Jerry M Lewis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 107150 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jerry M Lewis |
| PRENOMES | Jerry M |
| SOBRENOME | Lewis |
| ASSINATURA | LEWIS J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5858-8634 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 80 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 815 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Context is everything
Publicly funded research universities are increasingly required to demonstrate their societal value through detailed reporting mechanisms. In several national contexts, this has taken the form of narrative impact case studies submitted for formal assessment. This paper examines the extent of convergence in constructions of societal impact across case studies from the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong. Topic modelling was applied to the ful…
Vale Siobhan O’Sullivan
It is with great sadness that we inform colleagues of the passing of Associate Professor Siobhan O’Sullivan on 17 June 2023. Siobhan is remembered for her bubbly personality, excellent research on
Policy on innovation in Australia
Innovation has joined the mainstream in many nations as governments search for new ways to tackle challenging societal and economic problems. But Australia is seen to be lagging on innovation policy. Is this related to how governments define innovation? What do they regard as the problem they are addressing? What proposed solutions follow from this? This paper examines how Australian governments have defined innovation over four decades, signalli…
Vale Siobhan O'Sullivan
It is with a sense of privilege as well as loss that many are celebrating the contributions of Associate Professor Siobhan O'Sullivan, as well as mourning her. She passed away on 17 June 2023. Siobhan was an excellent scholar who made significant contributions to research on animal rights and welfare systems. She was also a tireless advocate for the disadvantaged—both humans and non-human animals. Her passion and service were exemplary, and she p…
Are policy tools and governance modes coupled? Analysing welfare-to-work reform at the frontline
This paper considers the link between policy tools and governance modes – the characteristic ways frontline staff are meta-governed. It asks: Are substantive policy tools coupled to procedural tools (governance modes) that can guide local service delivery agencies and the work of individuals delivering welfare services? The substantive policy tools in this case are those typically utilised to reform welfare-to-work services: contracting-out of se…
Procedural policy tools in theory and practice
Policy tools are a critical part of policy-making, providing the ‘means’ by which policy ‘ends’ are achieved. Knowledge of their different origin, nature and capabilities is vital for understanding policy formulation and decision-making, and they have been the subject of inquiry in many policy-related disciplines and sector-specific studies. Yet many crucial aspects of policy tools remain unexplored. Existing studies on policy tools used in polic…
Understanding, measuring, and encouraging public policy research impact
Academics undertaking public policy research are committed to tackling interesting questions driven by curiosity, but they generally also want their research to have an impact on government, service delivery, or public debate. Yet our ability to capture the impact of this research is limited because impact is under‐theorised, and current systems of research impact evaluation do not allow for multiple or changing research goals. This article devel…
Formally Alive yet Practically Complex
When design meets power
Responding to the need for innovation, governments have begun experimenting with ‘design thinking’ approaches to reframe policy issues and generate and test new policy solutions. This paper examines what is new about design thinking and compares this to rational and participatory approaches to policymaking, highlighting the difference between their logics, foundations and the basis on which they ‘speak truth to power’. It then examines the impact…
Improving public policy and administration
In recent years, design approaches to policymaking have gained popularity among policymakers. However, a critical reflection on their added value and on how contemporary ‘design-thinking’ approaches relates to the classical idea of public administration as a design science, is still lacking. This introductory paper reflects upon the use of design approaches in public administration. We delve into the more traditional ideas of design as launched b…
Race to the top
Gender balance in political representation is an important goal of governments. In this paper, we ask: Do voters judge female politicians less favourably than male politicians, when given an otherwise identical set of information about their backgrounds? We employ an innovative online experiment (N = 1933) to measure Australians’ attitudes towards female politicians and examine a series of hypotheses. We find voters see female candidates as more …
The rise of public sector innovation labs
How innovation drivers, networking and leadership shape public sector innovation capacity
