Graduated since 2000

Lodge, Martin (PhD at LSE, awarded 2000) "On Different Tracks: Institutions and Railway Regulation in Britain and Germany."
Study of regulatory regimes in the British and German railways at three points in time: post-First World War, post-Second World War and the 1990s, seeking to explain why some reform templates were used but not others. A revised version was published as "On Different Tracks: Designing Railway Regulation in Britain and Germany"(Praeger 2002).
Martin Lodge is now Reader in Political Science and Public Policy at the Department of Government, London School of Economics (see http://personal.lse.ac.uk/LODGEMC/).

Curristine, Teresa (Oxford DPhil awarded 2003) "Reforming Civil Service Accountability in the US and UK: Two Highways Agencies Compared."
Study of the implementation of performance-based accountability reforms, in the US and UK, looking at the case of highways agencies.
Teresa Curristine is now working on public service reform at the OECD in Paris.

Jennings, William (Oxford DPhil, awarded 2004) "Policy, Implementation and Public Opinion (Public Celebrations Canada 1967, U.S.A. 1976, Australia 1988, and the United Kingdom 2000)."
Study of the relationship between policy-making and public opinion in four cases of public celebrations.
Will Jennings is now Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.

Carvalho Borges, André (Oxford DPhil, awarded 2005) "Politics, Education and Democracy: An Analysis of State-Level Reforms of School Governance in Brazil."
Study of 1990s moves to elect school principals in state schools in Brazil, comparing Bahia, Ceará and Minas Gerais.
André Carvalho Borges is now a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul at Porto Alegre in the south of Brazil. He teaches courses on research methodology and public policy analysis, and is working on a research project on political representation, territorial inequalities and education spending in Brazil.

Stirton, Lindsay (PhD at LSE, awarded 2005) "Regulatory Governance in the UK National Health Service."
Study of the development and impact of regulation in health care in the UK.
Lindsay Stirton is now Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester (see http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/lindsay_stirton/default.html).

Jansky, Radomir (DPhil Oxford, awarded 2005) "The Cognitive Dimension of European Union Policy Making: The Role of Evaluation in European Union Regional Policy."
Study of the role of evaluation in the policy process, looking at the case of Structural Funds policy in the EU in the 1988, 1993 and 1999 Structural Funds reforms.
Radomir Jansky now works at the European Commission, Directorate General Home Affairs as a Policy Officer responsible for cyber crime.

Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Raanan (DPhil Oxford, awarded 2006) "Blame Avoidance and the Politics of National Public Inquiries in the UK – 1984-2003."
Systematic study of public inquiries (and decisions not to set up public inquiries) from a blame-avoidance perspective.
Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan is now Lecturer in Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (see http://politics.huji.ac.il/faculty_one.asp?id=216).

Gilad, Sharon (DPhil Oxford, awarded 2006) "An Intra-Organisational Perspective on the Role of Consumer Complaint Handling in the UK Retail Investment Regime (1981-2004)."
Study of how regulatory responsiveness is shaped by external and internal factors, focusing on the critical case of UK long term insurance regulation.
Sharon Gilad is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Broesamle, Klaus (Oxford DPhil awarded 2011) "Careering Bureaucrats and Bureacrats' Careers."
Klaus Broesamle joined the Hertie School in February 2011 as a Post-Doctoral researcher to work on careers, promotions and incentives in government organisations.

Completing and in Progress

Goetze, Stefan (DPhil Oxford) "The Transformation of East German Police after German Unification."
Explores the transformation of the East German police in the wake of German unification, and interprets weak performance of police departments as a product of a lack of career incentives for managers - an unintended consequence of the politics of administrative transformation in East Germany.

Hackett, Ursula (Exeter College, Oxford)

Krogstad, Erlend (St Antony's College, Oxford)

McManigal, Barney (Merton College, Oxford)

Scott, Douglas (Keble College, Oxford)