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2023

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Martin Powell is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and health professions, with a particular focus on political science and international relations, general health professions, economics and econometrics, public administration, and information systems and management.

The scientist's work engages extensively with topics such as social policy and reform studies, policy transfer and learning, political and economic history of the UK and US, health systems, economic evaluations and quality of life, ethics in business and education, healthcare systems and challenges, and public policy and administration research.

Recent published papers by Martin Powell include:

  • Intra-crisis learning and prospective policy transfer in the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
  • The Eureka Moment? The creation of the British Welfare State, 2020, Social Work and Social Sciences Review
  • Modelling the Health Policy Process: One Size Fits all or Horses for Courses?, 2022, International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • The duty of candour and the NHS agenda, 2020, International Journal of Health Governance
  • Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, Health Economics Policy and Law

Martin Powell frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Mark Exworthy
  • Russell Mannion
  • Ian Greener
  • Sophie King-Hill
  • Daniel Béland

They have contributed publications to prominent venues such as:

  • Social Policy and Administration
  • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
  • Journal of Health Organization and Management
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • International Journal of Health Governance

Their published books include the title The NHS at 75, released by Bristol University Press eBooks in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Conceptualising successful partnerships.

    Bernard Dowling;Martin Powell;Caroline Glendinning

  • Welfare regimes and the welfare mix

    Martin Powell;Armando Barrientos

  • Evaluating Public Management Reforms: Principles and Practice

    George Alexander Boyne;Catherine Farrell;Jennifer Law;Martin Powell

  • Partnerships, New Labour and the Governance of Welfare

    Caroline Glendinning;Martin Powell;Kirstein Rummery

  • New Labour and the third way in the British welfare state: a new and distinctive approach?

    Martin Powell

  • New Labour, new welfare state? : the "third way" in British social policy

    Martin A. Powell

  • Big Windows and Little Windows: Implementation in the ‘Congested State’

    Mark Exworthy;Martin Powell

  • Understanding the mixed economy of welfare

    Martin A. Powell

  • Markets, bureaucracy and public management: the NHS: quasi-market, quasi-hierarchy and quasi-network?

    J. Mohan;M. Exworthy;Martin Powell

  • 'How great expectations in Westminster may be dashed locally' : the local implementation of national policy on health inequalities

    Mark Exworthy;Lee Berney;Martin Powell

  • An Audit of the Welfare Modelling Business

    Martin Powell;Armando Barrientos

  • Welfare State and Welfare Change

    Martin A. Powell;Martin Hewitt

  • Territorial justice: A review of theory and evidence

    George Boyne;Martin Powell

  • The Hidden History of Social Citizenship

    Martin Powell

  • The Spatial Strategy of Equality and the Spatial Division of Welfare

    Martin Powell;George Alexander Boyne

  • Evaluating the National Health Service

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  • Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe

    Giuliano Bonoli;Martin A. Powell

  • Towards a geography of people poverty and place poverty

    Rachel Elizabeth Ashworth;George Alexander Boyne;M. Powell

  • Modernising the welfare state : the Blair legacy

    Martin A. Powell

  • Evaluating new labour's welfare reforms

    Martin Powell

  • The financial health of voluntary hospitals in interwar Britain

    Martin Gorsky;John Mohan;Martin Powell

  • New Labour's Partnerships: Comparing Conceptual Models with Existing Forms

    Martin Powell;Bernard Dowling

  • Spatial equity and public services: An empirical analysis of local government finance in England

    George Alexander Boyne;Martin Powell;Rachel Elizabeth Ashworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Exworthy
Mark Exworthy University of Birmingham
Ian Greener
Ian Greener University of Strathclyde
Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson University of Sheffield
Russell Mannion
Russell Mannion University of Birmingham
Huw Davies
Huw Davies University of St Andrews
George Alexander Boyne
George Alexander Boyne University of Aberdeen
Armando Barrientos
Armando Barrientos University of Manchester
Caroline Glendinning
Caroline Glendinning University of York
Linda Bauld
Linda Bauld University of Edinburgh
Giuliano Bonoli
Giuliano Bonoli University of Lausanne

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