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Published in 2009: Comparing Westminster and The Australian Study of Politics

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I chose the pictures for the covers and for no conscious reason, just happenstance, the recurrent motif was trees. So, for Comparing Westminster, we have trees  on the plains.

For the Australian Political Science Association’s The Australian Study of Politics, the Australian National University gave us permission to reproduce Basil Hadley’s ‘ Almost a lizard under every tree’

Taiwan again

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I earned my keep with four lectures. The first photographs shows mine host – Fisher (left) Chih-Mei (right) – and my interpreter – Chia-yu. Between them they made sure I had a splendid time.

The high point was my visit to Yangmingshang National Park, especially the tea ceremony in the traditional farm house.

Berkeley in the Fall

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In September, I moved on from a dreary and wet Britain to sunny Berkeley to work with Mark Bevir on our next book The State as Cultural Practice.

I stayed at the Women’s Faculty Club on Campus surrounded by redwood and oak trees listening to the bells of the Sather Bell Tower as I typed. This job has its compensations

Frank Stacey Memorial Lecture

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I delivered the Frank Stacey Memorial lecture at the PAC Annual Conference, University of York, on 2 September 2008. My topics was ‘Scenes from the department court’ and a copy of the paper can be found at online publications.

I am shown with Professor Mark Evans, the conference convenor, and Professor Andrew Massey, an officer of the PAC.

APSA Conference, BrisbaneThe Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference was held at the Hilton Hotel, Brisbane on 7-9 July.  As well as the the usual plenary and panel sessions, I attended an Executive Committee meeting, a Heads of Department meeting, a three-hour meeting about the future of the Australian Journal of Political Science and, of course the Annual General Meeting at which I presented my Secretary-Treasurer’s report.

 

Frank Stacey Memorial Lecture

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I delivered the Frank Stacey Memorial lecture at the PAC Annual Conference, University of York, on 2 September 2008. My topics was ‘Scenes from the department court’ and a copy of the paper will be posted soon.

I am shown with Professor Mark Evans, the conference convenor, and Professor Andrew Massey, an officer of the PAC.

Citations

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50 Most-Frequently Cited Articles in Public Policy and Administration
As of 1 November 2008, my article entitled ‘From Marketization To Diplomacy: it’s the mix that matters’ in Public Policy and Administration 12 (2) 1997: 31-50 was ranked number 2. See:http://ppa.sagepub.com/reports/mfc1.dtl

Political Studies
My article on ‘The New Governance: Governing without Government’ Political Studies (44) 1996: 652-67 was included in the new Political Studies virtual issue because it was third most cited article between 2000 and 2007. It was also in the top 20 most cited articles over the past three years and top 20 most downloads over the past year.My article with Mark Bevir, ‘Prime Ministers, Presidentialism and Westminster Smokescreens’, Political Studies 54 (4):2006: 671-690 is also in the top 20 most cited articles of the past three years and the top 20 most downloads over

Paperback edition

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R. A. W. Rhodes, S. Binder and B. Rockman, (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, was published in 2006. It has just been reissued in a paperback edition