| What do public values mean for public action? Putting public values in their plural place P Davis, K West The American Review of Public Administration 39 (6), 602-618, 2009 | 131 | 2009 |
| What is the public value of government action? Towards a (new) pragmatic approach to values questions in public endeavours K West, P Davis Public Administration 89 (2), 226-241, 2011 | 105 | 2011 |
| The burgeoning of benchmarking in British local government: The value of “learning by looking” in the public services P Davis Benchmarking for Quality Management & Technology 5 (4), 260-270, 1998 | 101 | 1998 |
| The effectiveness of relational contracting in a temporary public organization: intensive collaboration between an English local authority and private contractors P Davis Public administration 85 (2), 383-404, 2007 | 36 | 2007 |
| The limits of realist evaluation: Surfacing and exploring assumptions in assessing the best value performance regime P Davis Evaluation 11 (3), 275-295, 2005 | 32 | 2005 |
| Made to Measure: Evaluation in Practice in Local Government; Report I Sanderson, T Bovaird, P Davis Local Government Management Board, 1998 | 28 | 1998 |
| Learning to manage within limited resources: coping strategies and learning breakthroughs in UK local government T Bovaird, P Davis International Journal of Public Sector Management 12 (3), 293-314, 1999 | 22 | 1999 |
| A mis-signalling problem? The troubled performance relationship between credit unions and local government in the UK P Davis, C Brockie Local Government Studies 27 (1), 1-18, 2001 | 18 | 2001 |
| The English Audit Commission and its Comprehensive Performance Assessment Framework for Local Government, 2002-2008: Apogee of Positivism? P Davis Public Performance & Management Review 34 (4), 489-514, 2011 | 9 | 2011 |
| Networks in open systems of governance: The case of an English local older persons' care system P Davis, K West, L Yardley Public Management Review 13 (5), 683-705, 2011 | 8 | 2011 |
| A realist evaluation approach to understanding the best value review process P Davis, P Wright Local Government Studies 30 (3), 423-440, 2004 | 8 | 2004 |
| Enacting a new approach to scenario analysis: the potential of a pragmatist account P Davis, N Pyper Foresight 17 (5), 427-443, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
| Managing within Limited Resources T BOVAIRD, P Davis, J Green London: Local Government Management Board, 1997 | 4 | 1997 |
| How Do Limbo Dancing, Landlords and Students’ Energy Habits Link to EfSD? A Student Green Fund Case Study P Li, K Boom, P Davis Integrative Approaches to Sustainable Development at University Level …, 2015 | 3 | 2015 |
| Applying actor network theory and pragmatist thinking to the process of implementing scenarios paul davis, neil pyper International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy 10 (2/3/4), 88-102, 2015 | 2 | 2015 |
| Claims, Concerns and Interests In British Credit Union Development: Making policy in a political hot-box? P Davis, C Brockie Public Management an International Journal of Research and Theory 2 (2), 201-218, 2000 | 2 | 2000 |
| Producing Hope Through Practice. The Promise of Expansionist Pragmatism in Generating New Everyday Utopias P Davis, D Wotherspoon | 1 | 2014 |
| ‘Strategic Management in (a) Crisis?’Uncertainty, Imprecision & the Incomplete as Axioms in Building Appropriate Theory P Davis | | 2011 |
| EUROPEAN GROUP OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION P Davis, A McLean | | |
