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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
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Citations
11711
World Ranking
449
National Ranking
71

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Janet Newman is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses several interdisciplinary areas including development, sociology and political science, and strategy and management.

The scientist's research work focuses on topics such as:

  • International Development and Aid
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Public-Private Partnership Projects

Recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Debate: Beyond the New Public Management?, 2024, Public Money & Management
  • Living with Ambivalence: Bureaucracy, Anti-Statism and 'Progressive' Politics, 2020, New Formations
  • 52 Age-Appropriate Leadership and Lifesaving Education in Schools: An American Perspective, 2023, Resuscitation
  • Beyond resilience? State failure, mutual aid and local action, 2025, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

Frequent co-authors working alongside Janet Newman include:

  • John Clarke
  • Jack Nicholls
  • Eleanor Jupp
  • Morag McDermont

Their work appears in multiple publication venues, reflecting a range of interests across management, political science, and international development. These venues include:

  • Public Money & Management
  • New Formations
  • Resuscitation
  • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

Best Publications

  • Modernizing Governance: New Labour, Policy and Society

    Janet E. Newman

  • The Managerial State: Power, Politics and Ideology in the Remaking of Social Welfare

    Janet E Newman;John Clarke

  • Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics and Changing Public Services

    John Clarke;Janet Newman;Nick Smith;Elizabeth Vidler

  • Modernising Governance: New Labour, Policy and Society

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  • Public Participation and Collaborative Governance

    Janet Newman;Marian Barnes;Helen Sullivan;Andrew Knops

  • Power, Participation and Political Renewal: Case studies in public participation

    Marian Barnes;Janet Newman;Helen Sullivan

  • Constituting ‘the public’ in public participation

    Marian Barnes;Janet Newman;Andrew Knops;Helen Sullivan

  • The alchemy of austerity

    John Clarke;Janet Newman

  • Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics & Changing Public Services

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  • Publics, Politics and Power: Remaking the Public in Public Services

    Janet Newman;John Clarke

  • Remaking governance: Peoples, politics and the public sphere

    Janet Newman

  • Landscapes of antagonism: Local governance, neoliberalism and austerity:

    Janet Newman

  • Discriminating Customers, Responsible Patients, Empowered Users: Consumerism and the Modernisation of Health Care

    Janet Newman;Elizabeth Vidler

  • Power, participation and political renewal

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  • Participation, responsibility and choice: summoning the active citizen in Western European welfare states

    Janet Newman;Evelina Hendrika Tonkens

  • Power, Participation, and Political Renewal: Theoretical Perspectives on Public Participation under New Labour in Britain

    Marian Barnes;Janet Newman;Helen Sullivan

  • ‘People in this country have had enough of experts’: Brexit and the paradoxes of populism

    John Clarke;Janet Newman

  • Beyond Modernisation? Social Care and the Transformation of Welfare Governance

    Janet Newman;Caroline Glendinning;Michael Hughes

  • Transforming local government: innovation and modernisation

    Janet Newman;John Raine;Christopher Skelcher

  • Enter the Transformational Leader Network Governance and the Micro-politics of Modernization

    Janet Newman

  • The 'double dynamics' of activation: institutions, citizens and the remaking of welfare governance.

    Janet Newman

  • The right to manage: A second managerial revolution?

    John Clarke;Janet Newman

  • The Antagonisms of Choice: New Labour and the reform of public services

    John Clarke;Janet Newman;Louise Westmarland

  • Power, participation and political renewalCase studies in public participation

    Marian Barnes;Janet Newman;Helen Sullivan

  • Managerialism and Social Welfare: A Challenge to Public Administration@@@The Managerial State: Power, Politics and Ideology in the Remaking of Social Welfare

    Christine M Reed;John Clarke;Janet Newman

Frequent Co-Authors

John Clarke
John Clarke The Open University
Marian Barnes
Marian Barnes University of Brighton
Helen Sullivan
Helen Sullivan Australian National University
Allan Cochrane
Allan Cochrane The Open University
Clive Barnett
Clive Barnett University of Exeter
Chris Skelcher
Chris Skelcher University of Birmingham
Nicholas J Gill
Nicholas J Gill University of Exeter
Caroline Glendinning
Caroline Glendinning University of York
Nik Theodore
Nik Theodore University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester

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