The need to understand innovation in public sector environments is growing. There is also a need to build theory, test it empirically and compare across jurisdictions. This article aims to understand the factors that have an impact on innovation capacity. It examines the self-rated innovation capacity of three European city governments – Barcelona, Copenhagen and Rotterdam – in regard to innovation drivers (structures, processes and contextual fa…
Governance, public policy and boundary-making
This symposium draws attention to innovative and emerging research in Australian public policy exploring the interplay of governance, public policy and boundary-making. Conceptually and substantively, boundaries are fundamental to understanding policy outcomes, yet remain overlooked and undertheorised. We aim to contribute to public policy debates, in Australia and beyond, by provoking further reflection on this theme, in particular, the distribu…
The politics and consequences of performance measurement
Performance measurement is most often considered as the apolitical application of the use of information, collected and used to demonstrate effectiveness against a set of criteria. In reality, many complexities are hidden behind this seemingly rational and technical enterprise. This paper establishes a conceptual framework for the collection of articles in this volume. It examines the politics of performance measurement — who decides what should …
Accountability
Individual and Institutional Accountability
Performance measurement is a particular type of accountability, which might be imposed by governments but is institutionally implemented and individually experienced. Over the last three decades, the emphasis on measuring the performance of publicly funded services has risen, along with concerns about the need to demonstrate a wise use of public funds. This paper examines the dynamic interaction of the institutional and individual levels of accou…
Continuity and Change in English Childcare Policy 1960-2000
The failure of the UK to develop a coherent, universal, public system of childcare in the post-war period is well known. More recently, there has been a strong debate as to whether the New Labour Governments' explicit childcare policies, first set out in 1998, represent a substantial change or whether policy continuities are more significant. This paper uses ideas about incremental policy change, together with a close investigation of archival as…
Policy design as craft
From performance measurement to learning
Over the last few decades accountability has accommodated an increasing number of different political, legal and administrative goals. This article focuses on the administrative aspect of accountability and explores the potential perils of a shift from performance measurement to learning. While this is inherently positive in its intentions, we argue that it might constitute a new source of government overload. We propose four explanations for why…
Statistical Network Analysis for Analyzing Policy Networks
To analyze social network data using standard statistical approaches is to risk incorrect inference. The dependencies among observations implied in a network conceptualization undermine standard assumptions of the usual general linear models. One of the most quickly expanding areas of social and policy network methodology is the development of statistical modeling approaches that can accommodate such dependent data. In this article, we review thr…
Civic Engagement and Associationalism
The relationship between participation in civic and political activities and membership of voluntary associations is now well established. What is less clear is the relative impacts of how much time people spend on group activities (associational intensity), and the number and type of groups that individuals are involved with (associational scope). Does it matter in terms of civic engagement, for example, whether one is a member of a quilting-cir…
How Politicians and Bureaucrats Network
Effective public administration relies on the passage of information through interpersonal communication networks. While we have a vast research literature concerning formal structures and roles in organizations, including public agencies and government institutions, we know far less about the flow of information through semiformal, voluntary interactions. In this paper we use a large survey to explore the networking patterns of politicians and b…
The Future of Network Governance Research
The popularity and scope of network governance research and practice continues to expand from its divergent foundations, assumptions and methodological positions. This paper introduces a symposium of papers on this substantial sub‐field by first summarizing the sprawling research endeavour that comprises it. The main theoretical and empirical approaches that have been used to guide it to date are then briefly described, emphasizing recent debates…
Connecting and Cooperating
Jenny M. Lewis establishes a set of parameters for social capital that help us examine how policy can increase cooperation between organisations and individuals, and how a social capital framework can also help us understand the public policy process. This is an invaluable text for researchers, policy-makers and students who are interested in how social capital theories can be integrated into grassroots policy making both in Australia and oversea…
Patterns of Development in Work/Family Reconciliation Policies for Parents in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK in the 2000s
