Mark Goodwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Goodwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodwin |
| SIGNATURE | GOODWIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1476-0591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1009 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Housing, States and Localities
A Means to an End and an End in Itself: Select Committee Membership, Parliamentary Roles and Parliamentary Careers, 1979–Present
Committees are important vehicles for parliamentary careers both as means to a (ministerial) end and as an end in themselves. This article explores the relationship between select committee membership and parliamentary career by analysing committee membership and frontbench appointments for the 2130 Members of Parliament (MPs) first elected since 1979. We focus on two of Donald Searing’s four informal backbench roles—Policy Advocates and Parliame…
The study of legislative committees
Proving that legislative committees really matter is not simple. The assembled papers aim to demonstrate fruitful paths to analysing when committees influence policy, what they can and should do, and how to detect their importance to the political process
A bouncy house? UK select committee newsworthiness, 2005–18
Traditionally, legislative committees have been regarded as quite unimportant in the UK. Some scholars contend that recent reforms have substantially increased the powers of select committees, rendering them genuinely important to policy and the scrutiny of government; others see little sign of change. We examine House of Commons select committees in regard to exactly one indicator of significance, their newspaper coverage. We detect significant …
Conclusion: Prospects for Analysing Committees in Comparative Perspective
While theories of committees in the U.S. Congress can continue to play a central role in the still-growing comparative study of committees, they require careful, frequent modification. Moreover, more fruitful study of committees may require a wider framework, recognising more fully that committees are institutions embedded in wider social structures
Local State
The concept of the local state was introduced and developed during the 1970s and 1980s by a number of authors seeking to relate the activities of the state at a local level to those operating at a national scale. Researchers from political science, urban sociology, and human geography have sought to analyze the specificity of the local state, and to understand the nature of its form, its functions, and its relation with the central state.
Do UK MPs engage more with Select Committees since the Wright Reforms? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis, 1979–2016
The 2010 Wright Reforms are the most significant changes to the Select Committee system in the UK House of Commons since their inauguration in their modern form in 1979. We use interrupted time series techniques (ARIMA) to test the impact of the Wright Report on the level of parliamentarians’ engagement with those Select Committees covered by the Wright Reforms using proxy measures of membership attendance and turnover rates. We find little or no…
Contested space: The contradictory political dynamics of food banking in the UK
This paper offers a critical reappraisal of the politics of food banking in the UK. Existing work has raised concerns about the institutionalisation of food banks, with charitable assistance apparently - even if inadvertently - undermining collectivist welfare and deflecting attention from fundamental injustices in the food system. This paper presents original ethnographic work that examines the neglected politics articulated within food banks th…
Schools Policy, Governance and Politics under New Labour
Political science has not developed a strong sub-field in the politics of education. Three recent works on education policy under New Labour suggest strategies for applying insights drawn from the discipline of political science to the study of the field of education. One strand of existing scholarship on education policy and politics has emphasised the neoliberal, market elements of New Labour schools policy. This review article makes the case f…
Neoliberalism, Big Society, and Progressive Localism
In the UK the current Coalition government has introduced an unprecedented set of reforms to welfare, public services, and local governance under the rubric of 'localism'. Conventional analytics of neoliberalism have commonly portrayed the impacts of these changes in the architectures of governance in blanket terms: as an utterly regressive dilution of local democracy; as an extension of conservative political technology by which state welfare is…
Can dialogue help to improve feedback on examinations
Student dissatisfaction with feedback is widely acknowledged in Higher Education. This has resulted in investigations that have offered suggestions for improving student satisfaction levels. This article examines one area of student concern by focusing on the feedback that students receive on examinations. The article reports the findings of student surveys and focus groups with regard to attitudes towards and experience of examinations. In addit…
Introducing Human Geographies
Introducing Human Geographies is a comprehensive, stimulating and innovative introduction to human geography. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition. Now in full colour and with sixteen new chapters, discussion points and glossary definitions in the margin, it is even more accessible.Part one discusses the principal ideas through which human geographers understand and s…
