Professor Oliver James
BA (Oxon); MSc, PhD (LSE, London)
Extension: 4504
Telephone: 01392 264504
Professor of Political Science, Director of Research for Politics
Oliver James works on the public policy and politics of public services, citizen-provider relationships, public sector organisation and reform, executive politics (particularly politician-administrator relations) and regulation of the public sector.
He is currently principal investigator on an ESRC funded project assessing leadership succession effects on organisational policy and performance (Grant RES062232471: Chief Executive Succession and the Performance of Central Government Agencies £215K Oct 2010-Sept 2012), and is a UK investigator and workpage lead on satisfaction with public services for a joint EU FP7 Project 'COCOPS: Co-ordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future' (2011-14). He has conducted several projects as part of the recent ESRC Public Services Programme, including the project 'Standards of Evidence for Assessing Public Service Performance' (Grant RES153270014). He supervises several PhD students and teaches courses on the Exeter MPA programme, runs methods courses and teaches about the politics of public services. He is Director of Research for the Department of Politics at Exeter.
Following his undergraduate BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne's College, University of Oxford he completed his MSc (with Distinction) and PhD in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, University of London. He has held academic posts at LSE (lecturer) and at Exeter (lecturer, senior lecturer and reader). He has also worked in HM Treasury on an academic placement and with bodies including the World Bank, OECD, UK National Audit Office and Audit Commission.
He publishes mainly in political science, public policy and public management/administration journals including the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration and Public Administration Review.
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