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62 works· latest 2026· 6 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-1883-5837

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Changing Public Service Organizations: Current Perspectives and Future Prospects2003 · 245 citations
From Competition to Collaboration in Public Service Delivery: A New Agenda for Research2005 · 234 citations
Co-production of social research: strategies for engaged scholarship2010 · 176 citations
A new deal for the community? Public participation in regeneration and local service delivery2000 · 145 citations
Implementing ‘Best Value’: Local Public Services in Transition2000 · 114 citations

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A Chequered History but Positive Future for British Public Administration

Public Administration Review·2026·8 authors·Open access

5citations

Externalising policy advice within subnational governments

Policy & Politics·2023·5 authors·Open access

5citations

The fragmentation of public administration: Differentiated and decentered governance in the (dis)United Kingdom

Public Administration·2021·5 authors·Open access

69citations

The Motivations for the Adoption of Management Innovation by Local Governments and its Performance Effects

Public Administration Review·2021·5 authors·Open access

29citations

Organizational identity threats and aspirations in reputation management

Public Management Review·2019·4 authors·Open access

29citations

Can meso-governments use metagovernance tools to tackle complex policy problems?

Policy & Politics

·2019

·3 authors

·Open access

11citations

Does austerity drive public service innovation? Evidence from shared senior management teams in local government

Public Money & Management·2018·4 authors·Open access

12citations

Defining, achieving, and evaluating collaborative outcomes: a theory of change approach

Public Management Review·2017·3 authors

31citations

Peer Challenge: A Sector-Led Approach to Performance Improvement in Fire and Rescue Services

Springer eBooks·2017·3 authors·chapter

5citations

How Can Subnational Governments Deliver Their Policy Objectives in the Age of Austerity? Reshaping Homelessness Policy in Wales

The Political Quarterly·2017·3 authors

14citations

Practical Approaches to Increasing the Utilization of Research

Public Administration Review·2015·1 author

7citations

Regulating Public Services: How Public Managers Respond to External Performance Assessment

Public Administration Review·2015·3 authors

22citations

Using evidence to improve policy and practice: the UK What Works Centres

Contemporary Social Science·2015·2 authors

39citations

Performance Measurement of Local Public Service Networks

Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks·2014·2 authors·chapter

6citations

Boundary Spanning in Local Public Service Partnerships: Coaches, advocates or enforcers?

Public Management Review·2014·2 authors

29citations

Governing local partnerships: does external steering help local agencies address wicked problems?

Policy Press eBooks·2014·2 authors·chapter

8citations

Governing local partnerships: does external steering help local agencies address wicked problems?

Policy & Politics·2013·2 authors

18citations

New development: All change? Performance assessment regimes in UK local government

Public Money & Management·2013·4 authors

19citations

Learning from complex policy evaluations

Policy & Politics·2012·3 authors

33citations

Putting the Citizen at the Centre? Assembling Local Government Policy in Wales

Local Government Studies·2012·4 authors

8citations

Public confidence and public services: it matters what you measure

Policy & Politics·2012·4 authors

23citations

Knowledge from inspection: external oversight and information to improve performance

Cambridge University Press eBooks·2010·1 author·chapter

5citations

Theories Of Public Service Improvement

Public Management Review·2010·4 authors

46citations

Co-production of social research: strategies for engaged scholarship

Public Money & Management·2010·1 author·Open access

176citations

FROM NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT TO NETWORKED COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE? STRATEGIC LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE NETWORKS IN ENGLAND

·2010·1 author

17citations

Validity, Utilization and Evidence-Based Policy: The Development and Impact of Performance Improvement Regimes in Local Public Services

Evaluation·2010·4 authors

33citations

Understanding Public Management

Public Management Review·2009·1 author·other

9citations

‘Citizen-centred’ public services: contestability without consumer-driven competition?

Public Money & Management·2009·2 authors

28citations

Best Value Audits in Scotland: Winning Without Scoring?

Public Money & Management·2008·4 authors·Open access

15citations

Inspecting for Improvement? Emerging Patterns of Public Service Regulation in the UK

Environment and Planning C Government and Policy·2007·2 authors

7citations

Regulation inside government: processes and impacts of inspection of local public services

Policy & Politics·2007·2 authors

52citations

Has Devolution Improved Public Services?

Public Money & Management·2007·2 authors

16citations

The Dysfunctions of Markets, Hierarchies and Networks in the Meta-governance of Partnership

Urban Studies·2007·5 authors

70citations

Joined up policy in practice? The coherence and impacts of the local government modernisation agenda

Local Government Studies·2006·2 authors

65citations

Leadership and service improvement: Dual elites or dynamic dependency?

Local Government Studies·2005·3 authors

17citations

Public service improvement: Current developments and future research agendas

Local Government Studies·2005·1 author

7citations

From Competition to Collaboration in Public Service Delivery: A New Agenda for Research

Public Administration·2005·2 authors

234citations

Electronic Local Government and the Modernisation Agenda: Progress and Prospects for Public Service Improvement

Local Government Studies·2004·2 authors

84citations

Managerialism meets community development: contracting for social inclusion?

Policy & Politics·2004·1 author

12citations

The Changing Face of Public Service Inspection

Public Money & Management·2004·1 author

11citations

Evaluating Public Management Reform: Designing a'Joined Up' Approach to Researching the Local Government Modernisation Agenda

Local Government Studies·2003·2 authors

17citations

Changing Public Service Organizations: Current Perspectives and Future Prospects

British Journal of Management·2003·3 authors·Open access

245citations

On Public Management Reform

British Journal of Management·2003·1 author·other

79citations

The Joy of Joining Up: Modes of Integrating the Local Government Modernisation Agenda

Environment and Planning C Government and Policy·2003·2 authors

109citations

The Modernization of UK Local Government: Markets, Managers, Monitors and Mixed Fortunes

Public Management Review·2002·1 author

74citations

What works and for whom? The competing rationalities of ‘Best Value’

Policy & Politics·2001·2 authors

24citations

Perceptions of Community Led Regeneration: Community and Central Government Viewpoints

Regional Studies·2000·2 authors

27citations

A new deal for the community? Public participation in regeneration and local service delivery

Policy & Politics·2000·2 authors

145citations

The policy and politics of Best Value: currents, crosscurrents and undercurrents in the new regime

Policy & Politics·2000·2 authors

56citations

The Modernization and Improvement of Government and Public Services: Public Participation and Citizen-Centred Local Government: Lessons from the Best Value and Better Government for Older People Pilot Programmes

Public Money & Management·2000·2 authors

61citations

BEST VALUE FOR ALL?: An empirical analysis of local government's capacity to implement Best Value principles

Public Management Review·2000·2 authors

12citations

Implementing ‘Best Value’: Local Public Services in Transition

Public Administration·2000·1 author·Open access

114citations

Visions of Best Value: Modernizing or Just Muddling Through?

Public Money & Management·1999·1 author

26citations

Evaluating Public Policy Experiments

Evaluation·1999·1 author

97citations

Learning to Modernise: creating the capacity to improve local public services

Public Policy and Administration·1999·1 author

20citations

Picking winners or piloting best value? An analysis of english best value bids

Local Government Studies·1999·1 author

13citations

Leadership, learning and local democracy

International Journal of Public Sector Management·1997·1 author

18citations

The measurement of additionality: Grasping the Slippery Eel

Local Government Studies·1996·2 authors

13citations

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN COMPLEX PUBLIC PROGRAMMES

Financial Accountability and Management·1995·5 authors

79citations

The Europeanisation of local authorities: Challenges for rural areas

Journal of Rural Studies·1993·1 author

9citations