir), ‘Les récits du egime politique britannique’, Revue Française de Science Politique, 49 (6) 1999: 355-77.
‘Traditions and public sector reform; comparing Britain and Denmark’, Scandinavian Political Studies, 22 (4) 1999: 341-370.
‘Studying British government: reconstructing the research agenda’, British Journal of Politics and International Studie,s 1 (2) 1999: 215-39.
(With M. Bevir), ‘Narratives of “Thatcherism”, West European Politics, 21 (1) 1998: 97-119. Reprinted in: H. Berrington (Ed.), Britain in the Nineties: the politics of paradox. London: Frank Cass, 1998).
(With V. Wright and B. G. Peters), ‘Tendances convergentes et spécificités nationales’, Revue Française d’Administration Publique, July/September, No. 82 1998: 381-95
(With M. Bevir), ‘Public Administration without Foundations’, Administrative Theory & Praxis 20 (1) 1998: 3-13
‘Different roads to unfamiliar places: UK experience in comparative perspective’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 57 (4) 1998: 19-31.
‘Evoluzione del governo centrale in Gran Bretagna: il programma Whitehall dell’ESRC’, Storia Amministrazione Constituzione, Annale ISAP, 6/1998: 97-303.
‘It’s the mix that matters: from marketisation to diplomacy’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 56 1997: 40-53. Reprinted in Public Policy and Administration, 12 (3) 1997: 31-50; in W. I. Jenkins and E. C. Page (Eds.) The Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006): 597-621; and in M. Bevir (Ed), Public Governance. Volume 3. Public Policy. London: Sage: 139-60.
‘The New Governance: governing without Government’, Political Studies, 44 (4), 1996: 652-67. Reprinted in: S. Osborne (Ed.), Critical Perspectives in Public Management (London: Routledge, 2001); in Spanish as ‘La nueva gobernanza: gobernar sin gobierno’, in Agusti Cerrillo I Martinez (Coordinator), La Gobernanza Hoy: 10 Textos de Referencia (Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Administraciόn Pública, 2005): 99-122; R. A.W. Rhodes (Ed.), United Kingdom. 2 volumes. Aldershot and Brookfield, Vermont: Dartmouth 2000, Volume I: 109-24; M. Bevir (Ed), Public Governance. Volume 1. Theories of Governance. London: Sage: 1-19; and in Richard Bellamy and Antonino Palumbo (Eds), From Government to Governance (Aldershot: Ashgate 2010).
(With C. Dargie), ‘Traditional Public Administration’, Public Administration, 74 (2) 1996: 325-32.
‘Looking Beyond Managerialism’ Australian Journal of Public Administration, 55 (2) 1996: 1-4.
‘From Institutions to Dogma: tradition, eclecticism and ideology in the study of British Public Administration’ Public Administration Review, 56 (6) 1996: 507-16.
‘The State of Public Administration: a professional history of the 1980s’, Public Administration, 71 (1) 1995: 1-15. .
‘The Hollowing Out of the State: the changing nature of the public service in Britain’, Political Quarterly, 65 (2) 1994: 138-51. Reprinted in R. Hodges (ed.), Corporate Governance in the New Global Economy: governance and the public sector. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2006: 3-16.
‘Reinventing Excellence: or how best-sellers thwart the search for lessons to transform the public sector’, Public Administration, 72 (2) 1994: 281-89.
(With D. Marsh), ‘Implementing Thatcherism’, Parliamentary Affairs, 45 (1) 1992: 33-50.
‘The Europeanisation of Sub-central Government: the case of the UK’, Staatswissenschaften und Staatspraxis, 2 (3) 1992: 80 -91. Reprinted in C. Fletcher and C. Walsh (Eds.) The Impact of Federalism on Metropolitan Strategies in Australia (Canberra: Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, 1992) 72-89.
‘Agencies in British Government: revolution or evolution?’ Diritto Publico, 2 (3) 1996: 731-54.
(With D. Marsh), ‘The Concept of Policy Networks in British Political Science: Its Development and Utility’ Talking Politics, 8 (3) 1996: 210-22. Reprinted in Tadao Miyakawa (Ed.), The Science of Public Policy (London and New York: Routledge, 2000): 442-61.
