T Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 47508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5486-4689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 286 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Bloomberg's Global Mayoralty: Philanthropy and the ‘Crisis of Capacity’ in City Government
Bloomberg Philanthropies—the philanthropic organization of multibillionaire, CEO and former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg—has become a palpably influential node in global networks of urban policy knowledge generation and mobility. This article examines the formative conditions, scope and operations of Bloomberg's philanthropically funded complex of urban policy influence. It begins by outlining Bloomberg Philanthropies' ecosystem of u…
Enacting urban governance innovation: Beyond Strategic Pathways to Incremental “Muddling Through
Prototyping as a Means to Innovate Affordable Housing Policies and Provision: An Empirical Illustration
In the face of rising housing affordability challenges, a diverse range of stakeholders are increasingly looking to alternative forms of housing provision and policy, and in particular, a turn to more explicitly experimental and design-inflected approaches. The process of prototyping is one of these. In this paper, we look at how prototyping is being used to address housing affordability in two ways. The first draws upon prototyping’s innovation …
Innovating urban governance through ‘Challenges
In recent years, urban “Challenges”—competitions that solicit and reward novel solutions to urban policy problems—have become embedded within a wider program of governance innovations presented to city governments as effective means to solve complex urban problems. This paper offers an overview and critical evaluation of the uses of Challenges in contemporary urban governance innovation, based on an extensive analysis of existing Challenges and r…
Innovating urban governance: A research agenda
Urban governance innovation is being framed as an imperative to address complex urban and global challenges, triggering the adoption of novel institutional forms, approaches and techniques. Urban political geographers are still some way off fully apprehending the dynamics of these innovations and their potential to reconfigure the composition and politics of urban governance. This paper suggests dialogue between urban political geography and publ…
Adaptation and validation questionnaire for measuring the perceived quality by users external customer of the golf courses: Andalusia (Spain)
Adaptation and validation questionnaire for measuring the perceived quality by users external customer of the golf courses: Andalusia (Spain) Adaptacin y validacin de un cuestionario para medir la percepcin de la calidad percibida por los
Mental coaching through crisis: Digital technologies and psychological governance during Covid-19
Over recent decades, psychological health interventions have assumed a more prominent role in the conduct and regulation of daily life. Conceptualised in the critical social sciences as psychological governance, this development entails shaping the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals and populations to promote desired psychological states and conduct. In step with broader sociotechnical shifts, psychological governance is increasing…
Policy, fast and slow: Social impact bonds and the differential temporalities of mobile policy
Governments are increasingly intrigued by the possibility of harnessing the private ‘social investment’ market to finance the delivery of social services. One social investment initiative in particular – Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) – has spread extensively within the global North. This article investigates the transnational mobility of SIBs by exploring the adoption and implementation of SIBs in New Zealand. It considers SIBs as a case of ‘fast po…
Breaking through the epistemic impasse: Ending homelessness with the invention of ‘functional zero’ in the Anglo-American world
Treating ecological deficit with debt: The practical and political concerns with green bonds
Informal governance and the spatial management of street-based sex work in Aotearoa New Zealand
Out from the shadows? Voluntary organisations and the assembled state
As literature on the ‘shadow state’ shows, the voluntary sector has long served as a necessary conduit through which states orchestrate the governance of various populations. However, relatively little is known about the active role that voluntary organisations play in shaping and mobilising the capacities of the state to advance their own projects and interests. We draw out aspects of post-structural theories of the state, and particularly assem…
Into the ordinary: Non-elite actors and the mobility of harm reduction policies
Research on policy transfer and policy mobility has focused much attention on relatively elite actors, such as politicians, international organisations, think tanks, philanthropic donors, and consultancy firms. In contrast, this article uses the case of ‘harm reduction’ drug policy, an area of practice and research that is committed to valuing ‘non-elite’ actors, to show how they are frequently involved in mobilizing policy knowledge. Focusing on…
Investable poverty: Social investment states and the geographies of poverty management
The management of poverty is undergoing significant changes with the rise of social investment states. In this context, we examine how governmental concern about the long-term public cost of poverty is increasingly modulating the selection, sequencing and targeting of interventions that seek to manage poverty. Using examples drawn from the management of homelessness in Anglo-American cities, we outline a research agenda related to the objectifica…
