16 results on '"Flinders, Matthew"'
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2. After nudging: the ethical challenge of post-pandemic policymaking in the UK
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Degerman, Dan, primary, Johnson, Elliott, additional, Flinders, Matthew, additional, and Johnson, Matthew, additional
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- 2024
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3. Keep walking on the bright side: criticality, credit and challenge.
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Flinders, Matthew
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- 2023
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4. Rising to Ostrom’s challenge: an invitation to walk on the bright side of public governance and public service
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Douglas, Scott, Schillemans, Thomas, t Hart, Paul, Ansell, Christopher, Andersen, Lotte B, Flinders, Matthew, Head, Brian, Moynihan, Donald, Nabatchi, Tina, O'Flynn, Janine, Raadschelders, Jos, Sancino, Alessandro, Sørensen, Eva, Torfing, Jacob, Public management en publieke innovaties, UU LEG Research USG Public Matters, Public management en gedrag, and Bestuur en beleid
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Coping (psychology) ,Introduction ,positivescholarship ,Public Administration ,business.industry ,Organizational studies ,Corporate governance ,Public policy ,effectiveness ,positive scholarship ,Public relations ,Core (game theory) ,Scholarship ,Public governance ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,Public service ,Positive psychology ,business ,Symposium on Learning ,policy success ,high performance - Abstract
In this programmatic essay, we argue that public governance scholarship would benefit from developing a self-conscious and cohesive strand of “positive” scholarship, akin to social science subfields like positive psychology, positive organizational studies, and positive evaluation. We call for a program of research devoted to uncovering the factors and mechanisms that enable high performing public policies and public service delivery mechanisms; procedurally and distributively fair processes of tackling societal conflicts; and robust and resilient ways of coping with threats and risks. The core question driving positive public administration scholarship should be: Why is it that particular public policies, programs, organizations, networks, or partnerships manage do much better than others to produce widely valued societal outcomes, and how might knowledge of this be used to advance institutional learning from positives?
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- 2021
5. Failure isn’t the only teacher: Journals must overcome negativity bias
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Flinders, Matthew, t Hart, Paul, Public management en gedrag, and UU LEG Research USG Public Matters
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- 2021
6. Understanding Felt Accountability: The institutional antecedents of the felt accountability of agency‐CEO's to central government
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Schillemans, Thomas, Overman, Sjors, Fawcett, Paul, Flinders, Matthew, Fredriksson, Magnus, Laegreid, Per, Maggetti, Martino, Papadopoulos, Yannis, Rubecksen, Kristin, Rykkja, Lise Hellebø, Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg, Smullen, Amanda, Wood, Matt, Bestuur en beleid, UU LEG Research USG Public Matters, Bestuur en beleid, and UU LEG Research USG Public Matters
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Marketing ,ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION ,Sociology and Political Science ,Public Administration ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Corporate governance ,Perspective (graphical) ,Control (management) ,ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING ,Public relations ,Perception ,Central government ,Accountability ,Agency (sociology) ,business ,Autonomy ,media_common - Abstract
The literature on autonomous public agencies often adopts a top‐down approach, focusing on the means with which those agencies can be steered and controlled. This article opens up the black box of the agencies and zooms in on their CEO's and their perceptions of hierarchical accountability. The article focuses on felt accountability, denoting the manager's (a) expectation to have to explain substantive decisions to a parent department perceived to be (b) legitimate and (c) to have the expertise to evaluate those decisions. We explore felt accountability of agency‐CEO's and its institutional antecedents with a survey in seven countries combining insights from public administration and psychology. Our bottom‐up perspective reveals close connections between de facto control practices rather than formal institutional characteristics and felt accountability of CEO's of agencies. We contend that felt accountability is a crucial cog aligning accountability holders' expectations and behaviors by CEO's. publishedVersion
