Geoffrey Dudley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4383701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Dudley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Dudley |
| SIGNATURE | DUDLEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7489-7672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 218 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Brexit and UK policy-making
The Westminster Model (WM) remains dominant in UK post-Brexit policy-making, with few signs that the UK Government is willing to cede power to the devolved administrations and external interests. Despite the plebiscitary vote for Brexit in the 2016 Referendum, the implementation of that change has been dependent on the vagaries of the WM, and a succession of internal crises within the governing Conservative Party. The case studies in the special …
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Paradox of UK Government Control of the Active Travel Agenda
Low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) are designed to remove motorised traffic from residential streets, while leaving them permeable to pedestrians and cyclists, and they have become a popular means to promote active travel. During the recent pandemic, the government introduced the Active Travel Fund in England to facilitate the rapid implementation of LTNs, but this also resulted in a powerful top‐down control element. This in turn has resulted in …
A long‐term perspective on entrepreneurial strategies and their impact on British road policy
The case study presented in this paper combines citation and discourse network analyses to explore entrepreneurial strategies and their long‐term impact on public policy. The analysis draws on and develops previously published research that documents entrepreneurial influences on British road policy since the 1980s. Drawing in particular upon evidence presented in the 2013 Action for Roads White Paper, we conclude that it is not enough to focus r…
Narrative strategies in the policy process
Public policy decisions are often attributed to narrative strategies that impact policy-oriented learning within and across advocacy coalitions. Public policy research recognizes the role of influential individuals and their narrative strategies in this context. Yet frameworks that have been developed through this research lack sufficient guidance to distinguish individual learners. By combining theories of dual learning and public policy process…
The Rise of Uber and Regulating the Disruptive Innovator
The ride‐hailing company Uber has achieved extremely rapid global expansion by means of outmanoeuvring governments, regulators and competitors. The rise of the company has been based on a deliberate strategy of acting as a market disruptive innovator through a user friendly technology and making use of the ‘sharing economy’. These attributes are not unique, but are distinctively augmented by a relentless expansionary ambition and an ability to ma…
Democracy and Interest Groups
By Grant Jordan and William A. Maloney Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007, viii + 233 pp., £50.00, ISBN 978-0-333-76333-9 (hbk) Basic questions about the extent to which groups may or may not en
Individuals and the Dynamics of Policy Learning
In recent years, the phenomenon whereby key individuals introduce effective ideas into policy processes has been identified as a vital agent in the redefinition of policy issues. In turn, this raises the basic question of how these individuals themselves undergo processes of learning and change. The article examines three models of policy learning in order to analyse what they may tell us about the dynamics of individual learning: the advocacy co…
The Enlightenment Function and Dimensions of Time
The evolutionary model provides important insights into the causal mechanisms of policy change. This works particularly through the notion that the introduction and success or failure of new ideas is a key element in instigating these policy change processes. The survival of an idea is also dependent on key temporal and spatial factors. An idea therefore urgently requires a method of propagation in order to reproduce itself. One means of this ide…
Ideas, bargaining and flexible policy communities
Critiques of policy networks have highlighted particularly the inability of concepts such as policy communities to explain policy change. The established construction of policy community places it chiefly as a metaphor for a relatively stable network within the policy process, which emphasizes the resource dependencies between key stakeholders. Typically, a process of bargaining brings about accommodation and a state of negotiated order. However,…
Symposium
2000). Symposium: Theories of the Policy Process. Journal of European Public Policy: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 122-140
British Steel And Government Since Privatization
Privatization has its own distinctive dynamics, resulting particularly from the institutional restructuring which tends to transform policy networks and communities. This happens principally for two reasons. Firstly, the crucial balance of resource dependencies is changed irrevocably, and established policy communities break down. Secondly, the separation between the principal actors tends to produce a ‘re‐framing’ of major policy issues. Here, S…