He came back a changed man”: The popularity and influence of policy tourism
Why does policy tourism remain a popular and influential method of policy learning and mobility in an age of information abundance? Framed by a case study of homelessness policy tourism to New York City, this paper suggests that policy tourism remains popular because it allows for: (1) thinking outside the everyday strictures of the bureaucratic workplace; (2) the development of associational bonds between policy tourists, and between tourists an…
Beyond failure: The generative effects of unsuccessful proposals for Supervised Drug Consumption Sites (SCS) in Melbourne, Australia
Focusing on the 20-year history of unsuccessful proposals for Supervised Drug Consumption Sites in Melbourne, Australia, this paper highlights the generative effects of apparent “failure” in policy-making and policy mobilization. Rather than framing thwarted proposals as categorical failures, we show how they altered parameters of policy acceptability, invigorated policy and practitioner networks, facilitated the development of allied programs, a…
Independent School Leadership: Heads, Boards, and Strategic Thinking
This study seeks to identify and assess factors that contribute to effective independent school governance at the board of trustees level. A review of extant literature reveals two major challenges: (a) definitions and standards of board effectiveness are inconsistent, and (b) there is very little empirical evidence to support existing definitions and notions of effective governance. Study authors have developed a “strategic effectiveness” metric…
Assemblage thinking as methodology: Commitments and Practices for Critical Policy Research
Assemblage thinking as methodology: commitments and practices for critical policy research. Territory, Politics, Governance. The concept of assemblage has captured the attention of critical social scientists, including those interested in the study of policy. Despite ongoing debate around the implications of assemblage thinking for questions of structure, agency, and contingency, there is widespread agreement around its value as a methodological …
Reading Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore's Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
Reuniones y seminarios: DC-2005 en Madrid: España más cerca del mundo de los metadatos
Assemblage thinking as methodology: Commitments and Practices for Critical Policy Research
Assemblage thinking as methodology: commitments and practices for critical policy research. Territory, Politics, Governance. The concept of assemblage has captured the attention of critical social scientists, including those interested in the study of policy. Despite ongoing debate around the implications of assemblage thinking for questions of structure, agency, and contingency, there is widespread agreement around its value as a methodological …
Beyond failure: The generative effects of unsuccessful proposals for Supervised Drug Consumption Sites (SCS) in Melbourne, Australia
Focusing on the 20-year history of unsuccessful proposals for Supervised Drug Consumption Sites in Melbourne, Australia, this paper highlights the generative effects of apparent “failure” in policy-making and policy mobilization. Rather than framing thwarted proposals as categorical failures, we show how they altered parameters of policy acceptability, invigorated policy and practitioner networks, facilitated the development of allied programs, a…
Treating ecological deficit with debt: The practical and political concerns with green bonds
Innovating urban governance: A research agenda
Urban governance innovation is being framed as an imperative to address complex urban and global challenges, triggering the adoption of novel institutional forms, approaches and techniques. Urban political geographers are still some way off fully apprehending the dynamics of these innovations and their potential to reconfigure the composition and politics of urban governance. This paper suggests dialogue between urban political geography and publ…
Into the ordinary: Non-elite actors and the mobility of harm reduction policies
Research on policy transfer and policy mobility has focused much attention on relatively elite actors, such as politicians, international organisations, think tanks, philanthropic donors, and consultancy firms. In contrast, this article uses the case of ‘harm reduction’ drug policy, an area of practice and research that is committed to valuing ‘non-elite’ actors, to show how they are frequently involved in mobilizing policy knowledge. Focusing on…
Investable poverty: Social investment states and the geographies of poverty management
The management of poverty is undergoing significant changes with the rise of social investment states. In this context, we examine how governmental concern about the long-term public cost of poverty is increasingly modulating the selection, sequencing and targeting of interventions that seek to manage poverty. Using examples drawn from the management of homelessness in Anglo-American cities, we outline a research agenda related to the objectifica…
Breaking through the epistemic impasse: Ending homelessness with the invention of ‘functional zero’ in the Anglo-American world
He came back a changed man”: The popularity and influence of policy tourism
Why does policy tourism remain a popular and influential method of policy learning and mobility in an age of information abundance? Framed by a case study of homelessness policy tourism to New York City, this paper suggests that policy tourism remains popular because it allows for: (1) thinking outside the everyday strictures of the bureaucratic workplace; (2) the development of associational bonds between policy tourists, and between tourists an…
