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Head of School of Political Science and International Studies and Associate Professor Stephen Bell is Professor and 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 institutional 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 funded research project dealing with financial reform and the politics of central banking in China.
Research Interests:
- The political economy research has dealt primarily with the changing role of the state in the Australian economy as well as the institutional dynamics of change and policy reform. Institutionalist theory has tended to guide much of this research.
- Work in the politics of economic policy has also focussed on the state and its institutional capacities but with a focus specifically on the political economy of industry policy, macroeconomic policy and employment policy. Recent work has focused on changing forms and institutional dynamics of economic governance, and, most recently, a book length study on the politics of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the political economy of monetary policy. A recent paper has dealt with the political economy of asset inflation.
- Work in the area of business politics has included studies of the role of large firms in Australian politics as well as work on the role of business associations in the arena of public policy.
Future research plans are to continue with work on central banking and the politics of monetary policy, including a new project dealing with central banking and financial reform in China.
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