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Overview

Martin J. Smith is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within the social sciences and health professions. Their work broadly covers political science, international relations, and health-related fields.

Smith's notable recent papers include:

  • 'Crisis and state transformation: Covid-19, levelling up and the UK's incoherent state' (2022) published in Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • 'English Devolution and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Governing Dilemmas in the Shadow of the Treasury' (2021) published in The Political Quarterly
  • 'Austerity and governance: coordinating policing and mental health policy in the UK' (2020) published in Policy Studies
  • 'Crisis what crisis?' Understanding the recurring problems of the British state (2024) published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
  • 'Decentralisation and central-local relations: the case of policing and mental health in England' (2020) published in British Politics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Smith include:

  • David Richards
  • Sam Bass Warner
  • Diane Coyle
  • Joel C. Gill
  • Carlos Solar

The venues where Smith regularly publishes are diverse, reflecting their interdisciplinary approach. Frequent publication venues consist of:

  • Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
  • Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • The Political Quarterly
  • Policy Studies
  • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Smith's contributions to book publications have been distributed among several publishers. Titles include works on geopolitics and regional issues, such as:

  • Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma (2020) published by Cornell University Press eBooks
  • Geosciences and the Sustainable Development Goals (2021) published by Springer International Publishing
  • Poésies attribuées à Voltaire (2021) published by Voltaire Foundation eBooks

Smith's main fields of study are:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

Their subfields of expertise include:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • General Health Professions
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Education
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Central research topics explored in Smith's work focus on:

  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
  • Political and Economic History of the UK and US
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Political Systems and Governance
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Healthcare Innovation and Challenges

Best Publications

  • Understanding Policy Networks: Towards a Dialectical Approach

    David Marsh;Martin Smith

  • Pressure, power, and policy : state autonomy and policy networks in Britain and the United States

    Martin J. Smith

  • Governance and Public Policy in the United Kingdom

    David Richards;Martin J. Smith

  • The core executive in Britain

    Martin J. Smith

  • Unequal Plurality: Towards an Asymmetric Power Model of British Politics

    David Marsh;David Richards;Martin J. Smith

  • Pluralism, Reformed Pluralism and Neopluralism: the Role of Pressure Groups in Policy‐Making

    Martin J. Smith

  • There is More than One Way to Do Political Science: on Different Ways to Study Policy Networks

    David Marsh;Martin J. Smith

  • The Politics of Agricultural Support in Britain: The Development of the Agricultural Policy Community

    Martin J. Smith

  • From policy community to issue network: Salmonella in eggs and the new politics of food

    Martin J. Smith

  • From Big Government to Big Society: Changing the State–Society Balance

    Martin J. Smith

  • CHANGING PATTERNS OF GOVERNANCE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: Reinventing Whitehall

    David Marsh;David Richards;Martin J. Smith

  • Interpreting the World of Political Elites

    David Richards;Martin J. Smith

  • New labour in government

    Steve Ludlam;Martin J. Smith

  • The Tensions of Political Control and Administrative Autonomy: from NPM to a Reconstituted Westminster Model

    David Richards;Martin J. Smith

  • Central Government Departments and the Policy Process

    Martin J. Smith;David Marsh;David Richards

  • The Changing Labour Party

    Martin J. Smith;Joanna Spear

  • Quangos, Accountability and Reform

    Matthew V. Flinders;Martin J. Smith

  • Bureaucrats, Politicians and Reform in Whitehall:: Analysing the Bureau-Shaping Model

    David Marsh;M. J. Smith;D. Richards

  • Quangos, accountability and reform : the politics of quasi-government

    Matthew V. Flinders;Martin J. Smith;David Marquand

  • The Westminster Model and the ‘Indivisibility of the Political and Administrative Elite’ : A Convenient Myth Whose Time Is Up?

    David Richards;Martin John Smith

  • Political Analysis. A Critical Introduction

    Martin J Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

David Marsh
David Marsh University of Canberra
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders University of Sheffield
Colin Hay
Colin Hay Sciences Po
Andrew Gamble
Andrew Gamble University of Sheffield
Andrew Geddes
Andrew Geddes European University Institute
Paul Light
Paul Light New York University

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