‘Theory and Method in British Public Administration: the view from political science’, Political Studies, 39 (3) 1991: 533-54
(With P. Dunleavy), ‘Core Executive Studies in Britain’, Public Administration, 68 (1) 1990: 3-28. Reprinted in R. A.W. Rhodes (Ed.), United Kingdom. 2 volumes. Aldershot and Brookfield, Vermont: Dartmouth 2000, Volume II: 127-52.
(With B. Hardy and G. Wistow), ‘Policy Networks and the Implementation of Community Care: policy for people with mental handicap’, Journal of Social Policy, 19 (2) 1990: 141-68.
‘Policy Networks: a British perspective’ Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2 (3) l990: 292-316. Reprinted in M. Maor and Jan-Erik Lane (Eds.) Comparative Public Administration. Volume 1. (Aldershot, Dartmouth, The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, 1999): 149-73. Reprinted in Reprinted in R. A.W. Rhodes (Ed.), United Kingdom. 2 volumes. Aldershot and Brookfield, Vermont: Dartmouth 2000, Volume I: 147-71.
‘The Changing British Civil Service’ (review article), Parliamentary Affairs, 42 (2) 1989: 270-7
(With P. Dunleavy), ‘Funny Things Happened on the Way to Centralisation: Mrs. Thatcher and Sub-central Governments’, Social Studies Review, 5 (2) 1987: 19-26.
`Developing the Public Service Orientation’, Local Government Studies, 13 (3) 1987: 63-73.
`The Reform of Local Government: revival of an industry’, Public Administration, 65 (2) 1987: 193-207.
‘La Grande-Bretagne, pays du government local?’ Pouvoirs, No 37 1986: 59-70.
‘Corporate Bias in Central-Local Financial Relations: a case study of the Consultative Council on Local Government finance’, Policy and Politics, 14 (2) 1986: 221-45.
‘Corporatism, Pay Negotiations and Local Government’, Public Administration, 63 (3) 1985: 287-307.
‘A Squalid and Politically Corrupt Process’? Intergovernmental relations in the post-war period’, Local Government Studies, 11 (6) 1985: 35-57. Reprinted in J. Anderson and A. Cochrane (Eds.) A State of Crisis: The Changing Face of British Politics (London: Longman, 1989): 202-25.
‘Power Dependence, Policy Communities and Intergovernmental Networks’, Public Administration Bulletin, No 49 December 1985: 4-31.
‘Continuity and Change in British Central-Local Relations: ‘the Conservative threat’, 1979-83′ British Journal of Political Science, 14 1984: 261-83. Abridged version reprinted as: ‘Relations between central and local government’ in M. Burch and M. Moran (Eds.) British Politics: A Reader (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987), pp 333-53. An edited version was reprinted as: ‘Mrs Thatcher and Local Government: intentions and achievement’ Teaching Politics, 13 (3) 1984: 355-75. Reprinted in L. Robbins (Ed.), Political Institutions in Britain (London: Longmans, 1987): 98-120.
‘Can There be a National Community of Local Government?’ Local Government Studies, 9 (6) 1983: 17-37.
(With B. Hardy and K. Pudney), ‘Public Interest Groups in Central-Local Government Relationships’, Public Administration Bulletin, No 36 August 1981: 17-36.
‘Analysing Intergovernmental Relations’, European Journal of Political Research, 8 1980: 289-322.
‘Some Myths in Central-Local Relations’, Town Planning Review, 51 (3) 1980: 270-85.
‘Current Developments in British Public Administration: some comparisons with America’, Public Administration Bulletin, No 22 December 1976: 54-74.
‘The Lost World of British Local Politics?’ Local Government Studies, 1 (3) 1975: 39-59.
‘Local Government Reform: three questions’, Social and Economic Administration, 8 (1) 1974: 6-21. Reprinted as ‘Il Modello del governo locale in Inghilterra sta cambiando: riforma o rioganizzazione?’ Urbanistica 2 September 1977: 8-15. Revised, updated and reprinted as: ‘The Changing Pattern of Local Government in England; reform or reorganisation?’ in A B Gunlicks (Ed.), Local Government Reform and Reorganisation (New York: Kennikat Press, 1981): 93-111.