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- 2021
7. sj-docx-1-aas-10.1177_00953997211004606 – Supplemental material for Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies
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Schillemans, Thomas, Overman, Sjors, Fawcett, Paul, Flinders, Matthew, Fredriksson, Magnus, Laegreid, Per, Maggetti, Martino, Papadopoulos, Yannis, Rubecksen, Kristin, Rykkja, Lise H., Salomonsen, Heidi H., Smullen, Amanda, Verhoest, Koen, and Wood, Matthew
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160509 Public Administration ,FOS: Political science ,160607 International Relations - Abstract
Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-aas-10.1177_00953997211004606 for Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies by Thomas Schillemans, Sjors Overman, Paul Fawcett, Matthew Flinders, Magnus Fredriksson, Per Laegreid, Martino Maggetti, Yannis Papadopoulos, Kristin Rubecksen, Lise H. Rykkja, Heidi H. Salomonsen, Amanda Smullen, Koen Verhoest and Matthew Wood in Administration & Society
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- 2021
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8. Conflictual accountability : behavioral responses to conflictual accountability of agencies
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Schillemans, Thomas, Overman, Sjors, Fawcett, Paul, Flinders, Matthew, Fredriksson, Magnus, Laegreid, Per, Maggetti, Martino, Papadopoulos, Yannis, Rubecksen, Kristin, Rykkja, Lise H., Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg, Smullen, Amanda, Verhoest, Koen, Wood, Matthew, Bestuur en beleid, UU LEG Research USG Public Matters, Bestuur en beleid, and UU LEG Research USG Public Matters
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Marketing ,Sociology and Political Science ,Public Administration ,Corporate governance ,05 social sciences ,Public administration ,0506 political science ,accountability ,governance ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,Accountability ,050602 political science & public administration ,agencies ,conflictual accountability ,Law ,050203 business & management - Abstract
In contemporary public governance, leaders of public organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey of CEO’s of agencies in seven countries, we explore whether and how conflictual accountability regimes relate to strategic behaviors by agency-CEO’s and their political principals. The presence of conflictual accountability is experienced as a major challenge and is associated with important behavioral responses by those CEO’s. This article demonstrates empirically how conflictual accountability is related to (a) controlling behaviors by principals, (b) constituency building behaviors by agencies, and (c) a general pattern of intensified contacts and information processing by both parties.
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- 2021
9. In defence of fear:COVID-19, crises and democracy
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Degerman, Dan, Flinders, Matthew, and Johnson, Matthew Thomas
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medicine.medical_specialty ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Sociology and Political Science ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,L400 ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,emotions ,Politics ,Political science ,050602 political science & public administration ,medicine ,L200 ,media_common ,Public health ,05 social sciences ,public health ,Irrationality ,Covid19 ,06 humanities and the arts ,Democracy ,0506 political science ,Philosophy ,Political economy ,060302 philosophy ,fear ,politics ,irrationality - Abstract
The COVID-19 crisis has served, not just to instill fear in the populace, but to highlight the importance of fear as a motivating dynamic in politics. The gradual emergence of political philosophical approaches calling for concern for ‘positive’ emotions may have made sense under non-pandemic conditions. Now, however, describing fear in the face of a deadly pandemic as ‘irrational’ or born of ‘ignorance’ seems ‘irrational’ and ‘ignorant’. In this article, we draw upon the work of John Gray and behavioural science to present a defence of fear. We show how the pandemic has highlighted deficits in the work of four thinkers highly critical of fear: Martha Nussbaum, Zygmunt Bauman, Hannah Arendt and Sarah Ahmed. We argue that, if such approaches are to be of value in anything other than optimal conditions, then they have to acknowledge the fundamental role of fear in helping human beings to pursue fundamental interests.
