The UK Policy Agendas Project explores the nature of policy-making attention in the UK Parliament between 1911 and 2008. In the spirit of the Comparative Agendas Project, a principal aim of this research project is the creation of datasets for replication and expansion of study of the policy agenda in the UK by other researchers, practitioners and the public. These include:
This project is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Professor Peter John (University of Manchester) is principal investigator, Dr Will Jennings (University of Manchester) and Dr Darren Halpin (Robert Gordon University) are co-investigators. Shaun Bevan (University of Manchester, The Pennsylvania State University) is Research Associate on the project, coordinating data collection and analyses. Professor Tony Bertelli (University of Southern California) is a Visiting Fellow on the project. Anthony BertelliTony Bertelli serves on the faculties of the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and USC Gould School of Law and holds the C.C. Crawford Chair in Management and Performance. His research interests converge on the role of political institutions in shaping public policy outcomes and organizational structures. He is co-author of Madison's Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) and more than twenty-five articles on public administration and executive politics. bertelli@usc.edu Shaun BevanShaun Bevan is a Research Associate at the Institute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG), University of Manchester, and a Ph.D. candidate in American Politics, Political Methodology, and International Relations at The Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include agenda setting, interest groups, time series, and event history analysis techniques. Shaun’s dissertation investigates the life cycle of voluntary associations in the United States from 1970-2005, testing the public and political factors that influence the density, founding rates, and the failures of such groups. shaun.bevan@manchester.ac.uk Darren HalpinDarren Halpin is Reader in Public Policy at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. His research focuses principally on interest groups and their involvement in the policy process. Darren is engaged in two ESRC funded research projects, the UK Policy Agendas project and a study of group engagement in Scottish policy consultations. He was recently awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to examine the organisational evolution of UK interest groups. d.r.halpin@rgu.ac.uk Will JenningsWill Jennings is ESRC / Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and a Research Associate at the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science, working on a project titled “Going for Gold: The Olympics, Risk and Risk Management” (ESRC Reference: RES-063-27-0205). His research interests include the responsiveness of government to public opinion, bureaucratic control, agenda-setting dynamics, blame avoidance by public officeholders, and the politics and management of risk in mega-projects and mega-events. His research applies both quantitative (e.g. time series analysis, network analysis) and qualitative (e.g. archival, interview) methods. will.jennings@manchester.ac.uk Peter JohnPeter John is the Hallsworth Chair of Governance at the University of Manchester and is co-director of IPEG. He has written much on public policy, such as his book, Analysing Public Policy. Prior to the agendas project, he carried out a project funded by Nuffield called, The Impact of Public Opinion and the News Media on English Urban Policy, which showed the impacts the media and political violence on urban policy - see “Explaining Policy Change: The Impact of the Media, Public Opinion and Political Violence on Urban Budgets in England”. Journal of European Public Policy, 13(7): 1053-1068. peter.john@manchester.ac.uk For more on the UK Agendas Project please visit us at: |  |