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2023

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44
Citations
17126
World Ranking
363
National Ranking
54

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

John Clarke is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the Social Sciences, particularly focusing on areas such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Demography, and History. Their research covers several specific topics including Migration, Refugees, and Integration; Diaspora, Migration, Transnational Identity; Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity; Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues; Health, Medicine and Society; North African History and Literature; and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism.

Their publication record includes both journal articles and book contributions. Among books, John Clarke has published with Policy Press, including the 2023 work titled The Battle for Britain. This book has garnered citations within relevant academic discussions.

John Clarke's recent peer-reviewed articles include:

  • Building the 'Boris' bloc: angry politics in turbulent times, 2020, Soundings
  • Following the science? Covid-19, 'race' and the politics of knowing, 2021, Cultural Studies
  • IV Vitamin C in Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2022, PubMed
  • Reconstructing citizenship (again), 2022, Citizenship Studies
  • Lighting a pathway: Our obligation to culture and Country, 2023, Ecological Management & Restoration

Within academic collaborations, John Clarke has worked frequently with several co-authors including Jack Pascoe, Matthew Shanks, Bruce Pascoe, Teagan Goolmeer, and Bradley Moggridge. Jack Pascoe stands out as a recurrent collaborator with multiple joint publications.

John Clarke's work often appears in a range of publication venues, with repeated contributions to the journal Soundings. Other venues include Ecological Management & Restoration, PubMed, Public Money & Management, and Citizenship Studies.

Best Publications

  • Policing the Crisis

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  • Policing the Crisis

    Stuart Hall;Chas Critcher;Tony Jefferson;John Clarke

  • 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

  • New Managerialism, New Welfare?

    John Clarke;Sharon Gewirtz;Eugene McLaughlin

  • New Labour’s citizens: activated, empowered, responsibilized, abandoned?:

    John Clarke

  • Dissolving the Public Realm? The Logics and Limits of Neo-liberalism

    John Clarke

  • Managing social policy

    John Clarke;Allan Cochrane;Eugene McLaughlin

  • 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

  • Comparing Welfare States

    Allan Cochrane;John Clarke;Sharon Gewirtz

  • Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage

    John Clarke;Dave Bainton;Noémi Lendvai;Paul Stubbs

  • The Devil Makes Work: Leisure in Capitalist Britain

    John Clarke;Charles Critcher

  • Living with/in and without neo-liberalism

    John Clarke

  • Subcultures, Cultures and Class

    John Clarke;Stuart Hall;Tony Jefferson;Brian Roberts

  • Subcultures, Cultures and Class: A Theoretical Overview

    John Clarke;Stuart Hall;Tony Jefferson Brian Roberts

  • The Devil makes work

    John Clarke;Chas Critcher

  • Making policy move

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

    John Clarke;Janet Newman

  • The right to manage: A second managerial revolution?

    John Clarke;Janet Newman

  • Working-class culture : studies in history and theory

    John Clarke;C. Critcher;Richard Johnson

  • WHAT'S IN A NAME?: New Labour's citizen-consumers and the remaking of public services

    John Clarke;Janet Newman

  • The Work of Governing

    John Clarke

  • The instabilities of expertise: remaking knowledge, power and politics in unsettled times

    Janet Newman;John Clarke

  • States of imagination

    Janet Newman;John Clarke

  • Performance paradoxes: The politics of evaluation in public services

    John Clarke

  • INTRODUCTION: Governing the social?

    John Clarke

  • Governing the Local? A Response to Kevin Stenson

    John Clarke

  • Elusive Publics: knowledge, power and public service reform

    John Clarke;Janet Newman

  • Governing in the Modern World

    Janet Newman;John Clarke

  • Inspections: governing at a distance

    John Clarke

  • Narrating subversion, assembling citizenship

    Janet Newman;John Clarke

  • 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

Janet Newman
Janet Newman The Open University
Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall The Open University
Allan Cochrane
Allan Cochrane The Open University
Sharon Gewirtz
Sharon Gewirtz King's College London
Eugene McLaughlin
Eugene McLaughlin City, University of London
Tom Harner
Tom Harner Environment and Climate Change Canada
D. J. Donaldson
D. J. Donaldson University of Toronto

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