2026 Jonathan Boston: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	34	836	756	4	3	165	6401

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

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Political Science

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6401

Overview

Jonathan Boston is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their work primarily falls within the social sciences, with a focus on global and planetary change, political science and international relations, education, economics and econometrics, as well as sociology and political science.

The scientist's recent publications cover topics related to social policy, healthcare innovation, climate change, sustainability governance, and adaptation strategies. Notable recent papers include:

Implementing Pre-Emptive Managed Retreat: Constraints and Novel Insights, 2020, Current Climate Change Reports
Assessing the Options for Combatting Democratic Myopia and Safeguarding Long-Term Interests, 2020, Futures
Designing a Funding Framework for the Impacts of Slow-Onset Climate Change - Insights from Recent Experiences with Planned Relocation, 2021, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Living Within Biophysical Limits: Green Growth versus Degrowth, 2022, Policy Quarterly
Transforming the Economy, 2020, Policy Quarterly

Frequent co-authors listed alongside Jonathan Boston include Judy Lawrence, Robert G. Bell, Sam Olufson, Rick Kool, and Matthew Hardcastle.

Their work has been published largely in Policy Quarterly, with three publications there, and others in outlets such as Current Climate Change Reports, Futures, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, and The Political Quarterly.

Key research topics associated with Jonathan Boston's publications are:

Social Policy and Reform Studies
Healthcare Innovation and Challenges
Climate Change and Geoengineering
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Climate Change Policy and Economics
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems

This body of work reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and addressing complex issues at the intersection of social policy, environmental sustainability, and science and technology.

Best Publications

Public Management: The New Zealand Model

R. W. Phidd;Jonathan Boston;John Martin;June Pallot

1953
Citations
Reshaping the state : New Zealand's bureaucratic revolution

Jonathan Boston

523
Citations
The state under contract

Jonathan Boston

230
Citations
Redesigning the welfare state in New Zealand : problems, policies, prospects

Jonathan Boston;Paul Dalziel;Susan St John

212
Citations
Governing for the Future: Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow

Jonathan Boston

209
Citations
Purchasing Policy Advice: The Limits to Contracting Out

Jonathan Boston

170
Citations
Basic NPM Ideas and their Development

Jonathan Boston

163
Citations
The challenge of evaluating systemic change: the case of public management reform

Jonathan Boston

156
Citations
The Decent society? : essays in response to National's economic and social policies

Jonathan Boston;Paul Dalziel

155
Citations
New Zealand Under MMP: A New Politics?

Nigel S. Roberts;Jonathan Boston;Elizabeth McLeay

147
Citations
Linking strategy and performance: Developments in the New Zealand public sector

Jonathan Boston;June Pallot

146
Citations
The Fourth Labour Government : politics and policy in New Zealand

Martin Holland;Jonathan Boston

116
Citations
The Fourth Labour Government : radical politics in New Zealand

Jonathan Boston;Martin Holland

103
Citations
Child Poverty in New Zealand

Jonathan Boston;Simon Chapple

95
Citations
The Problems of Policy Coordination: The New Zealand Experience

Jonathan Boston

92
Citations
Climate change: Explaining and solving the mismatch between scientific urgency and political inertia

Jonathan Boston;Frieder Lempp

84
Citations
Incomes policy in New Zealand, 1968-1984

Jonathan Boston

78
Citations
TRANSFORMING NEW ZEALAND'S PUBLIC SECTOR: LABOUR'S QUEST FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Jonathan Boston

78
Citations
The Use of Contracting in the Public Sector—Recent New Zealand Experience

Jonathan Boston

50
Citations
Implementing Pre-Emptive Managed Retreat: Constraints and Novel Insights

Judy Lawrence;Jonathan Boston;Robert Bell;Sam Olufson

46
Citations
Public Policy: Why ethics matters

Jonathan Boston;Andrew Bradstock;David L. Eng

33
Citations
Policy challenges for livestock emissions abatement: lessons from New Zealand

Mark H. Cooper;Jonathan Boston;John Bright

32
Citations
Ethics and public policy

Jonathan Boston;Andrew Bradstock;David Eng

12
Citations
Electoral reform in New Zealand: The report of the Royal Commission

Jonathan Boston

11
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Bale Queen Mary University of London

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