Publications

This section lists a selection of my  publications since the mid-1980s. A complete bibliography of some 600 items that includes book reviews, conference papers, discussion or occasional papers, newspaper articles and interviews, and other journalism is also available: see: Bibliography

Books

In Preparation

Festschrift

• From Local Government to Narratives: Essays in Honour of R. A. W. Rhodes, Editor, Public Administration, 1986 to 2010

  Weller, P. (Ed.,) 2011, Special issue of Public Administration 89 (1): 1–219.

Authored

• Rhodes, R. A. W. and A Tiernan. Lessons of Governing: A Profile of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs Of Staff. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 2014).

• Rhodes, R. A. W. and A Tiernan, The Gatekeepers. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (2014).

• Everyday life in British government

  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Kindle digital edition 2011

• The State as Cultural Practice

  (With Mark Bevir), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Kindle digital edition 2010

• Comparing Westminster

  (With J. Wanna and P. Weller), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Kindle digital edition 2009. Paperback edition 2011

• Interpreting British Governance

  (With M. Bevir), London: Routledge, March 2003. Kindle digital edition 2007

• Decentralising the UK Civil Service: from unitary state to differentiated polity

  (With P. Carmichael et al) Buckingham: Open University Press, 2003

• Governance Stories

  (With Mark Bevir), Routledge 2006. Paperback, and Kindle digital edition, 2007

• 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

• 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. Kindle digital edition 2007

• The National World of Local Government

  London and Winchester, Mass: Allen and Unwin, 1986

Edited

• Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (2015).

• Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes (Eds.), Rethinking Governance: rule, rationality, resistance. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (March 2016).

• The Craft of Governing: essays in honour of Professor Patrick Weller.

  (Joint Editor with Glyn Davis), Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. August 2014.

• The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership

  (Joint Editor with Paul ‘t Hart), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Online version available now. Hard copy April.

• The Australian Study of Politics

  (Ed.), Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009

• Observing Government Elites: up close and personal

  (Joint Editor with Paul ‘t Hart and M. Noordegraaf), Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007

• The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions

  (With S. Binder and B. Rockman) (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Paperback edition 2008

• The Changing World of Top Officials. Mandarins or Valets?

  (With P. Weller) (Eds.), Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001

• Transforming British Government

  (Ed.), Volume 1. Changing Institutions. Volume 2. Changing Roles and Relationships. (London: Macmillan, 2000).

• Administering the Summit

  (With B. G. Peters and V. Wright) (Eds.), London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000

• The Hollow Crown

  (With H. Bakvis, P. Weller) (Eds.) London: Macmillan, 1997

• Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive

  (With P. Dunleavy) Eds, London: Macmillan, and New York : St Martins Press, 1995

• Implementing Thatcherite Policies: audit of an era

  (With D Marsh) (Eds.), Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1992

• Policy Networks in British Government

  (With D. Marsh) (Eds), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Digital edition 2011

Articles

In Press

Published

• ‘Recovering the craft of public administration’

  Participation 38 (1) December 2014: 11-14

• ‘Genre blurring in public administration’

  Australian Journal of Public Administration, 73 (4) 2014: 317-30. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8500.12085.

• (with Fiona Mackay) ‘Gender, Greedy Institutions and the Departmental Court’

  Public Administration 91 (3) 2013, pp. 582–598.

• ‘Political anthropology and public policy: prospects and limits’

  Policy and Politics, 41 (4) 2013, pp. 481-96.

• ‘Interpretivism and the analysis of traditions and practices’

  (with Mark Bevir), Critical Policy Studies 6 (2) 2012: 201-208

• One-way, two-way or dead end street: the British influence on American public administration

  Public Administration Review, 71 (4) July/August 2011: 559-71.

• Theory, method and British political ‘life history’

  Political Studies Review 10 (1) 2012: 161–176.

• Thinking on: I was so much older then.

  Public Administration 89 (1) 2011: 196-219.

• Scenes from the departmental court

  Public Policy and Administration 24 (2) 2009: 437-56.

• Bringing the Politics Back In

  (And John Wanna), Public Administration, 87 (2) 2009: 161-83

• From private office to departmental court

  Public Money and Management 29 (3) 2009: 191-4.

• Reinventing Westminster – How Public Executives Reframe Their World

  (And John Wanna and P. Weller), Policy and Politics 36 (4) 2008: 461-79.

• Politics as Cultural Practice

  (And Mark Bevir), Political Studies Review 6 (2) 2008: 170-77.

• The differentiated polity as narrative

  (And Mark Bevir), British Journal of Politics and International Relations 10 (4) 2008: 729–734.

• The Limits to Public Value, or Rescuing Responsible Government from the Platonic Guardians

  (With John Wanna), Australian Journal of Public Administration 66 (4) 2007: 406-421.

• Politics as Cultural Practice

  (With Mark Bevir), Political Studies Review 6 (2): 170-77. 2007.

• Understanding Governance: ten years on

  Organization Studies, 28 (8) 2007: 1243-1264.

• Prime ministers, Presidentialism and Westminster Smokescreens

  (With Mark Bevir), Political Studies, 54(4) 2006: 671-90.