Transplanting ideas in policy networks
The crisis in local government has made it susceptible to the well known principles of Reinventing Government, particularly ideas about partnership and government as catalyst. It is important however, to understand the conditions under which new ideas, such as reinventing local government, can be successfully transplanted into existing policy networks. Hence the article examines the contrasting fortunes of the local authority single issue group S…
Competing advocacy coalitions and the process of 'frame reflection
European Union steel policy offers a particularly good example of how policy ideas in the form of 'policy frames' can be transplanted across national boundaries and into supranational arenas via interests, in the form of advocacy coalitions, and individual policy entrepreneurs. These dynamics of policy change illustrate not only the power of economic and political ideas to influence policy, but also how interests compete to impose their own 'fram…
Arenas without Rules and the Policy Change Process
A key task of governments is to construct and manage systems of consultation whereby the vast array of interest groups seeking to influence public policy can be accommodated. Conventional wisdom holds that key insider groups secure for themselves special privileges, not least of which is an ability to prevent radical policy change. A concomitant view is that public policy emerges from relatively stable networks of actors who have some mutual reso…
Book notes
S. Leibfried and P. Pierson (eds) (1995) European Social Policy: Between Fragmentation and Integration (Washington DC: Brookings Institution), i‐ix, 1–492 pp.; ISBN 0 8157 5248 2; £35.95 Jack Hayward (ed.) (1995) Industrial Enterprise and European Integration: From National to International Champions in Western Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press), i‐xi, 1–366 pp.; ISBN 0 198 27972 8; (hbk) £35 R. Gillespie, F. Rodrigo and J. Story (eds) (199…
Promiscuous and Celibate Ministerial Styles
Journal Article Promiscuous and Celibate Ministerial Styles: Policy Change, Policy Networks and British Roads Policy Get access GEOFFREY DUDLEY, GEOFFREY DUDLEY *Research Fellow in the Department of Government, Univeristy of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JEREMY RICHARDSON JEREMY RICHARDSON †Professor of European Public Policy, Department of Government, University of Essex. We wish to acknowledge th…
Why does policy change over time? Adversarial policy communities, alternative policy arenas, and British trunk roads policy 1945–95
This article examines some of the processes conditioning both policy stability and policy change. It focuses on how established policy communities (usually associated with policy stability) can exist alongside a powerful dynamic of change within the policy subsystem. By listing and analysing agents of exogenous and endogenous stability and change, it is concluded that the concepts of epistemic communities, advocacy coalitions and choice of 'image…
Book notes
Neill Nugent (1994) The Government and Politics of the European Union (3rd edn) (London: Macmillan), i‐xxi, 1–473 pp.; ISBN 0 333 61445 3 (pbk) £12.99 B.J. Nelson and N. Chowdhury (eds) (1994) Women and Politics Worldwide (London: Yale University Press); index; ISBN 0 300 05407 6 (cloth) £35 José A. Gómez‐Ibanez and John R. Meyer (1993) Going Private. The International Experience with Transport Privatization (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institu…
The Next Steps Agencies, Political Salience and the Arm's‐length Principle
The Next Steps agencies preserve a long tradition as the latest manifestation of the arm's‐length principle of ministerial control. During the major part of this century, the now almost defunct public corporations offered one of the best examples of the arm's‐length principle at work, and the recorded experiences of participants can provide valuable lessons for the Next Steps agencies. This article employs the diaries of Barbara Castle during her…
The British Steel Corporation and Problems of Political Management
Pluralism, Policy Making and Implementation
Why does policy change over time? Adversarial policy communities, alternative policy arenas, and British trunk roads policy 1945–95
This article examines some of the processes conditioning both policy stability and policy change. It focuses on how established policy communities (usually associated with policy stability) can exist alongside a powerful dynamic of change within the policy subsystem. By listing and analysing agents of exogenous and endogenous stability and change, it is concluded that the concepts of epistemic communities, advocacy coalitions and choice of 'image…
Competing advocacy coalitions and the process of 'frame reflection
European Union steel policy offers a particularly good example of how policy ideas in the form of 'policy frames' can be transplanted across national boundaries and into supranational arenas via interests, in the form of advocacy coalitions, and individual policy entrepreneurs. These dynamics of policy change illustrate not only the power of economic and political ideas to influence policy, but also how interests compete to impose their own 'fram…