What Feedback do Students Want
The feedback that students receive on their assignments has been subject to a great deal of debate in universities across the globe. Whereas academics regularly complain that students do not engage with feedback by citing uncollected coursework, students repeatedly protest about the timeliness and quality of feedback, citing illegible, overly critical and a lack of verbal feedback. In this article we report on the findings of feedback practices f…
Regions, Territories and Relationality: Exploring the Regional Dimensions of Political Practice
Goodwin M. Regions, territories and relationality: exploring the regional dimensions of political practice, Regional Studies. Recent conceptual innovations in the discipline of geography have sought to establish the notion of the ‘relational region’. In opposition to the idea that regions are bounded and discrete, lying within a hierarchy of nested scales, the relational view sees a region as open and discontinuous, forged through a set of spatia…
Bringing Structures Back In: The ‘Governance Narrative’, the ‘Decentred Approach’ and ‘Asymmetrical Network Governance’ in the Education and Sport Policy Communities
We reflect upon the ‘governance narrative’ as a means of conceptualizing recent developments in the British state. Recent public administration research has advocated a ‘decentred approach’ that would reject the linear narrative of a shift from hierarchical to network governance. We seek to build on ‘decentring’ theorists' critique of existing governance literature by offering case studies of the education and sport policy communities, arguing th…
English Education Policy after New Labour: Big Society or Back to Basics
This article considers possible future directions for education policy and public service governance under the Conservative‐led coalition government. The article considers the extent to which Conservatives might develop a distinctive strategy for managing public services that breaks decisively with that of the New Labour era. The coalition faces a markedly different political and economic context for public service reform compared to its predeces…
Rethinking the changing structures of rural local government – State power, rural politics and local political strategies
Which Networks Matter in Education Governance? A Reply to Ball's ‘New Philanthropy, New Networks and New Governance in Education’
Stephen Ball's recent article offers an intriguing perspective on the education policy process by engaging with the political science literature on policy networks and governance. Ball opens up the possibility of a fruitful dialogue between political scientists and education researchers by introducing some challenging interpretations of recent developments in the governance of education. In this reply I suggest that a sustained focus on understan…
Choice in Public Services: Crying ‘Wolf’ in the School Choice Debate
Choice, diversity and personalisation have been key to the New Labour project in public services. With the emergence of a reinvigorated Conservative party as a credible electoral threat, and the end of the Blair era, it seems appropriate to consider the continuing viability and longevity of the New Labour public service project. In this article, I approach the issue of choice in public services through an examination of the long‐running controver…
Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: Explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state
Goodwin M., Jones M. and Jones R. (2005) Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state, Regional Studies 39 , 421–436. This paper is concerned with the new institutional geographies of devolution and state restructuring, particularly in the UK. As part of perhaps the biggest change to the UK state since the Acts of Union, the Labour Party has establi…
State modernization, devolution and economic governance: An introduction and guide to debate
Jones, M. D., Goodwin, M. A., Jones, R. (2005). State modernization, devolution and economic governance: An introduction and guide to debate. Regional Studies, 39 (4), 397-403
Practising Human Geography
This work provides a critical introduction to recent disciplinary debates about the practice of human geography examining those methods and practices which are integral to doing geography
Children, social capital and health: Increasing the well‐being of young people in rural Wales
This paper explores the usefulness of employing the concept of social capital within a research project investigating the best ways of meeting the health and well‐being needs of young people living in rural Wales. The first part of the paper provides an overview of some of the current research exploring the relationship between social capital, health and young people. The second part provides an overview of findings from an action research projec…
Devolution, State Personnel, and the Production of New Territories of Governance in the United Kingdom
As a result of the creation of a Scottish Parliament, Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies, and the devolution of power to various regional bodies in England, there has been a substantial territorial refocusing of governance within the United Kingdom. Much has been written in the social and political sciences concerning this change, especially with regard to the formation of new institutions of governance. Less is known concerning the connections …
Devolution and Economic Governance in the UK: Uneven Geographies, Uneven Capacities?
