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Ruth Dixon

@ruth-dixon.bsky.social
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Retired from the University of Oxford. Co-author with Christopher Hood of 'A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?' OUP 2015.

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LawNewsIndex.com @thelawmap.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
MPs on both sides urge Commons not to take ‘extraordinary risk’ of forcing through assisted dying bill. Labour MPs Gareth Snell and Meg Hillier say Lords must be allowed to fulfil duty in scrutinising bill on serious public issue www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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MPs on both sides urge Commons not to take ‘extraordinary risk’ of forcing through assisted dying bill
Labour MPs Gareth Snell and Meg Hillier say Lords must be allowed to fulfil duty in scrutinising bill on serious public issue
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Public Administration @journalpa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Strategies for Public Administration Research: Insights From the Scholarship of Christopher Hood" by @ruth-dixon.bsky.social, Rozana Himaz, @maiaking.bsky.social, & @bpiotrowska.bsky.social explores the enduring intellectual legacy of Christopher Hood (1947-2025). doi.org/10.1111%2Fpa...
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Ruth Dixon @ruth-dixon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our new paper "Strategies for Public Administration Research: Insights From the Scholarship of Christopher Hood" is open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ruth Dixon @ruth-dixon.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A collection of essays on civil services around the world, available open access. The UK chapter, by Christopher Hood and me, does not altogether buy the 'decline' narrative. The collection is dedicated in memory of Christopher. idjs.ca/en/publicati...
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What Happened? The Decline of the Public Service in Democratic Governments - Institut Donald J. Savoie
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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · 13/06/2025
An effective legal system is core national infrastructure like rail or electricity, argues leading economist @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social from the @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk in @uk.theconversation.com. But civil courts are in decline, physically and reputationally. Read it here: ow.ly/rFkv50W8SKL
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The deteriorating justice system in England and Wales is hindering economic growth
Economist Diane Coyle explains how backlogs and underfunding in tribunals and civil courts causes problems for business.
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Ruth Dixon @ruth-dixon.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A collection of essays on civil services around the world, available open access. The UK chapter, by Christopher Hood and me, does not altogether buy the 'decline' narrative. The collection is dedicated in memory of Christopher. idjs.ca/en/publicati...
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What Happened? The Decline of the Public Service in Democratic Governments - Institut Donald J. Savoie
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Martin Lodge @martinlodge.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
A celebration of Christopher Hood’s legacy: blogs.lse.ac.uk/government/2...
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Christopher Hood (1947-2025) - LSE Government Blog
We were extremely saddened to learn about death of our former colleague Christopher Hood in early January.
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Ruth Dixon @ruth-dixon.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Huge congratulations to Iain McLean, @bpiotrowska.bsky.social, @maiaking.bsky.social, and the late - great - Christopher Hood for the award of the PSA's WJM Mackenzie Prize 2025! #PSA25
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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Last week, I joined Rozana Himaz, Ruth Dixon, @drjennings.bsky.social, and Colin Scott to pay tribute to Christopher Hood and his work: youtu.be/NA3vH8w1RUY. It was a real pleasure to hear memories and reflections from so many of his students, friends, and collaborators.
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A Tribute to Christopher Hood:
YouTube video by Theories of Regulation & Governance
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Alexandra Meakin @ameakin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
So, so proud of this book! It was an honour to be asked by @estrangeirada.bsky.social & @louisevthompson.bsky.social to join the editing team and work with 70+ incredible practitioners & academics who shared their expertise for the benefit of students of Parliament: global.oup.com/ukhe/product... 🧵
The cover of Exploring Parliament Second Edition, showing the Palace of Westminster and Westminster Bridge from across the Thames, at twilight.
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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I’ve written for our blog this week about why I think these are the biggest and most pernicious policy memes of 2025, check it out! bsky.app/profile/refo...
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Martin Stanley @ukcivilservant.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
HT @roadscholar.bsky.social :- "This means that in England, now, we can't build in towns because of people. We can't build in the countryside because of trees. And we can't build on industrial wasteland because of the spiders." ukcivilservant.substack.com/p/jumping-sp...
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Jumping Spiders & The Town that Disappeared
Growth v. The Environment
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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
As a tribute to Professor Christopher Hood who died earlier this month, we have made this 2006 article written with Martin Lodge free to view. From Sir Humphrey to Sir Nigel: What Future for the Public Service Bargain after Blairworld? @ox.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In memoriam: Christopher Hood. @ruth-dixon.bsky.social and I wrote this tribute in which we tried, but of course failed, to do justice to his immense contribution.
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Ruth Dixon @ruth-dixon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A tribute to Christopher Hood by @rikkidean.bsky.social and me
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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
@politicsoxford.bsky.social is saddened to learn that former DPIR Emeritus Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College Christopher Hood passed away earlier this year aged 77: ow.ly/qP0R50UJxRS
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Sam Macrory @sammacrory.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
“Civil service pay squeeze has led to ‘uncontrolled’ promotions” We’re publishing our @instituteforgov.bsky.social annual Whitehall Monitor on Thursday. It’s packed with new data, numbers, news and analysis. Here’s a preview in today’s Times story: www.thetimes.com/article/b64e...
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Civil service middle management has doubled in a decade
‘Uncontrolled’ promotions mean the cost of the civil service is now £2 billion annually
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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 13/01/2025
Governments prefer their members to vote with loyalty and leave legislation untouched Tony Wright, former Labour MP from 1992 to 2010, argues that the new generation of his party's MPs may want to more than be mere lobby fodder Read the comment👇 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/what...
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Support with scrutiny: What are MPs for? | Institute for Government
The debate on assisted dying could reshape the way MPs think about their jobs.
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Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Gilt rates - what has happened recently, how do we compare with other nations, how we can learn from Greece (!) and what the Chancellor needs to do. All in my free to read substack: timleunig.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
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What should Rachel Reeves do now?
Gilt rates matter a lot
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Ruth Dixon @ruth-dixon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A tribute to Christopher Hood by Thomas Elston and me www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/memoria...
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Alexandra Meakin @ameakin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The Telegraph implying that the £108m cost of R&R is solely due to officials, without mentioning that a huge part of the cost is due to MPs repeatedly asking for more reviews/failing to take a decision www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202... #WestminsterRR
Screenshot of story from the Daily Telegraph website. Headline reads: Officials spend £108m of taxpayers’ money on Parliament refurb before work has even begun
Palace of Westminster restoration could take decades and eventually cost over £20bn
There's a photo of building works on the Palace of Westminster
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I was very sad to hear the news of Christopher Hood's passing. Many people have been posting about his massive intellectual contribution. One thing that was maybe not so well known is just how much work he put into to ensuring public admin research was relevant and accesible for policymakers. 🧵
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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
It is a sad to hear the passing of Prof Christopher Hood, who made popular the concept of “new public management”. We are grateful to have done a review of his work back in 2019, showing how the ideas diffused. A great scholar leaves a legacy way into time. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How Does A Seminal Article in Public Administration Diffuse and Influence the Field? Bibliometric Methods and the Case of Hood's “A Public Management For All Seasons?”
Bibliographic methods offer an advanced microscope-like tool to probe specific fields of inquiry. In this article, we use these methodological tools to demonstrate how a seminal article diffused an...
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Ruth Dixon @ruth-dixon.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
APSA and Cambridge University Press have just made Christopher Hood's John Gaus Award lecture "Public Administration and the War Against COVID" free to access until the end of 2025 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The 2021 John Gaus Award Lecture: Public Administration and the War Against COVID | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
The 2021 John Gaus Award Lecture: Public Administration and the War Against COVID - Volume 55 Issue 3
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