Matthew Flinders

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Matthew Flinders is affiliated with the following schools: University of Sheffield, University of Oxford, University of Adelaide, Loughborough University

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According to Wikipedia, Matthew V. Flinders is a British academic and political scientist. From July 2014 until April 2017 he was Chair of the Executive Committee of Trustees of the Political Studies Association. Flinders did his undergraduate degree at Loughborough University before completing his PhD in public policy and governance at the University of Sheffield. He teaches on the undergraduate politics degree at the University of Sheffield and has written a number of academic books. His main area of expertise is British governance. He obtained a departmental chair in 2009, and is deputy head of the department. He is also Founding Professor of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre.

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Multi-level governance (2004) (1161)
Depoliticisation: Principles, Tactics and Tools (2006) (261)
The Politics of Public–Private Partnerships (2005) (254)
Themes and Issues in Multi-level Governance (2004) (194)
Rethinking depoliticisation: beyond the governmental (2014) (187)
Quangos--What's in a Name? Defining Quangos from a Comparative Perspective (1999) (183)
Multi-Level Governance and the Study of the British State (2004) (166)
Governance in Whitehall (2002) (132)
Depoliticisation, governance and the state (2014) (115)
Delegated Governance and the British State (2008) (98)
Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the 21st Century (2012) (98)
The Politics of Co-Production: Risks, Limits and Pollution. (2016) (92)
Distributed public governance in the European Union (2004) (88)
Distributed Public Governance in Britain (2004) (84)
Blame Games and Climate Change: Accountability, Multi-Level Governance and Carbon Management (2015) (82)
Just like us: Everyday celebrity politicians and the pursuit of popularity in an age of anti-politics (2016) (74)
The Domestic Origins of Depoliticisation in the Area of British Economic Policy 1 (2005) (72)
Delegated Governance and the British State: Walking without Order (2008) (69)
Carbon reduction and travel behaviour: Discourses, disputes and contradictions in governance (2014) (68)
The Tyranny of Relevance and the Art of Translation (2013) (67)
Majoritarian Democracy in Britain: New Labour and the Constitution (2005) (66)
Multi-level Governance and British Politics (2004) (65)
Territory, power and statecraft: understanding English devolution (2018) (62)
THE CENTRE STRIKES BACK: META‐GOVERNANCE, DELEGATION, AND THE CORE EXECUTIVE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 2010–14 (2015) (61)
Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the Twenty-First Century (2012) (60)
Mind the Gap: Political Analysis, Public Expectations and the Parliamentary Decline Thesis (2011) (58)
The Oxford handbook of British politics (2009) (57)
Symbolic Meta-Policy: (Not) Tackling Climate Change in the Transport Sector (2015) (55)
In Defence of Politics (2010) (54)
Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance (2017) (51)
Shifting the Balance? Parliament, the Executive and the British Constitution (2002) (49)
Muddling through with climate change targets: a multi-level governance perspective on the transport sector (2014) (49)
Quangos, Accountability and Reform (1999) (48)
Quangos, accountability and reform : the politics of quasi-government (1999) (48)
Daring to be a Daniel (2011) (46)
The Politics of Patronage in the United Kingdom: Shrinking Reach and Diluted Permeation (2009) (46)
The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State (2017) (44)
Shrinking the quango state: five challenges in reforming quangos (2012) (43)
The problem of letting go: The ‘Big Society’, accountable governance and ‘the curse of the decentralizing minister’ (2011) (43)
Democracy and the Politics of Coronavirus: Trust, Blame and Understanding (2020) (43)
The Future of Political Science (2013) (38)
Public/Private: The Boundaries of the State (2006) (34)
Learning for democracy: The politics and practice of citizenship education (2018) (32)
A Global Trend Toward Democratic Convergence? A Lijphartian Analysis of Advanced Democracies (2014) (30)
The enduring centrality of individual ministerial responsibility within the British constitution (2000) (30)
