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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Article
Devolution within devolution? A SWOT analysis of introducing combined authorities to Scotland
Morphet J & Kippin S (2025) Devolution within devolution? A SWOT analysis of introducing combined authorities to Scotland. Public Money & Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2025.2566073
Article
Gul Z & Kippin S (2025) The UK's All Party Parliamentary Group on Kurdistan: An Exploration and Conceptualisation of its Roles. International Journal of Parliamentary Studies. https://doi.org/10.1163/26668912-bja10106
Article
Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of the UK
Kippin S (2025) Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of the UK. Policy Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2025.2548837
Article
Kippin S (2025) The Co‐op's Golden Opportunity? Exploring the Prospects of Labour's Sister Party under Keir Starmer's Labour Government. The Political Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13505
Authored Book
Public Policy and Democratic Backsliding in the UK: The Conservatives' Illiberal Turn
Kippin S (2024) Public Policy and Democratic Backsliding in the UK: The Conservatives' Illiberal Turn. Understanding Governance. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74646-8
Article
Taylor J & Kippin S (2024) Does Brexit make Scottish (and Welsh) independence movements less viable? An exploration of the relationship between EU membership and minority nationalism in the UK. Observatoire de la société britannique, (31), pp. 299-328. https://journals.openedition.org/osb/6432?lang=en
Article
Devolution, local growth and public service reform: What now and where next?
Kippin H & Kippin S (2024) Devolution, local growth and public service reform: What now and where next?. Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 17 (4). https://www.henrystewartpublications.com/jurr
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Scrutiny of ministerial ethics and standards of conduct in the UK: diluted accountability?
Kippin S & Robert P (2024) Scrutiny of ministerial ethics and standards of conduct in the UK: diluted accountability?. Public Money and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2024.2350438
Authored Book
Politics and Policy Making in the UK
Cairney P & Kippin S (2023) Politics and Policy Making in the UK. Bristol: Bristol University Press. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/politics-and-policymaking-in-the-uk
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
Kippin S & Morphet J (2023) Coordination, agenda-setting, and future planning: the role of Combined Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Review of Public Policy, 5 (3). https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.3716
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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
Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy
Cairney P, St Denny E, Kippin S & Mitchell H (2022) Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy. Policy & Politics, 50 (3), pp. 362-383. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557321x16487239616498
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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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.
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
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
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
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
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
I teach on a number of our public policy and politics modules in the Division of History, Heritage and Politics. These include; 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 teach on our Master of Public Policy (MPP) programme. From January 2024, I am Programme Director for our BA Politics degree programme.