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Political Science
UK
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
35
Citations
8262
World Ranking
732
National Ranking
120

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Chris Skelcher is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily addresses topics within Environmental Science, Social Sciences, and Engineering, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to complex societal and technological challenges.

The scientist's work encompasses several main research topics including:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization

Skelcher's subfields of study further specify their focus areas as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Their recent scholarly contributions include a paper titled "Network governance in low-carbon energy transitions in European cities: A comparative analysis", published in 2020 in the journal Energy Policy. This publication has garnered significant attention, indicated by its citation count, and examines governance mechanisms in the context of European urban energy transitions.

Frequent collaboration is an aspect of their research profile. A known coauthor on recent work is Timea Nochta, with whom Skelcher has jointly contributed to energy governance topics.

The venue of publication important to their research is:

  • Energy Policy

This profile highlights Skelcher's engagement with interdisciplinary research combining environmental and social scientific perspectives with engineering insights. The integration of governance and social acceptance issues within energy systems situates their work at the intersection of technical optimization and societal dimensions of sustainability challenges.

Best Publications

  • Working Across Boundaries: Collaboration in Public Services

    Helen Sullivan;Chris Skelcher

  • The Dynamics of Multi‐organizational Partnerships: an Analysis of Changing Modes of Governance

    Vivien Lowndes;Chris Skelcher

  • Democracy and governance networks: compatible or not?

    Erik-Hans Klijn;Chris Skelcher

  • THEORIZING HYBRIDITY: INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS, COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS, AND ACTOR IDENTITIES: THE CASE OF NONPROFITS

    Chris Skelcher;Steven Rathgeb Smith

  • The Public Governance of Collaborative Spaces: Discourse, Design and Democracy

    Christopher Skelcher;Navdeep Mathur;Michael Smith

  • Jurisdictional Integrity, Polycentrism and the Design of Democratic Governance

    Christopher Skelcher

  • Changing images of the State: overloaded, hollowed-out, congested

    Chris Skelcher

  • Working Across Boundaries

    Chris Skelcher;Helen Sullivan

  • Theory-driven approaches to analysing collaborative performance

    Chris Skelcher;Helen Sullivan

  • Performance Decline and Turnaround in Public Organizations: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis*

    Pauline Jas;Chris Skelcher

  • Public–Private Partnerships and Hybridity

    Chris Skelcher

  • Evaluating Democratic Performance: Methodologies for Assessing the Relationship between Network Governance and Citizens

    Navdeep Mathur;Chris Skelcher

  • Transforming local government: innovation and modernisation

    Janet Newman;John Raine;Christopher Skelcher

  • Absorptive Capacity in a Non-Market Environment

    Gill Harvey;Chris Skelcher;Eileen Spencer;Pauline Jas

  • Improving democratic governance through institutional design: Civic participation and democratic ownership in Europe

    Chris K Skelcher;Jacob Torfing

  • Corporatization in the public sector : explaining the growth of local government companies.

    Rhys Andrews;Laurence Ferry;Chris Skelcher;Piotr Wegorowski

  • Hybrid Governance in European Cities : Neighbourhood, Migration and Democracy

    Christopher Skelcher;Helen Sullivan;Stephen Jeffares

  • Networks, Partnerships and Urban Regeneration:

    Vivien Lowndes;Philip Nanton;Angus McCabe;Chris Skelcher

  • Managing to improve public services

    Jean Hartley;Cam Donaldson;Chris Skelcher;Mike Wallace

  • Does Democracy Matter? A Transatlantic Research Design on Democratic Performance and Special Purpose Governments

    Chris Skelcher

  • DEMOCRATIC SUBJECTIVITIES IN NETWORK GOVERNANCE: A Q METHODOLOGY STUDY OF ENGLISH AND DUTCH PUBLIC MANAGERS

    Stephen Jeffares;Christopher Skelcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen Sullivan
Helen Sullivan Australian National University
Erik-Hans Klijn
Erik-Hans Klijn Erasmus University Rotterdam
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders University of Sheffield
Kieran Walshe
Kieran Walshe University of Manchester
Jean Hartley
Jean Hartley The Open University
Gill Harvey
Gill Harvey University of Adelaide
Cam Donaldson
Cam Donaldson Glasgow Caledonian University
Vivien Lowndes
Vivien Lowndes University of Birmingham
Rhys William Andrews
Rhys William Andrews Cardiff University

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