Arenas without Rules and the Policy Change Process
A key task of governments is to construct and manage systems of consultation whereby the vast array of interest groups seeking to influence public policy can be accommodated. Conventional wisdom holds that key insider groups secure for themselves special privileges, not least of which is an ability to prevent radical policy change. A concomitant view is that public policy emerges from relatively stable networks of actors who have some mutual reso…
The Next Steps Agencies, Political Salience and the Arm's‐length Principle
The Next Steps agencies preserve a long tradition as the latest manifestation of the arm's‐length principle of ministerial control. During the major part of this century, the now almost defunct public corporations offered one of the best examples of the arm's‐length principle at work, and the recorded experiences of participants can provide valuable lessons for the Next Steps agencies. This article employs the diaries of Barbara Castle during her…
Symposium
2000). Symposium: Theories of the Policy Process. Journal of European Public Policy: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 122-140
The Rise of Uber and Regulating the Disruptive Innovator
The ride‐hailing company Uber has achieved extremely rapid global expansion by means of outmanoeuvring governments, regulators and competitors. The rise of the company has been based on a deliberate strategy of acting as a market disruptive innovator through a user friendly technology and making use of the ‘sharing economy’. These attributes are not unique, but are distinctively augmented by a relentless expansionary ambition and an ability to ma…
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Paradox of UK Government Control of the Active Travel Agenda
Low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) are designed to remove motorised traffic from residential streets, while leaving them permeable to pedestrians and cyclists, and they have become a popular means to promote active travel. During the recent pandemic, the government introduced the Active Travel Fund in England to facilitate the rapid implementation of LTNs, but this also resulted in a powerful top‐down control element. This in turn has resulted in …
Ideas, bargaining and flexible policy communities
Critiques of policy networks have highlighted particularly the inability of concepts such as policy communities to explain policy change. The established construction of policy community places it chiefly as a metaphor for a relatively stable network within the policy process, which emphasizes the resource dependencies between key stakeholders. Typically, a process of bargaining brings about accommodation and a state of negotiated order. However,…
Brexit and UK policy-making
The Westminster Model (WM) remains dominant in UK post-Brexit policy-making, with few signs that the UK Government is willing to cede power to the devolved administrations and external interests. Despite the plebiscitary vote for Brexit in the 2016 Referendum, the implementation of that change has been dependent on the vagaries of the WM, and a succession of internal crises within the governing Conservative Party. The case studies in the special …
Individuals and the Dynamics of Policy Learning
In recent years, the phenomenon whereby key individuals introduce effective ideas into policy processes has been identified as a vital agent in the redefinition of policy issues. In turn, this raises the basic question of how these individuals themselves undergo processes of learning and change. The article examines three models of policy learning in order to analyse what they may tell us about the dynamics of individual learning: the advocacy co…
A long‐term perspective on entrepreneurial strategies and their impact on British road policy
The case study presented in this paper combines citation and discourse network analyses to explore entrepreneurial strategies and their long‐term impact on public policy. The analysis draws on and develops previously published research that documents entrepreneurial influences on British road policy since the 1980s. Drawing in particular upon evidence presented in the 2013 Action for Roads White Paper, we conclude that it is not enough to focus r…
British Steel And Government Since Privatization
Privatization has its own distinctive dynamics, resulting particularly from the institutional restructuring which tends to transform policy networks and communities. This happens principally for two reasons. Firstly, the crucial balance of resource dependencies is changed irrevocably, and established policy communities break down. Secondly, the separation between the principal actors tends to produce a ‘re‐framing’ of major policy issues. Here, S…
Promiscuous and Celibate Ministerial Styles
Journal Article Promiscuous and Celibate Ministerial Styles: Policy Change, Policy Networks and British Roads Policy Get access GEOFFREY DUDLEY, GEOFFREY DUDLEY *Research Fellow in the Department of Government, Univeristy of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JEREMY RICHARDSON JEREMY RICHARDSON †Professor of European Public Policy, Department of Government, University of Essex. We wish to acknowledge th…
