Executive Politics & Governance book series

A number of volumes of the Executive Politics & Governance series with Palgrave have been published.

The launch volume, Executive Politics in Times of Crisis, is an edited volume containing leading contributions on executive politics.

Olympic Risks, by Will Jennings considers the politics of the Olympics.

Governance, Performance and Capacity Stress, by Simon Bastow, develops an explanation for understanding why and how public organisations live with capacity stress.

Auditing Good Government in Africa by Maria Gustavson develops a novel approach towards strengthening government institutions in Africa.

Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government, edited by Carl Dahlström and Lena Wängnerud; a seminal collection by leading scholars on how constraints on elites can prevent ‘bad government’.

Christopher Hood Symposium

A special publication has been published to celebrate Christopher Hood’s contribution to the study of executive government and politics. See here

George Jones

We are saddened by the news of the passing of George Jones, Emeritus Professor of Government at the London School of Economics. Professor Jones represented the executive politics and public administration at the LSE. He was enthusiastic about the formation of this specialist group. Listen to his account of his time at LSE in this LSE ‘Tales from Houghton Street’ recording.