Paul Fawcett is a Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He was awarded his Ph.D. (funded by the ESRC) from the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham in 2009. In 2008, he was an Endeavour Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. In 2005, he was an ESRC Parliamentary Research Fellow at the House of Commons Library.

Dr Fawcett’s main research interests are in the areas of network governance, public policy, state theory and executive government. He is in the process of completing a research monograph on The Core Executive under Blair (Palgrave, forthcoming).

• Network governance
• Executive government
• Public policy
• State theory
• British politics

Fawcett, P. and Gay, O. (in press), ‘United Kingdom’ in C. Eichbaum and R. Shaw (eds.), Partisan Appointees and Public Servants: An International Analysis of the Role of the Political Advisor (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham).

Fawcett, P. and Rhodes, R.A.W. (2007), ‘Central Government’ in A. Seldon (ed.), Blair’s Britain 1997-2007 (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge), pp. 79-103.

Akhtar, P., Fawcett, P., Legrand, T., Marsh, D. and Taylor, C. (2005), ‘Women in the Political Science Profession’, European Political Science, 4 (3), 242-55.

Fawcett, P. and Gay, O. (2005), ‘The Centre of Government: the Prime Minister’s Office, the Cabinet Office and Her Majesty’s Treasury’, House of Commons Library Research Paper, http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2005/rp05-092.pdf.

Fawcett, P. and Gay, O. (2005), ‘Special Advisers’, House of Commons Library Standard Note.

• GOVT2557 Public Sector Management

• GOVT6331 International Public Management