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- 2020
10. From ‘poor parenting’ to micro-management:coalition governance and the sponsorship of arm’s-length bodies in the United Kingdom, 2010–13
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Flinders, Matthew and Tonkiss, Katherine
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The delegation of public tasks to arm’s-length bodies remains a central feature of contemporary reform agendas within both developed and developing countries. The role and capacity of political and administrative principals (i.e. ministers and departments of state) to control the vast network of arm’s-length bodies for which they are formally responsible is therefore a critical issue within and beyond academe. In the run-up to the 2010 General Election in the United Kingdom, the ‘quango conundrum’ emerged as an important theme and all three major parties committed themselves to shift the balance of power back towards ministers and sponsor departments. This article presents the results of the first major research project to track and examine the subsequent reform process. It reveals a stark shift in internal control relationships from the pre-election ‘poor parenting’ model to a far tighter internal situation that is now the focus of complaints by arm’s-length bodies of micro-management. This shift in the balance of power and how it was achieved offers new insights into the interplay between different forms of governance and has significant theoretical and comparative relevance. Points for practitioners: For professionals working in the field of arm’s-length governance, the article offers three key insights. First, that a well-resourced core executive is critical to directing reform given the challenges of implementing reform in a context of austerity. Second, that those implementing reform will also need to take into account the diverse consequences of centrally imposed reform likely to result in different departments with different approaches to arm’s-length governance. Third, that reforming arm’s-length governance can affect the quality of relationships, and those working in the field will need to mitigate these less tangible challenges to ensure success.
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- 2016
11. Democracy Matters: lessons from the 2015 Citizens’ Assemblies on English devolution
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Flinders, Matthew, Ghose, Katie, Jennings, Will, Molloy, Edward, Prosser, Brenton, Renwick, Alan, Smith, Graham, and Spada, Paolo
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The Citizens’ Assembly pilots on local democracy and devolution were the first of their kind in the United Kingdom. Organised by Democracy Matters — an alliance of university researchers and civil society organisations led by Professor Matthew Flinders — and funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, the Assemblies took place in Southampton and Sheffield towards the end of 2015.
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- 2016
12. Changing Politics: Towards a New Democracy
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Hay, Colin, Alexander, Jon, Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin, Bailey, Julie, Barker, William, Bogdanor, Vernon, Dommett, Kate, Duffy, Bobby, Flinders, Matthew, Ghose, Katie, Gordon, Michael, Gottfried, Glenn, Gregory-Jones, Shelley, Howell, Steven, Jellinek, Dan, Jennings, Will, Jones, Rhion, Korris, Matt, Kramer, Annette, Leston-Bandeira, Cristina, Macfarland, Caroline, Miller, Carl, Parry, Brian, Sani, Michael, Seaton, Jean, Silk, Paul, Stoker, Gerry, Stoker, Deborah, Waller, Paul, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii, University of Oxford [Oxford], The University of Sheffield [Sheffield, U.K.], University of Southampton, St George's House, Political Studies Association, and Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEE)
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In October 2014 the PSA joint-funded a Consultation event ‘Changing Politics – Towards a New Democracy’ with St. George’s House. The Chair of the PSA, Professor Matthew Flinders, chaired the event which brought together participants from a range of fields (including academics, think tankers and practitioners in several policy areas). Today, St. George’s House has published a report which highlights the main themes emerging from the discussion as well as some conclusions and recommendations. It identifies several areas where changes are urgently needed to reinvigorate democracy. The report concludes that to fully succeed in addressing the growth of political apathy and disengagement, parties and leaders must forget their differences and join citizens, academics, charities and others to address this problem with all available energy and resources.
