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Overview

Vivien Lowndes is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on topics within the social sciences, with sixteen publications related to this broad field. More specifically, they have contributed to subfields such as Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, and Urban Studies.

The main topics covered in Lowndes's work include Gender Politics and Representation, Turkey's Politics and Society, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Public Policy and Administration Research, Urban Planning and Governance, Gender, Security, and Conflict, and Policing Practices and Perceptions.

Lowndes has authored several recent papers that reflect these thematic areas:

  • How do local actors interpret, enact and contest policy? An analysis of local government responses to meeting the needs of Syrian refugees in Turkey (2020, Local Government Studies)
  • Identifying the Institutional Micro-Foundations of Gender Policy Change: A Case Study of Police Governance and Violence against Women and Girls (2021, Politics & Gender)
  • Understanding institutional dynamics in participatory governance: how rules, practices and narratives combine to produce stability or diverge to create conditions for change (2021, Critical Policy Studies)
  • Why are designs for urban governance so often incomplete? A conceptual framework for explaining and harnessing institutional incompleteness (2021, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space)
  • How Does Multi-Level Governance Create Capacity to Address Refugee Needs, and with What Limitations? An Analysis of Municipal Responses to Syrian Refugees in Istanbul (2021, Journal of Refugee Studies)

Frequent co-authors in Lowndes's publications include Rabia Karakaya Polat, S. Lax, Fiona Pearce, Catherine Durose, and Emma Dures.

Their work has appeared in various publication venues, including Politics & Gender, Local Government Studies, Critical Policy Studies, Political Studies, and venues associated with Lara D. Veeken.

In addition to journal articles, Lowndes has contributed to book publications. One such contribution is to the book "Ulusaldan Küresele: Popülizm, Demokrasi, Güvenlik Konferansı," published by Işık Üniversitesi Yayınları eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The Dynamics of Multi‐organizational Partnerships: an Analysis of Changing Modes of Governance

    Vivien Lowndes;Chris Skelcher

  • Trends In Public Participation: Part 1 – Local Government Perspectives

    Vivien Lowndes;Lawrence Pratchett;Gerry Stoker

  • Local Governance under the Coalition Government: Austerity, Localism and the ‘Big Society’

    Vivien Lowndes;Lawrence Pratchett

  • Trends in Public Participation: Part 2 – Citizens' Perspectives

    Vivien Lowndes;Lawrence Pratchett;Gerry Stoker

  • How low can you go? Rationales and challenges for neighbourhood governance

    Vivien Lowndes;Helen Sullivan

  • Why Institutions Matter

    Vivien Lowndes;Mark Roberts

  • Social Capital and Local Governance: Exploring the Institutional Design Variable

    Vivien Lowndes;David J. Wilson

  • Local political participation: the impact of rules-in-use

    Vivien Lowndes;Lawrence Pratchett;Gerry Stoker

  • Like a Horse and Carriage or a Fish on a Bicycle: How Well do Local Partnerships and Public Participation go Together?

    Vivien Lowndes;Helen Sullivan

  • Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed . . ./: How Institutions Change (and Stay the Same) in Local Governance

    Vivien Lowndes

  • Diagnosing and remedying the failings of official participation schemes: the CLEAR framework

    Vivien Lowndes;Lawrence Pratchett;Gerry Stoker

  • Why Institutions Matter: The New Institutionalism in Political Science

    Vivien Lowndes;Mark Roberts

  • Rescuing aunt Sally: taking institutional theory seriously in urban politics

    Vivien Lowndes

  • Policy Networks and Governance Networks: Towards Greater Conceptual Clarity

    Ismael Blanco;Vivien Lowndes;Lawrence Pratchett

  • Getting on or getting by? Women, social capital and political participation

    Vivien Lowndes

  • Local governance under the Conservatives: super-austerity, devolution and the ‘smarter state’

    Vivien Lowndes;Alison Gardner

  • Women and Social Capital: A Comment on Hall's ‘Social Capital in Britain’

    Vivien Lowndes

  • Balancing revisability and robustness? A new institutionalist perspective on local government modernization

    Vivien Lowndes;David J. Wilson

  • Understanding Local Political Leadership: Constitutions, Contexts and Capabilities

    Vivien Lowndes;Steve Leach

  • Weathering the Perfect Storm?: Austerity and Institutional Resilience in Local Government

    Vivien Lowndes;Kerry McCaughie

  • How Are Political Institutions Gendered

    Vivien Lowndes

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerry Stoker
Gerry Stoker University of Southampton
Chris Skelcher
Chris Skelcher University of Birmingham
Graham Smith
Graham Smith University of Westminster
Helen Sullivan
Helen Sullivan Australian National University
Richard Cowell
Richard Cowell Cardiff University
Brigitte Nerlich
Brigitte Nerlich University of Nottingham
Jean Hartley
Jean Hartley The Open University

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