Dr Paul Fawcett
Ph.D. University of Birmingham, UK
M.A. Political Science (Distinction), University of Birmingham, UK
B.A. Political Science (First Class Honours), University of Birmingham, UK
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BACKGROUND
Paul joined the Department of Government and International Relations in January 2009. He was previously a member of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham and a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. His main research interests are in the areas of public policy, political sociology and comparative politics. Most of his research is concerned with critically assessing the argument that we are witnessing a shift from government to governance in which networked and decentred approaches to public policymaking are replacing more hierarchical modes of governing. He has a theoretical interest in these arguments but he has also sought to examine how they can be applied to study changes in the core executive, processes of political participation, policy transfer and the branding of public policy. He is currently in the process of completing a research monograph on The Core Executive under Blair (Palgrave), which draws on these themes. Paul is a member of the Public Policy Research Cluster and a member of the Australian Political Studies Association, the Political Studies Association (UK), the The Executive Politics and Governance Specialist Group, Political Studies Association (UK) and the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
RESEARCH
Research Interests
- Network governance theory
- State theory
- Metagovernance
- Core executive studies
- Policy transfer
- Political participation and citizen engagement
- Political sociology
- Australian and British politics
Research Grants
- January 2012 to January 2015
Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP120104155)
Innovative Democracy? Changing Approaches to Citizen Engagement in Australia, the UK and Denmark ($286,000AUD)
David Marsh (ANU), Ariadne Vromen (Sydney), Paul Fawcett (Sydney) and Henrik Bang (Copenhagen)
Many question the future of representative democracy in its current form given growing levels of civic disengagement. This project charts, explains and critically examines government responses to this disengagement across three policy areas in three different countries, Australia, the UK and Denmark. - January 2012 to January 2013
Institute of Public Administration Australia/University of Canberra Public Administration Research Trust Funding
Comparing Subnational Core Executives: The Australian Perspective ($4,000AUD) - May 2009 to December 2009
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Support Scheme, ‘Network Governance: The 2020 Summit’. - December 2007 to July 2008
Endeavour Research Fellowship, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
Research Students
- George Carayannopoulos, 'Network Governance and Crisis Management', started July 2011
TEACHING
Current Courses
Past Courses
- GOVT2557 - Public Sector Management
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Fawcett, P & Daugbjerg, C 2012, "Explaining Governance Outcomes: Epistemology, Network Governance and the Policy Network Analysis Schools", Political Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 2, pp 195-207.
Fawcett, P & Marsh, D 2012, "Policy Transfer and Policy Success: The Case of the Gateway Review Process", Government and Opposition, vol. 47, no 2, pp 162-185.
Fawcett, P, Manwaring, R & Marsh, D 2012, "Network Governance and the 2020 Summit", The Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 46, no. 4, pp 651-667.
Marsh, D & Fawcett, P 2011, "Branding, Politics and Democracy", Policy Studies, vol. 32, no. 5, pp 515-530.
Marsh, D & Fawcett, P 2011, "Branding and Franchising a Public Policy: The Case of the Gateway Review Process 2001-2010", The Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 70, no. 3, pp 246-258.
Akhtar, P, Fawcett, P, Legrand, T, Marsh, D & Taylor, C 2005, "Women in the Political Science Profession", European Political Science, vol. 4, no. 3, pp 242-255.
Book Chapters
Fawcett, P & Rhodes, R 2007, "Central Government" in A Seldon (ed.), Blair"s Britain 1997-2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Marsh, D & Fawcett, P 2012, "Branding Public Policy" in J Lees-Marshment (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Marketing, Routledge, London.
Fawcett, P 2012, "Premiers and Cabinets" in D Clune and R Smith (eds), From Carr to Keneally: Labor in Office in NSW, 1995-2011, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Marsh, D, Lewis, C & Fawcett, P 2010, "Citizen-centred policy making under Rudd: network governance in the shadow of hierarchy?" in C Aulich and M Evans (eds.), The Rudd Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2007-2010, ANU E Press, Canberra.
Fawcett, P & Gay, O 2010, "United Kingdom" in C Eichbaum and R Shaw (eds), Partisan Appointees and Public Servants: An International Analysis of the Role of the Political Advisor, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Selected Conference Papers
Fawcett, P 2011, "The Core Executive in NSW, 1995-2011", paper presented at the 2011 Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 26-28 September, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Fawcett, P & Marsh, D 2011, "Historical Institutionalism and Critical Realism", paper presented at the 2011 Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 26-28 September, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Fawcett, P 2011, "Premiers and Cabinets", paper presented at an Academy of Social Sciences Workshop, From Carr to Keneally: Labor in Office in NSW, 1995-2011, 7-8 July, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Fawcett, P & Daugbjerg, C 2011, "Governance Theory and the Question of Power: Lesson Drawing from the Governance Network and Policy Network Analysis Schools", paper presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, 19-21 April, London, UK.
Fawcett, P & Daugbjerg, C 2010, "Governance Theory and the Question of Power: Lesson Drawing from the Governance Network and Policy Network Analysis Schools", paper presented at the 2010 Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 27-29-September, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Fawcett, P & Marsh, D 2010, "Branding and Franchising a Public Policy: The Case of the Gateway Review Process", paper presented at the 2010 Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 27-29-September, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Fawcett, P 2010, "Metagovernance the Treasury"s Evolving Role within the British Core Executive, 1997-2007", paper presented at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Fawcett, P 2009, "Metagovernance and the UK Core Executive", paper presented in April 2009 at the Governance in Late Modernity Conference, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Fawcett, P & Marsh, D 2009, "Network Governance and the 2020 Summit", paper presented at the 2009 Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Fawcett, P & Marsh, D 2009, "Policy Transfer: The Case of Gateway", paper presented at the 2009 Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Working Papers
Fawcett, P & Gay, O 2005, "The Centre of Government: the Prime Minister"s Office, the Cabinet Office and Her Majesty's Treasury", House of Commons Library Research Paper, http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2005/rp05-092.pdf.
Fawcett, P & Gay, O 2005, "Special Advisers", House of Commons Library Standard Note, http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snpc-03813.pdf.