‘Regional Policy and a ‘Europe of Regions’: a critical assessment’, Regional Studies, 8 1974: 105-14. Reprinted in D Gillingwater and D A Hart (Eds.) The Regional Planning Process (Farnborough: Saxon House, 1978): 46-61.
‘The State of Public Administration: an evaluation and response’, Public Administration Bulletin, No. 16 June 1974: 23-39.
‘The European Community and British Public Administration: the case of local government’, Journal of Common Market Studies, XI (4) 1973: 263-75.
‘Wilting in Limbo: Anthony Trollope and the nineteenth century civil service’, Public Administration, 51 (2) 1973: 207-19.
Book Chapters
In press
(And Mark Bevir), ‘The changing state’, in M. Bevir (Ed.,), The Sage Handbook of Governance (Sage, 2009).
‘Published
In search of Australian political science’, in R. A. W. Rhodes, (Ed.), The Australian Study of Politics. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan 2009, pp. 1-15.
(And John Wanna), ‘The Core Executive’, in R. A. W. Rhodes, (Ed.), The Australian Study of Politics. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan 2009, pp. 119-30
‘Governance’. In P. Cain and J. Conaghan (Eds.). The New Oxford Companion to Law. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008): 506-7.
(with Paul Fawcett), ‘Central government’, in Anthony Seldon (Ed.), Blair’s Britain 1997-2007. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007): 79-103.
(And Paul ‘t Hart and M. Noordegraaf), ‘Introduction: being there in everyday’ life’, in R. A. W. Rhodes, Paul ‘t Hart and M. Noordegraaf) (Eds.), Observing Government Elites: up close and personal. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007): 1-17.
The Everyday Life of a Minister: a confessional and impressionist tale’, in R. A. W. Rhodes, Paul ‘t Hart and M. Noordegraaf) (Eds.), Observing Government Elites: up close and personal. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007): 21-50.
(And Paul ‘t Hart and M. Noordegraaf), ‘So What? The prospects and pitfalls of being there’, in R. A. W. Rhodes, Paul ‘t Hart and M. Noordegraaf) (Eds.), Observing Government Elites: up close and personal. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007): 206-33.
‘Blair and Governance’, in R. Koch and J. Dixon (Eds.), Public Governance and Leadership. Political and Managerial Problems in Making Public Governance Changes (Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, 2007): 95-116.
‘Policy Networks’ in Brian Galligan and and Winsome Roberts (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2007): 406-7.
(With Mark Bevir) ‘Traditions of Political Science in Contemporary Britain’, in Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir and Shannon Stimson (Eds.) Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Approaches to a Historical Political Science since 1880 (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2007): 234-58.
Bevir, M. and Rhodes, R. A. W. ‘Decentred Theory, Change and Network Governance’. In Anders Berg-Sørensen, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing (Eds.), Democratic Network Governance: theoretical puzzles. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007, paperback edition 2008): 77-91.
Expanding the repertoire: theory, method and language in political biography’. In T. Arklay and J. Nethercote, Eds., Australian Political Lives. Chronicling political careers and administrative histories. (Canberra: Australian National University E Press, 2006): 43-9.
(With Sarah Binder and Bert Rockman), ‘Preface’. In R. A. W. Rhodes, S. Binder and B. Rockman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006): xv-xx.
‘Old Institutionalisms’. In R. A. W. Rhodes, S. Binder and B. Rockman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006): 90-118. Reprinted in Robert E Goodin (Ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Political Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009): 141-58.
‘Executive government in Parliamentary Systems’. In R. A. W. Rhodes, S. Binder and B. Rockman) (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006): 324-45.
‘The sour laws of network governance’. In Jenny Fleming and Jennifer Wood (Eds.), Fighting Crime Together. The challenges of policing and security networks. (Sydney: UNSW Press 2006): 15-34.
‘Policy Network Analysis’. In M. Moran, M. Rein and R. E. Goodin (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006): 423-45.
‘The Court Politics of the Blair Presidency’. In K. Walsh (ed.), Democratic Experiments. Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2004-5. Papers on Parliament Number 44. Parliament House, Canberra: Department of the Senate, January.