Work/family reconciliation policies have increasingly become part of employment-led social policy at both EU and Member State levels. Given this trend, we expected to see more attention to policies that unequivocally promote women's employment: childcare provision and the promotion of flexible working, together with reform of leaves that permit labour market exit in order to care for children. Our examination of the nature of change in policy goa…
Gender and Welfare Regimes
This article reviews the feminist critique of Gøsta Esping-Andersen's typology of welfare regimes and revisits my earlier (1992) analysis of gender and welfare regimes together with criticisms of that work. I briefly discuss some methodological issues and attempt to justify my own choice of variables and of an explanatory model derived from empirical historical work. I pay particular attention to critiques that insist on the use of caring regimes…
Bureaucracy, Network, or Enterprise? Comparing Models of Governance in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand
Theories of democratic government traditionally have relied on a model of organization in which officials act impartially, accept clear lines of accountability and supervision, and define their day–to–day activities through rules, procedures, and confined discretion. In the past 10 years, however, a serious challenge to this ideal has been mounted by critics and reformers who favor market, network, or “mixed–economy” models. We assess the extent …
Statistical Network Analysis for Analyzing Policy Networks
To analyze social network data using standard statistical approaches is to risk incorrect inference. The dependencies among observations implied in a network conceptualization undermine standard assumptions of the usual general linear models. One of the most quickly expanding areas of social and policy network methodology is the development of statistical modeling approaches that can accommodate such dependent data. In this article, we review thr…
The rise of public sector innovation labs
Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia
In 1998, we were witnessing major changes in frontline social service delivery across the OECD and this was theorised as the emergence of a post-Fordist welfare state. Changes in public management thinking, known as New Public Management (NPM), informed this shift, as did public choice theory. A 1998 study of Australia's then partially privatised employment assistance sector provided an ideal place to test the impact of such changes upon actual s…
When design meets power
Responding to the need for innovation, governments have begun experimenting with ‘design thinking’ approaches to reframe policy issues and generate and test new policy solutions. This paper examines what is new about design thinking and compares this to rational and participatory approaches to policymaking, highlighting the difference between their logics, foundations and the basis on which they ‘speak truth to power’. It then examines the impact…
UK Work/Family Balance Policies and Gender Equality, 1997-2005
Since 1997, the UK has developed policies to address the issue of work/family balance in the form of childcare services, leaves for childcare, and the right to request flexible working patterns. We examine the policy aims and nature of these different approaches and assess how far they promote gender equality, which we define in terms of the possibility of making a “real” or “genuine” choice for men and women to “work and care.”
Governance at Ground Level
Many governments have attempted to rearm their public management systems over the past decade. But how do reforms play out at the ontline of government where the work is done? We looked at the impacts of system changes on frontline staff. In an effort to understand the actual work orientations of ontline bureaucrats, we identified four distinctive images of bureaucratic work: procedural bureaucracy, corporate bureaucracy, market bureaucracy, and …
Being around and knowing the players
Improving public policy and administration
In recent years, design approaches to policymaking have gained popularity among policymakers. However, a critical reflection on their added value and on how contemporary ‘design-thinking’ approaches relates to the classical idea of public administration as a design science, is still lacking. This introductory paper reflects upon the use of design approaches in public administration. We delve into the more traditional ideas of design as launched b…
Procedural policy tools in theory and practice
Policy tools are a critical part of policy-making, providing the ‘means’ by which policy ‘ends’ are achieved. Knowledge of their different origin, nature and capabilities is vital for understanding policy formulation and decision-making, and they have been the subject of inquiry in many policy-related disciplines and sector-specific studies. Yet many crucial aspects of policy tools remain unexplored. Existing studies on policy tools used in polic…
The politics and consequences of performance measurement
Performance measurement is most often considered as the apolitical application of the use of information, collected and used to demonstrate effectiveness against a set of criteria. In reality, many complexities are hidden behind this seemingly rational and technical enterprise. This paper establishes a conceptual framework for the collection of articles in this volume. It examines the politics of performance measurement — who decides what should …
