Professor Jonathan Davies

Jonathan S. Davies is Professor of Critical Policy Studies.  He previously worked at the University of Warwick.  His first monograph Partnerships and regimes: the politics of urban regeneration in the UK  was published by Ashgate in 2001. His second, Challenging Governance Theory: from Networks to Hegemony was published by The Policy Press in September 2011. Jonathan has published in leading journals including the Journal of Urban Affairs, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environment and Planning A (Forthcoming), Urban Studies (Forthcoming), Political Studies, Policy & Politics, Public Administration  and The Political Quarterly.   Together with David L. Imbroscio, Jonathan co-edited the second edition of Theories of Urban Politics  (Sage, 2009), The Sage Library of Political Science encyclopaedic work on Urban Politics  (2010) and Critical Urban Studies: New Directions  (SUNY Press, 2010). His research interests span critical issues in governance, urban studies and public policy.  He organised the first Critical Governance conference in 2010.  The second will be held at the University of Warwick in December 2012. See http://go.warwick.ac.uk/orthodoxies| for further information.

Local Governance Research Unit

• Empowerment or abandonment? Prospects for neighbourhood revitalization under the big society.
  Davies, J.S. and Pill, M. (2012) Empowerment or abandonment? Prospects for neighbourhood revitalization under the big society. Public Money and Management, 32 (3), pp. 193-200.
• Urban politics and the new institutionalism
  Davies, J.S, and Trounstine, J. (2012) Urban politics and the new institutionalism. In: Susan Clarke, Peter John and Karen Mossberger(eds), The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics. Oxford University Press, pp. 51-70.
• Active citizenship: navigating the Conservative heartlands of the New Labour project
  Davies, J. S. (2012) Active citizenship: navigating the Conservative heartlands of the New Labour project. Policy & Politics, 40 (1), pp. 3-19.
• Network Governance Theory: A Gramscian Critique
  Davies, J.S. (2012) Network Governance Theory: A Gramscian Critique. Environment and Planning A, 44 (11), pp. 2687-2704.
• Hollowing-out Neighbourhood Governance? Rescaling Revitalization in Baltimore and Bristol
  Davies, J.S. and Pill, M. (2012) Hollowing-out Neighbourhood Governance? Rescaling Revitalization in Baltimore and Bristol. Urban Studies. 49 (10) pp. 2199-2217
• Challenging Governance Theory: From Networks to Hegemony
  Davies J S. (2011) Challenging Governance Theory: From Networks to Hegemony. Bristol: The Policy Press.
• The limits of post-traditional public administration: towards a Gramscian perspective
  Davies, J.S. (2011) The limits of post-traditional public administration: towards a Gramscian perspective. Critical Policy Studies, 5 (1), pp. 47-62.
• Re-pensando las redes: Gobernanza como hegemonia.
  Davies, J. S., (2011) 'Re-pensando las redes: Gobernanza como hegemonia' in Mendoza, C. (ed.), Gobernanza, gobernabilidad y buen gobierno : experiencias mexicanas e internacionales.
• Critical urban studies : new directions.
  Davies, J. S. and Imbroscio, D. L. (eds.) (2010) Critical urban studies : new directions. Albany : SUNY.
• Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban Politics
  Davies, J.S. (2010) Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban Politics. In: J.S. Davies et al, eds. Critical Urban Studies: New Directions. New York: SUNY Press, pp. 73-88.

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Critical approaches to governance, public policy and urban studies.

Governance and public policy 

Governance (POPP 2402) 

Best paper award for paper presented at the 32^nd Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, April 2002: Davies J S  'Partnerships versus Regimes: Why Regime Theory Cannot Explain Urban Coalitions in the UK', Journal of Urban Affairs, 25, 2003, 253-269. 

Warwick Business School Excellence in Publishing Award, 2004:  Davies J S  (2004) Conjuncture or Disjuncture? An Institutionalist Analysis of Local Regeneration Partnerships in the UK. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28(3) 570-585.

Urban Affairs Association ‘Best Paper Presented at the 2012 Conference’ Committee Chair  

Urban Affairs Association International Links Committee – member   

Second Critical Governance Conference, University of Warwick December 2012.  See http://go.warwick.ac.uk/orthodoxies|. |

Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March 2011. 
ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 2011.
Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, April 2012. 
XXII Congress of the International Political Science Association, Madrid, July 2012 and Policy & Politics 40^th Anniversary  Conference, Bristol, September 2012. 

Lindiwe Msgengana Ndlela (first supervisor) University of Warwick.

Principal Investigator: £45,000 from the ESRC for ‘Interpreting the local politics of social exclusion (2004-5).

Co-applicant for £500,000 as part of a multi-institution research consortium led by Mike Geddes (Warwick) to deliver ODPM national evaluation of Local Strategic Partnerships (2002-5).

120,000 Norwegian Krone from the Norwegian Research Council for participation in a 3 year project (2013-2015) led by the Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research studying network governance in Russia.

Together with the former Chief Executive of Coventry City Council, Iain Roxburgh, I led the development of the Peer Challenge methodology for evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships as part of my work with the Warwick University Local Authorities Research Consortium between 2003 and 2005. Peer Challenge was officially launched by the Local Government Association in 2006.  The methodology was rolled-out nationally in a partnership between the University of Warwick, SOLACE Enterprises and Local Government Improvement and Development (formerly IDeA) and received funding from the ODPM (Now Communities and Local Government).  See http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/8017755| for further information.