Projects

• Public Service Bargains (with Christopher Hood)
  Building on earlier work on Public Service Bargains (PSB) and civil service competency, this ongoing work develops the PSB-lens further, both through the addition of further country cases (New Zealand, Jamaica) and methodologies.  
  • Rewards for High Political Office in the UK
  • Public Service Bargains, New Public Management und Variationen in Verwaltungsreformen, published in Der Moderne Staat (draft version)
  • Private Gains of Public Office: Rewards of former Public Officials in Britain (with Sandra Gonzalez Bailon and Will Jennings)

• Network Regulation in the English-speaking Caribbean (with Lindsay Stirton), funded by the Association of Commonwealth Universities
  Building on earlier work on the introduction of regulatory institutions into three English-speaking Caribbean small island states (Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago), this project seeks to evaluate the effect of regulatory institutions on developmental outcomes.

• Modes of Control and Meat Inspections (with Kai Wegrich)
  This research builds on earlier work on different modes of control, as provided through the lens of grid-group cultural theory. The project develops a methodology to explore patterns of argumentation and regulatory response over time and across states. This project also links to wider debates regarding 'better regulation'
  • Dodgy kebabs everywhere? Variety of Worldviews and Regulatory Change (accepted for publication in Public Administration)
  • Governance as contested logics of control: Europeanized meat inspection regimes in Denmark and Germany (accepted for publication by Journal for European Public Policy)

   

• The Politics of Security of Supply
  This project investigates the problem-solving capacity of the contemporary regulatory state in comparative perspective. It investigates the politics of security of supply in electricity regulation in three key jurisdictions, New Zealand, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Publication projects

• Oxford Handbook of Regulation (co-edited with Martin Cave and Robert Baldwin)
  • 'The regulatory state in crisis: a public administration moment?' (with Kai Wegrich), published as ' Letter to the Editor of Public Administration Review in Response to a Recent Symposium on Financial Regulatory Reform' Public Administration Review, 70(2), 336-41, March 2010.