Helen Margetts

Helen Zerlina Margetts^[1] (born 15 September 1961),^[2][3] is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and Professor of Internet and Society at the University of Oxford.^[4] She is a political scientist specialising in digital era governance and politics, and has published over a hundred books, journal articles and research reports in this field. Prior to joining the OII in October 2004, she was a Professor in Political Science and Director of the Public Policy Programme at University College London.^[5][6] She holds many advisory positions, including sitting on the Digital Advisory Board of the UK Government Digital Service.^[7][8][9]

Career

Margetts obtained her first degree, a BSc in mathematics, from the University of Bristol.^[4] In her early career she was a computer programmer and systems analyst with Rank Xerox,^[5][4] after which she took up postgraduate study at the London School of Economics.^[10] There she earned a MSc in Politics and Public Policy (awarded in 1990) and a PhD in Government (in 1996).^[10] From 1994 to 1999 she lectured at Birkbeck College, London.^[10]

Amongst her research projects at the OII, she has used a variety of methods to investigate how the Internet can affect the relationship between citizens and government, and how informational cues can affect the success of online petitions and charity fundraising.^[11][12] In March 2011 she was an expert witness for the UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee's investigation into the cost of publicly funded information technology projects.^[13]

Bibliography

Books

Margetts has co-authored a series of books which have helped to define the field of digital-era governance:

• Margetts, Helen; Smyth, Gareth, eds. (1994). Turning Japanese?: Britain with a permanent party of government. London: Lawrence & Wishart. ISBN 9780853157854. 
• Margetts, Helen Zerlina (1996). Computerisation in American and British central government 1975-95: policy-making, internal regulation and contracting in information technology (Ph.D. thesis). University of London. OCLC 556741174. 
• Margetts, Helen (1999). Information technology in government: Britain and America. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203208038. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dowding, Keith; Hughes, James (2001). Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions. The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave. ISBN 9780333789827. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick; Weir, Stuart; Trevor, Smith (2005). Voices of the people: popular attitudes to democratic renewal in Britain. London: Politico's. ISBN 9781842751343. 
• Margetts, Helen Z.; Hood, Christopher C. (2007). The tools of government in the digital age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230001435. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick; Bastow, Simon; Tinkler, Jane (2008). Digital era governance: IT corporations, the state, and e-government. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199547005. 
• Margetts, Helen; Hood, Christopher; 6, Perri (2010). Paradoxes of modernization: unintended consequences of public policy reform. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199573547. 
• Margetts, Helen; John, Peter; Hale, Scott A.; Yasseri, Taha (2016). Political turbulence: how social media shape collective action. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691159225. 

Chapters in books

• Margetts, Helen; Dowding, Keith; Hughes, James (2001), "Introduction", in Margetts, Helen; Dowding, Keith; Hughes, James, Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions, The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave, pp. xi–xvii, ISBN 9780333789827.  Pdf.

Journal articles

• Margetts, Helen (October 1997). "The 1997 British general election: New labour, new Britain?". West European Politics. Taylor and Francis. 20 (4): 180–191. doi:10.1080/01402389708425224. 
• Margetts, Helen; Lovenduski, Joni; Abrar, Stefania (April 1998). "Sexing London: the gender mix of urban policy actors". International Political Science Review. Sage. 19 (2): 147–171. doi:10.1177/019251298019002005. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick; King, Desmond; Dowding, Keith; Rydin, Yvonne (March 1999). "Regime politics in London local government". Urban Affairs Review. Sage. 34 (4): 515–545. doi:10.1177/10780879922184068. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick (April 1999). "Mixed electoral systems in Britain and the Jenkins Commission on electoral reform". British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Sage. 1 (1): 12–38. doi:10.1111/1467-856X.00002. 
• Margetts, Helen Z.; Goetz, Klaus H. (October 1999). "The solitary center: the core executive in Central and Eastern Europe". Governance. Wiley. 12 (4): 425–453. doi:10.1111/0952-1895.00112. 
• Margetts, Helen; Lovenduski, Joni; Abrar, Stefania (May 2000). "Feminist ideas and domestic violence policy change". Political Science. Sage. 48 (2): 239–262. doi:10.1111/1467-9248.00258. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick (July 2001). "From majoritarian to pluralist democracy?: Electoral reform in Britain since 1997". Journal of Theoretical Politics. Sage. 13 (3): 295–319. doi:10.1177/095169280101300304. 
• Margetts, Helen Z.; John, Peter (September 2003). "Policy punctuations in the UK: fluctuations and equilibria in central government expenditure since 1951". Public Administration. Wiley. 81 (3): 411–432. doi:10.1111/1467-9299.00354. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick (October 2005). "The impact of UK electoral systems". Parliamentary Affairs. Oxford Journals. 58 (4): 854–870. doi:10.1093/pa/gsi068. 
• Margetts, Helen (April 2006). "E-Government in Britain – a decade on". Parliamentary Affairs. Oxford Journals. 59 (2): 250–265. doi:10.1093/pa/gsl003. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick; Bastow, Simon; Tinkler, Jane (July 2006). "New public management is dead – long live digital-era governance". Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Oxford Journals. 16 (3): 467–494. doi:10.1093/jopart/mui057. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick; Bastow, Simon; Tinkler, Jane (2008). "Australian e-Government in comparative perspective". Australian Journal of Political Science. Taylor and Francis. 43 (1): 13–26. doi:10.1080/10361140701842540. 
• Margetts, Helen Z.; John, Peter (2009). "The latent support for the extreme right in British politics". West European Politics, The Politics of Conflict Management in EU Regulation. Taylor and Francis. 32 (3): 496–513. doi:10.1080/01402380902779063. 
• Margetts, Helen Z. (December 2009). "The internet and public policy". Policy & Internet. Wiley. 1 (1): 1–21. doi:10.2202/1944-2866.1029. 
• Margetts, Helen (October–December 2011). "The internet and transparency". The Political Quarterly. Wiley. 82 (4): 518–521. doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2011.02253.x. 
• Margetts, Helen Z.; John, Peter; Escher, Tobias; Reissfelder, Stéphane (November 2011). "Social information and political participation on the internet: an experiment". European Political Science Review. Cambridge Journals. 3 (3): 321–344. doi:10.1017/S1755773911000129. 
• Margetts, Helen Z. (2011). "Experiments for public management research". Public Management Review. Taylor and Francis. 13 (2): 189–208. doi:10.1080/14719037.2010.532970. 
• Margetts, Helen; Dunleavy, Patrick (February 2013). "The second wave of digital-era governance: a quasi-paradigm for government on the Web". Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A. The Royal Society. 371 (1987): 0382. doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0382. 
• Margetts, Helen Z.; John, Peter; Hale, Scott A.; Reissfelder, Stéphane (June 2015). "Leadership without leaders? Starters and followers in online collective action". Political Studies. Sage. 63 (2): 277. doi:10.1111/1467-9248.12211. 

Papers

• Margetts, Helen Z.; John, Peter; Hale, Scott A.; Yasseri, Taha (2014). "Investigating political participation and social information using big data and a natural experiment". APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper. American Political Science Association. SSRN 2454570. 

Awards

In 2003 Margetts and Patrick Dunleavy were presented with the 'Political Scientists Making a Difference' award by the UK Policy Studies Association, in recognition for their work on a series of policy reports assessing the state of Government on the Internet for the UK National Audit Office.^[4]

References

External links

• Profile: Helen Margetts Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
• Profile: Helen Margetts Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford