Chapters
Book Chapters
In press
(And Mark Bevir), ‘The changing state’, in M. Bevir (Ed.,), The Sage Handbook of Governance (Sage, 2009).
‘Yesterday when I was young’ and ‘Afterword: Governance’. In R A W Rhodes, Ed., Public Administration: 25 years of analysis and debate, 1986-2011. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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.
(and Paul Fawcett), ‘Central government’, in Anthony Seldon (Ed.), Blair’s Britain 1994-2007. 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
(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.
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.
‘Policy Networks’. In Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006): 406-7.
‘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), pp. 95-116.
(and 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), pp. 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).
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), pp. 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) pp. xv-xx.
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‘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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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.
(and 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).
(and 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), pp. 16-36.
(and 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), pp. 65-87.
(and M. Bevir), ‘Decentring British Governance’. In H. Bang (Ed.), Governance, Govermentality and Democracy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 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), pp. 61-73.
‘Putting the People back into Networks’. In A. Salminen (Ed.), Governing Networks. EGPA Yearbook 2002. (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2003), pp. 9-23.
‘Decentralisation’. In P. B. Clarke and J. Foweraker (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Democratic Thought . (London: Routledge, 2002).
‘Unitary States’. Iin Neil J Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. (Oxford: Pergamon 2002).
(and 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), pp. 101-26.
‘The Civil Service’. In A. Seldon (Ed.), The Blair Effect. (London: Little, Brown, 2001), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 214-39.
(and 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 256-75.
‘Public Administration and Governance’. In J. Pierre (Ed.), Debating Governance. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999), pp. 54-90
‘Foreword: Governance and Networks’. In G. Stoker (Ed.), The New Management of British Local Governance London: Macmillan, 1999, pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. xi-xv.
‘Reinventing Whitehall, 1979-95.’ In W. Kickert (Ed.), Public Management and Administrative Reform in Western Europe. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 43-60.
‘Reinventare Whitehall, 1979-94: sviluppare lo stato vuoto?’ In Bruno Dente, Marco Cammelli and others), Reformare la Pubblica Amministrazione. (Torino: Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1995), pp. 315-51.
(and 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), pp. 45-73.
(and 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), pp. 57-80.
(and 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), pp. 294-319
(and 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), pp. 367-87.
‘The Institutional Approach’. In D. Marsh and G. Stoker (Eds.), Theories and Methods in Political Science. (London: Macmillan, 1995), pp. 42-57.
‘Introducing the Core Executive’. In R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Dunleavy (Eds.), Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive. (London: Macmillan, 1995), pp. 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), pp. 11-37.
‘Les reseaux d’action publique en Grande-Bretagne’. In 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), pp. 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), pp. 1-6.
‘State-building Without Bureaucracy’. In I. Budge and D. McKay (Eds.), Developing Democracy: research in honour of Jean Blondel. (London: Sage, 1993), pp. 165-178.
‘Changing Intergovernmental Relations’. In P Cloke (Ed.), Policy and Change in Thatcher’s Britain. (Oxford: Pergamon Press,1991), pp. 55-75.
(and 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), pp. 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), pp. 50-64.
(and 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), pp. 170-87.
‘”Management in Local Government”: twenty years on’. In S. Leach (Ed.), Strengthening Local Government in the 1990s. (Harlow: Longman, 1992), pp. 14-48.
(and 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), pp. 1-26.
(and 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), pp. 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), pp. 316-35.
‘Local Government’. In B Jones and L Robbins (Eds.), Two Decades in British Politics. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 21-51.
(and V Wright), ‘Introduction’. In R A W Rhodes and V Wright (Eds.), Tensions in the Territorial Politics of Western Europe. (London: Frank Cass, 1987), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 2523-65.
(and P Dunleavy), ‘Beyond Whitehall’. In H M Drucker et al (Eds.), Developments in British Politics. (London: Macmillan, 1983), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 174-202.