Recent academic debates have suggested that the capacity of any given territory to embed increasingly global processes of economic development partly rests on sub-national social, cultural and institutional forms and supports. In this context, devolution has the potential to alter the institutional architecture of the UK state and this paper interrogates the various ways in which the devolved bodies in the four territories--England, Scotland, Nor…
Space, scale and state strategy: Rethinking urban and regional governance
The last decade has seen a proliferation of theoretical approaches, which have sought to uncover the changing form and governance of cities and regions following the dissolution of the Fordist ‘sociospatial fix’. This article provides a critical review of some of the more influential of these debates that have sought to analyse: the central–local relations of government; the growing influence of ‘regimes’ and ‘growth coalitions’ in energizing urb…
Local Governance, the Crises of Fordism and the Changing Geographies of Regulation
Conceptualizing Countryside Change: From Post-Fordism to Rural Structured Coherence
This paper contributes to the theoretical debates which seek to explain economic restructuring and social recomposition in rural areas. There has been a recent movement towards applying a supposed transition from Fordism to post-Fordism to rural change, but the paper urges caution in this respect, arguing that the regulationist literature requires sensitive handling if it is to fulfil its potential as a framework for conceptualizing rural change.…
Contested space: The contradictory political dynamics of food banking in the UK
This paper offers a critical reappraisal of the politics of food banking in the UK. Existing work has raised concerns about the institutionalisation of food banks, with charitable assistance apparently - even if inadvertently - undermining collectivist welfare and deflecting attention from fundamental injustices in the food system. This paper presents original ethnographic work that examines the neglected politics articulated within food banks th…
Reconstructing an urban and regional political economy: On the State, Politics, Scale, and Explanation
The governance of rural areas: Some emerging research issues and agendas
Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: Explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state
Goodwin M., Jones M. and Jones R. (2005) Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state, Regional Studies 39 , 421–436. This paper is concerned with the new institutional geographies of devolution and state restructuring, particularly in the UK. As part of perhaps the biggest change to the UK state since the Acts of Union, the Labour Party has establi…
Neoliberalism, Big Society, and Progressive Localism
In the UK the current Coalition government has introduced an unprecedented set of reforms to welfare, public services, and local governance under the rubric of 'localism'. Conventional analytics of neoliberalism have commonly portrayed the impacts of these changes in the architectures of governance in blanket terms: as an utterly regressive dilution of local democracy; as an extension of conservative political technology by which state welfare is…
Housing, States and Localities
Deprivation, poverty and marginalization in rural lifestyles in England and Wales
Devolution, State Personnel, and the Production of New Territories of Governance in the United Kingdom
As a result of the creation of a Scottish Parliament, Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies, and the devolution of power to various regional bodies in England, there has been a substantial territorial refocusing of governance within the United Kingdom. Much has been written in the social and political sciences concerning this change, especially with regard to the formation of new institutions of governance. Less is known concerning the connections …
Bringing Structures Back In: The ‘Governance Narrative’, the ‘Decentred Approach’ and ‘Asymmetrical Network Governance’ in the Education and Sport Policy Communities
We reflect upon the ‘governance narrative’ as a means of conceptualizing recent developments in the British state. Recent public administration research has advocated a ‘decentred approach’ that would reject the linear narrative of a shift from hierarchical to network governance. We seek to build on ‘decentring’ theorists' critique of existing governance literature by offering case studies of the education and sport policy communities, arguing th…
Regions, Territories and Relationality: Exploring the Regional Dimensions of Political Practice
Goodwin M. Regions, territories and relationality: exploring the regional dimensions of political practice, Regional Studies. Recent conceptual innovations in the discipline of geography have sought to establish the notion of the ‘relational region’. In opposition to the idea that regions are bounded and discrete, lying within a hierarchy of nested scales, the relational view sees a region as open and discontinuous, forged through a set of spatia…
Rethinking the changing structures of rural local government – State power, rural politics and local political strategies
Which Networks Matter in Education Governance? A Reply to Ball's ‘New Philanthropy, New Networks and New Governance in Education’
