Robin Hambleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4385800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Hambleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hambleton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMBLETON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Place, power and leadership: Insights from mayoral governance and leadership innovation in Bristol, UK
This article aims to enhance understanding of the role of place in urban leadership by examining the way leadership changed significantly following the introduction of mayoral governance into a UK city. In 2012, 10 cities in England held referendums to decide whether to introduce a directly elected mayor model of leadership. Bristol was the only city to vote in favour of this radical change, and the Bristol Civic Leadership Project, set up before…
The Bristol One City Approach to city governance: New Civic Leadership in action
The One City Approach to city governance in Bristol, UK is designed to unify civic purpose in the city: it is ambitious, inclusive and innovative. In 2016 the new, directly elected Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, decided to work with a wide range of civic actors and community leaders to develop this collaborative approach. The New Civic Leadership, a conceptual framework developed by the author, provides the intellectual underpinning for the One C…
The dynamics of depoliticisation in urban governance: Introducing a directly elected mayor
Within the context of debates regarding depoliticisation, this article considers how the introduction of a directly elected mayor system of governance impacts on urban politics. Directly elected mayors are now a fundamental feature of many political systems. They have been widely introduced as a reform to improve processes of local democracy, enhance the effectiveness of governing practices and to offer a more potent form of city leadership. This…
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Place-Based Leadership and Public Service Innovation
This article discusses two matters that are becoming increasingly important in debates about local government: place-based leadership and public service innovation. The troubling international economic outlook means that many local authorities are focusing on 'efficiency savings' and the prevailing mantra in public policy circles is 'do more with less'. This article questions this approach. It aims to contribute to what one chief executive descri…
Leading place-based innovation — exploring a new role for local government
City leaders across the world face unprecedented challenges. In large cities urban problems are magnified, and in the growing number of megacities — that is, cities with a population of more than 10 million people — the city leadership challenge takes on a scale and complexity that is difficult to comprehend.
The Kiwi Connection: Reflections on Local Governance Policy Transfer between the UK and New Zealand
Local governance policy has been transferred between the United Kingdom and New Zealand since the mid-nineteenth century. In recent decades, however, the processes of exchange have become more complex and more bidirectional. This article argues that contemporary policy transfer is the product of a complex interchange involving three spheres of analysis: ideological and political forces, ideas in good currency and the roles of scholars in cross-na…
An Expression of Appreciation
Purpose and Collegiality in Planning Education: An International Perspective
This article considers the interplay between purpose, collegiality, and performance in planning education. A global transformation of higher education is now underway and this poses new challenges for all academics. This article adopts an international perspective and locates current U.S. debates about performance measurement of planning schools in a broader context. A critique of the highly centralized approach to research performance measuremen…
U.S.‐Style Leadership for English Local Government
Significant changes in the political management of local authorities in the United Kingdom are now taking place as a result of legislation passed by the Labour government since 1997. The new political management models aim to modernize local governance by strengthening local leadership, streamlining decision making, and enhancing local accountability. These changes owe much to U.S. experience: They involve the introduction of a separation of powe…
Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America
This new book argues that cities and citizens are not helpless victims in a global flow of events. Three crucial questions are addressed through the three part structure: What is the nature of the glo
Modernising Political Management in Local Government
A New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry
In an attempt to place psychiatric thinking and the training of future psychiatrists more centrally into the context of modern biology, the author outlines the beginnings of a new intellectual framework for psychiatry that derives from current biological thinking about the relationship of mind to brain. The purpose of this framework is twofold. First, it is designed to emphasize that the professional requirements for future psychiatrists will dem…
Urban innovation: Creative strategies for turbulent times
Reinventing local government — Lessons from the USA
The Politics of Decentralisation
Transatlantic urban policy transfer
Reflections on Urban Government in the USA
This article examines experience with urban management and local government in the United States of America and draws lessons for the UK. It explains why, particularly at a time when UK local government reorganisation is taking place, it is helpful to scrutinise American models with care. Following a discussion of the key differences and similarities in local government systems three questions are addressed: Who controls? Who pays? Who wins? The …
The regeneration of U.S. and British cities∗
Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America
