Jonathan Boston

Contact Details

Phone: +64 4 463 5456
Mobile: +64 27 563 5456
Email: Jonathan.Boston@vuw.ac.nz
Office: RLWY 518

Title

Director

Qualifications

MA(Hons) Cant; DPhil (Oxford).

Profile

Jonathan Boston holds a Personal Chair in Public Policy and is the Director of the Institute of Policy Studies. He has published widely in the fields of public management, tertiary education, social policy, comparative government, New Zealand politics and climate change policy, including 21 books and over 170 journal articles and book chapters. During 1995-2003 he was a member of the New Zealand Political Change Project, based at Victoria University of Wellington and funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. The Project explored the behavioural, institutional and policy impacts of the introduction of proportional representation in New Zealand in 1996. In 2000-02 he served as a member of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission, and subsequently worked for the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) on the design, implementation and evaluation of the Performance-Based Research Fund. In this capacity he was the primary author of the TEC's report on the 2003 Quality Evaluation of research performance in New Zealand's tertiary education sector. During 2005-08 he was Deputy Director of the IPS, and was appointed Director in mid 2008.

 

Major publications include:

Boston, J (2008) 'Global Climate Change Policies: From Bali to Copenhagen and Beyond' Policy Quarterly 4(1): 50-62.

Boston, J (ed) (2007) Towards a New Global Climate Treaty: Looking Beyond 2012 (Wellington, Institute of Policy Studies).

Boston, J et al (eds) (2006) Confronting Climate Change: Critical Issues for New Zealand (Wellington, VUW Press)

Boston, J and Davey, J (eds) (2006) Implications for Population Ageing: Opportunities and Risks (Wellington, Institute of Policy Studies).

Boston, J et al (eds) (2006) Evaluating the Performance Based Research Fund: Framing the Debate (Wellington, Institute of Policy Studies)

Boston, J & Ladley A (2006) 'The Efficient Secret: The Craft of Coalition Management' New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law (4)1, 55-90.

Boston, J; Callister, P and Wolf, A (2006) The Policy Implications of Diversity (Wellington, Institute of Policy Studies).

Co-editor (with Paul Dalziel and Susan St John) Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand (Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1999), 356pp.

Co-author (with John Martin, June Pallot and Pat Walsh) Public Management: The New Zealand Model ( Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1996), 412pp.