About us
The UK Policy Agendas Project
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 Bertelli
Tony 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
For more on Anthony see:http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/faculty/detail.php?id=76
Shaun Bevan
Shaun 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 Halpin
Darren 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
For more on Darren see:
http://www.organisedinterests.co.uk/darrenhalpin/index.html
Will Jennings
Will 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
For more on Will see:
http://www.ipeg.org.uk/staff/jennings/index.php
Peter John
"Peter 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 Peter see:
http://www.ipeg.org.uk/staff/john/index.php
Project Funding
The original coding of the Speech from the Throne was funded by a British Academy small grant, 'The Policy Priorities of UK Governments: a Content Analysis of King’s and Queen’s speeches, 1945-2005'.
This research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (ESRC Reference: RES-062-23-0872 ‘Legislative policy agendas in the UK’) as part of a European Science Foundation (ESF) EUROCORES European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) application, ‘The Politics of Attention: West European politics and agenda-setting in times of change’, led by Professor Stefaan Walgrave, University of Antwerp. The project is part of the Comparative Agendas Project directed by Professor Frank Baumgartner of The University of North Carolina, which also applies the policy content coding framework of the US Policy Agendas Project and applies quantitative methods to analyse dynamics of policy-making attention in Europe.