Deliberative democracy, elite politics and electoral reform (2008) (28)
The General Rejection? Political Disengagement, Disaffected Democrats and ‘Doing Politics’ Differently (2015) (28)
Devolution, Evolution, Revolution … Democracy? What's Really Happening to English Local Governance? (2016) (27)
From ‘poor parenting’ to micro-management: coalition governance and the sponsorship of arm’s-length bodies in the United Kingdom, 2010–13 (2016) (26)
Gap Analysis: Participatory Democracy, Public Expectations and Community Assemblies in Sheffield (2013) (26)
State of the field: What can political ethnography tell us about anti‐politics and democratic disaffection? (2019) (25)
The demonisation of politicians: moral panics, folk devils and MPs’ expenses (2012) (25)
Analysing Reform: The House of Commons, 2001–5 (2007) (25)
The problem with democracy (2016) (25)
Democracy Matters: Lessons from the 2015 Citizens' Assemblies on English Devolution (2016) (24)
Citizen participation and changing governance: Cases of devolution in England (2017) (23)
The politics of engaged scholarship: impact, relevance and imagination (2013) (22)
Quangos: Why Do Governments Love Them? (1999) (22)
Setting the Scene: Quangos in Context (1999) (21)
MPs and Icebergs: Parliament and Delegated Governance (2004) (21)
Splintered Logic and Political Debate (2010) (21)
The Future and Relevance of Accountability Studies (2014) (20)
Democratic Drift: Majoritarian Modification and Democratic Anomie in the United Kingdom (2010) (17)
Bonfires and Barbecues: Coalition Governance and the Politics of Quango Reform (2014) (16)
Rising to Ostrom’s challenge: an invitation to walk on the bright side of public governance and public service (2021) (16)
Bi-constitutionality: Unravelling New Labour's Constitutional Orientations (2008) (16)
Governing under Pressure? The Mental Wellbeing of Politicians (2018) (15)
In defence of fear: COVID-19, crises and democracy (2020) (15)
From Folk Devils to Folk Heroes: Rethinking the Theory of Moral Panics (2015) (15)
When Politics Fails: Hyper-Democracy and Hyper-Depoliticization (2015) (15)
The Politics of Accountability: A Case Study of Freedom of Information Legislation in the United Kingdom (2000) (14)
Devolution, delegation and the Westminster Model: a comparative analysis of developments within the UK, 1998–2009 (2011) (14)
POLITICAL RECRUITMENT BEYOND ELECTIONS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LINKAGE BETWEEN PATRONAGE, DEMOCRACY, AND DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (2012) (13)
Not a Brexit Election? Pessimism, Promises and Populism ‘UK-Style’ (2020) (13)
Explaining Democratic Disaffection: Closing the Expectations Gap (2014) (13)
Thematic Review: Think again: patronage, governance and the smarter state (2010) (13)
New Labour and the Constitution (2004) (12)
Explaining Majoritarian Modification: The Politics of Electoral Reform in the United Kingdom and British Columbia (2010) (12)
Understanding Felt Accountability (2020) (11)
BRIDGING THE GAP: REVITALISING POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC EXPECTATIONS (2009) (10)
The (Anti-)Politics of the General Election: Funnelling Frustration in a Divided Democracy (2018) (10)
The politics and management of public expectations: Gaps, vacuums, clouding and the 2012 mayoral referenda (2014) (10)
Diversity and Complexity: The Quango-Continuum (1999) (10)
Are Public Bodies Still ‘Male, Pale and Stale’? Examining Diversity in UK Public Appointments 1997–2010 (2011) (10)
REVIEW ARTICLE: THEORY AND METHOD IN THE STUDY OF DELEGATION: THREE DOMINANT TRADITIONS (2009) (10)
From senseless to sensory democracy: Insights from applied and participatory theatre (2018) (10)
Mechanisms of Judicial Accountability in British Central Government (2001) (9)
Democracy, devolution and delegated governance in Scotland (2006) (9)
The watchdogs of ‘Washminster’ – parliamentary scrutiny of executive patronage in the UK (2015) (9)
Towards Positive Public Administration: A Manifesto (2019) (9)
The Politics of Parliamentary Restoration and Renewal: Decisions, Discretion, Democracy (2018) (9)
No Stump City: The Contestation and Politics of Urban Street-Trees – A Case Study of Sheffield (2019) (9)
Concerning the Differences in the Magnetic Needle, on Board the Investigator, Arising from an Alteration in the Direction of the Ship's Head (8)
pursuing the diversity and inclusion agenda: the PSA in the UK (2016) (8)
