Professor Martin Lodge

Professor Martin Lodge

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Deputy Head of Department for Research

Department of Government

Room No
CBG 3.05
Office Hours
Fridays 10:30 - 12:30
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Languages
English, German
Key Expertise
Executive politics, public administration, regulation

About me

I have been member of the Department of Government since 2002. Prior to that appointment, I was Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and Senior Research Officer at the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR). I am currently Co-Director of CARR.

Research interests

  • Comparative regulatory regimes and policies
  • Institutional analysis
  • German, British and EU public policy

Teaching responsibilities

  • GV483: Public Management Theory and Doctrine
  • GV488: Law and Politics of Regulation
  • GV263: Public Policy Analysis

Books

The Politics of Public Service Bargains: Reward, Competency, Loyalty - and Blame
(Oxford University Press, 2006)

The traditional understandings that structure the relationships between public servants and the wider political system are said to have undergone considerable change. But what are these formalized and implicit understandings? What are the key dimensions of such bargains? In what conditions do bargains rise and fall? And has there been a universal and uniform change in these bargains?

The Politics of Public Service Bargains develops a distinct perspective to answer these questions. It develops a unique analytical perspective to account for diverse bargains within systems of executive government. Drawing on comparative experiences from different state traditions, this study examines ideas and contemporary developments along three key dimensions of any Public Service Bargain - reward, competency and loyalty and responsibility.

The Politics of Public Service Bargains points to diverse and differentiated developments across national systems of executive government and suggests how different 'bargains' are prone to cheating by their constituent parties. This study explores the context in which managerial bargains - widely seen to be at the heart of contemporary administrative reform movements - are likely to catch on and considers how cheating is likely to destabilize such bargains.