• The Life, Death and Resurrection of Governance

  (With Mark Bevir), Australian Journal of Public Administration, 65(2) 2006: 59-69.

• Defending Interpretation

  (With Mark Bevir), European Political Science, 5(1) 2006. 69-83.

• Disaggregating Structures as an Agenda for Critical Realism: A reply to McAnulla

  (With Mark Bevir), British Politics, 1(3) 2006: 397-403.

• Interpretive Approaches to British Government and Politics

  (With Mark Bevir), 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.

• Interpretation and Its Others

  (with Mark Bevir), Australian Journal of Political Science 40 (2) 2005: 169-87. Reprinted in Mark Bevir, ed. Interpretive Political Science, Volume 2: Interpretive Methods (London: Sage 2010).

• Bureaucracy, Contracts and Networks: The Unholy Trinity and The Police

  (With Jenny Fleming), 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.

• Interpreting British Governance

  (With M. Bevir), British Journal of Politics and International Relations 6 (2) 2004: 130-36.

• Interpretation as Method, Explanation and critique

  (With M. Bevir), British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6 (1) 2004: 28-36.

• Traditions and comparative governance: interpreting the changing role of the public sector in comparative and historical perspectives

  (With M. Bevir and P. Weller), Public Administration, 81 (1) 2003: 1-17.

• Searching for Civil Society: changing patterns of governance in Britain

  (With M. Bevir), Public Administration, 81 (1) 2003: 41-62.

• Comparative Governance: prospects and lessons

  (With M. Bevir and P. Weller), Public Administration, 81 (1) 2003: 191-210.

• Analysing Networks: from typologies of institutions to narratives of beliefs

  (With M. Bevir), 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.

• Decentering Traditions: interpreting British government

  (With M. Bevir), 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).

• Les récits du regime politique britannique

  (With M. Bevir), 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.

• Narratives of “Thatcherism

  (With M. Bevir), 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).

• Tendances convergentes et spécificités nationales

  (With V. Wright and B. G. Peters), Revue Française d’Administration Publique, July/September, No. 82 1998: 381-95

• Public Administration without Foundations

  (With M. Bevir), 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 and in Bellamy, Richard and Palumbo, Antonino (Eds.), From Government to Governance (Ashgate 2010).

• Traditional Public Administration

  (With C. Dargie), 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.

• Implementing Thatcherism

  (With D. Marsh), 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.

• The Concept of Policy Networks in British Political Science: Its Development and Utility

  (With D. Marsh), 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

• Core Executive Studies in Britain

  (With P. Dunleavy), 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.

• Policy Networks and the Implementation of Community Care: policy for people with mental handicap

  (With B. Hardy and G. Wistow), 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

• Funny Things Happened on the Way to Centralisation: Mrs. Thatcher and Sub-central Governments

  (With P. Dunleavy), Social Studies Review, 5 (2) 1987: 19-26.

Chapters

In Press

Published

• ‘From Core Executives to Court Politics’

  in Glyn Davis and R. A. W. Rhodes (eds.), The Craft of Governing: The Contribution of Patrick Weller to Australian political science. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin 2014: 53-72.

• ‘So you want to reform the civil service’

  in Kimberley Trewhitt, Camilla, Hagelund and Katy Sawyer (Eds.) How to Run a Country: the reform of public governance (London: Reform), pp. 103-8.

• Puzzles of Political Leadership

  (With Paul ‘t Hart’ ), in Paul ‘t Hart and R. A. W. Rhodes (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014

• An Historian Encounters History

  (With Glyn Davis), in Glyn Davis and R. A. W. Rhodes (eds.), The Craft of Governing: essays in honour of Professor Patrick Weller. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. Publication September 2014:11-30.

• Public Administration

  in Paul ‘t Hart and R. A. W. Rhodes (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI oxfordhb-9780199653881-e-006. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199653881.013.006. 2014

• ‘From Prime Ministerial Leadership to Court Politics’

  In Paul Strangio, Paul ‘t Hart and James Walter (Eds.), Prime Ministerial Leadership: power, party and performance in Westminster system. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013, 318-33.

• Three Visions of Context as History

  (with Mark Bevir), in C. Pollitt (Ed.), Context in Public Policy and Management: The Missing Link? Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 55-73.

• Waves of governance

  in David Levi-Faur (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Governance Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

• Yesterday when I was young

  In R. A. W. Rhodes, Ed., Public Administration: 25 years of analysis and debate, 1986-2011. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

• Afterword: Waves of Governance

  In R. A. W. Rhodes, Ed., Public Administration: 25 years of analysis and debate, 1986-2011. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

• The stateless state

  (And Mark Bevir), in M. Bevir, Ed., The Sage Handbook of Governance. Thousand Oaks, Ca.:Sage, 2011: 203-17.

• Public administration

  in G Bouckaert and W. van der Donk, Eds., European Group for Public Administration (1975-2010): perspectives for the future. Bruxelles: Bruylant: 17, and 26-30.

• 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.

• The Core Executive

  (And John Wanna), 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.

