Articles
In press
‘Thinking on: a career in public administration’, Public Administration 89 (1) 2011: forthcoming
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.
(With Mark Bevir), ‘Politics as Cultural Practice’ Political Studies Review 6 (2): 170-77. 2007.
‘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.
