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Publications: Public Leadership and Management

  • Alford J, Hartley J and Hughes O.  (2015)  Political astuteness as an aid to discerning and creating public value.  In Bryson J, Crosby  B and Bloomberg L (eds) Valuing Public Value.  Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. pp 25-38.

  • Alford J, Hartley J, Yates S and Hughes O (2016) Into the purple zone:  Deconstructing the politics/administration dichotomy.  American Review of Public Administration. 1-16

  • Baxter,J. (2015) School Governor Regulation in England’s Changing Education Landscape. Educational Management Administration & Leadership

  • Beashel J, Parker S, Hartley J and Vo Q (2017) Leadership to create public value: A case study of a multi-agency victims’ hub.  Report to the Centre for Policing Research and Learning in development.

  • Bellè, Nicola and Edoardo Ongaro (2014) “NPM, Administrative Reforms and Public Service Motivation: Improving the Dialogue between Research Agendas”, International Review of Administrative Sciences, 80:2, pp. 382-400.

  • Bryson, J., Sancino, A., Benington, J., Sorensen, E. (2017), ‘Toward a multi-actor theory of public value co-creation’, Public Management Review, 19(5): 640-654

  • Di Mascio, Fabrizio, Natalini, Alessandro, Ongaro, Edoardo and Francesco Stolfi (2020) ‘The influence of the European Semester on national public sector reforms under conditions of fiscal consolidation: The policy of conditionality in Italy 2011-15’, Public Policy and Administration online first at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076718814892  

  • Di Mascio, Fabrizio, Galli, Davide, Natalini, Alessandro, Ongaro, Edoardo and Francesco Stolfi (2017) ‘Learning-shaping Crises: A Longitudinal Comparison of Public Personnel Reforms in Italy, 1992-2014’, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 19:2, 119-138.

  • Dunlop, Claire, Ongaro, Edoardo and Keith Baker (2020) ‘Researching Covid-19: A Research Agenda for Public Administration Scholars’, Public Policy and Administration, 35:4, 365-383 - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0952076720939631  

  • Ferlie, E and E. Ongaro (2015) Strategic Management in Public Services Organisations: Concepts, Schools and Contemporary Issues, London and New York: Routledge. 2nd edition forthcoming 2022

  • Ferlie, Ewan and Edoardo Ongaro (eds.) (forthcoming) ‘Europe Section of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Public Administration and Social Policy’, in Karen Baehler (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Public Administration and Social Policy. Oxford: Orford University Press.

  • Hartley J (2014)  Can political leadership be taught?  In ‘t Hart P and Rhodes R A W (eds)  Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership  Oxford: Oxford University Press

  • Hartley J (2016) Organizational and governance aspects of diffusing public innovation.  In Torfing J and Triantafillou P (eds) Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Hartley J, Hesketh I and Chase S (2017) Education and research for 21st century policing: Collaboration, competition and collusion.  European Police Science and Research Bulletin,

  • Hartley J (2017) Optimism of the will in the co-creation and use of research by academics and practitioners Public Money and Management, 37, (4), 236-239.

  • Hartley J (2017) Politics and political astuteness in leadership.  In Storey J, Hartley J, Denis J-L, ‘t hart P, and Ulrich D (in press) The Routledge companion to leadership  New York: Routledge.

  • Hartley J, Alford J, Knies E and Douglas S. (2017) Researching Public Value.  Public Management Review 18(10), 670-685.

  • Hartley J, Alford J, Hughes O and Yates S. (2015) Public value and political astuteness in the work of public managers:  The art of the possible.  Public Administration, 93(1), 195-211

  • Hartley J and Hesketh I (2015) Public value:   A new approach to demand in policing.  Report to National Police Chief Constables’ Council.

  • Hartley J and Torfing J (2016).  Innovation.  In Ansell C and Torfing J (eds) Handbook on Theories of Governance.  Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

  • Hartley J and Pinder K (2015)  Coaching political leaders. In Passmore J (ed) Leadership in Coaching  2nd ed. London:  Kogan Page.

  • Hartley J (2015).  8½ propositions to stimulate frugal innovation in public services. In Wanna, Lee H-A and Yates S (eds) Managing under austerity, delivering under pressure.  Canberra:  ANU Press.  pp139-155.

  • Hartley J (2015) The creation of public value through step-change innovation in Storey J, Hartley J, Denis J-L, ‘t hart P, and Ulrich D (2017) The Routledge companion to leadership  New York: Routledge.

  • Hesketh I and Hartley J (2015/16) Public value: A new means to peel an apple? European Police Science and Research Bulletin, 13, 64-69.

  • Kickert, Walter and Edoardo Ongaro (2019) ‘Influence of EU (and IMF) on domestic cutback management: A nine-country comparative analysis’, Public Management Reviewhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1618383   

  • Nabatchi, T., Sancino, A., Sicilia, M. (forthcoming), ‘Varieties of Participation in Public Services: the Who, When and What of Coproduction’, Public Administration Review, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/doi/10.1111/puar.12...

  • Ongaro, Edoardo (2014) The relationship between the new European governance emerging from the fiscal crisis and administrative reforms: Qualitatively different, quantitatively different, or nothing new? A plea for a research agenda, Halduskultur – Administrative Culture, 15:1, 10-20.

