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Overview

Mark Bevir is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a concentration in political science and international relations, as well as related subfields such as sociology and political science, public administration, organizational behavior, human resource management, and communication.

The scholar's work spans several main topics, including social policy and reform studies, public policy and administration research, international relations and foreign policy, political science research and education, political and economic history of the UK and US, policy transfer and learning, and peacebuilding and international security.

Mark Bevir's recent papers include the following:

  • What is the decentered state? (2020) published in Public Policy and Administration
  • All you need is... a network: The rise of interpretive public administration (2021) published in Public Administration
  • Interpreting the English school: History, science and philosophy (2020) published in Journal of International Political Theory
  • Should Deliberative Democrats Eschew Modernist Social Science? (2022) published in Political Studies
  • Brexit and the Myth of British National Identity (2021) published in British Politics

They have frequently collaborated with several co-authors, notably Howard Burton, Ian Hall, Kai Yui Samuel Chan, Matt Beech, and R. A. W. Rhodes.

Their research has appeared prominently in journals such as the Journal of International Political Theory, Journal of Legislative Studies, Public Policy and Administration, Public Administration, and Political Studies.

In addition to articles, Mark Bevir has authored books. One was published by Cambridge University Press titled A History of Political Science (2022), and another by Open Agenda Publishing eBooks, How Social Science Creates the World (2020).

Best Publications

  • Interpreting British Governance

    Mark Bevir;Roderick Rhodes

  • The Logic of the History of Ideas

    Mark Bevir

  • Governance: A Very Short Introduction

    Mark Bevir

  • Key Concepts in Governance

    Mark Bevir

  • Traditions of governance: interpreting the changing role of the public sector

    Mark Bevir;Roderick Rhodes;Patrick Moray Weller

  • The State as Cultural Practice

    Mark Bevir;R. A. W. Rhodes

  • Democratic Governance

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Governance

    Mark Bevir

  • A Theory of Governance

    Mark Bevir

  • Governance as Theory, Practice, and Dilemma

    Mark Bevir

  • Foucault and Critique: Deploying Agency Against Autonomy

    Mark Bevir

  • Foucault, Power, and Institutions

    Mark Bevir

  • New Labour: A Critique

    Mark Bevir

  • Democratic Governance: Systems and Radical Perspectives

    Mark Bevir

  • Decentring Policy Networks: A Theoretical Agenda

    Mark Bevir;David Richards

  • The Making of British Socialism

    Mark Bevir

  • Rethinking Governmentality: Towards Genealogies of Governance

    Mark Bevir

  • Interpreting British Governance

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  • Governance and Governmentality after Neoliberalism

    Mark Bevir

  • Comparative Governance: Prospects and Lessons

    Mark Bevir;Roderick Rhodes;Patrick Moray Weller

  • Concept Formation in Political Science: An Anti-Naturalist Critique of Qualitative Methodology

    Mark Bevir;Asaf Kedar

  • Searching for civil society: changing patterns of governance in Britain

    Mark Bevir;Roderick Rhodes

  • Interpretation and its others

    Mark Bevir;Roderick Rhodes

  • Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880

    Robert Adcock;Mark Bevir;Shannon C. Stimson

  • PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS STORYTELLING

    Mark Bevir

Frequent Co-Authors

Roderick Rhodes
Roderick Rhodes University of Southampton
Justin Waring
Justin Waring University of Birmingham
Ian Hall
Ian Hall Griffith University
Patrick Weller
Patrick Weller Griffith University
Rorden Wilkinson
Rorden Wilkinson Macquarie University
Colin Hay
Colin Hay Sciences Po
Susan C. Stokes
Susan C. Stokes University of Chicago
Rogers M. Smith
Rogers M. Smith University of Pennsylvania

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