Jonathan Boston

Jonathan George Boston ONZM (born 1957) is a New Zealand academic and professor of policy studies at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Government.

Jonathan Boston ONZM
Boston in 2021
Born	1957 (age 67–68)
Nationality	New Zealander
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Canterbury University of Oxford
Thesis	The theory and practice of voluntary incomes policies with particular reference to the British Labour government's social contract, 1974–79 (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Jim Sharpe David Soskice
Academic work
Discipline	Public policy
Website	staff page

Academic career

Boston got his MA from the University of Canterbury and his DPhil from the University of Oxford.^[1]

He was the co-chair of the Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty,^[2][3] and has written extensively on climate change policy.^[1]

In the 2021 New Year Honours, Boston was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to public and social policy.^[4]

Selected works

• Boston, Jonathan, John Martin, June Pallot, and Pat Walsh. Public management: the New Zealand model. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Boston, Jonathan, John Martin, June Pallot, and Pat Walsh. "Reshaping the state: New Zealand’s bureaucratic revolution." Victoria University of Wellington 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.