The University of Edinburgh - Public Policy

Publications

A selection of recent publications by Group members is listed below.


Boswell, Christina (2008, forthcoming) The Politics of Expert Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge UP

Boswell, Christina (2008) 'The political functions of expert knowledge: knowledge and legitimation in European Union immigration policy', Journal of European Public Policy 15 (4)

Boswell, Christina (2007) 'Theories of migration policy: is there a Third Way?',  International Migration Review 41 (1) 75-100

Boswell, Christina (2007) 'Migration control in Europe after 9/11: explaining the absence of securitization', Journal of Common Market Studies 45 (3) 589-610

 

Freeman, Richard (2007) 'Social democracy, uncertainty and health in Scotland', in Keating, M (ed) Scottish Social Democracy: Progressive Ideas for Public Policy, Brussels: Peter Lang

Freeman, Richard (2007) 'Epistemological bricolage: how practitioners make sense of learning', Administration and Society 39 (4) 476-496

Freeman, Richard (2006) 'Learning in public policy', in Rein, M, Moran, M and Goodin, R E (eds) Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Oxford: Oxford UP

Freeman, Richard (2006) 'The work the document does. Research, policy and equity in health', Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31 (1) 51-70

 

Keating, M., P. Cairney and E. Hepburn (2008 forthcoming) 'Territorial Policy Communities and Devolution in the United Kingdom', Special Issue on 'Rescaling the State', Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

Hepburn, E. (2007) 'Building Regional Policy Communities. Knowledge Transfer into Public Policy in Scotland', European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, University of Pisa, Italy, 6-8 September.

 

Mangez, Eric (2008) Reformer les contenus d'enseignement. Une sociologie du curriculum, Paris: PUF

Lienard, G, Mangez, E (2006) 'Les inegalites socio-culturelles dans les trajectoires scolaires. L'ecole fondamentale: un enjeu crucial', Les cahiers marxistes 234 9-33

 

Parry, Richard (2007) 'The changing cost of government: trends in the state overhead budget' in Castles, F G (ed) The Disappearing State? Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Parry, Richard (2007) 'Public service reform and the efficiency agenda' in Keating, M (ed) Scottish Social Democracy: Progressive Ideas for Public Policy, Brussels: Peter Lang

Parry, Richard (2007) 'Social security under devolution in the United Kingdom' in van Langendonck, J (ed) The Right to Social Security, Antwerp: Intersentia


Peterson, John (2008) 'US Democrats:  the true Europeans?  Foreign policy and public opinion’, Mitchell Working Paper 1/08; also available as a podcast

Peterson, John, Bomberg, Elizabeth and Stubb, Alexander (eds) (2008) The European Union:  How Does it Work?, second edition, Oxford: Oxford UP

Peterson, John and Young, Alasdair (eds) (2007) The European Union and the New Trade Politics, London: Routledge

Peterson, John (2006) ‘In defence of inelegance:  international relations theory and transatlantic practice’, International Relations 20 (1) 5-25

Peterson, John and Shackleton, Michael (eds) (2006) The Institutions of the European Union, Oxford: Oxford UP

Peterson, John and Dannreuther, Roland (eds) (2006) Security Strategy and Transatlantic Relations, London: Routledge

 

Raab, Charles, with Bennett, C (2006) The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective, second edition, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press


Rogers, Vaughan (2007) 'Europeanization through regionalization? Reforming the French railways', Journal of Contemporary European Studies 15

Rogers, Vaughan (2006) 'Reforming regional and local development policy in France', Land Use Policy 23

Rogers, Vaughan and McLeod, Wilson (2006) 'Autochthonous minority languages in public-sector primary education: bilingual policies and politics in Brittany and Scotland', Linguistics and Education 17