(With P. Weller), Westminster Transplanted and Westminster Implanted: Explanations for Political Change’. In J. Wanna and P. Weller (Eds.), Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005).
‘The Westminster Model As Tradition: The Case Of Australia’. In J. Wanna and P. Weller (Eds.), Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005).
‘Towards a Postmodern Public Administration: Epoch, Epistemology or Narrative?’ In Bill Jenkins and Edward C. Page (Eds.), The Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2004). Reprinted from Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity, and Accountability. (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997), pp. 180-200.
(With P. Weller), ‘Localism and Exceptionalism: comparing public sector reforms in European and Westminster systems’ in Tony Butcher and A. Massey (Eds.), Modernising Civil Services (Aldershot: Edward Elgar 2004): 16-36.
(With Brian Hardy), ‘Beliefs and Institutional Change: the UK National Health Service’. In I. Holland and J. Fleming (Eds.), Government Reformed. Values, Institutions and the State (Hants: Ashgate Publishing, 2003): 65-87.
(With M. Bevir), ‘Decentring British Governance’. In H. Bang (Ed.), Governance, Govermentality and Democracy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003): 61-78
‘What is governance and why does it matter?’ In J. E. S. Hayward and Anand Menon (Eds.), Governing Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003): 61-73.
‘Putting the People back into Networks’. In A. Salminen (Ed.), Governing Networks. EGPA Yearbook 2002. (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2003): 9-23.
‘Decentralisation’ in P. B. Clarke and J. Foweraker (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Democratic Thought . (London: Routledge, 2002).
‘Unitary States’ in Neil J Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. (Oxford: Pergamon 2002).
(With M. Bevir), ‘Interpretive Approaches’. In D. Marsh and G. Stoker (Eds.), Theory and Methods in Political Science. (London: Macmillan 2002).
‘The New Public Administration of the British State’ in C. Hay (Ed.), British Politics Today. (Cambridge: Polity 2002): 101-26.
‘The Civil Service’ in A. Seldon (Ed.), The Blair Effect. (London: Little, Brown, 2001): 97-116.
Enter Centre Stage - the Departmental Secretaries’ in R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Weller (Eds.), Mandarins or Valets? The Changing World of Top Officials. (Buckingham, Open University Press 2001): 1-10.
‘Departmental Secretaries in the UK, 1970-99′. In R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Weller) (Eds.), Mandarins or Valets? The Changing World of Top Officials. (Buckingham, Open University Press, 2001): 104-41.
‘Conclusion: “Antipodean exceptionalism, European traditionalism”‘. In R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Weller) (Eds.), Mandarins or Valets? The Changing World of Top Officials. (Buckingham, Open University Press, 2001): 214-39.
(With Glyn Davis), ‘From Hierarchy to Contracts and Back Again: reforming the Australian Public Service’. In M. Keating, J. Wanna and P. Weller (Eds.), Institutions on the Edge? Capacity for Governance. (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2000): 74-98.
‘Introduction: The ESRC Whitehall Programme: A Guide to Institutional Change’ in R. A. W. Rhodes (Ed.) (Ed.), Transforming British Government. Volume 1. Changing Institutions. (London: Macmillan, 2000): 1-22.
‘Conclusion: Interpreting British Government: the Governance Narrative’. In R. A. W. Rhodes (Ed.), Transforming British Government. Volume 1. Changing Institutions. (London: Macmillan, 2000): 254-67.
‘Introduction: The ESRC Whitehall Programme: A Guide to Changing Roles and Relationships’. In R. A. W. Rhodes (Ed.), Transforming British Government. Volume 2. Changing Roles and Relationships. (London: Macmillan, 2000): 1-24.
‘Conclusion’: Understanding the British Governmental Tradition - an anti-foundational approach’. In R. A. W. Rhodes (Ed.), Transforming British Government. Volume 2. Changing Roles and Relationships. (London: Macmillan, 2000): 256-75.
‘Public Administration and Governance’. In J. Pierre (Ed.), Debating Governance. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999): 54-90
‘Foreword: Governance and Networks’. In G. Stoker (Ed.), The New Management of British Local Governance London: Macmillan, 1999: xii - xxvi. Edited version reprinted in G. Stoker (Ed.) Community, Power and Participation: The Changing Local Government of Britain. (London: Macmillan, 2000).
