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Peter C. John Department of Political Science Phone: +44 (0)203 3108 1145 or +44 (0)7780 983928 University College London Fax: +44 (0)207 679 4969 Gower Street E-mail: [email protected] London WC1E 6BT Homepage: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp United Kingdom Personal Born December 11, 1960 United Kingdom Citizen Education B.Sci. Economics and Politics, University of Bath, 1983 M.Phil. Politics, Nuffield College, 1986 D. Phil. Politics, Nuffield College, 1992 Employment Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University College London, 2011- Hallsworth Chair of Governance, University of Manchester, 2004-2011 Professor of Politics, Birkbeck, 2001-2004 Reader in Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck, 1999-2001 Reader in Politics, University of Southampton, 1998-1999 Lecturer in Politics, University of Southampton, 1995-1998 Lecturer in Politics, University of Keele, 1992-1995 Research Fellow, Policy Studies Institute, 1988-1992 Research Assistant, Nuffield College, Oxford University, 1987-1988 Publications Books Published Experimentation in Political Science and Public Policy: The Challenge and Promise of Field Trials, Routledge, 2017. Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action, Princeton University Press, 2015, with Helen Margetts, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri. Peter C. John 2 Public Policy Investment: Priority-Setting and Conditional Representation In British Statecraft, Oxford Uni- versity Press, 2013, with Anthony Bertelli. Policy Agendas in British Politics, Palgrave, 2013, with Anthony Bertelli, William Jennings and Shaun Bevan. Exits, Voices and Social Investment: Citizens’ Reaction to Public Services, Cambridge University Press, 2012, with Keith Dowding. Handbook of Urban Politics, Oxford University Press, 2012, edited with Karen Mossberger and Susan Clarke. Analyzing Public Policy, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2012. Nudge Nudge, Think Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011, with Sarah Cotterill, Alice Moseley, Liz Richardson, Graham Smith, Gerry Stoker and Corinne Wales. Making Policy Work, Routledge, 2011. Re-energising Citizenship, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2006, edited with Tessa Brannan and Gerry Stoker. Local Governance in Western Europe, London: Sage, 2001. Local Governance in England and France London: Routledge, 2001, with Alistair Cole. Analysing Public Policy, London: Cassell, 1998. In Progress How Far to Nudge? The promise of behavioural public policy, under contract with Edward Elgar. Journal Articles Forthcoming Nudges that promote channel shift: a randomized evaluation of reminders for disability badges, Inter- net and Policy Introduction to the Symposium, Political Studies Review A field experiment: testing the potential of norms for achieving behavior change in English parishes, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, with Julie Van de Vyer. 2016 Parties are no civic charities: campaigns, demobilization, and the changing composition of the elec- torate, with Florian Foos, Political Science Research Methods, early view. Transparency at the parish pump: A field experiment to measure the effectiveness of Freedom of Information requests Ben Worthy, Peter John and Matia Vannoni, Journal of Public Management Research and Theory, early view. Spanning exit and voice: Albert Hirschman’s contribution to political science, Research on the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, special issue on Hirschman edited by Marina Bianchi and Maurizio Franzini. Finding exits and voices: Albert Hirschman’s contribution to the study of public services, International Public Management Journal, Published online: 29 Jan 2016, doi: 10.1080/10967494.2016.1141814 Peter C. John 3 2015 Targeting voter registration with incentives: A randomized controlled trial of a lottery in a London borough, Electoral Studies, 40: 170-175, with Elizabeth MacDonald and Michael Sanders. Leadership without Leaders? Starters and Followers in On-line Collective Action, Political Studies, DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12075, with Helen Margetts and Scott Hale. Whatever happened to local government? A review symposium, Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2:1, 434-456, with Kevin Ward, Janet Newman, Nik Theodore, Julie Macleavye and Allan Cochrane. Policy Representation by Party Leaders and Followers: What drives UK Prime Minister’s Questions? Government and Opposition, with Shaun Bevan. 2014 The great survivor: the persistence and resilience of English local government, Local Government Studies, 40th Anniversary issue, DOI 10.1080/03003930.2014.891984. Policy entrepreneurship in British government: the Behavioural Insights Team and the Use of RCTs, Public Policy and Administration, 29(3), 257–267. When context matters: assessing geographical heterogeneity of Get-Out-The-Vote treatment effects using a population based field experiment, Political Behavior, 36(1): 77-97, with Ed Fieldhouse, Dave Cutts and Paul Widdop. 