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4881
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1349
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228

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jonathan S. Davies is affiliated with De Montfort University in the United Kingdom and works primarily within the social sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, as well as astronomy and astrophysics. The main topics covered in their work include housing, finance, and neoliberalism; psychiatric care and mental health services; galaxies' formation, evolution, and phenomena; astrophysics and star formation studies; stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; congenital diaphragmatic hernia studies; and e-government and public services.

The scientist has published extensively with notable frequent co-authors such as Adrián Bua, Ismael Blanco, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, and Andrés Feandeiro. Their work often appears in venues including Bristol University Press eBooks, SSRN Electronic Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), Urban Studies, and Dialogues in Human Geography.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jonathan S. Davies include:

  • From crisis to catastrophe: The death and viral legacies of austere neoliberalism in Europe? (2020, Dialogues in Human Geography)
  • High-resolution, 3D radiative transfer modelling (2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • How cities can transform democracy (2023, Local Government Studies)
  • Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela (2022, Urban Studies)
  • Urban governance in the age of austerity: Crises of neoliberal hegemony in comparative perspective (2023, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space)

The scientist has contributed to book publications primarily under the Bristol University Press eBooks and Policy Press imprints, with titles such as New Developments in Urban Governance and Between Realism and Revolt. They have produced multiple editions and volumes of these works between 2021 and 2022, with varying citation counts.

Jonathan S. Davies was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2000. Their academic output covers a broad interdisciplinary ground, integrating studies on urban governance, social sciences, and astrophysics.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Policy Transfer: A Multi-Level, Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

    Mark Evans;Jonathan Davies

  • Challenging governance theory: From networks to hegemony

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • The governance of urban regeneration: a critique of the ‘governing without government’ thesis

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • THE LIMITS OF JOINED‐UP GOVERNMENT: TOWARDS A POLITICAL ANALYSIS

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • The Limits of Partnership: An Exit-Action Strategy for Local Democratic Inclusion

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • Theories of Urban Politics

    Jonathan S. Davies;David L. Imbroscio

  • LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND THE DIALECTICS OF HIERARCHY, MARKET AND NETWORK

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • Austerity Urbanism: Patterns of Neo-liberalisation and Resistance in Six Cities of Spain and the UK

    Jonathan S. Davies;Ismael Blanco

  • Conjuncture or Disjuncture? An Institutionalist Analysis of Local Regeneration Partnerships in the UK

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • Network Governance Theory: A Gramscian Critique

    Jonathan S Davies

  • The social exclusion debate : strategies, controversies and dilemmas

    Jonathan S Davies

  • Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships: Theory and practice of change

    Mike Geddes;Jonathan Davies;Crispian Fuller

  • The Hollowing out of Local Democracy and the Fatal Conceit of Governing Without Government

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • Hollowing Out Neighbourhood Governance? Rescaling Revitalisation in Baltimore and Bristol

    Jonathan S. Davies;Madeleine Claire Pill

  • Active citizenship: navigating the Conservative heartlands of the New Labour project

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • Empowerment or abandonment? Prospects for neighbourhood revitalization under the Big Society

    Jonathan S. Davies;Madeleine Pill

  • Double-Devolution or Double-Dealing? The Local Government White Paper and the Lyons Review

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • Interrogating Networks: Towards an Agnostic Perspective on Governance Research

    Jonathan S Davies;André Spicer

  • Rethinking Urban Power and the Local State: Hegemony, Domination and Resistance in Neoliberal Cities

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • Critical Urban Studies: New Directions

    Jonathan S. Davies;David L. Imbroscio

  • Interrogating urban crisis: Cities in the governance and contestation of austerity:

    Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ;Jonathan S Davies;Sybille Münch

  • From crisis to catastrophe: The death and viral legacies of austere neoliberalism in Europe?

    Adam Standring;Jonathan S. Davies

  • Can’t Hedgehogs be Foxes too? Reply to Clarence N. Stone

    Jonathan S. Davies

  • Why is Austerity Governable? A Gramscian Urban Regime Analysis of Leicester, UK

    Jonathan S. Davies;Adrian Bua;Ed Thompson;Mercè Cortina-Oriol

  • Coercive Cities: Reflections on the Dark Side of Urban Power in the 21st Century

    Jonathan S. Davies

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David Howarth University of Essex

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