Stephen Ball's recent article offers an intriguing perspective on the education policy process by engaging with the political science literature on policy networks and governance. Ball opens up the possibility of a fruitful dialogue between political scientists and education researchers by introducing some challenging interpretations of recent developments in the governance of education. In this reply I suggest that a sustained focus on understan…
State modernization, devolution and economic governance: An introduction and guide to debate
Jones, M. D., Goodwin, M. A., Jones, R. (2005). State modernization, devolution and economic governance: An introduction and guide to debate. Regional Studies, 39 (4), 397-403
A Means to an End and an End in Itself: Select Committee Membership, Parliamentary Roles and Parliamentary Careers, 1979–Present
Committees are important vehicles for parliamentary careers both as means to a (ministerial) end and as an end in themselves. This article explores the relationship between select committee membership and parliamentary career by analysing committee membership and frontbench appointments for the 2130 Members of Parliament (MPs) first elected since 1979. We focus on two of Donald Searing’s four informal backbench roles—Policy Advocates and Parliame…
Do UK MPs engage more with Select Committees since the Wright Reforms? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis, 1979–2016
The 2010 Wright Reforms are the most significant changes to the Select Committee system in the UK House of Commons since their inauguration in their modern form in 1979. We use interrupted time series techniques (ARIMA) to test the impact of the Wright Report on the level of parliamentarians’ engagement with those Select Committees covered by the Wright Reforms using proxy measures of membership attendance and turnover rates. We find little or no…
The study of legislative committees
Proving that legislative committees really matter is not simple. The assembled papers aim to demonstrate fruitful paths to analysing when committees influence policy, what they can and should do, and how to detect their importance to the political process
What Feedback do Students Want
The feedback that students receive on their assignments has been subject to a great deal of debate in universities across the globe. Whereas academics regularly complain that students do not engage with feedback by citing uncollected coursework, students repeatedly protest about the timeliness and quality of feedback, citing illegible, overly critical and a lack of verbal feedback. In this article we report on the findings of feedback practices f…
Policy variations in local states: Uneven Development and Local Social Relations
Regulation as process: Regulation theory and comparative urban and regional research
Conclusion: Prospects for Analysing Committees in Comparative Perspective
While theories of committees in the U.S. Congress can continue to play a central role in the still-growing comparative study of committees, they require careful, frequent modification. Moreover, more fruitful study of committees may require a wider framework, recognising more fully that committees are institutions embedded in wider social structures
Governing the Spaces of Difference: Regulation and Globalisation in London
This paper sets out a research agenda for using regulation theory to analyse local governance in the global city. It initially considers results from the 1991 census to explore social inequalities in London, and investigates how these differ from inequalities in other British metropolitan areas. The paper then looks at the changing nature of local governance in London, examining the notion of post-Fordist local governance as well as the idea of l…
A bouncy house? UK select committee newsworthiness, 2005–18
Traditionally, legislative committees have been regarded as quite unimportant in the UK. Some scholars contend that recent reforms have substantially increased the powers of select committees, rendering them genuinely important to policy and the scrutiny of government; others see little sign of change. We examine House of Commons select committees in regard to exactly one indicator of significance, their newspaper coverage. We detect significant …
Local economic policies: Local regeneration or political mobilization
1985). Local economic policies: Local regeneration or political mobilization? Local Government Studies: Vol. 11, What is Happening to Local Government?, pp. 75-96
The local state and local economic policy: Political Mobilisation or Economic Regeneration
The local state and uneven development: Behind the Local Government Crisis
Policy variations in local states: Uneven Development and Local Social Relations
Removing local government autonomy: Political Centralisation and financial control
The state and the city
Uneven development and civil society in Western and Eastern Europe
The State in Action: Public Policy and Politics
Conceptualizing Countryside Change: From Post-Fordism to Rural Structured Coherence
This paper contributes to the theoretical debates which seek to explain economic restructuring and social recomposition in rural areas. There has been a recent movement towards applying a supposed transition from Fordism to post-Fordism to rural change, but the paper urges caution in this respect, arguing that the regulationist literature requires sensitive handling if it is to fulfil its potential as a framework for conceptualizing rural change.…
Deprivation, poverty and marginalization in rural lifestyles in England and Wales
Governing the Spaces of Difference: Regulation and Globalisation in London