The Future of Network Governance Research
The popularity and scope of network governance research and practice continues to expand from its divergent foundations, assumptions and methodological positions. This paper introduces a symposium of papers on this substantial sub‐field by first summarizing the sprawling research endeavour that comprises it. The main theoretical and empirical approaches that have been used to guide it to date are then briefly described, emphasizing recent debates…
How innovation drivers, networking and leadership shape public sector innovation capacity
The need to understand innovation in public sector environments is growing. There is also a need to build theory, test it empirically and compare across jurisdictions. This article aims to understand the factors that have an impact on innovation capacity. It examines the self-rated innovation capacity of three European city governments – Barcelona, Copenhagen and Rotterdam – in regard to innovation drivers (structures, processes and contextual fa…
Innovation and Innovators Inside Government
Innovation and innovators inhabit an institutional space, which is partially defined by formal positions and partially by informal networks. This article investigates the role of politicians and bureaucrats in fostering innovation inside government and provides an empirical explanation of who the innovators are, whether this is mostly an attribute of position or role, or mostly an effect of certain forms of networking. The study uses original dat…
Partnerships in primary care in Australia
Medicine, economics and agenda-setting
Research funding systems in Australia, New Zealand and the UK
The funding of research in universities is increasingly based on direction of resources in support of 'excellence'. Funding decisions are linked to evaluation through research funding systems, but there has so far been little comparative empirical research on the perceived effects of these systems. This article reports on a study involving interviews with 274 academics at universities in Australia (Melbourne), New Zealand (Auckland) and the UK (B…
Civic Engagement and Associationalism
The relationship between participation in civic and political activities and membership of voluntary associations is now well established. What is less clear is the relative impacts of how much time people spend on group activities (associational intensity), and the number and type of groups that individuals are involved with (associational scope). Does it matter in terms of civic engagement, for example, whether one is a member of a quilting-cir…
The Sociology of Mass-Media Communicators
Symbols of Collective Memory
Monument and memorial building is one of the more dramatic forms of symbolic expression. This form of symbolic expression represents aspects of a community's collective history; and its existence thereby serves to crystallize consensus and solidarity. The building of the memorial is a dialectic of symbolic interaction explicated through use of a social process model. This article will first describe the theoretical issues involved with collective…
Policy design as craft
From performance measurement to learning
Over the last few decades accountability has accommodated an increasing number of different political, legal and administrative goals. This article focuses on the administrative aspect of accountability and explores the potential perils of a shift from performance measurement to learning. While this is inherently positive in its intentions, we argue that it might constitute a new source of government overload. We propose four explanations for why…
How Politicians and Bureaucrats Network
Effective public administration relies on the passage of information through interpersonal communication networks. While we have a vast research literature concerning formal structures and roles in organizations, including public agencies and government institutions, we know far less about the flow of information through semiformal, voluntary interactions. In this paper we use a large survey to explore the networking patterns of politicians and b…
The Sociology of Mass-Media Communicators
A Study of the Kent State Incident Using Smelser's Theory of Collective Behavior1
Social Control Violence and Radicalizat The Kent State Case
This study explores two popular hypotheses as to the effects of the employment of excessive social control force on student demonstrators. One hypothesis suggests that experiencing social control violence will tend to radicalize students, while the other suggests that it will pacify them. A questionnaire survey of the entire student body and interviews with 233 Kent State University undergraduates measuring their attitudes toward violence, and th…
Follow-up of adolescents treated in a psychiatric hospital
Book reviewed in this article: Ideally, programs for adolescents in psychiatric hospitals should be based on empirical studies of long-term effectiveness of different treatment techniques. This paper reviews the literature and isolates six variables significantly related to long-term outcome. Components of the process-reactive variable are examined separately for predictive ability, and other variables that suggest directions for research are pre…
