Professor Martin Smith - Publications

Books

• Smith, M. J. (2009). Power and the State. Palgrave MacMillan, pp.307
• Kavanagh, D., Richards, D., Geddes, A., & Smith, M. (2006). British Politics. Oxford University Press, pp. 695
• Ludlam, S., & Smith, M. J. (2004) (eds). Governing as New Labour. Palgrave MacMillan, pp.308.
• Richards, D., & Smith, M. J. (2002). Governance and Public Policy in the United Kingdom. Oxford University Press, pp.307.
• Ludlam, S. & Smith, M.J. (2001) (eds). New Labour in Government. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.308
• Marsh, D., Richards, D., & Smith, M. J. (2001). Changing Patterns of Governance in the United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.288.
• Smith, M. J., (1999). The Core Executive in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, pp 278
• Smith, M.J. & Flinders, M. (1998). (eds). Quangos, Accountability and Reform: The Politics of Quasi-Government, Macmillan, 227 pp.
• Ludlam, S., & Smith, M. J. (1996). (eds). Contemporary British Conservatism. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.322.
• Smith, M. J. (1995). Pressure Politics. Baseline Books, pp.117
• Smith, M. J. (1993). Pressure, Power, and Policy. Univ of Pittsburgh Press, pp.262
• Smith, M. J., & Spear, J. (1992). (eds). The Changing Labour Party. Taylor & Francis, pp.257
• Smith, M.J. (1990). The Politics of Agricultural Support in Britain, Dartmouth: Aldershot

Journal Articles

• Smith, M. J., Richards, D., Geddes, A., & Mathers, H. (2011). Analysing policy delivery in the United Kingdom: The case of street crime and anti-social behaviour. Public Administration, 89(3), 975-1000.
• Smith, M. J. (2011). Tsars, leadership and innovation in the public sector. Policy and Politics, 39(3), 343-359.
• Richards, D., & Smith, M. (2010). Back to the future: New Labour, sovereignty and the plurality of the party's ideological tradition. British Politics, 5(3), 239-264.
• Smith, M. (2010). What happened to Britain’s labour party? Current History, 109(725), 124-125.
• Smith, M. J. (2010). From big government to big society: changing the state-society balance. Parliamentary Affairs, 63(4), 818-833.
• Smith, M. J. (2010). Intelligence and the core executive. Public Policy and Administration, 25(1), 11-28.
• Smith, M. J. (2010). Preface. Political Studies, 58(2), 235-237.
• Smith, M. J. (2008). Re-centring British government: Beliefs, traditions and dilemmas in political science. Political Studies Review, 6(2), 143-154.
• Smith, M. J. (2007). Tony Blair: The first prime minister of the global era. British Politics, 2(3), 420-427.
• Smith M.J. and Richards, D. (2006) Central control and policy implementation in the United Kingdom. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. 8, 4, 324-345
• Smith, M.J (2004). Mad cows and mad money: the paradox of the risk society state, British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 6 (3), 312-332.
• Richards, D., & Smith, M. J. (2004). Interpreting the world of political elites. Public Administration, 82(4), 777-800.
• Marsh, D., Richards, D., & Smith, M. J. (2004). Understanding and explaining civil service reform: A reply to Dowding and James. British Journal of Political Science, 34, 189-192.
• Marsh, D., Richards, D., & Smith, M. (2003). Unequal plurality: Towards an asymmetric power model of British politics. Government and Opposition, 38(3), 306-332+i.
• Marsh, D., & Smith, M. J. (2001). There is more than one way to do political science: On different ways to study policy networks. Political Studies, 49(3), 528-541.
• Marsh, D., & Smith, M. (2000). Understanding policy networks: towards a dialectical approach. Political Studies, 48(1), 4-21.
• Richards, D., & Smith, M. J. (2000). The public service ethos and the role of the British Civil Service. West European Politics, 23(3), 45-66.
• Smith, M. J. (2000). Over-reliance on unstated rules. Government and Opposition, 35(3), 400-405.
• Marsh, D., Richards, D., & Smith, M. J. (2000). Re-assessing the role of departmental cabinet ministers. Public Administration, 78(2), 305-326.
• Marsh, D., Smith, M. J., & Richards, D. (2000). Bureaucrats, politicians and reform in Whitehall: Analysing the bureau-shaping model. British Journal of Political Science, 30, 461-482.
• Smith, M.J (1999) Institutionalising the eternal return: textbooks and the study of British politics, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1, 106-117.
• Smith, M. J. (1998). Reconceptualizing the British state: Theoretical and empirical challenges to central government. Public Administration, 76(1), 45-72.
• Kenny, M., & Smith, M. J. (1997). (Mis)understanding Blair. Political Quarterly, 68(3), 220-230.
• Richards, D., & Smith, M. J. (1997). How departments change: Windows of opportunity and critical junctures in three departments. Public Policy and Administration, 12, 62-79.
• Cavanagh, M., Marsh, D., & Smith, M. (1995). The relationship between policy networks at the sectoral and sub-sectoral levels - Response. Public Administration, 73(4), 627-629.
• Smith, M.J. (1994) 'Neil Kinnock and the Modernisation of the Labour Party', Contemporary Record, 8, 555-566.
• Smith, M. J. (1994). Understanding the politics of catch-up - the modernization of the labour-party. Political Studies, 42(4),
• Smith, M. J. (1994). The core executive and the resignation of Mrs Thatcher. Public Administration, 72(3), 341-363.
• Smith, M. J., Marsh, D., & Richards, D. (1993). Central government departments and the policy process. Public Administration, 71(4), 567-594.
• Smith, M.J. (1991). From policy community to issue network - salmonella in eggs and the new politics of food. Public Administration, 69(2), 235-255.
• Smith M.J. (1991). Pluralism, Reformed Pluralism and Neo-Pluralism: The Role of Pressure Groups in Policy Making. Political Studies, 38, 302-322.
• Smith M.J. (1990). Can a prime minister be removed?. (with R. K. Alderman) Parliamentary Affairs, 43, 260-276.
• Smith M.J. (1989). The annual review: the emergence of a corporatist institution?. Political Studies, 37, 81-96.
• Smith M.J. (1989). Land nationalisation and the agricultural policy community. Public Policy and Administration, 4, 9-21.
• Smith M.J. (1989). Changing agendas and policy communities: agricultural issues in the 1930s and the 1980s. Public Administration, 1989, 67, pp. 149-165. (Reprinted in Grant, W. and Keeler, J. (eds) Agricultural Policy, Edward Elgar, 2000.)

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