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Selected Bibliographies

BOOKS | JOURNAL ARTICLES | BOOK CHAPTERS | PAMPHLETS


Books

In Press

(With Paul ‘t Hart) (Eds), The Ethnography of Government Elites: up close and personal. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007).


Published

(With S. Binder and B. Rockman) (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

(With Mark Bevir), Governance Stories London: Routledge 2006.

(With M. Bevir) Interpreting British Governance. (London: Routledge, March 2003). Also available as a Master eBook IBSN 0203135911 at http://www.tandfjisc.com/Home/html/sorting.asp?catid=SB550000

(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 Bruno Dente, Marco Cammelli and others), Reformare la Pubblica Amministrazione. (Torino: Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1995).

(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).

(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).

Social Science Research Council (Committee member and co-author), Central-Local Government Relations: A Panel report to the Research Initiatives Board. (London: SSRC, 1979).

Public Administration and Policy Analysis. (Farnborough: Saxon House, 1979, reprinted Gower, 1981).

(Editor) Training in the Civil Service. (London: Joint University Council for Social and Public Administration, 1977).

(With C Hull), Intergovernmental Relations in the European Community. (Farnborough: Saxon House, 1977; reprinted, Gower paperback, 1983).


Journal Articles

 

Forthcoming

'Understanding Governance: ten years on’, Organization Studies, 2007.

(With Mark Bevir), ‘Prime ministers, Presidentialism and Westminster Smokescreens’, Political Studies, 54(4) 2006

(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:

(With Mark Bevir), ‘Interpretive Approaches to British Government and Politics’, British Politics 1(1) 2006: 1-29.

(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, 2004: 2-8.

(With M. Bevir, 'Interpretation as Method, Explanation and critique', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6, 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.', in M. Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Weller (Eds.) Special Issue on Traditions of Governance: history and diversity in Public Administration 81/1, 2003: 1-17.

(With M. Bevir), 'Searching for Civil Society: changing patterns of governance in Britain', in M. Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Weller (Eds.) Special Issue on Traditions of Governance: history and diversity in Public Administration 81/1, 2003: 41-62.

(With M. Bevir and P. Weller), 'Comparative Governance: prospects and lessons', in M. Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Weller (Eds.) Special Issue on Traditions of Governance: history and diversity in 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.

(With M. Bevir) 'Les récits du régime 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 Studies 1/2 1999: 215-39.

(With M. Bevir) 'Narratives of Thatcherism, West European Politics, 21/1 1998: 97-119.

(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; and in W. I. Jenkins and E. C. Page (Eds.) The Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006), forthcoming.

'The New Governance: governing without Government', Political Studies, 44, 1996: 652-67. Reprinted in S. Osborne (Ed.), Critical Perspectives in Public Management (London: Routledge, 2001); and in Agusti Cerrillo (ed.) Gobernanza: Textos Basicos. IIG, 2005.

(With C. Dargie), 'Traditional Public Administration', Public Administration, 74 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' in R. A. W. Rhodes (Ed.), British Public Administration: the state of the discipline (special issue of Public Administration, 71 1995: 1-15..

'The Hollowing Out of the State: the changing nature of the public service in Britain', Political Quarterly, 65 1994: 138-51. Reprinted in R. Hodges (Ed.), Governance and the Public Sector. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2006), forthcoming.

'Reinventing Excellence: or how best sellers thwart the search for lessons to transform the public sector', Public Administration, 72 1994: 279-87.

(With D. Marsh), 'Implementing Thatcherism', Parliamentary Affairs, 45 1992: 33-50.

'The Europeanisation of Sub-central Government: the case of the UK', Staatswissenschaften und Staatspraxis. 2 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, 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. (12) 334. Reprinted in Tadao Miyakawa (Ed.), The Science of Public Policy (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 442-61.

'Theory and Method in British Public Administration: the view from political science', Political Studies, 39 1991: 533-54

(With P. Dunleavy) 'Core Executive Studies in Britain', Public Administration, 68 1990: 3-28

(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 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), pp. 149-73.

'The Changing British Civil Service' Parliamentary Affairs, 42 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 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 1986: 221-45.

'Corporatism, Pay Negotiations and Local Government', Public Administration, 63 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), pp. 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: 311-33. 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, pp. 355-75. Reprinted in L. Robbins (Ed.), Political Institutions in Britain (London: Longmans, 1987), pp. 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 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), pp. 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), pp. 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 1973: 263-75.

'Wilting in Limbo: Anthony Trollope and the nineteenth century civil service', Public Administration, 51 1973: 207-19.


Book Chapters

 

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, 2006).

'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).

(With S. Binder and B. Rockman) 'Traditions in the Study of Political Institutions', in R. A. W. Rhodes, S. Binder and B. Rockman) (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

‘The sour laws of network governance', in Jenny Fleming and Jennifer Wood (Eds.), Policing, security and democracy in a networked society. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. 2006). pp 15-34

‘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.

'Policy Network Analysis'. In M. Moran, M. Rein and R. E. Goodin (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006).

'Expanding the repertoire: theory, method and language in political biography’. In T. Arklay, J. Nethercote and J Wanna Eds, Australian Political Lives. Chronicling political careers and administrative histories. (Canberra: Australian National University E Press, 2006), pp. 43-9.

'Policy Networks' in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (Eds.) The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2005), forthcoming.

(With Mark Bevir) 'Traditions of Political Science in Contemporary Britain'. In Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir and Shannon Stimson (Eds.) Historicizing the Political: Anglo-American Approaches to a Historical Political Science since 1900 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).

(with 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 Post Modern 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).

(With 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.

(With 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.

(With M. Bevir), 'Decentring British Governance'. In H. Bang, (Ed.) Governance, Govermentality and Democracy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 61-78

Download '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' in Neil J Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (Eds.) International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. (Oxford: Pergamon 2002).

(With 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.

(With 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.

(With 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.

(With 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.

(With 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

(With 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', en 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.

(With 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.

(With 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.

(With 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.

(With 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.

(With 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.

(With 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.

 

Pamphlets

The Governance Narrative. (London: Public Management and Policy Association, 2000).

The New Governance: governing without government. (London: Royal Society of Arts and Economic and Social Research Council, 1995).

European Policy Making, Implementation and Sub-Central Governments: a survey. (Maastricht: European Institute of Public Administration, 1986).

(With M J Goldsmith), Register of Research and Research Digest on Central-Local Government Relations in Britain. (London: Economic and Social Research Council, 1986).

Local Government and the European Community. (Birmingham: Institute of Local Government Studies, 1973).

Perspectives on Organisations; an introduction to organisation theory. (London: Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants, 1972).

 

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