Ethnographic insights into competing forms of co-production: A case study of the politics of street trees in a northern English city (2019) (8)
Tracing the political : depoliticisation, governance and the state (2015) (8)
Bagehot Smiling: Gordon Brown's ‘New Constitution’ and the Revolution that Did Not Happen (2010) (8)
Nexus Politics (2018) (7)
Why feelings trump facts: anti-politics, citizenship and emotion (2020) (7)
How to make quangos democratic (1997) (7)
‘Stretched But Not Snapped’: A Response to Russell and Serban on Retiring the ‘Westminster Model’ (2021) (7)
Patterns of democracy: Coalition governance and majoritarian modification in the United Kingdom, 2010–2015 (2017) (7)
Public Bodies Reform by the UK Government 2010-2013: Initial Findings (2013) (7)
Gotcha! Coronavirus, Crises and the Politics of Blame Games (2020) (6)
Did they ‘Read Before Burning’? The Coalition and Quangos (2014) (6)
Constitutional Anomie: Patterns of Democracy and ‘The Governance of Britain’ (2009) (6)
Heaven's Talent Scout: Prime Ministerial Power, Ecclesiastical Patronage and the Governance of Britain (2012) (6)
Co-option, control and criticality: the politics of relevance regimes for the future of political science (2021) (6)
the future of political science? the politics and management of the academic expectations gap: evidence from the UK (2018) (6)
Pedagogy and deliberative democracy: insights from recent experiments in the United Kingdom (2018) (6)
Fifty Years of Representative and Responsible Government: Contemporary Relevance, Theoretical Revisions and Conceptual Reflection (2017) (6)
The Silent Revolution: A Political History of the Politics of Patronage and Reform (2014) (6)
The politics of quangocide (2015) (5)
Incentives for Impact: Relevance Regimes Through a Cross-National Perspective (2021) (5)
Australia circumnavigated : the voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 (2015) (5)
Multi-Level Governance: Essential Readings (2015) (5)
Volcanic politics: Executive–legislative relations in Britain, 1997–2005 (2006) (5)
The rediscovery of the political imagination (2015) (4)
Depoliticisation: A Response to Burnham (2006) (4)
Improving Citizenship Education (2019) (4)
Charter 88, New Labour and Constitutional Anomie (2009) (4)
Rebuilding Strategic Capacity? Multi-Level Governance, Leadership and Public Service Agreements in Britain (2007) (4)
Bringing in the experts: blame deflection and the COVID-19 crisis (2020) (4)
Anti-politics and democratic innovation (2019) (3)
A Voyage to Terra Australis: PREFACE (2010) (3)
In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy (2014) (3)
Anti-Politics, Depoliticisation and Governance in Late-Modernity (2017) (3)
What Kind of Democracy is This? Politics in a Changing World (2017) (3)
The Future of the State (2008) (3)
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows: a response to Peter John on the relevance of political science (2012) (3)
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies (2021) (3)
Party Patronage in the United Kingdom: A Pendulum of Public Appointments* (2012) (3)
Discursive depoliticisation and political disengagement (2017) (3)
The Moral Foundations of Public Engagement: Does Political Science, as a Discipline, Have an Ethics? (2020) (3)
Debating demonization: in defence of politics, politicians and political science (2012) (3)
Governance and Patronage (2012) (2)
How Relevant is Political Studies in the UK? (2012) (2)
The Palace of Westminster: Another Window of Opportunity? (2019) (2)
A Renewed Agenda for Studying Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance (2017) (2)
The privilege of public service and the dangers of populist technocracy: a response to Michael Gove and Dominic Cumming’s 2020 Ditchley annual lecture (2020) (2)
Walking Without Order (2008) (2)
The (Anti-)Politics of Brexit (2018) (2)
A Global Trend towards Democratic Convergence ? (2011) (2)
Party Politics vs. Grievance Politics: Competing Modes of Representative Democracy (2022) (2)
The Northern Powerhouse must bring democracy out of the shadows (2016) (2)
A Defence of Politics against the Media (2012) (2)
Conserving the Constitution? The Conservative Party and Democratic Renewal (2009) (2)
Protecting Computer Software-Analysis and Proposed Alternative (2007) (2)
Democratic Decline and the Politics of the Upswing: How the United States May Have Come Together a Century Ago but Can It Do It Again? (2021) (1)
Devolution revolution? Assessing central-local relationships in England's devolution deals (2017) (1)
V8. Constitutional Amendment (2009) (1)
