Jones, George


Professor George Jones  

Department

Position held

Greater London Group

Department of Government

Emeritus Professor of Government

LSE Public Policy Group

Public Policy Programme Co-ordinator

Experience keywords:

prime ministers' aides; central-local government relations; British parliament; cabinets; civil service; prime ministers; British politics

Research summary > [Click to expand]

1) The evolution of the networks of aides to British prime ministers from 1868 to the present. The focus is on how a system with only two aides for prime minister Disraeli changed to one of many hundreds for prime minister Blair. 2) The relationship between central and local government, focussing on the increase in centralisation and the erosion of local government, driven by the national government's concerns about local expenditure, taxation, policy and service delivery. 3) Leadership in local government, focussing on the debates about the structure of political executives in local authorities.

Languages:

German [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7272 3519

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2012

Jones, George W. and Stewart, John (2012) The national audit office should not be responsible for the audit of local authorities. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Jones, George and Stewart, John (2012) Yet another feeble paper on civil service reform that will achieve little for local government. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Jones, George W. (2012) Elected mayors cannot deliver a localist revival. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Jones, George and Stewart, John (2012) Local government: the past, the present and the future. Public policy and administration, 27 (4). pp. 346-367. ISSN 0952-0767

Jones, George W. and Stewart, John (2011) Government plans to impose mayoral referendums have not been thought out properly and should be abandoned. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Jones, George W. (2011) Budget 2011: Government’s ‘pothole priority’ proves its lack of commitment to localism. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2010

Jones, George W. (2010) The coalition government’s ‘new localism’ decentralisation agenda may well undermine local government. A new agreement is needed. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Jones, George W. (2010) Blame them, not us: how the Comprehensive Spending Review reflects the interests of the cabinet, and not the people. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Blick, Andrew and Jones, George W. (2010) Coalition government has created a new balance of power at the centre of UK government (but that shouldn’t be a surprise). Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Jones, George W. and Blick, Andrew (2010) The PM and the centre of UK government from Tony Blair to David Cameron: how much will change in the transition from single-party to coalition government? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Bouçek, Françoise and Jones, George W. and Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Travers, Tony and Beckett, Charlie and Hosein, Gus and Carrera, Leandro N. and Leunig, Tim (2010) LSE election experts reflect on the election result. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Jones, George W. and Bouçek, Francoise and Hagemann, Sara and Leunig, Tim and Carrera, Leandro N. (2010) Eve of the election: reflections from election experts. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Blick, Andrew and Jones, George W. (2010) The UK premiership after the 2010 election. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Blick, Andrew and Jones, George W. (2010) Premiership: the development, nature and power of the office of the British Prime Minister. Imprint Academic, Exeter, UK. ISBN 9781845401689

Jones, George W. and Copus, Colin (2010) Introduction. Local government studies, 36 (3). pp. 317-322. ISSN 0300-3930

Blick, Andrew and Jones, George W. (2010) The centre of central government. LSE Public Policy Group Working Papers, no. 3. Public Policy Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Blick, Andrew and Jones, George W. (2010) The centre of central government. Public policy research, 17 (1). pp. 29-35. ISSN 1744-5396

2001

Jones, George W. (2001) The public sector ethos under attack. In: Kitchin, Hilary, (ed.) A democratic future. Local Government Information Unit, London, UK, pp. 65-69. ISBN 9781903731093

Jones, George W. and Donoughue, Bernard (2001) Herbert Morrison: portrait of a politician. Phoenix Press, London, UK. ISBN 9781842124413

2000

Scott, Colin and Hood, Christopher and James, Oliver and Jones, George W. and Travers, Tony (2000) Bureaucratic gamekeeping: regulation of UK public administration 1976-96. In: Rhodes, R. A. W., (ed.) Transforming British government. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, pp. 80-96. ISBN 9780333752418

Jones, George W. and Burnham, June (2000) The evolving Prime Minister's Office 1868-1977. In: Rhodes, R. A. W., (ed.) Transforming British Government. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 176-194. ISBN 9780333752418

Jones, George W. and Burnham, June (2000) Advising the Prime Minister. Talking politics, 12 (2). pp. 333-336. ISSN 0955-8780

1999

Jones, George W. and Burnham, June (1999) Innovators at 10 Downing Street. In: Theakston, Kevin, (ed.) Bureaucrats and leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780333749685

Hood, Christopher and James, Oliver and Scott, Colin and Jones, George W. and Travers, Tony (1999) Regulation inside government: waste watchers, quality police, and sleaze-busters. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198280996

Jones, George W. (1999) The role of No. 10. Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK. ISBN 9780902986565

Jones, George W. and Maor, Moshe (1999) Varieties of administrative convergence. International journal of public sector management, 12 (1). pp. 49-62. ISSN 0951-3558

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