Some Types of Metal Chafing-Dish
The evidence of inventories and port-books shows that chafing-dishes were widely used and traded between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries, the types ranging from vessels of precious metals to everyday objects of pottery, which presumably imitated the metallic forms. This paper, which is not claimed to be exhaustive, defines seven types of ‘latten’ vessels current during the period, attempting to date them and assign them to areas of man…
Social Control Violence and Radicalization
This study explores two popular hypotheses as to the effects of the employment of excessive social control force on student demonstrators. One hypothesis suggests that experiencing social control violence will tend to radicalize students, while the other suggests that it will pacify them. A questionnaire survey of the entire student body and interviews with 233 Kent State University undergraduates measuring their attitudes toward violence, and th…
Anti-R.O.T.C. Sit-in
This study compares social characteristics, political and protest activities, and the impact of social control violence on participants and nonparticipants in a sit-in ending in arrest at Kent State University. The findings show that participants are different from the nonparticipants on several variables including college major, religious preference, personal political position and parents' political position. Participants and nonparticipants we…
The Black Family in Modern Society
The Strategy of Social Protest
The permeability of the political arena. The challenging group. The meaning of success. The strategy of thinking small. The limits of solidarity. The success of the unruly. Combat readiness. The historical context of challenges. The limits of pluralism. Challenging groups since 1945. Appendices. Bibliography. Index
Social Death
Social Control Violence and Radicalization
Utilizing self-reports of Kent State students' protest and socio-political activity before and after May 4, 1970, this study evaluates the plausibility of two hypotheses. The radicalization hypothesis suggests that exposure to extreme social control violence, such as that employed by National Guardsmen on Kent's campus, would lead to greater protest activity. The pacification hypothesis suggests that protest activity would decrease after exposure…
The Differentiation of Popular Culture Audiences
Extensions to the sociology of the inept
Mass-Mediated Culture
Kent State and May 4th
Man after Work
Huck Finn and the game model gloss
Kent State
The public perception of rock concert violence
(1982). The public perception of rock concert violence. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 8, No. 3-4, pp. 45-53
Peacemarshalling
Crowd Control at English Football Matches
This study examines the crowd control techniques of English police at football (soccer) matches. Data were gathered using participant observation procedures at football matches in the Midlands of England. The study concluded that English police are effective in nonlethal crowd control because they have subtle techniques which allows effective and quick responses to the changing dynamics of football crowds
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change
INTRODUCTIONPatrick G. CoyPART I: COALITION DYNAMICS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTSLINKING STRATEGIC CHOICE WITH MACRO-ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS: STRATEGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT ARTICULATION Dennis J. Downey and Deana A. RohlingerCOALITION DISSOLUTION, MOBILIZATION, AND NETWORK DYNAMICS IN THE U.S. ANTIWAR MOVEMENTMichael T. Heaney and Fabio RojasSOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND COALITIONS: COMPARISONS FROM THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINAElizabe…
The Long Struggle
The rehabilitation movement, viewed by some as the best-kept secret in mental health, is finding increasing support and visibility in the troubled aftermath of deinstitutionalization. A new wave of interest in functional performance and skills of daily living has generated more programs, more research, and an expanding body of knowlege. Theory and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation is a welcome and useful addition to the field, both for the s…
Intergenerational Influences on the Parent-Infant Relationship in the Transition to Parenthood
In this study, questions were addressed concerning the intergenerational transmission of parent-child relationships in couples going through the transition to parenthood. During the second trimester of their first pregnancy, couples provided information concerning experiences of parenting in their family of origin, then were reinterviewed and observed interacting with their infants at 3 months postpartum. It was expected that when these young adu…
Crisis Resolution
On May 11, 1985 a national crisis began in England. Shortly before the interval (halftime) of a soccer match, a fire swept through one of the stands at Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England. Fifty-six people were killed within five minutes with more than 200 spectators injured. The study looks at the societal reaction to this tragedy and is guided by a model developed by Jeffrey Alexander (1985). Alexander, drawing on the work of Emile Durkh…
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