In Defence of Politics: Fifty Years On (2012) (1)
Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson have lost control of the fear factor (2020) (1)
The UK’s referendum and post-fact politics: how can campaigners be held accountable for their claims? (2016) (1)
The realities of carbon management - why governance matters in the transport sector (2013) (1)
Exploring the Grey Zone: Quangos in Denmark (1997) (1)
Why We Hate Politics (2007) (1)
REVISITING INSCRIPTIONS ON THE INVESTIGATOR TREE ON SWEERS ISLAND, GULF OF CARPENTARIA (2020) (1)
Institutions Ignored: A History of Select Committee Scrutiny in the House of Lords, 1968–2021 (2022) (1)
When evidence alone is not enough: the problem, policy and politics of water fluoridation in England (2021) (1)
Co-option, control and criticality: the politics of relevance regimes for the future of political science (2021) (1)
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK (2022) (1)
THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION: A RALLYING CRY TO THE UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF POLITICS (2011) (1)
Accountability in Liberal Democratic, Parliamentary Systems (2018) (1)
The Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster: Avoiding the Trap and Realising the Promise (2019) (1)
the future of political science? the politics and management of the academic expectations gap: evidence from the UK (2017) (1)
The messy business of impact for the social sciences: fear and failure, stealth and seeds (2018) (1)
Modes of State Governance, Populist Pressures and Public Sector Reform (2021) (1)
Collaborative research and the emotions of overstatement: a reply to Crow (2020) (1)
What makes for successful deployment of fear during a crisis? (2021) (1)
In Praise of Politics (2012) (1)
V5. Interest Groups (2009) (0)
A Defence of Politics against Denial (2012) (0)
Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games. By Markus Hinterleitner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 248p. $99.99 cloth. (2021) (0)
Democracy (2019) (0)
Correction to: From Deference and the Politicization of Research Funding to a New Politics of Political Science (2021) (0)
Making Political Science Matter: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in the United Kingdom (2022) (0)
Public appointments are still 'male, pale and stale': new recruitment strategies and recognition of the value of a variety of backgrounds are needed to change this (2011) (0)
Reforming Nongovernmental Organizations: Improving Productivity and Accountability@@@Making Nonprofits Work: A Report on the Tides of Nonprofit Management Reform@@@High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact@@@Quangos, Accountability and Reform: The Politics of Qua (2001) (0)
The Nature of Political Rule in the Twenty-First Century (2012) (0)
Matthew Flinders' Chart of Van Diemen's Land, South Coast Sheet 6 (0)
V3. Executive–Legislative Relationships (2009) (0)
A Voyage to Terra Australis: APPENDIX (2010) (0)
Democracy and its discontents (2012) (0)
A Voyage to Terra Australis: BOOK I: TRANSACTIONS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE VOYAGE TO THE DEPARTURE FROM PORT JACKSON (2010) (0)
From Deference and the Politicization of Research Funding to a New Politics of Political Science (2021) (0)
The double-design dilemma: political science, parliamentary crisis and disciplinary justifications (2019) (0)
Changing Politics: Towards a New Democracy (2015) (0)
Maria Miller’s resignation is yet another example of the need to drag Parliament into the twenty-first century (2014) (0)
MPs’ Expenses: The Legacy of a Scandal Ten Years On (2019) (0)
V9. Judicial Review (2009) (0)
Contrasting Approaches: Quangos in Germany and Britain (1998) (0)
Judicial Accountability in the Home Office (2017) (0)
Above and below (2008) (0)
MPs’ expenses: the legacy of a scandal 10 years on (2021) (0)
Understanding Scholarly Shifts—A Matter of Relevance (2021) (0)
The Silent Dogs of Wash-Minster - Parliamentary Scrutiny of Public Appointments Paper prepared for the Annual PSA Conference 14-16 April 2014 (2014) (0)
The politics and management of public expectations: Gaps, vacuums, clouding and the 2012 mayoral referenda (2013) (0)
Entrepreneurial thinking: the politics and practice of policy impact (2022) (0)
A Voyage to Terra Australis: CHAPTER IX (2010) (0)
Managerial Accountability and the Contract State (2017) (0)
pursuing the diversity and inclusion agenda: the PSA in the UK (2016) (0)