2013 Collection of delinquent fines: A randomized trial to assess the effectiveness of alternative messages, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 32(4): 718–730, with Donald P. Green, Laura Haynes, Rory Gallagher, and David Torgerson. All tools are informational now. How information and persuasion define the capacity of government, Policy and Politics, 41(4): 605–620, 25th Anniversary Issue. Taking political engagement online: an experimental analysis of asynchronous discussion forums, Political Studies, 61: 709–730, with Graham Smith and Pat Sturgis. Experimentation, behaviour change and public policy, Political Quarterly, 84: 238–24. Competitive learning in yardstick competition: testing models of policy diffusion, Political Science Re- search and Methods, 1(1): 3–25 with Hugh Ward Political science, impact and evidence, Political Studies Review, 11: 168–173. The future of political science, Political Studies Review, 11: 222–227, with Matthew Flinders. Does mobilisation increase family engagement with an early childhood intervention programme? A randomised controlled trial, Policy and Politics, 41(2): 201–221, with Sarah Cotterill and Liz Richardson. Pledge campaigns to encourage charitable giving: a randomised controlled trial, with Sarah Cotterill, Peter John and Liz Richardson, Social Science Quarterly, 94: 200–216. Public policy investment: risk and return in British Politics, British Journal of Political Science, 43(4): 741–773, with Anthony Bertelli. Do impersonal mobilisation methods work? Evidence from a nationwide Get-Out-the-Vote experiment in England, Electoral Studies, 32(1): 113–123, with Ed Fieldhouse, Dave Cutts and Paul Widdop. Peter C. John 4 2012 Who listens to the grassroots? A field experiment on informational lobbying in the UK, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 14: 595–612, with Liz Richardson. What are policy punctuations? Large changes in the agenda of the UK Government, 1911-2008, Policy Studies Journal, 40(1): 89–08, with Shaun Bevan. Geographic mobility, social connections and voter turnout Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, 22: 109–122, with Keith Dowding and Daniel Rubenson. Party control, party competition and public service performance, British Journal of Political Science, 42: 641–660, with George Boyne, Oliver James and Nicolai Petrovsky. 2011 Does stronger political leadership have a performance payoff? Citizen satisfaction in the reform of subcentral governments in England, Journal of Public Administration, Research and Theory, 21: 239–256, with Stephen Greasley. Social information and political participation on the internet: an experiment, European Political Science Review, 3: 321-344, with Helen Margetts Tobias Escher and Stéphane Reissfelder. Do executives keep their promises? The transmission of the policy agendas of the Speech from the Throne to Acts of the UK Parliament, European Political Science Review, 3: 395-417, with Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings. Comparing government agendas: executive speeches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Den- mark, Comparative Political Studies, 44: 1001-1030, with Peter Mortensen, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Gerard Breeman, Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Will Jennings, Anna Palau Roqué and Arco Timmermans. Top management turnover and organizational performance: a test of a contingency model, Public Administration Review, 71: 572–58 with George Boyne, Oliver James and Nicolai Petrovsky. The use of feedback to enhance environmental outcomes a randomized controlled trial of a food waste scheme, Enviornmental Politics, 16: 637-653, with Hisako Nomura and Sarah Cotterill. The agenda of British government: the speech from the throne, 1911-2008, Political Studies, 59: 74-98, with Will Jennings and Shaun Bevan. Leadership succession and organisational success: when do new chief executives make a difference?, Public Policy and Management, 31(5): 339-346, with George Boyne, Oliver James and Nicolai Petrovsky. Does government performance matter? The effects of local government on urban outcomes in England, Urban Studies, 48: 1835-1852, with Stephen Greasley and Hal Wolman. How civic is the civic culture? Explaining community participation using the 2005 English Citizenship Survey, Political Studies, 59: 230-252, with Ed Fieldhouse and Hanhua Liu. Effects of the core functions of government on the diversity of executive agendas, Comparative Political Studies, 44: 973-1000, with Will Jennings, Shaun Bevan, Arco Timmermans, Gerard Breeman, Sylvain Brouard, Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Peter John, Peter B. Mortensen, Anna M. Palau Roqué. Peter C. John 5 2010 Government
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