Work in Progress

I am currently working on several projects, including leadership succession in political parties, the political management of crises, public accountability in multilevel governance systems, and ethnographic studies of politico-administrative elites. Below you'll find links to these papers, which are in various states of completion/submission. Comments are very welcome any time!

Leadership Project

Crisis Management Project

Groups Project

Political Psychology

Accountability Project

Unpublished Case Studies

 

1. Seeking and keeping the hot seat: party leadership successors in comparative perspective. link

2. The ‘hard acts to follow effect’: Why successors to long-serving party leaders tend to do it tough. (With Fredrik Bynander and Matthew Laing.) link
   
   
3. Strident strategist: Billy Hughes at War 1915-1919, public lecture Old Parliament House, Sept 2008 (with Matthew Laing) link
   
   
4. Chapter 1 Palgrave book ‘Understanding public leadership’ link
   
   
5. Celebrity Politics: The Politics of the Late Modernity? (With David Marsh and Karen Tindall.) Submitted to Political Studies Review. link
   

1. The challenges of crisis leadership, in: R.L. Couto (Ed), Political and Civic Leadership: A Sage Reference Guide, London: Sage 2009/2010 (with Arjen Boin and Allan McConnell) link
   
   
2. Crisis exploitation essay, Herti School of Governance Berlin Summer 2009 link

1. What deliberative scholars and designers should know about group dynamics. link

1. Groupthink, Encyclopedia of Power entry link

2. Draft chapter for R.A.W. Rhodes (ed.), The Australian Study of Politics in the Twentieth Century. To be published 2009 (With James Walter). link
   
   
3. Political psychology: Exploring the human factor in political life, draft chapter for D. Marsh and G. Stoker (eds), Political Science: Theory and Methods (Palgrave 2009). link

1. EU Accountability volume, for OUP draft Preface link

2. EU accountability volume, for OUP, draft chapters one, two and seven

1. From Willy Brandt to Helmut Schmidt link

2. Leadership succession in Australian politics: from Holt to Gorton and beyond link