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Overview

Allan McConnell is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research focuses predominantly on social sciences and medicine, with specific expertise in infectious diseases, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, public administration, and general health professions.

Their main areas of study encompass:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • Disaster management and resilience
  • Policy transfer and learning
  • Public policy and administration research
  • Social policy and reform studies
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

McConnell has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Policy Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • International Review of Administrative Sciences
  • eLife

Among their recent publications are:

  • Policy success for whom? A framework for analysis, 2020, Policy Sciences
  • Understanding policy responses to COVID-19: the stars haven't fallen from the sky for scholars of public policy, 2021, Journal of European Public Policy

Additional significant research they are associated with includes:

  • COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives, 2020, Policy Sciences
  • Two routes to precarious success: Australia, New Zealand, COVID-19 and the politics of crisis governance, 2020, International Review of Administrative Sciences
  • Tiled-ClickSeq for targeted sequencing of complete coronavirus genomes with simultaneous capture of RNA recombination and minority variants, 2021, eLife

Throughout their career, McConnell has collaborated frequently with a range of coauthors including Brooke Mitchell, Rafael Rahal Guaragna Machado, Ping Ren, Scott C. Weaver, and Nehad Saada.

Best Publications

  • Preparing for Critical Infrastructure Breakdowns: The Limits of Crisis Management and the Need for Resilience

    Arjen Boin;Allan McConnell

  • Crisis exploitation: political and policy impacts of framing contests

    Arjen Boin;Paul 't Hart;Allan McConnell

  • Policy success, policy failure and grey areas in-between: a framework to help capture complex policy outcomes

    Allan McCONNELL

  • COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives.

    Christopher M. Weible;Daniel Nohrstedt;Paul Cairney;David P. Carter

  • Mission Impossible? Planning and Preparing for Crisis

    Allan McConnell;Lynn Drennan

  • TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING POLICY SUCCESS

    David Marsh;Allan McCONNELL

  • Understanding Policy Success: Rethinking Public Policy

    Allan McConnell

  • Governing after crisis : the politics of investigation, accountability and learning

    Arjen Boin;Allan McConnell;Paul 't Hart

  • LEADERSHIP STYLE, CRISIS RESPONSE AND BLAME MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF HURRICANE KATRINA

    Arjen Boin;Paul ‘T Hart;Allan McCONNELL;Thomas Preston

  • What is policy failure? A primer to help navigate the maze:

    Allan McConnell

  • Understanding Policy Success

    Allan McConnell

  • Raman spectra of niobium oxides

    A.Ann McConnell;J.S. Aderson;C.N.R. Rao

  • Risk and Crisis Management in the Public Sector

    Lynn T Drennan;Allan McConnell;Alastair Stark

  • Success? Failure? Something in-between? A framework for evaluating crisis management

    Allan McConnell;Allan McConnell

  • Moving Policy Theory Forward: Connecting Multiple Stream and Advocacy Coalition Frameworks to Policy Cycle Models of Analysis

    Michael Howlett;Allan McConnell;Anthony Perl

  • Streams and stages: Reconciling Kingdon and policy process theory

    Michael Howlett;Michael Howlett;Allan McConnell;Allan McConnell;Anthony Perl

  • Overview: Crisis Management, Influences, Responses and Evaluation

    Allan McConnell

  • Inaction and public policy: understanding why policymakers ‘do nothing’

    Allan McConnell;Paul ’t Hart

  • Weaving the Fabric of Public Policies: Comparing and Integrating Contemporary Frameworks for the Study of Policy Processes

    Michael Howlett;Allan McConnell;Anthony Perl

  • Contingency planning for crisis management: Recipe for success or political fantasy?

    Kerstin Eriksson;Allan McConnell;Allan McConnell

  • Governing after Crisis

    Arjen Boin;Allan McConnell;Paul 't Hart

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul 't Hart
Paul 't Hart Utrecht University
Arjen Boin
Arjen Boin Leiden University
W.E. Smith
W.E. Smith University of Strathclyde
Michael Howlett
Michael Howlett Simon Fraser University
David Marsh
David Marsh University of Canberra
Karin Ingold
Karin Ingold University of Bern
Paul Cairney
Paul Cairney University of Stirling
Christopher M. Weible
Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver
Tanya Heikkila
Tanya Heikkila University of Colorado Denver
C. N. R. Rao
C. N. R. Rao Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

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