  • Ongaro, E. (2020) Philosophy and Public Administration: An Introduction. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. 2nd edition – available open access: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781839100338.xml

  • Ongaro, E. (ed.) (2015) Multi-Level Governance: The Missing Linkages, Bingley, UK: Emerald.

  • Ongaro, E. (ed.) (2019) Public Administration in Europe: The Contribution of EGPA

  • Ongaro, Edoardo (2019) ‘The teaching of philosophy for public administration programmes’, Teaching Public Administration, 37:2, 135-146 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0144739419837310    

  • Ongaro, Edoardo and Ewan Ferlie (2019) ‘Exploring Strategy-Making in ‘Non-New Public Management Services Settings: The case of European Union Agencies, Administrative Sciences, 9, 23 - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/9/1/23

  • Ongaro, Edoardo and Ewan Ferlie (2020) ‘Strategic Management in Public Organizations: Profiling the Public Entrepreneur as Strategist’, The American Review of Public Administration, 50:4-5, 360-374 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074020909514

  • Ongaro, Edoardo, Gong, Ting and Yijia Jing (2019) ‘Toward Multi-Level Governance in China? Coping with complex public affairs across jurisdictions and organizations’, Public Policy and Administration, 34:2, 105-120 - Also published in Chinese in Fudan Public Administration Review

  • Ongaro, Edoardo, Ferré, Francesca and Giovanni Fattore (2015) The Fiscal Crisis in the Health Sector: Patterns of Cutback Management across Europe, Health Policy, 119:954-963.

  • Ongaro, Edoardo and Walter Kickert (2020) ‘EU-driven Public Sector Reforms’, Public Policy and Administration, 35:2, 117-134

  • Ongaro, Edoardo and Francesco Longo (forthcoming) ‘Explaining System-level Change in Welfare Governance: The Role of Policy Indeterminacy and Concatenations of Social Mechanisms’, Health Economics, Policy and Law

  • Ongaro E. and S. Van Thiel (eds.) (2018) The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe. Basingstoke/London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.

  • Parker, S., Beashel, J., Hartley, J. and Vo, Q. (2017) Leadership to create public value: A case study of an initiative to address rural crime.  Report to CPRL.

  • Roberts J (2017) Losing political office. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Sancino, A., Grossi, G., and Sicilia, M. (forthcoming in 2019). Between patronage and good governance: organizational arrangements in (local) public appointment processes. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 85(2), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852316675944, published online on 16th February 2017.

  • Sancino, A., Rees, J. and Schindele, I. (2017), ‘Coordinating the common good through cross-sector collaborations: re-imagining the role of public sector’ in Stout, M. (eds.), From Austerity to Abundance? Creative Approaches to Coordinating the Common Good, Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management, Vol. 6. Bingley: Emerald.

  • Sancino, A. & Budd, L. (2017), ‘City Leadership and Social Regeneration: The Potential of Civic Leadership and the New Roles for Public Managers and Politicians’ in Sacchetti, S., Christoforou, A., Mosca, M. (eds.), Social Regeneration and Local Development: Cooperation, Social Economy and Public Participation, Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation.

  • Sancino, A. (2016), ‘The Meta Coproduction of Community Outcomes: Towards a Citizens’ Capabilities Approach’, VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Non Profit Organizations, 27(1), 409-424.

  • Sancino, A., Castellani, L. (2016), ‘New development: Directly elected mayors in Italy: creating a strong leader doesn’t always mean creating strong leadership’, Public Money & Management, 36(2): 153-156.

  • Sancino, A. and C. Jacklin-Jarvis (2016). Co-Production and Inter-Organizational Collaboration in the Provision of Public Services: A Critical Discussion. In: Bracci, E., M. Fugini and M. Sicilia (eds.). Coproduction of services in the public sector: experiences and challenges. Milano: PoliMI Springer Briefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, pp.: 13-27.

  • Sicilia, M., Guarini, E., Sancino, A., Andreani, M., Ruffini, R. (2016), ‘Public services management and co-production in multi-level governance settings’, International Review of Administrative Sciences, 82(1): 8-27.

  • Stansfield, A (2016) Clear purpose or sheer survival? National ministerial leadership across multiple arenas. American Review of Public Administration. 46 (4), 78- 98

  • Storey, J. (2016) (ed) Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues an Key Trends, 3rd Edition, London, Routledge

  • Storey J, Hartley J, Denis J-L, ‘t Hart P, and Ulrich D (2017) The Routledge companion to leadership  New York: Routledge.

  • Storey J, Holti R, Hartley J, Marshall M and Mathuru T (2015)  Methods of Mobilizing Clinical Engagement and Clinical Leadership in and around Clinical Commissioning Groups: State of the art literature review and research agenda.

  • Storey, J, Holti, R, Hartley, J; Marshall, M and Matharu, T (2017). Mobilizing Clinical Leadership in and around Clinical Commissioning Groups: A mixed methods study. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

  • Storey J, Holti R, Marshall M, Hartley J and Mathur T (2016)  Clinical leadership through commissioning: Does it work in practice?  Health Services Management Research

  • Vo, Q., Hartley J, Khalil, L., Beashel, J. and Parker, S. (2017) Understanding public value through policing priorities.  Report to CPRL.

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