Out from the shadows? Voluntary organisations and the assembled state
As literature on the ‘shadow state’ shows, the voluntary sector has long served as a necessary conduit through which states orchestrate the governance of various populations. However, relatively little is known about the active role that voluntary organisations play in shaping and mobilising the capacities of the state to advance their own projects and interests. We draw out aspects of post-structural theories of the state, and particularly assem…
Enacting urban governance innovation: Beyond Strategic Pathways to Incremental “Muddling Through
Innovating urban governance through ‘Challenges
In recent years, urban “Challenges”—competitions that solicit and reward novel solutions to urban policy problems—have become embedded within a wider program of governance innovations presented to city governments as effective means to solve complex urban problems. This paper offers an overview and critical evaluation of the uses of Challenges in contemporary urban governance innovation, based on an extensive analysis of existing Challenges and r…
Reading Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore's Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
Bloomberg's Global Mayoralty: Philanthropy and the ‘Crisis of Capacity’ in City Government
Bloomberg Philanthropies—the philanthropic organization of multibillionaire, CEO and former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg—has become a palpably influential node in global networks of urban policy knowledge generation and mobility. This article examines the formative conditions, scope and operations of Bloomberg's philanthropically funded complex of urban policy influence. It begins by outlining Bloomberg Philanthropies' ecosystem of u…
Prototyping as a Means to Innovate Affordable Housing Policies and Provision: An Empirical Illustration
In the face of rising housing affordability challenges, a diverse range of stakeholders are increasingly looking to alternative forms of housing provision and policy, and in particular, a turn to more explicitly experimental and design-inflected approaches. The process of prototyping is one of these. In this paper, we look at how prototyping is being used to address housing affordability in two ways. The first draws upon prototyping’s innovation …
Policy, fast and slow: Social impact bonds and the differential temporalities of mobile policy
Governments are increasingly intrigued by the possibility of harnessing the private ‘social investment’ market to finance the delivery of social services. One social investment initiative in particular – Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) – has spread extensively within the global North. This article investigates the transnational mobility of SIBs by exploring the adoption and implementation of SIBs in New Zealand. It considers SIBs as a case of ‘fast po…
Informal governance and the spatial management of street-based sex work in Aotearoa New Zealand
Independent School Leadership: Heads, Boards, and Strategic Thinking
This study seeks to identify and assess factors that contribute to effective independent school governance at the board of trustees level. A review of extant literature reveals two major challenges: (a) definitions and standards of board effectiveness are inconsistent, and (b) there is very little empirical evidence to support existing definitions and notions of effective governance. Study authors have developed a “strategic effectiveness” metric…
Reuniones y seminarios: DC-2005 en Madrid: España más cerca del mundo de los metadatos
Independent School Leadership: Heads, Boards, and Strategic Thinking
This study seeks to identify and assess factors that contribute to effective independent school governance at the board of trustees level. A review of extant literature reveals two major challenges: (a) definitions and standards of board effectiveness are inconsistent, and (b) there is very little empirical evidence to support existing definitions and notions of effective governance. Study authors have developed a “strategic effectiveness” metric…
Assemblage thinking as methodology: Commitments and Practices for Critical Policy Research
Assemblage thinking as methodology: commitments and practices for critical policy research. Territory, Politics, Governance. The concept of assemblage has captured the attention of critical social scientists, including those interested in the study of policy. Despite ongoing debate around the implications of assemblage thinking for questions of structure, agency, and contingency, there is widespread agreement around its value as a methodological …
Reading Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore's Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
Beyond failure: The generative effects of unsuccessful proposals for Supervised Drug Consumption Sites (SCS) in Melbourne, Australia
Focusing on the 20-year history of unsuccessful proposals for Supervised Drug Consumption Sites in Melbourne, Australia, this paper highlights the generative effects of apparent “failure” in policy-making and policy mobilization. Rather than framing thwarted proposals as categorical failures, we show how they altered parameters of policy acceptability, invigorated policy and practitioner networks, facilitated the development of allied programs, a…
Out from the shadows? Voluntary organisations and the assembled state
As literature on the ‘shadow state’ shows, the voluntary sector has long served as a necessary conduit through which states orchestrate the governance of various populations. However, relatively little is known about the active role that voluntary organisations play in shaping and mobilising the capacities of the state to advance their own projects and interests. We draw out aspects of post-structural theories of the state, and particularly assem…