Current economic, organizational, and political forces are presenting urban governments in Britain and the United States of America with new challenges. This article, which draws on current British experience, offers a conceptual framework for understanding emerging trends. Three competing change strategies are examined: the radical right strategy of cutting public expenditure and promoting privitization; the reform of public service conceived as…
Urban Government under Thatcher and Reagan
Recent developments affecting urban government in Britain and the United States are examined in this article. The socioeconomic trends affecting cities are similar, and central government financial support to city government has been reduced in both countries. The Thatcher government, however, combines economic liberalism with a sweeping commitment to political centralization, which would be unthinkable in the United States. The result is that Br…
The decentralisation of public services: A research agenda
Consumerism, Decentralization and Local Democracy
Three broad options for public service reform are attracting considerable interest within British local government and the National Health Service – consumerism, decentralization and the extension of local democracy. This article examines each of these options in some detail. While each avenue offers a number of exciting possibilities for change each also conceals a confusion of different hopes and aspirations. It is essential to develop a much s…
Health Planning — A Second Chance
Developments in Planning Systems
Place-Based Leadership and Public Service Innovation
This article discusses two matters that are becoming increasingly important in debates about local government: place-based leadership and public service innovation. The troubling international economic outlook means that many local authorities are focusing on 'efficiency savings' and the prevailing mantra in public policy circles is 'do more with less'. This article questions this approach. It aims to contribute to what one chief executive descri…
Consumerism, Decentralization and Local Democracy
Three broad options for public service reform are attracting considerable interest within British local government and the National Health Service – consumerism, decentralization and the extension of local democracy. This article examines each of these options in some detail. While each avenue offers a number of exciting possibilities for change each also conceals a confusion of different hopes and aspirations. It is essential to develop a much s…
Planning Systems and Policy Implementation
This article relates two developing themes in planning theory and practice in government: the proliferation in recent years in Britain of policy planning systems and the concern in a number of countries with processes of implementation. The growth of policy planning systems can be analysed from a number of perspectives: (1) procedural planning theory; (2) interorganisational theory and (3) the theory of fiscal crisis. The paper discusses five maj…
The decentralisation of public services: A research agenda
Implementing Inner City Policy: Reflections from Experience
This paper starts from the premise that Britain’s inner city initiative is an important innovation in urban policy which has considerable potential for ameliorating living conditions in inner areas. It will be suggested, however, that the initiative is in danger of being side tracked away from its key objectives of redirecting policy, concentrating on meeting the needs of inner area residents and effecting change in the institutions of urban gove…
Modernising Political Management in Local Government
Place, power and leadership: Insights from mayoral governance and leadership innovation in Bristol, UK
This article aims to enhance understanding of the role of place in urban leadership by examining the way leadership changed significantly following the introduction of mayoral governance into a UK city. In 2012, 10 cities in England held referendums to decide whether to introduce a directly elected mayor model of leadership. Bristol was the only city to vote in favour of this radical change, and the Bristol Civic Leadership Project, set up before…
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Reinventing local government — Lessons from the USA
The regeneration of U.S. and British cities∗
Policies for areas
The dynamics of depoliticisation in urban governance: Introducing a directly elected mayor
Within the context of debates regarding depoliticisation, this article considers how the introduction of a directly elected mayor system of governance impacts on urban politics. Directly elected mayors are now a fundamental feature of many political systems. They have been widely introduced as a reform to improve processes of local democracy, enhance the effectiveness of governing practices and to offer a more potent form of city leadership. This…
Policy Planning and Local Government
Reflections on Urban Government in the USA
This article examines experience with urban management and local government in the United States of America and draws lessons for the UK. It explains why, particularly at a time when UK local government reorganisation is taking place, it is helpful to scrutinise American models with care. Following a discussion of the key differences and similarities in local government systems three questions are addressed: Who controls? Who pays? Who wins? The …
The Kiwi Connection: Reflections on Local Governance Policy Transfer between the UK and New Zealand
Local governance policy has been transferred between the United Kingdom and New Zealand since the mid-nineteenth century. In recent decades, however, the processes of exchange have become more complex and more bidirectional. This article argues that contemporary policy transfer is the product of a complex interchange involving three spheres of analysis: ideological and political forces, ideas in good currency and the roles of scholars in cross-na…
Health Planning — A Second Chance
Policies for areas
Policy Planning and Local Government
Implementing Inner City Policy: Reflections from Experience
