Jonathan Boston

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

Academic career Boston got his MA from the University of Canterbury and his DPhil from the University of Oxford.

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

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.