Into the ordinary: Non-elite actors and the mobility of harm reduction policies
Research on policy transfer and policy mobility has focused much attention on relatively elite actors, such as politicians, international organisations, think tanks, philanthropic donors, and consultancy firms. In contrast, this article uses the case of ‘harm reduction’ drug policy, an area of practice and research that is committed to valuing ‘non-elite’ actors, to show how they are frequently involved in mobilizing policy knowledge. Focusing on…
Investable poverty: Social investment states and the geographies of poverty management
The management of poverty is undergoing significant changes with the rise of social investment states. In this context, we examine how governmental concern about the long-term public cost of poverty is increasingly modulating the selection, sequencing and targeting of interventions that seek to manage poverty. Using examples drawn from the management of homelessness in Anglo-American cities, we outline a research agenda related to the objectifica…
He came back a changed man”: The popularity and influence of policy tourism
Why does policy tourism remain a popular and influential method of policy learning and mobility in an age of information abundance? Framed by a case study of homelessness policy tourism to New York City, this paper suggests that policy tourism remains popular because it allows for: (1) thinking outside the everyday strictures of the bureaucratic workplace; (2) the development of associational bonds between policy tourists, and between tourists an…
Treating ecological deficit with debt: The practical and political concerns with green bonds
Informal governance and the spatial management of street-based sex work in Aotearoa New Zealand
Adaptation and validation questionnaire for measuring the perceived quality by users external customer of the golf courses: Andalusia (Spain)
Adaptation and validation questionnaire for measuring the perceived quality by users external customer of the golf courses: Andalusia (Spain) Adaptacin y validacin de un cuestionario para medir la percepcin de la calidad percibida por los
Mental coaching through crisis: Digital technologies and psychological governance during Covid-19
Over recent decades, psychological health interventions have assumed a more prominent role in the conduct and regulation of daily life. Conceptualised in the critical social sciences as psychological governance, this development entails shaping the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals and populations to promote desired psychological states and conduct. In step with broader sociotechnical shifts, psychological governance is increasing…
Policy, fast and slow: Social impact bonds and the differential temporalities of mobile policy
Governments are increasingly intrigued by the possibility of harnessing the private ‘social investment’ market to finance the delivery of social services. One social investment initiative in particular – Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) – has spread extensively within the global North. This article investigates the transnational mobility of SIBs by exploring the adoption and implementation of SIBs in New Zealand. It considers SIBs as a case of ‘fast po…
Breaking through the epistemic impasse: Ending homelessness with the invention of ‘functional zero’ in the Anglo-American world
Innovating urban governance: A research agenda
Urban governance innovation is being framed as an imperative to address complex urban and global challenges, triggering the adoption of novel institutional forms, approaches and techniques. Urban political geographers are still some way off fully apprehending the dynamics of these innovations and their potential to reconfigure the composition and politics of urban governance. This paper suggests dialogue between urban political geography and publ…
Innovating urban governance through ‘Challenges
In recent years, urban “Challenges”—competitions that solicit and reward novel solutions to urban policy problems—have become embedded within a wider program of governance innovations presented to city governments as effective means to solve complex urban problems. This paper offers an overview and critical evaluation of the uses of Challenges in contemporary urban governance innovation, based on an extensive analysis of existing Challenges and r…
Bloomberg's Global Mayoralty: Philanthropy and the ‘Crisis of Capacity’ in City Government
Bloomberg Philanthropies—the philanthropic organization of multibillionaire, CEO and former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg—has become a palpably influential node in global networks of urban policy knowledge generation and mobility. This article examines the formative conditions, scope and operations of Bloomberg's philanthropically funded complex of urban policy influence. It begins by outlining Bloomberg Philanthropies' ecosystem of u…
Enacting urban governance innovation: Beyond Strategic Pathways to Incremental “Muddling Through
Prototyping as a Means to Innovate Affordable Housing Policies and Provision: An Empirical Illustration
In the face of rising housing affordability challenges, a diverse range of stakeholders are increasingly looking to alternative forms of housing provision and policy, and in particular, a turn to more explicitly experimental and design-inflected approaches. The process of prototyping is one of these. In this paper, we look at how prototyping is being used to address housing affordability in two ways. The first draws upon prototyping’s innovation …
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