麻豆传媒视频网站

Associate Professor of听Public Policy
Room:听3.02, 31 Tavistock Square
Telephone:听0203 108 1877
Email:听dan.honig@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

I joined 麻豆传媒视频网站 in 2021. I am a non-resident fellow at the ; a fellow of Harvard鈥檚 Programme, Johns Hopkins SAIS鈥櫶鼺oreign Policy Institute, and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)鈥櫶齅HRC; an Faculty Affiliate; a member of the ; and on the editorial board of the . I have had the impact of my work recognised in a variety of fora, including lists of the (2021) and (2022). If you鈥檙e a public servant or leader and believe my work might be of benefit to your team or agency, please don鈥檛 hesitate to get in touch.

From 2015 to听2021, I was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and have also previously held visiting appointments at Thammasat University (Bangkok)鈥檚 Department of Economics, Leiden University (Netherlands)鈥檚 Institute of Political Science, and the West Africa Research Center in Dakar. Outside the academy, I was special assistant, then advisor, to successive Ministers of Finance (Liberia); ran a local nonprofit focused on helping post-conflict youth realise the power of their own ideas through agricultural entrepreneurship (East Timor); and have worked for a number of local and international NGOs. I have lived, worked, and/or done research in Bangladesh, East Timor, India, Israel, Liberia, The Netherlands, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Thailand, the UK, and the USA. A proud Detroiter, I hold听a BA from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!), am a 鈥淲oo鈥澨�(alum听of Princeton鈥檚 SPIA, despite receiving no degree; exited to take employment with the Sirleaf administration in Liberia), and hold听a PhD听in Public Policy from Harvard鈥檚 Kennedy School of Government.

Research

My research focuses on the relationship between management practice and organisational structure in delivering welfare-improving services, with a particular focus on the links between citizen voice, bureaucratic motivation, agency autonomy, and听performance. I am听currently completing a book manuscript (under contract, Oxford University Press) entitled Mission Driven Bureaucrats, focused on how best to attract, retain, and cultivate mission-oriented motivation in public servants worldwide.

Beginning in mid-2023, I am听the Principal Investigator on Relational State Capacity, an ERC-funded (five听years, 1.5 million Euros) exploration of state capacity which argues that we need to move beyond simply seeing state capacity as the technical ability of the state to 鈥渕ake鈥澨齩r 鈥渄eliver鈥澨齮hings. Public welfare improvement often involves not just technical, but also social, infrastructure (e.g. developing the best COVID vaccines or contact tracing system will not lead to desired public health outcomes without citizens taking vaccines or responding accurately to contact tracers). I argue听we will better be able to understand the state鈥檚 capacity if we conceive of capacity as in part a function of the relationship (and relational contract) between citizens and state agents.

Selected publications

Books

• Honig, D. (2018)听. Oxford: Oxford University Press.听

Journal articles

• Honig, D., Lall, R. and Parks, B. C.听(Early View) 鈥樷��,听American Journal of Political Science.
• Bisbee, J. and Honig, D.听(2021) 鈥�鈥�,听American Political Science Review, 116(1), pp. 70鈥�86.
• Honig, D. (2021)听鈥�鈥�,听Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,听118(13).
• Bertelli, A., Hassan, M., Honig, D.,听Rogger, D. and Williams, M. (2020)听鈥�鈥�,听Governance, 33(4), pp.听735鈥�748.
• Honig, D. (2020)听鈥�鈥�,听Governance, 33(4), pp. 749鈥�769.
• Honig, D. and Weaver,听C.听(2019) 鈥�鈥�,听International Organization,听73(3), pp. 579鈥�610.
• Honig, D. (2019)听鈥�鈥�,听International Organization,听73(1), pp. 171鈥�201.
• Honig, D. (2019) 鈥�鈥�,听Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,听29(2), pp. 299鈥�317.听

Other publications

• Honig, D. (2020)听鈥�鈥�,听Center for Global Development Policy Paper听169.
• Honig, D. and Pritchett, L.听(2019)听鈥�鈥�, Center for Global Development Working Paper 510.

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Teaching

At 麻豆传媒视频网站 I have in the past taught 鈥業mproving Public Policy Implementation鈥� (POLS0096), 鈥業nternational Public Policy鈥� (PUBL0090), and 鈥業nternational Organisations鈥� (PUBL0089). I听will not be teaching any classes in this academic year due to a buyout from my听ERC grant.