Frank Stacey Memorial Lecture 

I delivered the Frank Stacey Memorial lecture at the PAC Annual Conference, University of York, on 2 September 2008. My topics was ‘Scenes from the department court’ and a copy of the paper will be posted soon.

I am shown with Professor Mark Evans, the conference convenor, and Professor Andrew Massey, an officer of the PAC.

Paperback edition

R. A. W. Rhodes, S. Binder and B. Rockman, (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, was published in 2006. It has just been reissued in a paperback edition  

Trip to Brisbane

On 30 April, I gave a talk on understanding governance to 40 Queensland public servants taking Griffith University’s Graduate Certificate in Policy Analysis.

  Citations in 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 Revamped

With Issue 1 2008 we aim to raise the profile of Public Administration in Southern and Eastern Europe, North America and Asia. We will move to a a new, larger integrated format so we can publish more articles. In keeping with the changing electronic and research environment we have introduced OnlineEarly and digitised back issues to 1922.