Public Services Programme

A special issue of the Journal of Health Organization and Management, edited by Mary Dixon-Woods, Justin Waring and Sue Kilminster, and featuring research on medical regulation from the Public… read more

On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Christopher Hood will take part in the BBC Radio 4 Programme ‘The Long View’ in which Jonathan Freedland compares the present public spending review… read more

A special supplement of JPART edited by George Boyne and Christopher Hood and featuring the Programme’s work on incentives and public services has just been published. For more details… read more

Christopher Hood and Deborah Wilson were each invited to contribute papers to the 2020 Public Services Trust Commission on Public Services. Their papers were launched on 17 June 2010.… read more

Heartfelt congratulations to Professor Carol Propper (Bristol) and Professor Tim Besley (LSE) who were appointed Commanders of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Both… read more

A new book entitled In Comparative Administrative Change and Reform: Lesson Learned has been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The Editors are Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham. ISBN 978-0-7735-3659-3. Chapter… read more

A major programme publication will appear in 2010, edited by Kieran Walshe, Gill Harvey and Pauline Jas. Entitled Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services: From Knowing to Doing… read more

Arising from the seminars organized jointly by the Public Services Programme and the Oxford Internet Institute, Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform edited by Helen Margetts,… read more

In January 2010 a special issue of Evaluation was published, edited by Deborah Wilson and Oliver James and featuring articles from a number of programme researchers. More information here.

The Public Services Programme is deeply sorry to report the passing of Roger Hay, a co-researcher with the programme, and one of the founding fathers of Oxford Policy Management… read more