Jonathan Boston

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| nationality = New Zealander

| discipline = Public policy

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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|University of Canterbury|University of Oxford}}

| thesis_title = The theory and practice of voluntary incomes policies with particular reference to the British Labour government's social contract, 1974–79

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| thesis_year = 1984

| doctoral_advisor = Jim Sharpe
David Soskice

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Jonathan George Boston {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM|size=85%}} (born 1957) is a New Zealand academic and professor of policy studies at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Government.

Academic career

Boston got his MA from the University of Canterbury and his DPhil from the University of Oxford.{{cite web|url=http://igps.victoria.ac.nz/staff/team/Jonathan_Boston.html|title=Jonathan Boston|publisher=Victoria University of Wellington}}

He was the co-chair of the Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty,{{cite web| url=http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sog/about/staff/jonathan-boston | title=Jonathan Boston | publisher=Victoria University of Wellington | accessdate=29 May 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10839028 | title=Jonathan Boston: Three myths about child poverty | work=The New Zealand Herald | date=8 October 2012 | accessdate=29 May 2014 | author=Boston, Jonathan}} and has written extensively on climate change policy.

In the 2021 New Year Honours, Boston was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to public and social policy.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2021 |title=New Year honours list 2021 |date=31 December 2020 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=31 December 2020}}

Selected works

Boston, Jonathan, John Martin, June Pallot, and Pat Walsh. Public management: the New Zealand model. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Boston, Jonathan, John Martin, June Pallot, and Pat Walsh. "Reshaping the state: New Zealand’s bureaucratic revolution." Victoria University of Wellington Print (1991).
Boston, Jonathan. "The theoretical underpinnings of public sector restructuring in New Zealand." Reshaping the state (1991): 1-26.
Boston, Jonathan. The state under contract. Paul & Company Pub Consortium, 1995.

References

External links

[http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sog/about/staff/jonathan-boston Staff page] at Victoria University of Wellington
[https://www.bwb.co.nz/authors/jonathan-boston Author page] at Bridget William Books
[https://archive.today/20140628231958/http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/jonathan-boston/15/736/8a0 LinkedIn profile]

Category:Living people

Category:Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington

Category:University of Canterbury alumni

Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford

Category:1957 births

Category:New Zealand political scientists

Category:Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit