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Overview

Adrian Kay is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has contributed to the field of social sciences with a focus on political science, sociology, and management science. Their research spans a range of topics including religion's interaction with society, social policy, and public administration.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Political, process and programme failures in the Brexit fiasco: exploring the role of policy deception (2020, Journal of European Public Policy)
  • Rice policy in a transitional economy: balancing the social and political objectives (2020, Food Security)
  • The changing traditions of Islamic public administration: observing processes of collision, absorption and adaptation (2023, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration)
  • Theoretical-methodological aspects of researching the area of religion and public administration (2024, Public Policy and Administration)
  • Religion and Public Administration: An Introduction. By: Edoardo Ongaro and Michele Tantardini (2024, Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Kate Crowley
  • Jenny Stewart
  • Brian Head
  • Darrin Baines
  • Sharron Brewer

Their work is often published in these venues:

  • Policy Press eBooks
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Food Security
  • Public Policy and Administration

Adrian Kay has authored multiple books published primarily by Policy Press, including several editions of Reconsidering Policy in 2020. Another book titled Reconsidering Policy: Complexity, Governance and the State was published in 2020 by the University of Tasmania, and a related volume appeared with Bristol University Press eBooks.

Their main fields of study include social sciences with a specialization in:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Accounting
  • Education

The topics covered in their research focus on:

  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
  • Education and Islamic Studies
  • Policy Transfer and Learning

Best Publications

  • A Critique of the Use of Path Dependency in Policy Studies

    Adrian Kay

  • The Dynamics of Public Policy: Theory And Evidence

    Adrian Kay

  • Ambiguity, multiple streams, and EU policy

    Robert Ackrill;Adrian Kay;Nikolaos Zahariadis

  • Multiple streams in EU policy-making: the case of the 2005 sugar reform

    Robert Ackrill;Adrian Kay

  • Path dependency and the CAP

    Adrian Kay

  • What Can Causal Process Tracing Offer to Policy Studies? A Review of the Literature

    Adrian Kay;Phillip Baker

  • A new generation of trade policy: potential risks to diet-related health from the trans pacific partnership agreement

    Sharon Friel;Deborah Gleeson;Anne Marie Thow;Ronald Labonte

  • The reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: the case of the MacSharry reforms.

    Adrian Kay

  • Generating political priority for regulatory interventions targeting obesity prevention: an Australian case study.

    Phillip Baker;Timothy Gill;Sharon Friel;Gemma Carey

  • Tense Layering and Synthetic Policy Paradigms: The Politics of Health Insurance in Australia

    Adrian Kay

  • Historical-institutionalist perspectives on the development of the EU budget system

    Robert Ackrill;Adrian Kay

  • What Enables and Constrains the Inclusion of the Social Determinants of Health Inequities in Government Policy Agendas? A Narrative Review

    Phillip Baker;Sharon Friel;Adrian Kay;Frances Baum

  • Competing Agendas in Public Procurement: An Empirical Analysis of Opportunities and Limits in the UK for SMEs:

    David Pickernell;Adrian Kay;Gary Packham;Christopher Miller

  • Trade and investment liberalization and Asia's noncommunicable disease epidemic: a synthesis of data and existing literature.

    Phillip Baker;Adrian Kay;Helen Walls;Helen Walls

  • Evidence-Based Policy-Making: The Elusive Search for Rational Public Administration

    Adrian Kay

  • Will the next generation of preferential trade and investment agreements undermine prevention of noncommunicable diseases? A prospective policy analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement

    Anne Marie Thow;Wendy Snowdon;Ronald Labonté;Deborah Gleeson

  • Randomized controlled trials in the era of molecular oncology: methodology, biomarkers, and end points

    A. Kay;A. Kay;J. Higgins;A.G. Day;R.M. Meyer;R.M. Meyer

  • Global health governance : crisis, institutions and political economy

    Adrian Kay;Owain David Williams

  • Introduction: The International Political Economy of Global Health Governance

    Adrian Kay;Owain Williams

  • From ‘Opening Up’ to Democratic Renewal: Deepening Public Engagement in Legislative Committees

    Carolyn M. Hendriks;Adrian Kay

  • The dynamics of public policy

    Adrian Kay

  • The Growth of Biofuels in the 21st Century

    Robert Ackrill;Adrian Kay

Frequent Co-Authors

Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Tom Kompas
Tom Kompas University of Melbourne
Carsten Daugbjerg
Carsten Daugbjerg University of Copenhagen
Anne Marie Thow
Anne Marie Thow University of Sydney
Ronald Labonté
Ronald Labonté University of Ottawa
Fran Baum
Fran Baum University of Adelaide
Diane G. Newell
Diane G. Newell Animal and Plant Health Agency
Wendy Snowdon
Wendy Snowdon Deakin University
Alasdair J. C. Cook
Alasdair J. C. Cook University of Surrey
Robert H. Davies
Robert H. Davies Animal and Plant Health Agency

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