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, 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
2010 to date, Professorial Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne.
2008 to date, Professor of Government, School of Government, University of Tasmania.
2007 to 2008, Director, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
2006 to 2010, 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
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 2009 (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. The book was published in 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 book will be published in November 2009 by Palgrave-Macmillan.
16. Everyday Life in British Government. This book is an anthropological study of life in a ministry as experienced by both ministers and their top civil servants. I have written 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 completed the book in 2010. It will be published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
Current Projects
- 1. Policy as story telling
This book will be a manual on policy analysis. It will be written as if I were a policy analyst or senior civil servant advising a minister on public service reform; what rules of thumb, what do’s and don’ts, stem from an interpretive approach? Too much interpretive policy analysis is content to remain a cult literature. I seek to bring it out of its closet, using storytelling as the main vehicle for writing a practical guide on policy analysis.
- 2. Politics as fiction
This book will explore the study of politics as a human not a social science with chapters on, for example, life history, ethnography, narratives and novels.
LEADERSHIP
University of Tasmania
I am chair of the School of Government’s Research Committee, a member of the Faculty Research Committee, chair of the University’s IRGS assessment panel for arts and social sciences, and I was a member the Panel compiling the ERA submission.
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 teach HSD 418 ‘Governance’; and HSD 425 ‘Implementation and Evaluation’ with Dr Hannah Murphy. 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.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
For a complete listing see the bibiographies @ http://www.raw-rhodes.com.au/
My main publications are the following authored and edited books.
Everyday life in British government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
(Ed.) Public Administration: 25 years of analysis and debate, 1986-2011. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
(With Mark Bevir), The State as Cultural Practice. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
(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 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).
ESTEEM INDICATORS: prizes, keynote addresses, public and inaugural lectures, citations and reprints.
The long standing esteem indicators are prizes, professional service, editorships (journals and book series), membership of editorial boards, and appointments to Research Councils and equivalent government bodies. Recently, keynote addresses, public and inaugural lectures, citations and reprints have been added to this list.
Prizes
2009, Winner of the Sam Richardson Prize (with John Wanna) for the best article published in the Australian Journal of Public Administration in 2008.
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.
8 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.
4 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)
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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
Political Studies 60th anniversary virtual issue. My article entitled ‘The New Governance: governing without Government’ Political Studies (44) 1996: 652-67 was included in this virtual issue of Political Studies. This virtual issue was compiled to honour the 60th Anniversary of the Political Studies Association of the UK . It showcases some of the ‘best’ articles published since the launch of Political Studies in 1953. The process for compiling this issue has covered many stages, beginning when the Editorial Board asked as many (former) Chairs of the PSA as possible to select the articles that they personally considered to be the most significant from the Political Studies archive. The list was then sorted by decade and an e-mail survey was conducted with all current PSA members, asking them to vote for the best articles in each decade. The results showed that in each of the six decades there were two articles that clearly ranked above the others. The Editorial Board therefore took the decision to make the issue a compendium of the twelve ‘Top Voted’ articles between 1953 and 2010, and these are the articles which are on-line on the PSA web site @: http://www.psa.ac.uk/. My article was one of the two top voted articles for the 1990s. It was also the third most cited article between 2000 and 2007. It was 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.