This paper sets out a research agenda for using regulation theory to analyse local governance in the global city. It initially considers results from the 1991 census to explore social inequalities in London, and investigates how these differ from inequalities in other British metropolitan areas. The paper then looks at the changing nature of local governance in London, examining the notion of post-Fordist local governance as well as the idea of l…
Local Governance, the Crises of Fordism and the Changing Geographies of Regulation
The governance of rural areas: Some emerging research issues and agendas
Space, scale and state strategy: Rethinking urban and regional governance
The last decade has seen a proliferation of theoretical approaches, which have sought to uncover the changing form and governance of cities and regions following the dissolution of the Fordist ‘sociospatial fix’. This article provides a critical review of some of the more influential of these debates that have sought to analyse: the central–local relations of government; the growing influence of ‘regimes’ and ‘growth coalitions’ in energizing urb…
Reconstructing an urban and regional political economy: On the State, Politics, Scale, and Explanation
Partnerships, Power, and Scale in Rural Governance
Partnerships have become established as a significant vehicle for the implementation of rural development policy in Britain. In promoting new working relationships between different state agencies and between the public, private, and voluntary sectors, partnerships have arguably contributed to a reconfiguration of the scalar hierarchy of the state. In this paper we draw on recent debates about the ‘politics of scale’ and on empirical examples fro…
Regulation as process: Regulation theory and comparative urban and regional research
Devolution and Economic Governance in the UK: Uneven Geographies, Uneven Capacities?
Recent academic debates have suggested that the capacity of any given territory to embed increasingly global processes of economic development partly rests on sub-national social, cultural and institutional forms and supports. In this context, devolution has the potential to alter the institutional architecture of the UK state and this paper interrogates the various ways in which the devolved bodies in the four territories--England, Scotland, Nor…
Practising Human Geography
This work provides a critical introduction to recent disciplinary debates about the practice of human geography examining those methods and practices which are integral to doing geography
Children, social capital and health: Increasing the well‐being of young people in rural Wales
This paper explores the usefulness of employing the concept of social capital within a research project investigating the best ways of meeting the health and well‐being needs of young people living in rural Wales. The first part of the paper provides an overview of some of the current research exploring the relationship between social capital, health and young people. The second part provides an overview of findings from an action research projec…
Devolution, State Personnel, and the Production of New Territories of Governance in the United Kingdom
As a result of the creation of a Scottish Parliament, Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies, and the devolution of power to various regional bodies in England, there has been a substantial territorial refocusing of governance within the United Kingdom. Much has been written in the social and political sciences concerning this change, especially with regard to the formation of new institutions of governance. Less is known concerning the connections …
Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: Explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state
Goodwin M., Jones M. and Jones R. (2005) Devolution, constitutional change and economic development: explaining and understanding the new institutional geographies of the British state, Regional Studies 39 , 421–436. This paper is concerned with the new institutional geographies of devolution and state restructuring, particularly in the UK. As part of perhaps the biggest change to the UK state since the Acts of Union, the Labour Party has establi…
State modernization, devolution and economic governance: An introduction and guide to debate
Jones, M. D., Goodwin, M. A., Jones, R. (2005). State modernization, devolution and economic governance: An introduction and guide to debate. Regional Studies, 39 (4), 397-403
Which Networks Matter in Education Governance? A Reply to Ball's ‘New Philanthropy, New Networks and New Governance in Education’
Stephen Ball's recent article offers an intriguing perspective on the education policy process by engaging with the political science literature on policy networks and governance. Ball opens up the possibility of a fruitful dialogue between political scientists and education researchers by introducing some challenging interpretations of recent developments in the governance of education. In this reply I suggest that a sustained focus on understan…
Choice in Public Services: Crying ‘Wolf’ in the School Choice Debate
Choice, diversity and personalisation have been key to the New Labour project in public services. With the emergence of a reinvigorated Conservative party as a credible electoral threat, and the end of the Blair era, it seems appropriate to consider the continuing viability and longevity of the New Labour public service project. In this article, I approach the issue of choice in public services through an examination of the long‐running controver…
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