‘Shackling the Leader? Coherence, Capacity and the Hollow Crown’. In P. Weller, H. Bakviss and R. A. W. Rhodes (Eds.), The Hollow Crown. (London Macmillan, 1997): 198-223.
‘Foreword by Professor R. A. W. Rhodes’. In W. J. M. Kickert, E. H. Klijn and J. F. M. Koppenjan (Eds.), Managing Complex Networks: Strategies for the Public Sector. (London: Sage, 1997): xi-xv.
‘Reinventing Whitehall, 1979-95.’ In W. Kickert (Ed.), Public Management and Administrative Reform in Western Europe. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1997): 43-60.
(With I. Bache and S. George), ‘The United Kingdom and the Committee of the Regions’. In J. J. Hesse (Ed.), Regions in Europe I: The Institutionalisation of the Committee of the Regions. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1996): 45-73. Reprinted from: J. J. Hesse and Theo A. J. Thoonen (Eds.), The European Yearbook of Comparative Government and Public Administration Volume 1 1994 (Baden-Baden: Nomos and Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995/6): 185-209.
(With S. George and I. Bache), ‘Regionalism in a Unitary State: the case of the UK’. In J. J. Hesse (Ed.), Regions In Europe II: The Regional Potential. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1996): 57-80.
(With S George and I Bache), ‘The European Union, Cohesion Policy and Sub-national Authorities in the United Kingdom’. In L. Hooghe (Ed.), Cohesion Policy and European Integration. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996): 294-319
(With I. Bache and S. George), ‘Policy Networks and Policy-making in the European Union: a critical appraisal’. In L. Hooghe (Ed.), Cohesion Policy and European Integration. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996): 367-87.
‘The Institutional Approach’. In D. Marsh and G. Stoker (Eds.), Theories and Methods in Political Science. (London: Macmillan, 1995): 42-57.
‘Introducing the Core Executive’. In R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Dunleavy (Eds.), Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive. (London: Macmillan, 1995): 1-8.
‘From Prime Ministerial Power to Core Executive’. In R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Dunleavy (Eds.), Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive. (London: Macmillan, 1995): 11-37.
‘Les reseaux d’action publique en Grande-Bretagne’, en Les Reseaux de Politique Publique. Debat autour des policy networks, sous la direction de Patrick Le Gales et Mark Thatcher. (Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 1995): 31-68.
‘Governance in the Hollow State’. In M. Blunden and M. Dando (Eds.), Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs. (London: Sage, 1995): 1-6.
‘State-building Without Bureaucracy’. In I. Budge and D. McKay (Eds.), Developing Democracy: research in honour of Jean Blondel. (London: Sage, 1993): 165-178.
‘Changing Intergovernmental Relations’. In P Cloke (Ed.), Policy and Change in Thatcher’s Britain. (Oxford: Pergamon Press,1991): 55-75.
(With D Marsh), ‘Thatcherism: an implementation perspective’. In D. Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes (Eds.), Implementing Thatcherite Policies; audit of an era. (Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1992): 1-10.
‘Local government finance’. In D. Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes (Eds.), Implementing Thatcherite Policies: audit of an era. (Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1992): 50-64.
(With D Marsh), ‘The Implementation Gap: explaining policy change and continuity’. In D. Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes (Eds.), Implementing Thatcherite Policies: audit of an era. (Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1992): 170-87.
‘”Management in Local Government”: twenty years on’. In S. Leach (Ed.), Strengthening Local Government in the 1990s. (Harlow: Longman, 1992): 14-48.
(With D Marsh), ‘Policy Networks in British Politics’. In D Marsh and R A W Rhodes (Eds.), Policy Networks in British Government. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, l992): 1-26.
(With D. Marsh), ‘Policy Communities and Issue Networks: Beyond Typology’. In D Marsh and R A W Rhodes (Eds.), Policy Networks in British Government. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992): 249-68. Reprinted in J. Scott (Ed.) Critical Concepts: Social Networks. (London: Routledge, 2001).
‘Intergovernmental Relations in Unitary Political Systems’. In M. Hawkesworth and M. Kogan (Eds.), The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Government and Politics. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1991): 316-35.
