Jonathan George Boston (born 1957) is a New Zealand academic and professor of policy studies at the

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well know ...

School of Government.

Academic career

Boston got his MA from the

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and his

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from the

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. He was the co-chair of the Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to

Child Poverty Child poverty refers to the state of children living in poverty and applies to children from poor families and orphans being raised with limited or no state resources. UNICEF estimates that 356 million children live in extreme poverty. It's estima ...

, and has written extensively on

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policy. In the

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, Boston was appointed an

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have rend ...

, for services to public and social policy.

Selected works

* Boston, Jonathan, John Martin, June Pallot, and Pat Walsh. Public management: the New Zealand model. Auckland:

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, 1996. * Boston, Jonathan, John Martin, June Pallot, and Pat Walsh. "Reshaping the state: New Zealand’s bureaucratic revolution."

Print (1991). * Boston, Jonathan. "The theoretical underpinnings of public sector restructuring in New Zealand." Reshaping the state (1991): 1-26. * Boston, Jonathan. The state under contract. Paul & Company Pub Consortium, 1995.

References

External links

Staff page
at Victoria University of Wellington
Author page
at Bridget William Books
LinkedIn profile
Living people Victoria University of Wellington faculty University of Canterbury alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford 1957 births New Zealand political scientists People from Wellington City Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub