Staff profiles
Professor Jim Chandler
Principal lecturer, BA Politics and Philosophy, MA (by thesis), PhD Department of Government
Phone 0114 225 5249
E-mail j.a.chandler@shu.ac.uk
Subject areas
Local government and governance
Profile
Dr Chandler's principal research interest is in explaining the development of local government from a socio-economic and political theory perspective but he also written on public management and on the decline of teaching in the field of public policy and management
Research interests
- development of local government in Britain in comparative context (completing book for Manchester University Press: Explaining Local Government)
- political theory of local government
Teaching interests
- business ethics
- public policy and administration
Author of recent publications
'Comparative Inter-governmental Relations: Models that need to travel' Local Government Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, June 2005, 269-284.
Local Government Today, 3 rd ed., Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002.
'Deregulation and the decline of public administration teaching in the UK', Public Administration, Vol.80, No. 2, 2002, pp. 371-86.