‘Local Government’. In B Jones and L Robbins (Eds.), Two Decades in British Politics. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992): 205-18.
‘Now Nobody Understands the System: the changing face of local government’. In P Norton (Ed.), New Directions in British Politics. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991): 83-112.
`Interorganisational Networks and the “Problem” of Control in the Policy Process’, West European Politics (11) 1988: 119-30. Revised and reprinted as ‘Interorganisational Networks and the Policy Process’ in F X Kaufman (Ed.), The Public Sector: challenge for co-ordination and learning. (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter,1991): 525-34.
United Kingdom’. In R A W Rhodes and V Wright (Eds.), Tensions in the Territorial Politics of Western Europe. (London: Frank Cass, 1987): 21-51.
(With V Wright), ‘Introduction,’ in R A W Rhodes and V Wright (Eds.), Tensions in the Territorial Politics of Western Europe. (London: Frank Cass, 1987): 1-20.
‘Power-Dependence Theories of Central-Local Relations: a critical reassessment’. In M J Goldsmith (Ed.), New Research in Central-Local Government Relations. (Aldershot: Gower, 1986): 1-33.
‘The Changing Relationships of the National Community of Local Government, 1970-83′. In M J Goldsmith (Ed.), New Research into Central-Local Relations. (Aldershot: Gower, 1986): 122-51.
‘Intergovernmental Relations in the United Kingdom’. In Y. Meny and V. Wright (Eds.), Centre-Periphery Relations in Western Europe. (London: Allen & Unwin, 1985): 33-78. An earlier, shorter version was published as: ‘L’introduzione dei block grants in Gran Bretagna’ in B. Dente, Y. Meny and L. J. Sharpe (Eds.), Le relazioni centro-periferia: Parte seconda - le relazioni centro-periferia negli stati industriali avanzati. (Milan: ISAP NJ2 1984): 2523-65.
(With P Dunleavy), ‘Beyond Whitehall’. In H M Drucker et al (Eds.), Developments in British Politics. (London: Macmillan, 1983): 106-33. Reprinted 1983; revised edition 1984; reprinted, 1985. New chapter as ‘Government Beyond Whitehall’ in H M Drucker et al (Eds.), Developments in British Politics 2. (London: Macmillan, 1986): 107-43. Reprinted 1987; corrected edition, 1987. Another new chapter was published in 1988 under the same title.
‘Ordering Urban Change: corporate planning in the government of British cities’. In J Lagroye and V Wright (Eds.), Local Government in Britain and France. (London: Allen and Unwin, 1979): 127-149. Reprinted as: “L’organisation de la transformation urbaine: la planification par objectifs dans les villes anglaises”, dans Les structures locales en Grande-Bretagne et en France sous la direction de J LaGroye and V Wright. (Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 1985): 135-56.
‘Developed Countries’. In D C Rowat (Ed.), International Handbook on Local Government Reorganisation: Contemporary Developments. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press/London: Aldwych Press, 1980): 563-81.
‘Research into Central-Local Relations in Britain: a framework for analysis’. In Social Science Research Council Central-Local Government Relationships. (London: SSRC, 1979), Appendix 1.
‘Central-Local Relations’. In Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance, Appendix 6, The Relationship Between Central and Local Government. (London: HMSO, 1976): 174-202.
Symposia
(Ed.), Public Administration’s top cited articles in the 2000s. Virtual issue, January 2009. Available at: http://www.wiley.com/bw/vi.asp?ref=0033-3298&site=1#258.
(With Bevir, M. and Weller, P. (Eds.), Special Issue on Traditions of Governance: history and diversity in Public Administration 81 (1) 2003.
The ESRC Whitehall Programme. Special issue of Public Administration 78 (2) 2000.
Transforming British Government. Special issue of Public Policy and Administration Volume 13 (4) 1998.
(With V. Wright and B. G. Peters), Adminstrer Le Sommet De L’Exécutif. Special issue of Revue Française d’Administration Publique, July/September, No. 82 1997.
British Public Administration: the state of the discipline. Special issue of Public Administration 73 (1) Spring 1995.
The New Public Management. Special issue of Public Administration 69 (1) 1991.
(With P Dunleavy and B O’Leary) (Eds.) Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive. Special issue of Public Administration 68 (1) 1990.