Narrative strategies in the policy process
Public policy decisions are often attributed to narrative strategies that impact policy-oriented learning within and across advocacy coalitions. Public policy research recognizes the role of influential individuals and their narrative strategies in this context. Yet frameworks that have been developed through this research lack sufficient guidance to distinguish individual learners. By combining theories of dual learning and public policy process…
Pluralism, Policy Making and Implementation
Transplanting ideas in policy networks
The crisis in local government has made it susceptible to the well known principles of Reinventing Government, particularly ideas about partnership and government as catalyst. It is important however, to understand the conditions under which new ideas, such as reinventing local government, can be successfully transplanted into existing policy networks. Hence the article examines the contrasting fortunes of the local authority single issue group S…
The British Steel Corporation and Problems of Political Management
Pluralism, Policy Making and Implementation
The British Steel Corporation and Problems of Political Management
The Next Steps Agencies, Political Salience and the Arm's‐length Principle
The Next Steps agencies preserve a long tradition as the latest manifestation of the arm's‐length principle of ministerial control. During the major part of this century, the now almost defunct public corporations offered one of the best examples of the arm's‐length principle at work, and the recorded experiences of participants can provide valuable lessons for the Next Steps agencies. This article employs the diaries of Barbara Castle during her…
Book notes
Neill Nugent (1994) The Government and Politics of the European Union (3rd edn) (London: Macmillan), i‐xxi, 1–473 pp.; ISBN 0 333 61445 3 (pbk) £12.99 B.J. Nelson and N. Chowdhury (eds) (1994) Women and Politics Worldwide (London: Yale University Press); index; ISBN 0 300 05407 6 (cloth) £35 José A. Gómez‐Ibanez and John R. Meyer (1993) Going Private. The International Experience with Transport Privatization (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institu…
Book notes
S. Leibfried and P. Pierson (eds) (1995) European Social Policy: Between Fragmentation and Integration (Washington DC: Brookings Institution), i‐ix, 1–492 pp.; ISBN 0 8157 5248 2; £35.95 Jack Hayward (ed.) (1995) Industrial Enterprise and European Integration: From National to International Champions in Western Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press), i‐xi, 1–366 pp.; ISBN 0 198 27972 8; (hbk) £35 R. Gillespie, F. Rodrigo and J. Story (eds) (199…
Promiscuous and Celibate Ministerial Styles
Journal Article Promiscuous and Celibate Ministerial Styles: Policy Change, Policy Networks and British Roads Policy Get access GEOFFREY DUDLEY, GEOFFREY DUDLEY *Research Fellow in the Department of Government, Univeristy of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JEREMY RICHARDSON JEREMY RICHARDSON †Professor of European Public Policy, Department of Government, University of Essex. We wish to acknowledge th…
Why does policy change over time? Adversarial policy communities, alternative policy arenas, and British trunk roads policy 1945–95
This article examines some of the processes conditioning both policy stability and policy change. It focuses on how established policy communities (usually associated with policy stability) can exist alongside a powerful dynamic of change within the policy subsystem. By listing and analysing agents of exogenous and endogenous stability and change, it is concluded that the concepts of epistemic communities, advocacy coalitions and choice of 'image…
Arenas without Rules and the Policy Change Process
A key task of governments is to construct and manage systems of consultation whereby the vast array of interest groups seeking to influence public policy can be accommodated. Conventional wisdom holds that key insider groups secure for themselves special privileges, not least of which is an ability to prevent radical policy change. A concomitant view is that public policy emerges from relatively stable networks of actors who have some mutual reso…
British Steel And Government Since Privatization
Privatization has its own distinctive dynamics, resulting particularly from the institutional restructuring which tends to transform policy networks and communities. This happens principally for two reasons. Firstly, the crucial balance of resource dependencies is changed irrevocably, and established policy communities break down. Secondly, the separation between the principal actors tends to produce a ‘re‐framing’ of major policy issues. Here, S…
Transplanting ideas in policy networks
The crisis in local government has made it susceptible to the well known principles of Reinventing Government, particularly ideas about partnership and government as catalyst. It is important however, to understand the conditions under which new ideas, such as reinventing local government, can be successfully transplanted into existing policy networks. Hence the article examines the contrasting fortunes of the local authority single issue group S…