Keep walking on the bright side: criticality, credit and challenge (2023) (0)
When it comes to a fair constitutional settlement, beware of constitutional hyper-activism (2014) (0)
Exploring the Grey Zone (1997) (0)
Democratic Governance – By M. Bevir (2011) (0)
Reviewing the review: a three-dimensional approach to analysing the 2017–2020 review of the House of Lords investigative and scrutiny committees (2021) (0)
Parliamentary Accountability: Demoralised or Revitalised? (2017) (0)
Political Studies Association Conference 2013 Panel - Arm's-Length Governance: Accountability, Performance and Change ORGANIZATIONS, FUNCTIONS AND SPACES: INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS AND THE CHANGING SHAPE OF ENGLISH GOVERNANCE (2013) (0)
Democracy: Problems and challenges, opportunities and design (2019) (0)
V1. Party System (2009) (0)
A new and fair constitutional settlement? Beware of constitutional hyper-activism (2014) (0)
6. Design and Space in Parliament (2018) (0)
The Tragedies of Political Science: The Politics of Research Assessment in the United Kingdom (2017) (0)
The Executive Morality and Inverted Conventions: Ministerial Responsibility and Freedom of Information (2017) (0)
X. Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 (0)
Introduction: In Defence of Politics (2012) (0)
A Voyage to Terra Australis: EAST COAST; WITH VAN DIEMEN's LAND (2010) (0)
The Politics, Principles, and Politicization of Delegation (2008) (0)
V4. Electoral System (2009) (0)
Book reviews (2003) (0)
Use of Fire to Improve Native Forest Ecological Health (2019) (0)
The future of citizenship roundtable (2008) (0)
Explaining Majoritarian Modification: ?TheAuthor(s) 2010 (2016) (0)
A Defence of Politics against the Market (2012) (0)
The (Anti-)Politics of #GE2017: Funneling Frustration in a Divided Democracy (2020) (0)
V7. Unicameralism–Bicameralism (2009) (0)
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present. By David Runciman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 381p. $29.95. (2015) (0)
A Defence of Politics against Crises (2012) (0)
Barack Obama, A Promised Land (Penguin, 2020), Pp.768. ISBN: 978–0241491515 (2021) (0)
Institutional wedges: understanding spillover dynamics and the role of crises in a legislative context (2009) (0)
Old Labour, New Labour, ‘Blair Paradox’ (2009) (0)
What kind of democracy is this? Scholars must look beyond the populist signal (2017) (0)
A Defence of Politics against Itself (2012) (0)
2D vision in a 3D system (2001) (0)
The privilege of public service and the dangers of populist technocracy: a response to Michael Gove and Dominic Cumming’s 2020 Ditchley annual lecture (2020) (0)
Parliamentary Accountability and the Home Office (2017) (0)
Appendix 1 : Images of artwork from Our Corner Appendix 2 : Delegates list and images from Breathing New Life Into Politics (2015) (0)
Tracing the socio-political dynamics of street tree contestation in the twenty-first century through the Sheffield case-study (2022) (0)
Meta‐constitutional Orientations (2009) (0)
Letters to Ann : the love story of Matthew Flinders and Ann Chappelle (2001) (0)
Patterns of democracy: Coalition governance and majoritarian modification in the United Kingdom, 2010–2015 (2016) (0)
Abstracts in French and Spanish (2010) (0)
Bass Straits and the Islands: Chart of Terra Australis (0)
NAV volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1974) (0)
A Voyage to Terra Australis: Plate section (2010) (0)
Managerial Accountability and the Home Office (2017) (0)
Period politics and policy change: the taxation of menstrual products in the United Kingdom, 1996–2021 (2023) (0)
Organisations, Functions and Spaces: Institutional Logics and the Changing Shape of English Governance (2013) (0)
We need a deeper and more socially embedded kind of democracy based on active and engaged citizenship (2014) (0)
Democratic politics matters – it can and does shape our lives positively. Although it is imperfect, the alternatives are unthinkable (2011) (0)
Understanding the Politics of Accountability (2017) (0)
V10. Central Bank Independence (2009) (0)
The Blunders of Our Governments by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe. London: Oneworld, 2013. 470 pp. £25.00 (cloth). (2014) (0)
A Voyage to Terra Australis: CHAPTER VIII (2010) (0)
Scrutiny At and Beyond the Fringe (2005) (0)
About this Research Review (2015) (0)
V6. Federal–Unitary Dimension (2009) (0)

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