(With M J Goldsmith) (Eds.) Intergovernmental Relations in Britain. Special issue of Public Administration Bulletin No 36 August 1981.
(With M J Goldsmith) (Eds.) Recent Trends in Local Government Research. Special issue of Public Administration Bulletin No 28 December 1978.
Editorships
Public Administration Bulletin (now Public Policy and Administration) No. 23 1977 to No. 38 1982.
Public Administration 64 (4) 1986 to 89 (1) 2011. There are four issues a year, totalling 1024 pages. I was the Managing Editor.
Public Policy and Management. I edited this book series for the Open University Press from 1992 to 2005. We published 22 books.
Transforming British Government. I have edited this book series for Palgrave-Macmillan since 1996 So far, we have published XX[Utas1] books with X under contract.
ANZSOG Book Program in Government, Politics and Public Administration. I edit this book series with John Wanna for the University of New South Wales Press. The series began in July 2004. So far we have published 11 titles with 3 under contract.
ESTEEM INDICATORS: keynote addresses, public and inaugural lectures, citations and reprints.
The long standing esteem indicators are professional service, editorships (journals and book series), membership of editorial boards, and appointments to Research Councils and equivalent government bodies. I list them on pp. 3-5 above. Recently, keynote addresses, public and inaugural lectures, citations and reprints have been added to the list.
Keynote addresses
‘Scenes from the departmental court’. The Frank Stacey Memorial Lecture delivered at the PAC Annual Conference, ‘New Directions in the Theory and Practice of Public Administration’, Alcuin College, University of York, 1st to 3rd September 2008.
‘The unholy trinity and network governance’, a lecture in the Blake Dawson and Waldron/Australian National University Public Lecture series, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 23 August 2005.
‘The Court Politics of the Blair Presidency’, Senate Occasional Lecture, The Theatre, Parliament House, 27 June 2005.
‘Is Westminster dead in Westminster (and why should we care)?’ Inaugural lecture in the ANZSOG-ANU Public Lecture series, The Shine Dome, Academy of Science, Canberra, 23 February 2005. The lecture was taped by ABC Radio National. It was reported in ‘Exposing the Myth of Westminster Rule’, Canberra Sunday Times, 27 February 2005: 31. (Attributed paraphrase by Paul Malone.); and a summary was published as ‘End of an Era’, The Public Sector Informant, March 2005: 10-11. The full text is available at: http://anzsog-research.anu.edu.au/events.html
3 June 2002, ‘Decentring British Bureaucracy’, opening address to the International Political Science Association’s workshop on ‘Knowledge, Networks and Joined-Up’ Government, University of Melbourne. The text is available in M. Considine (Ed.) Knowledge, Networks and Joined-Up Government. (University of Melbourne: The Centre for Public Policy, 2002). Also published on http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/.
24 September 2001, ‘Putting the People back into Networks’, keynote address to the Australasian Political Science Association 43rd Annual Conference, Parliament House, Brisbane. Also delivered on 5 September 2001, as the opening keynote address to the European Group of Public Administration Annual Conference, University of Vassa, Finland.
16 August 2001, ‘Localism and Exceptionalism: comparing public sector reforms in European and Westminster systems’. Keynote address to the conference ‘Kvalitet 2001′, Lillehammer, 15-16 August 2001. Arbeids - og administrasjonsdepartementet, Kommunal og regionaldepartementet, Kommunenes Sentralforbund, Norges forskningsråd, Statskonsult, Høgskolen i Lillehammer og Lillehammer Kunnskapspark AS.
30 November 1998, Keynote address, ‘If governance is everything, maybe it’s nothing’, to the Norwegian Research Council Conference on ‘Offentlig sektor i endring’, Oslo.
24 November 1998, Professorial inaugural lecture, ‘Understanding Governance; comparing public sector reform in Britain and Denmark’, University of Copenhagen.
28 May 1998 Keynote address, ‘Understanding Governance’ University of Lund.
19 February 1998, Keynote address to the Conference on ‘Public Policy and Private Management’, Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne.
25 June 1997, Public lecture, ‘Good Governance’ to the ESRC Social Science Conference, QEII Centre. Text available as pamphlet from ESRC.
