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Overview

Patrick Weller is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work engages extensively with topics related to island studies, climate change adaptation, marine management, public policy, and international development.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Climate governance, policy entrepreneurs and small states: explaining policy change at the International Maritime Organisation, 2020, Environmental Politics
  • Index, 2021, Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Front Matter, 2021, Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Contents, 2021, Bristol University Press eBooks

Frequent co-authors in Patrick Weller's research include:

  • Jack Corbett
  • Xu Yi-chong
  • Mélodie Ruwet
  • K. T. Smith
  • Anzsog Dean

Their work is published regularly in venues such as:

  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Environmental Politics

Patrick Weller has multiple book publications, predominantly with Bristol University Press eBooks. Among these are several editions or components of International Organizations and Small States published in 2021, as well as a volume titled Politics, Policy and Public Administration in Theory and Practice released by ANU Press the same year. Another edition of International Organizations and Small States has also been published by Policy Press.

Their research spans several subfields of study within social sciences, including:

  • Demography
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Public Administration

Core topics addressed in Patrick Weller's research are:

  • Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • International Development and Aid

Best Publications

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

    Mark Bevir;Roderick Rhodes;Patrick Moray Weller

  • Public Sector Management in Australia: New Challenges, New Directions

    Ciaran S. O'Faircheallaigh;John Wanna;Patrick Moray Weller

  • First Among Equals: Prime Ministers in Westminster Systems

    Patrick Moray Weller

  • Don't tell the prime minister

    Patrick Moray Weller

  • The hollow crown : countervailing trends in core executives

    Patrick Moray Weller;Herman Bakvis;R. A. W. Rhodes

  • Comparative Governance: Prospects and Lessons

    Mark Bevir;Roderick Rhodes;Patrick Moray Weller

  • THe Changing World of Top Officials; Mandarins or Valets?

    Roderick Arthur Rhodes;Patrick Moray Weller

  • Public sector management in Australia

    John Wanna;Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh;Patrick Moray Weller

  • The Hollow Crown

    Patrick Weller;Herman Bakvis;R. A. W. Rhodes

  • ‘TO BE, BUT NOT TO BE SEEN’: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS

    Xu Yi-Chong;Patrick Weller

  • Australia's Mandarins: The Frank and the Fearless

    Patrick Moray Weller

  • Malcolm Fraser, PM: A study in prime ministerial power

    Patrick Moray Weller

  • Can ministers cope?: Australian federal ministers at work

    Patrick Moray Weller;Michelle Grattan

  • The Governance Of World Trade: International Civil Servants and the GATT / WTO

    Yi-Chong Xu;Patrick Moray Weller

  • Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities

    Anne-Maree Tiernan;Patrick Moray Weller

  • What Drives Machinery of Government Change? Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, 1950–1997

    Glyn Davis;Patrick Weller;Susan Eggins;Emma Craswell

  • Cabinet Government: An Elusive Ideal?

    Patrick Moray Weller

  • POLITICISATION AND THE AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE

    Patrick Weller

  • Politics and policy in Australia

    Geoffrey N. Hawker;Robert F. I. Smith;Patrick Weller

  • Traditions of Australian governance

    John Wanna;Patrick Weller

  • Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific

    Haig Patapan;John Wanna;Patrick Moray Weller

  • From Postbox to Powerhouse: A Centenary History of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

    Patrick Moray Weller;Joanne Scott;Bronwyn Stevens

Frequent Co-Authors

Roderick Rhodes
Roderick Rhodes University of Southampton
Mark Bevir
Mark Bevir University of California, Berkeley
Jason Campbell Sharman
Jason Campbell Sharman University of Cambridge
J.M. Matthews
J.M. Matthews University of New Mexico

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