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Overview

Michael Moran was affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spanned multiple areas, with a focus on sociology, political science, finance, history, strategy and management, and neurology. Over the course of their career, they contributed to fields including Community Development and Social Impact, Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, Public-Private Partnership Projects, Medical History and Innovations, History of Medical Practice, Service and Product Innovation, and Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Moran's recent publications covered diverse topics and were featured in several venues. Notable papers include:

  • Recognition of typical antibiotic residues in environmental media related to groundwater in China (2009−2019), 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • How to systematically analyze co-production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co-production, 2022, Public Administration Review
  • Policy coordination and housing outcomes during COVID-19, 2020, AHURI Final Report
  • Blended Social Impact Investment Transactions: Why Are They So Complex?, 2022, Journal of Business Ethics
  • Everybody wins? A discourse analysis of competing stakeholder expectations in Social Impact Bonds, 2020, Public Money & Management

Moran frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Krystian Seibert
  • Alexandra Williamson
  • Graham Dwyer
  • Nikil Sairam
  • Hannah Moreland

Major publication venues where Moran's work was often featured included:

  • The Journal of Urology
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Public Administration Review
  • AHURI Final Report

In addition to journal articles, Moran authored book work published by Bristol University Press eBooks. One such publication was Philanthropic Response to Disasters, released in 2023.

The breadth of Moran's scholarship primarily explored the intersection of social impact, nonprofit sectors, and public-private collaborations alongside elements of medical history and innovation. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in their engagement with various subfields and topics, balancing historical perspectives with contemporary challenges in public policy and finance.

Best Publications

  • The British Regulatory State: high modernism and hyper-innovation

    Michael Moran

  • After the Great Complacence: Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform

    Ewald Engelen;Ismail Erturk;Julie Froud;Sukhdev Johal

  • The Oxford handbook of public policy

    Robert E. Goodin;Michael Moran;Martin Rein

  • Review Article: Understanding the Regulatory State

    Michael Moran

  • The Politics of the Financial Services Revolution

    Michael Moran

  • Governing the Health Care State: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany

    Michael Moran

  • Understanding the welfare state:the case of health care†

    Michael Moran

  • The Politics of the Financial Services Revolution: The Usa, Uk and Japan

    Michael Moran

  • Reforming health care in Europe

    Richard Freeman;Michael Moran

  • Capitalism, culture, and economic regulation

    Leigh Hancher;Michael Moran

  • Misrule of experts? The financial crisis as elite debacle

    Ewald Engelen;Ismail Ertürk;Julie Froud;Sukhdev Johal

  • The Politics of Banking

    Michael Moran

  • The Public and its Policies

    Robert Goodin;Michael Moran;Martin Rein

  • The rise of the Regulatory State in Britain

    Michael Moran

  • States, Regulation and the Medical Profession

    Michael Moran;Bruce Wood

  • The Rise of the British Regulatory State: Transcending the Privatization Debate

    David Levi-Faur;Sharon Gilad

  • Policy Emergence and Policy Convergence: The Case of ‘Scientific-Bureaucratic Medicine’ in the United States and United Kingdom

    Stephen Harrison;Michael Moran;Bruce Wood

  • Stories and Interests in Finance: Agendas of Governance before and after the Financial Crisis

    Julie Froud;Adriana Nilsson;Michael Moran;Karel Williams

  • After the Great Complacence

    Ewald Engelen;Ismail Ertürk;Julie Froud;Sukhdev Johal

  • Not Steering but Drowning: Policy Catastrophes and the Regulatory State

    Michael Moran

  • GOVERNANCE THEORY AND PRACTICE: A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH - by Vasudha Chhotray and Gerry Stoker

    Michael Moran

  • What a Waste: Outsourcing and How it Goes Wrong

    Andrew Bowman;Ismail Erturk;Peter Folkman;Julie Froud

  • Interdisciplinarity and Political Science1

    Michael Moran

  • The Market and the State

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  • Wasting a Crisis? Democracy and Markets in Britain after 2007

    Julie Froud;Michael Moran;Adriana Nilsson;Karel Williams

  • Outsourcing the State: New Sources of Elite Power:

    Julie Froud;Sukhdev Johal;Michael Moran;Karel Williams

  • Power, politics and the City of London after the Great Financial Crisis

    Sukhdev Johal;Michael Moran;Karel Williams

  • The state and the financial services revolution: A comparative analysis

    Michael Moran

  • A government that worked better and cost less? evaluating three decades of reform and change in uk central government

    Michael Moran

  • Policy emergence and policy convergence: the case of "scientific-bureaucratic medicine"

    SR Harrison;M Moran;B Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Julie Froud
Julie Froud University of Manchester
Karel Williams
Karel Williams University of Manchester
Sukhdev Johal
Sukhdev Johal Queen Mary University of London
Robert E. Goodin
Robert E. Goodin Australian National University
Stephen Harrison
Stephen Harrison University of Manchester

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