30 January 1997, CIPFA/Times Public Lecture, ‘From Marketisation to Diplomacy’, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, London. Printed as: ‘Diplomacy in Governance’, Public Finance Foundation Review No. 13 Jan/Feb 1997: 8-10.
30 October 1996, Keynote address, ‘Diplomacy in Governance’ to the State Conference of the IPAA, Queensland Division. Printed in Proceedings of the IPAA Conference ‘Signposting the Future’ (Brisbane: IPAA and KPMG, 1996).
18 April 1996, Professorial inaugural lecture, ‘Governance without Government: order and change in British politics’, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
1 December 1995, Closing address on ‘Looking Beyond Managerialism’ to the Royal Institute of Public Administration of Australia’s National Conference. Sheraton Hotel, Brisbane, 29 November-1 December. Published as: ‘Looking Beyond Managerialism’ Australian Journal of Public Administration 55/2, 1996: 1-4.
24 January 1995, Public Lecture at the Royal Society of Arts on ‘Governance’. Part of the RSA/ESRC ‘State of Britain’ lecture series. Printed as: The New Governance: governing without government. (London: RSA and ESRC)
20 February 1991, Professorial inaugural lecture, ‘A Plague of Practice’, University of York.
Citations
The Research Evaluation and Policy Project (REPP) at the Australian National University is the leading independent centre for citation analysis in Australia. The following data is taken from their analysis of the citation records of academics at the Research School of Social Sciences compared with other GO8 universities. The figures cover my career.
In 2006, I was ranked: (i) number 1 in Australia for total career citations (1,912 citations); (ii) number 3 for cites per publication (12.2); and number 1 for the most cited single item (345). In 2008, my total cites had increased to 2,438 but REPP produced the date only for the ANU, not GO8. I was still the top cited political scientist at ANU.
Natural scientists looking at these figures should note that the Web of Science covers only about 40% of the total published output of political scientists because much their work takes the form of books.
Political Studies
My article on ‘The New Governance: Governing without Government’ Political Studies (44) 1996: 652-67 was included in the new Political Studies virtual issue because it was third most cited article between 2000 and 2007. It was also in the top 20 most cited articles over the past three years and top 20 most downloads over the past year. My article with Mark Bevir, ‘Prime Ministers, Presidentialism and Westminster Smokescreens’, Political Studies 54 (4):2006: 671-690 is also in the top 20 most cited articles of the past three years and the top 20 most downloads over the past year.
Public Administration
My article ‘The Governance Narrative: Lessons from the Whitehall Programme’, Public Administration, 78/2: 2000: 344-62 was joint 5th in the Top 10 most cited articles in the 2000s; and the joint authored piece with M. Bevir and P. Weller, ‘Traditions and comparative governance: interpreting the changing role of the public sector in comparative and historical perspectives’, Public Administration, 81/1, 2003: 1-17 was 7th. Both also made the Top 20 most cited since 1990. They were included in: Public Administration’s top cited articles in the 2000s January 2009.Finally, the article with P. Dunleavy ‘Core Executive Studies in Britain’, Public Administration, 68 (1) 1990: 3-28 also made the Top 20 most cited since 1990.
Public Policy and Administration
As of 1 November 2008, my article entitled ‘From Marketization To Diplomacy: it’s the mix that matters’ in Public Policy and Administration 12 (2) 1997: 31-50 was ranked number 2 in the journals’ list of 50 Most-Frequently Cited Articles. See: http://ppa.sagepub.com/reports/mfc1.dtl
Reprints
22 previously published articles or chapters have been reprinted in edited collections, one on five separate occasions. A separate list is available on request.
Distinguished Professor E3
The criterion for promotion is international recognition of outstanding research quality as evidenced by external marks of great distinction.
Marks of distinction may include, but are not limited to, election to: Fellowship of the Royal Society of London; Fellowship of the British Academy; Fellowship of the US Academy of Sciences or US Academy of Engineering; Fellowship of an equivalent European Academy; or other equivalent recognition of research of outstanding international standard for the staff member’s field of study.
It is a promotion to a specific grade and not a merit award. When I was appointed in 2006, there were 9 E3 professors at the ANU out of some 285 professors.