Competing advocacy coalitions and the process of 'frame reflection
European Union steel policy offers a particularly good example of how policy ideas in the form of 'policy frames' can be transplanted across national boundaries and into supranational arenas via interests, in the form of advocacy coalitions, and individual policy entrepreneurs. These dynamics of policy change illustrate not only the power of economic and political ideas to influence policy, but also how interests compete to impose their own 'fram…
Symposium
2000). Symposium: Theories of the Policy Process. Journal of European Public Policy: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 122-140
Ideas, bargaining and flexible policy communities
Critiques of policy networks have highlighted particularly the inability of concepts such as policy communities to explain policy change. The established construction of policy community places it chiefly as a metaphor for a relatively stable network within the policy process, which emphasizes the resource dependencies between key stakeholders. Typically, a process of bargaining brings about accommodation and a state of negotiated order. However,…
The Enlightenment Function and Dimensions of Time
The evolutionary model provides important insights into the causal mechanisms of policy change. This works particularly through the notion that the introduction and success or failure of new ideas is a key element in instigating these policy change processes. The survival of an idea is also dependent on key temporal and spatial factors. An idea therefore urgently requires a method of propagation in order to reproduce itself. One means of this ide…
Individuals and the Dynamics of Policy Learning
In recent years, the phenomenon whereby key individuals introduce effective ideas into policy processes has been identified as a vital agent in the redefinition of policy issues. In turn, this raises the basic question of how these individuals themselves undergo processes of learning and change. The article examines three models of policy learning in order to analyse what they may tell us about the dynamics of individual learning: the advocacy co…
Democracy and Interest Groups
By Grant Jordan and William A. Maloney Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007, viii + 233 pp., £50.00, ISBN 978-0-333-76333-9 (hbk) Basic questions about the extent to which groups may or may not en
The Rise of Uber and Regulating the Disruptive Innovator
The ride‐hailing company Uber has achieved extremely rapid global expansion by means of outmanoeuvring governments, regulators and competitors. The rise of the company has been based on a deliberate strategy of acting as a market disruptive innovator through a user friendly technology and making use of the ‘sharing economy’. These attributes are not unique, but are distinctively augmented by a relentless expansionary ambition and an ability to ma…
A long‐term perspective on entrepreneurial strategies and their impact on British road policy
The case study presented in this paper combines citation and discourse network analyses to explore entrepreneurial strategies and their long‐term impact on public policy. The analysis draws on and develops previously published research that documents entrepreneurial influences on British road policy since the 1980s. Drawing in particular upon evidence presented in the 2013 Action for Roads White Paper, we conclude that it is not enough to focus r…
Narrative strategies in the policy process
Public policy decisions are often attributed to narrative strategies that impact policy-oriented learning within and across advocacy coalitions. Public policy research recognizes the role of influential individuals and their narrative strategies in this context. Yet frameworks that have been developed through this research lack sufficient guidance to distinguish individual learners. By combining theories of dual learning and public policy process…
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Paradox of UK Government Control of the Active Travel Agenda
Low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) are designed to remove motorised traffic from residential streets, while leaving them permeable to pedestrians and cyclists, and they have become a popular means to promote active travel. During the recent pandemic, the government introduced the Active Travel Fund in England to facilitate the rapid implementation of LTNs, but this also resulted in a powerful top‐down control element. This in turn has resulted in …
Brexit and UK policy-making
The Westminster Model (WM) remains dominant in UK post-Brexit policy-making, with few signs that the UK Government is willing to cede power to the devolved administrations and external interests. Despite the plebiscitary vote for Brexit in the 2016 Referendum, the implementation of that change has been dependent on the vagaries of the WM, and a succession of internal crises within the governing Conservative Party. The case studies in the special …
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