This paper starts from the premise that Britain’s inner city initiative is an important innovation in urban policy which has considerable potential for ameliorating living conditions in inner areas. It will be suggested, however, that the initiative is in danger of being side tracked away from its key objectives of redirecting policy, concentrating on meeting the needs of inner area residents and effecting change in the institutions of urban gove…
Health Planning — A Second Chance
Developments in Planning Systems
Planning Systems and Policy Implementation
This article relates two developing themes in planning theory and practice in government: the proliferation in recent years in Britain of policy planning systems and the concern in a number of countries with processes of implementation. The growth of policy planning systems can be analysed from a number of perspectives: (1) procedural planning theory; (2) interorganisational theory and (3) the theory of fiscal crisis. The paper discusses five maj…
Consumerism, Decentralization and Local Democracy
Three broad options for public service reform are attracting considerable interest within British local government and the National Health Service – consumerism, decentralization and the extension of local democracy. This article examines each of these options in some detail. While each avenue offers a number of exciting possibilities for change each also conceals a confusion of different hopes and aspirations. It is essential to develop a much s…
Urban Government under Thatcher and Reagan
Recent developments affecting urban government in Britain and the United States are examined in this article. The socioeconomic trends affecting cities are similar, and central government financial support to city government has been reduced in both countries. The Thatcher government, however, combines economic liberalism with a sweeping commitment to political centralization, which would be unthinkable in the United States. The result is that Br…
The decentralisation of public services: A research agenda
Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America
Current economic, organizational, and political forces are presenting urban governments in Britain and the United States of America with new challenges. This article, which draws on current British experience, offers a conceptual framework for understanding emerging trends. Three competing change strategies are examined: the radical right strategy of cutting public expenditure and promoting privitization; the reform of public service conceived as…
The regeneration of U.S. and British cities∗
Reflections on Urban Government in the USA
This article examines experience with urban management and local government in the United States of America and draws lessons for the UK. It explains why, particularly at a time when UK local government reorganisation is taking place, it is helpful to scrutinise American models with care. Following a discussion of the key differences and similarities in local government systems three questions are addressed: Who controls? Who pays? Who wins? The …
The Politics of Decentralisation
Transatlantic urban policy transfer
Urban innovation: Creative strategies for turbulent times
Reinventing local government — Lessons from the USA
A New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry
In an attempt to place psychiatric thinking and the training of future psychiatrists more centrally into the context of modern biology, the author outlines the beginnings of a new intellectual framework for psychiatry that derives from current biological thinking about the relationship of mind to brain. The purpose of this framework is twofold. First, it is designed to emphasize that the professional requirements for future psychiatrists will dem…
Modernising Political Management in Local Government
Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America
This new book argues that cities and citizens are not helpless victims in a global flow of events. Three crucial questions are addressed through the three part structure: What is the nature of the glo
U.S.‐Style Leadership for English Local Government
Significant changes in the political management of local authorities in the United Kingdom are now taking place as a result of legislation passed by the Labour government since 1997. The new political management models aim to modernize local governance by strengthening local leadership, streamlining decision making, and enhancing local accountability. These changes owe much to U.S. experience: They involve the introduction of a separation of powe…
Purpose and Collegiality in Planning Education: An International Perspective
This article considers the interplay between purpose, collegiality, and performance in planning education. A global transformation of higher education is now underway and this poses new challenges for all academics. This article adopts an international perspective and locates current U.S. debates about performance measurement of planning schools in a broader context. A critique of the highly centralized approach to research performance measuremen…
An Expression of Appreciation
The Kiwi Connection: Reflections on Local Governance Policy Transfer between the UK and New Zealand
Local governance policy has been transferred between the United Kingdom and New Zealand since the mid-nineteenth century. In recent decades, however, the processes of exchange have become more complex and more bidirectional. This article argues that contemporary policy transfer is the product of a complex interchange involving three spheres of analysis: ideological and political forces, ideas in good currency and the roles of scholars in cross-na…
Leading place-based innovation — exploring a new role for local government
City leaders across the world face unprecedented challenges. In large cities urban problems are magnified, and in the growing number of megacities — that is, cities with a population of more than 10 million people — the city leadership challenge takes on a scale and complexity that is difficult to comprehend.
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Political science (28 works) · Public Administration (22 works) · Economics (17 works) · Public Administration (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Government (linguistics (11 works) · Local government (11 works) · Law (10 works)