School of Political Science and International Studies Professor Stephen Bell

Professor Stephen Bell

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Professor in Political Economy

Deputy Head of School

BSc (Hons), PhD

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General Purpose North 3 (#39A)

+61 7 3365 7013

+61 7 3365 1388

stephen.bell@uq.edu.au

Teaching Interests:

POLS7101	Dynamics of Governance
POLS7107	Globalisation, International Political Economy and Development

Background:

Stephen Bell is Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Prior to joining UQ in 1999, Stephen Bell held positions at Griffith University, the University of New England, the University of Tasmania, as well as a visiting position at the ANU. He served as Head of the School of Government at the University of Tasmania and since 2004 has been Head of School at UQ. His main teaching and research interests focus on questions of governance and institutional development - or more broadly 'governing capacity' - with special reference to the politics of economic policy and more recently the politics of water management. He is the author or editor of seven books and has published widely in national and international journals. His latest book deals with the politics of monetary policy and the instituational dynamics of the Reserve Bank of Australia: Australia's Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the Politics of Money, Cambridge University Press. He is currently engaged in a major ARC research project dealing with financial reform and the politics of central banking in China.

Selected Publications:

Books

Bell, S. and A. Hindmoor. 2009, Rethinking Governance: The Centrality of the State in Modern Societies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Bell, Stephen. 2004. Australia’s Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the Politics of Money. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bell, Stephen. 1997. Ungoverning the Economy: The Political Economy of Australian Economic Policy. Melbourne: Oxford University Press

Bell, Stephen. 1993. Australian Manufacturing and the State: The Politics of Industry Policy in Post-War Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Books Edited

Bell, Stephen, ed. 2002. The Institutional Dynamics of Australian Economic Governance. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

Bell, S., A. Hindmoor and F. Mols. 2009, 'Persuasion as Governance: A State Centric-Relational Perspective', Public Administration

Bell, Stephen. and Beeson, Mark. 2009, ‘The G20 and International Economic Governance: Hegemony, Collectivism or Both?’, Global Governance,15: 67-86.

Bell, Stephen. and Quiggin, John. 2008, ‘The Limits of Markets and the Politics of Water Management in Rural Australia’, Environmental Politics, 17: 712-29.

Bell, Stephen. 2008, ‘Rethinking the Role of the State: Explaining Business Collective Action at the Business Council of Australia’, Polity, 40:464-87.

Bell, Stephen. and Feng, Hui. 2009, 'Institutional Change Chinese Style: Reforming the Stock Market', Political Studies, 57:117-40.

Bell, Stephen. 2007, ‘A Victim of its Own Success: Internationalisation, Neoliberalism and Organisational Involution at the Businesses Council of Australia’ Politics and Society, 34; 543-70.

Bell, Stephen. and Feng, Hui. 2007. ‘Made in China: IT Infrastructure Policy and the Politics of Trade Opening in Post-WTO China’ Review of International Political Economy, 14: 49-76.

Bell, Stephen. and Quiggin, John. 2006. ‘Asset Price Instability and Policy Responses: The Legacy of Liberalisation’. Journal of Economic Issues 40(3): 629-649.
Bell, Stephen. and Park, Alex. 2006. ‘The Problematic Metagoverance of Networks: Water Reform in New South Wales’. Journal of Public Policy 26(1): 63-83.
Bell, Stephen. 2005. ‘How Tight Are the Policy Constraints?: The Policy Convergence Thesis, Institutionally Situated Actors and Expansionary Monetary Policy in Australia’. New Political Economy 10(1): 67-92.
Bell, Stephen. 2004. 'Inflation-Plus Targeting at the Reserve Bank of Australia', Australian Economic Review, 37: 391-401.
Bell, Stephen. 2002. ‘The Limits of Rational Choice: New Institutionalism in the Test Bed of Central Banking Politics in Australia’. Political Studies 50(3): 477-96.
Bell, Stephen. 1995. ‘Between the Market and the State: The Role of Business Associations in Public Policy: Evidence from Australia’. Comparative Politics 28(1): 25-53.

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