Matthew Flinders (academic)

Matthew Flinders (born 1972^[1]) is a British academic and political scientist.

Flinders did his undergraduate degree at Loughborough University before completing his PhD in public policy and governance at the University of Sheffield.^{[2] [1]}. He teaches on the undergraduate politics degree at the University of Sheffield and has written a number of academic books. His main area of expertise is British governance. He obtained a departmental chair in 2009, and is deputy head of the department.^[1]

Flinders won the W.J.Mackenzie Prize for the best book published in 2008 by the Political Studies Association (the UK professional association for the academic study of politics) for his book Delegated Governance and the British State: Walking without Order.^[3]

Selected publications

• Flinders, M.V. (2008) Delegated governance and the British state: walking without order, Oxford University Press.
• Flinders, M. (2001) The politics of accountability in the modern state, Ashgate.
• Flinders, M. V. (2000) The politics of accountability : the enduring centrality of individual ministerial responsibility within the British constitution, (Dissertation: University of Sheffield).
• Bache, I. and Flinders, M. (eds.) (2004) Multi-level governance, Oxford University Press.
• Brazier, A., Flinders, M. and McHugh, D. (eds.) (2005) New politics, new parliament? : a review of parliamentary modernisation since 1997, Published by Hansard Society.
• Flinders, M.V., Harden, I. and Marquand, D. (eds.) (1997) How to make quangos democratic, Published by Charter88 in association with PERC.
• Flinders, M., Smith, M. (1999) Quangos, accountability and reform : the politics of quasi-government, Macmillan.

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Dr Matthew Flinders Sheffield Telegraph". http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/thepanel/Dr-Matthew-Flinders.3721618.jp. Retrieved 2010-03-29. 
2. ^ "University of Sheffield Politics Department Staff". http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/staff/matthewflinders.html. Retrieved 2010-03-29. 
3. ^ "University of Sheffield Media Centre". http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2009/1433.html. Retrieved 2010-03-29. 

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