Public policy and policymaking, UK and Scottish politics, democracy and constitutional politics and reform, inequalities and public policy, health policy, education policy.
Review of Making Life Better Framework
PI: Professor Paul Cairney
Funded by: Institute of Public Health in Ireland
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Book Chapter
United Kingdom, Public policy in
Kippin S & Cairney P (2023) United Kingdom, Public policy in. In: van Gerven M, Rothmayr Allison C & Schubert K (eds.) Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90434-0_48-1
Article
Educational equity in England: the shortcomings of the UK Government’s COVID-19 response
Kippin S (2023) Educational equity in England: the shortcomings of the UK Government’s COVID-19 response. Routledge Open Research, 2, p. 24. https://doi.org/10.12688/routledgeopenres.17904.1
Monograph
Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe: Hope Versus Reality
Cairney P, Keating M, Kippin S & St Denny E (2022) Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe: Hope Versus Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898586.001.0001
Article
The COVID-19 exams fiasco across the UK: four nations and two windows of opportunity
Kippin S & Cairney P (2022) The COVID-19 exams fiasco across the UK: four nations and two windows of opportunity. British Politics, 17 (1), pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-021-00162-y
Article
Kippin S & Cairney ·P (2022) COVID-19 and the second exams fiasco across the UK: four nations trying to avoid immediate policy failure. British Politics. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-022-00202-1
Article
Cairney P, St Denny E & Kippin S (2021) Policy learning to reduce inequalities: the search for a coherent Scottish gender mainstreaming policy in a multilevel UK. Territory, Politics, Governance, 9 (3), pp. 412-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2020.1837661
Article
The Co-operative Party and New Labour: a study of policy entrepreneur influence
Kippin S (2021) The Co-operative Party and New Labour: a study of policy entrepreneur influence. British Politics. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-021-00196-2
Article
Collective Ministerial Responsibility in British Government: the Testing of a Convention, 2010-2019
Kippin S & Pyper R (2021) Collective Ministerial Responsibility in British Government: the Testing of a Convention, 2010-2019. Political Quarterly, 92 (3), pp. 522-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13012
Article
Cairney P, Kippin S, St Denny E & Mitchell H (2021) Policy design for territorial equity in multi-level and multi-sectoral political systems: Comparing health and education strategies. Regional Science Policy and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12466
Policy Document
Who Owns Europe?... and why it matters for Progressives
Mills C, Kippin S, Hunt P & Willetts M (2020) Who Owns Europe?... and why it matters for Progressives. Foundation for European Progressive Studies. Brussels. https://www.feps-europe.eu/attachments/publications/who_owns_europw_2020.pdf
Website Content
Richard Leonard: confidence or no confidence?
Kippin S (2020) Richard Leonard: confidence or no confidence?. University of Stirling Public Policy Blog [Blog post] 18.09.2020. https://policyblog.stir.ac.uk/2020/09/18/richard-leonard-confidence-or-no-confidence/
Book Review
Popular support for democracy in Unified Germany: critical democrats
Kippin S (2019) Popular support for democracy in Unified Germany: critical democrats. Review of:
Ross Campbell, London: Palgrave, 2019, 263pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-03791-8. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 27 (3), pp. 379-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2019.1639114
Article
Kippin S (2019) UK policy on football supporters' trusts: a 'window of opportunity' generated and exploited by the co-operative party. British Politics, 14 (4), pp. 408-425. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-018-00096-y
Newspaper Article
Boris Johnson's Conservatives win majority in UK election – experts react
Caldwell PJ, Milas C, Szymborska H, Parr H, Hayward K, Rotenberg K, Albertson K, Kippin S & Honeyman V (2019) Boris Johnson's Conservatives win majority in UK election – experts react. The Conversation. 13.12.2019.
Newspaper Article
Jeremy Corbyn's apparent hardline on indyref2 may make Labour prospects in Scotland even worse
Kippen S (2019) Jeremy Corbyn's apparent hardline on indyref2 may make Labour prospects in Scotland even worse. The Conversation. 14.11.2019.
Book Chapter
How undemocratic is the House of Lords?
Campion S & Kippin S (2018) How undemocratic is the House of Lords?. In: Dunleavy P, Park A & Taylor R (eds.) The UK's Changing Democracy: The 2018 Democratic Audit. London: LSE Press, pp. 182-192. https://doi.org/10.31389/book1.m
Book Chapter
Accountability of the security and intelligence services
Kippin S (2018) Accountability of the security and intelligence services. In: Dunleavy P, Park A & Taylor R (eds.) The UK's Changing Democracy: The 2018 Democratic Audit. London: LSE Press, pp. 173-181. https://doi.org/10.31389/book1.l
Book Chapter
The political parties and party system
Dunleavy P & Kippin S (2018) The political parties and party system. In: Dunleavy P, Park A & Taylor R (eds.) The UK's Changing Democracy: The 2018 Democratic Audit. London: LSE Press, pp. 93-111. https://doi.org/10.31389/book1
I teach on Stirling University's public policy and politics modules, including; Understanding Public Policy; Policy and Policymaking in the UK; Policy and Policymaking in Scotland; The Politics of British Social Democracy; Political Concepts and Ideas; and Political Research Methods. I also play roles (non-exhaustively) supporting the core modules of the Master of Public Policy degree, and supervise undergraduate dissertations,