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Biography

Stephen Greasley is a Research Associate at IPEG. His main focus at IPEG has been on constitutional reform of local government. The recently completed Evaluating Local Governance project on which he was a research associate assessed the new political executive structures established under the Local Government Act 2000.

Future interests include continued research on the variety and quality of local democratic leadership in UK, urban economics and public administration and the use of field experiments in research on governance and policy.

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Publications

• Durose, C., Greasley, S. and Richardson, L. (eds) (forthcoming) Local Governance, Changing Citizens Policy Press
• Greasley, S and Stoker, G. (forthcoming) 'Urban Political Leadership' In Theories of Urban Politics, 3rd Edition
• Stoker, G. and Greasley, S. 2008 `Institutionalising leadership: Mayors in English local government' Public Administration Review, July/ August, pp. 720 - 728
• Greasley, S and Stoker, G. (forthcoming) 'Urban Political Leadership' In Theories of Urban Politics, 3rd Edition
• Greasley, S (2007) 'The local national division of labour in supporting and enforcing the new ethical framework' Local Government Studies
• Stoker G. and Greasley S. 'The case for an experimental approach in applied social research: an illustration from the area of civil renewal policy.' February 2005
• Greasley, S. Gains, F., Greasley, S. and Stoker, G. (2004) 'Local Political Management: a progress report after two years' New Economy, v 11 Issue 2

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Recent official reports

• Gains, F., Greasley, S., John, P. and Stoker, G. (2007) The New Council Constitutions: The Outcomes and Impacts of the Local Government Act 2000
• Gains, F., Greasley, S., John, P. and Stoker, G. (2007) Does Leadership Matter? A summary of evidence on the role and impact of political leadership in English local government
• Greasley, S. (2007) Summary Of Findings From The 2006 Census On Political Management In English Local Authorities DCLG
• Greasley, S. (2007) Implementing the New Ethical Framework: A process evaluation DCLG
• Stoker, G., Gains, F., Greasley, S., John, P. and Rao, N. (2006) Councillors, officers and stakeholders in the new council constitutions DCLG
• Greasley, S., Johnston, L., Stoker, G., and Gains, F. (2006) The Components of an Ethical Environment: Final report Standards Board for England
• Stoker, G., Gains, F., John, P, Rao, N. and Greasley, S. (2006) Measuring outcomes and impacts
• Stoker, G., Gains, F. and Greasley, S. (2006) The Components of an Ethical Environment: Literature review Standards Board for England
• Stoker, G., Gains, F., John, P, Rao, N. and Greasley, S. (2005) Measuring the Outcomes and Impacts of the New Council Constitutions: An Evaluation Framework ODPM

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Conference papers

• With Peter John ‘Does strong political leadership have a performance pay-off?’ Designing Democratic Institutions The Political Science and Political Economy Conference, LSE, May 13-14 2008, London
• WithHal Wolman and Peter John  ‘The effect of local government activity on urban performance in England’  Urban Affairs Association, 23-26 April 2008
• With Gains, F., John P. and Stoker, G. Trust, leadership strength and government performance ECPR, Pisa (September 2007) 'Majority control and local authority performance' ECPR, Helsinki (May 2007)
• With Stoker, G. 'Institutionalising leadership? The experience of England's elected mayors' Political Studies Association, Leeds (April 2005)
• With Gains, F., John P. and Stoker, G. The Impact of Political Management Reforms in English Local Government (April 2007)
• Greasley S. 'Business leaders in regional economic governance: a role analysis', IBG-RGS, London, 2003.
• Greasley S. 'Culture and rationality in urban politics' EGRG, Manchester, 2000.

Projects

2008-2009    
Political Control and the Management of Bureaucratic Discretion in English Local Government (ESRC First Grant Scheme)
2007-2008    
The contribution of local government to urban performance (funder: NWIN)
2007-2008    
Local councillors and democratic accountability (funder: NWIN)
2006-2007    
Innovation in North West Local Government  (funder: NWIN)
2005-2006    
The Components of an Ethical Environment (funder:SBE)
2004-2006    
The development of Health Scrutiny (funder: CfPS)
2003-2007    
Evaluating Local Governance (funder: DCLG)

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