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- 2015
13. No Stump City: The Contestation and Politics of Urban Street-Trees - A Case Study of Sheffield.
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Rotherham, Ian D. and Flinders, Matthew
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URBAN planning ,SUSTAINABLE development - Abstract
Issues of sustainable development, liveable cities, green infrastructure, and urban ecosystem services currently receive attention from researchers and decision-makers. Furthermore, the benefits to public wellbeing and health of high quality open spaces and green areas are now undisputed (e.g. Simson, 2008; Booth, 2005, 2006). However, with increasing pressure on urban landscapes for competing uses like housing-development green-spaces are under threat. Furthermore, austerity-driven cuts to local authority budgets mean loss of core services and skills relating to openspace management and planning. Some local authorities such as Newcastle City Council are withdrawing all expenditure on parks and community spaces. With major challenges in providing good quality urban green-spaces, the loss of most local authority countryside management services from 2008 onwards, reflects bigger problems (see Rotherham, 2014, 2015 for example). Within this wider scenario has been the growing importance of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) to deliver core environmental and green-space services in many urban areas. These have been seen as possible fixes for the current waves of austerity cuts and many local authorities such as Sheffield City Council have gone down this route. Nevertheless, real costs (financial and otherwise) of Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) are now emerging (Syal, 2018). There are also issues of public access to information once contracts become 'commercially sensitive' and of profit-driven delivery of core 'public benefit' services. These changes threaten 'local environmental democracy' as part of a wider shift in democratic processes (Flinders, 2012, 2017). This paper examines wider issues of austerity-driven cuts to green-space services, of PFI projects, and of local environmental democracy. It takes the Sheffield streettrees initiative as an exemplar case-study to interrogate the broad concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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14. Understanding the Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster : an analysis of institutional change in the UK Parliament
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Meakin, Alexandra, Flinders, Matthew, Matthews, Felicity, and Bache, Ian
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Legislative buildings matter. They affect the behaviour within and act as symbols of the institution. Decisions about parliamentary buildings are informed - implicitly or explicitly - by dominant views of the role of the legislature and its relationship with citizens. Understanding such policy decisions thus helps us understand the institution. In 2018 the House of Commons and House of Lords approved a significant policy change for the UK Parliament - a major refurbishment of the dilapidated Palace of Westminster - representing both a major shift away from centuries of patch-and-mend management of the Palace and also continuity through the decision to return to the Palace as its permanent home. This thesis provides the first comprehensive academic analysis of this policy change, the Restoration and Renewal (R&R) programme. It draws on 35 semi-structured elite interviews with MPs, Peers and parliamentary officials and extensive textual analysis to argue that we can understand R&R by examining the institutional context at Westminster and combining this with a public policy theory, the Multiple Streams Framework. It sheds light on an understudied area - the governance of the UK Parliament - while also providing a new perspective on reform and institutional identity within Parliament, and locating these findings within broader debates about institutional change, democratic renewal and the politics of megaprojects. The R&R of the Palace of Westminster is therefore not just the refurbishment of a crumbling building on the banks of the Thames but about the future of UK politics. Understanding R&R can help us make sense of this future.
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- 2019
15. The power of civil society : an empirical analysis of its political achievements in a dangerous public sphere
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Garcia Velazquez, Jose Angel and Flinders, Matthew
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Strengthening civil society and increasing citizens’ participation in policy-making are widely discussed matters within political science, international relations and sociology. There is abundant scholarship advocating thoroughgoing collaboration between government and citizens, but the literature focusing on Mexico has become much stronger in theorising than testing. Equally, the co–production of policy has been politically debated or attempted, but too infrequently realised across the different levels of government in Mexico’s current dangerous democracy. This has given rise to various assumptions on the functioning of the normative wheels of democracy. In the middle of Mexico’s rising insecurity, this PhD thesis empirically explores the challenges for civil society’s development and citizens’ role in policy-making. By focusing on two contrasting cases of government–society collaboration in the sphere of public security, this research contributes to the understanding of policy co–production in young democracies. The core finding is that, although an elite continues to dominate the main channels of public expression and key political negotiations, an engaged citizenry is gnawing at small cracks in Mexico’s semi–clientelist system and achieving tangible influence on policy-making. The analyses that underpin this finding shed new light on the complex relationships and inter–dependencies that define the development of civil society, public sphere and governance in Mexico. Furthermore, they close down the gap between ‘politics as practice’ and ‘politics as theory’ in the study of participative practices in political agenda setting.
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- 2017
16. Global governance depoliticised : knowledge networks, scientization and anti-policy
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Stone, Diane, Fawcett, Paul, Flinders, Matthew, Hay, Colin, and Wood, Matthew
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- 2017
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