2009 PAC Conference | Papers

• Jean Matthews, Glamorgan Business School, explores The impact of the competing narratives of NHS secondary care on clinician practice: a Foucauldian approach.

• Laura McAllister, Professor of Governance at the University of Liverpool Management School and Adrian Kay, Professor of Public Policy and Management at Salford University Business School look at Coalition governments in post-devolution Wales: managing the new pluralism.

• Koen P.R. Bartels, University of Glasgow, presents a paper on The practices of modern public encounters: an analytical framework for studying interactions between public professionals and citizens in community participation. (PDF document)

• Clare Butler of the University of Glamorgan Business School asks Does civil service preclude civic virtue? (PDF document)

• Dr Richard Common of the Herbert Simon Institute, University of Manchester, looks at International trends in HRM in the public sector: reform attempts in the Republic of Georgia.

• Alistair Jones, senior lecturer in the Department of Public Policy at De Montfort University, looks at the A-level government and politics syllabus in his paper Not teaching devolution?

• !(right)http://hass.glam.ac.uk/media/files/photos/Sheaf-of-papers.jpg(a sheaf of papers)!Clive Gray, Reader in Cultural Policy at De Montfort University, Leicester, explores Museums, galleries, politics and management.

• Professor Howard Elcock, emeritus of Government, Northumbria University, asks
  Is English regional nationalism dead?

• Dr Hartwig Pautz of the Division of Public Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University explores Ten years after devolution: think-tanks in Scotland.

• Simon Field of the University of Glamorgan Business School expands upon Introducing Service Architecture Review Method: exploring the application of software architecture evaluation methods to public service reform

• Alice Moseley of the Department of Politics and International Relations at University of Southampton asks Joined-Up Government: Rational Administration or Bureaucratic Politics?

• Professor Derek Birrell asks Public sector reform in Northern Ireland and a comparison with England, Scotland and Wales: policy-transfer, a distinctive model of public sector modernisation or different values?

• Dr Rhys Andrews of the Centre for Local and Regional Government Research, Cardiff, expands upon Social capital and public service performance: a literature review and research agenda

• Richard I.C. Tambulasi of the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, debates Policy Transfer, Path Dependence And Veto Points: The Politics Of Hospital Autonomy Reforms In Malawi

• Erica Wimbush of Edinburgh University Business School asks Implementing an outcomes approach to public management in Scotland and England – are we learning the lessons?

• Kerry E. Howell of University of Plymouth Business School debates Cultural Production and the Welsh Assembly: Leadership, Culture and Path-Dependency

• S.J.Bailey, D.Asenova & J.Hood discuss A Case Study Of Glasgow’s Use Of The Prudential Borrowing Framework (Pbf) For Schools Rationalisation

• Derek Birrell debates Public sector reform in Northern: Ireland policy-transfer, a distinctive model of public sector modernisation or different values?

• Dave Mckenna from the Department of Politics & International Relations, Swansea University, expands upon UK Local Government and Public Participation: Using Conjectures to Explain the Relationship

• Graham Pearce & Stuart Cooper of Aston Business School, Aston University, discuss Sub-national responses to climate change in local area agreements

• Hartwig Pautz and Stephen J. Bailey of Glasgow Caledonian University Business School explore The Scottish Futures Trust: Policy Making on the Hoof?

• David Weir, Liverpool Hope University, and Craig Marsh, Lancaster University, debate Some effects of Performance Management in Police work: “Performance management” or the “Management of Performances”?

• Tom Entwistle, James Downe, Valeria Guarneros-Meza & Steve Martin discuss Intergovernmental Relations in Wales: Having Your Cake and Eating It?

• Murphy, P. Greenhalgh, K. Liddle, J and Buckley, J. discuss Narrowing the gap – increasing the number of women in operational firefighting roles – An early evaluation of an initiative by Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services on behalf of the 5 East Midland services

• C Glendinning, N Moran, D Challis, J-L Fernández, S Jacobs, K Jones, M Knapp, J Manthorpe, A Netten, M Stevens & M Wilberforce present Joining Up Government by Integrating Funding Streams? The Experiences of the Individual Budget Pilot Projects.

• Margaret Arnott of the School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Jenny Ozga of the Centre for Educational Sociology, The University of Edinburgh, present Nationalism, Governance & Policy Making in Scotland: The Scottish National Party (SNP) in Power

• John Fenwick, Northumbria University, and Janice McMillan, Edinburgh Napier University debate The Discourse of Local Partnership in the United Kingdom

• Ayako Nakamura a PhD Candidate at University of Exeter presents Measuring Prison Risk Perception: Practical Uses of the Grid and Group Cultural Theory, using the Case of HMP Exeter

• Catherine Farrell, Glamorgan and Margaret Arnott, Glasgow Caledonian debate Testing Times in Education – What Difference has 10 Years of Devolution Made in Scotland and Wales?

• Jonathan Bradbury of the Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University, and Ian Stafford of Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods, Cardiff University present Devolution and policy innovation in Wales: critical perspectives and an assessment of transport policy

• John Shortridge, former Permanent Secretary, Welsh Assembly Government, presents The Welsh Devolution Settlement