Articles published by Jack Newman in academic journals (see also Google Scholar):
Hickson, J. and Newman, J. 2025. ‘Localism, Levelling up, and Taking Back Control: tensions in the ambiguous justification of English devolution’. The Political Quarterly.
Ayres, S., Newman, J., Sandford, M., Bates, G., & Barnfield, A. 2025. ‘How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times’. Regional Studies.
Bates, G., Newberry, P., McClatchey, R., Newman, J., & Ayres, S. 2025. How can health be further integrated in urban development policymaking in the United Kingdom? A systems mapping approach. Health Research Policy and Systems.
Newman, J. & Hoole, C. 2024. ‘The intersection of productivity and governance capacity in spatial inequality: the case of England’s devolution periphery’. Contemporary Social Sciences.
Ayres, S., Newman, J., Le Guais, A., Bates, G., McLatchy, R., & Pearce, N. 2024. ‘Are we any closer to levelling up health?’ Contemporary Social Sciences.
Diamond, P. & Newman, J. 2024. ‘Instability and Inequality in the British State: Parliamentary Affairs Special Issue Editorial’. Parliamentary Affairs. 77(4), 645-657.
Warner, S., Newman, J., Diamond, P., Richards, D. 2024. ‘The Challenge of Devolved English Governance and the Rise of Political Spatial Inequality’. Parliamentary Affairs. 77(4), 735-764.
Diamond, P., Newman, J., Richards, D., Sanders, A., & Westwood, A. 2024. ‘‘Hyper-active incrementalism and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time’. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
Newman, J., McClatchey, R., Bates, G., & Ayres, S. 2024. ‘Tackling health inequalities: The missing delivery mechanisms in national health missions’. IPPR Progressive Review. 31(1), 63-69.
Newman, J., Mukherjee, A., & Hoole, C. 2024. ‘Constraints and enablers of regional environmental policy: governance challenges in England and Wales’. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 26(1), 1-13.
Newman, J., Collinson, S., Driffield, N., Gilbert, N., & Hoole, C. 2024. ‘Mechanisms of Metagovernance as Structural Challenges to Levelling Up’. Regional Studies. 58(4), 876-892.
Smith, M. & Newman, J. 2024. ‘MPs, Outside Interests and Corporate Boards – Too Busy to Serve?’. Parliamentary Affairs. 77(2)
Newman, J. 2023. ‘Social Security Policy and Ontology: The Case of the UK’s Universal Credit Reforms’. Policy Studies. 44(6), 767-785.
Hoole, C., Collinson, S., & Newman, J. 2023. ‘England’s Catch-22: Institutional Limitations to Achieving Balanced Growth through Devolution. Contemporary Social Science. 18(3-4), 428-448).
Tilley, H., Newman, J., Connell, A., Hoole, C., & Mukherjee, A. 2023 ’A Place-based System? Regional Policy Levers and the UK’s Productivity Challenge’. Regional Studies. 57(10), 2102-2114.
Newman, J. & Gilbert, N. 2022. ’The role of the private sector in subnational governance: Learning lessons from England’s LEPs’. Local Economy. 37(1-2), 66-83.
Newman, J. 2021. ’The Ambiguous Ideology of Levelling-up’. The Political Quarterly. 92(2).
Newman, J. & Hayton, R. 2021. ‘The Ontological Failure of David Cameron’s ‘Modernisation’ of the Conservative Party’. British Politics. 17, 253-273.
Newman, J. 2020. ‘Critical Realism, Critical Discourse Analysis, and the Morphogenetic Approach’. Journal of Critical Realism. 19(5), 433-455.
Newman, J. 2019. ‘Morphogenetic Theory and the Constructivist Institutionalist Challenge’. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 49(1), 106-126.
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