• Central government

  (with Paul Fawcett), in Anthony Seldon (Ed.), Blair’s Britain 1997-2007. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007): 79-103.

• Introduction: being there in everyday’ life

  (And Paul ‘t Hart and M. Noordegraaf), 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.

• 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.

• So What? The prospects and pitfalls of being there

  (And Paul ‘t Hart and M. Noordegraaf), 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.

• Traditions of Political Science in Contemporary Britain

  (And Mark Bevir) 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, 2007): 234-58.

• Policy Networks

  in Brian Galligan and and Winsome Roberts (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2007): 406-7.

• 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): 43-9.

• 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. Paperback edition 2011)

• 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): 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 2006): 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): 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.

• Westminster Transplanted and Westminster Implanted: Explanations for Political Change

  (With P. Weller), 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). Reprinted from Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity, and Accountability. (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997), pp. 180-200.

• Localism and Exceptionalism: comparing public sector reforms in European and Westminster systems

  (With P. Weller), in Tony Butcher and A. Massey (Eds.), Modernising Civil Services (Aldershot: Edward Elgar 2004): 16-36.

• Beliefs and Institutional Change: the UK National Health Service

  (With Brian Hardy), In I. Holland and J. Fleming (Eds.), Government Reformed. Values, Institutions and the State (Hants: Ashgate Publishing, 2003): 65-87.

• Decentring British Governance

  (With M. Bevir), In H. Bang (Ed.), Governance, Govermentality and Democracy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003): 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): 61-73.

• Putting the People back into Networks

  In A. Salminen (Ed.), Governing Networks. EGPA Yearbook 2002. (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2003): 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).

• Interpretive Approaches

  (With M. Bevir), 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): 101-26.

• The Civil Service

  in A. Seldon (Ed.), The Blair Effect. (London: Little, Brown, 2001): 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): 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): 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): 214-39.

• From Hierarchy to Contracts and Back Again: reforming the Australian Public Service

  (With Glyn Davis), In M. Keating, J. Wanna and P. Weller (Eds.), Institutions on the Edge? Capacity for Governance. (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2000): 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): 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): 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): 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): 256-75.

• Public Administration and Governance

  In J. Pierre (Ed.), Debating Governance. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999): 54-90

• Foreword: Governance and Networks

  In G. Stoker (Ed.), The New Management of British Local Governance London: Macmillan, 1999: 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): 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): xi-xv.

• Reinventing Whitehall, 1979-95.

  In W. Kickert (Ed.), Public Management and Administrative Reform in Western Europe. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1997): 43-60.

• The United Kingdom and the Committee of the Regions

  (With I. Bache and S. George), In J. J. Hesse (Ed.), Regions in Europe I: The Institutionalisation of the Committee of the Regions. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1996): 45-73. Reprinted from: J. J. Hesse and Theo A. J. Thoonen (Eds.), The European Yearbook of Comparative Government and Public Administration Volume 1 1994 (Baden-Baden: Nomos and Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995/6): 185-209.

• Regionalism in a Unitary State: the case of the UK

  (With S. George and I. Bache), In J. J. Hesse (Ed.), Regions In Europe II: The Regional Potential. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1996): 57-80.

• The European Union, Cohesion Policy and Sub-national Authorities in the United Kingdom

  (With S George and I Bache), In L. Hooghe (Ed.), Cohesion Policy and European Integration. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996): 294-319

• Policy Networks and Policy-making in the European Union: a critical appraisal

  (With I. Bache and S. George), In L. Hooghe (Ed.), Cohesion Policy and European Integration. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996): 367-87.

• The Institutional Approach

  In D. Marsh and G. Stoker (Eds.), Theories and Methods in Political Science. (London: Macmillan, 1995): 42-57.

• Introducing the Core Executive

  In R. A. W. Rhodes and P. Dunleavy (Eds.), Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive. (London: Macmillan, 1995): 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): 11-37

• Governance in the Hollow State

  In M. Blunden and M. Dando (Eds.), Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs. (London: Sage, 1995): 1-6.

• State-building Without Bureaucracy

  In I. Budge and D. McKay (Eds.), Developing Democracy: research in honour of Jean Blondel. (London: Sage, 1993): 165-178.

• “Management in Local Government”: twenty years on

  In S. Leach (Ed.), Strengthening Local Government in the 1990s. (Harlow: Longman, 1992): 14-48.

• Policy Networks in British Politics

  (With D Marsh), In D Marsh and R A W Rhodes (Eds.), Policy Networks in British Government. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, l992): 1-26.

• Policy Communities and Issue Networks: Beyond Typology

  (With D. Marsh) In D Marsh and R A W Rhodes (Eds.), Policy Networks in British Government. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992): 249-68. Reprinted in J. Scott (Ed.) Critical Concepts: Social Networks. (London: Routledge, 2001).

• 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): 525-34.

• 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): 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): 122-51.

• Beyond Whitehall

  (With P Dunleavy), In H M Drucker et al (Eds.), Developments in British Politics. (London: Macmillan, 1983): 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): 107-43. Reprinted 1987; corrected edition, 1987. Another new chapter was published in 1988 under the same title.

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