School of Political Science & International Studies

Dr Adam Hannah

Convenor, Master of Governance and Public Policy
Deputy Directory, Graduate Centre in Governance and International Affairs
Lecturer
School of Political Science and International Studies
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Researcher biography

Adam is a Lecturer in Political Science, focusing on comparative politics and public policy.He is primarily interested in the translation of political ideas and expert knowledge into health and social policy. He has particular expertise in international comparative research, including with regard to major bouts of health care and public pension reform in Sweden and the United States, policy responses to health crises such as antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19 vaccinations and distributional inequality across welfare systems. He has published in scholarly journals such as Policy & Politics, Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Policy & Society and The Journal of European Social Policy.

Publications

Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (13)

Book Chapters

Hannah, Adam, Attwell, Katie and Tchilingirian, Jordan (2024). Trust, capacity and management of vaccine rollouts. Research handbook on public management and COVID-19. (pp. 206-217) edited by Helen Dickinson, Sophie Yates, Janine O’Flynn and Catherine Smith. Cheltenham, Glos, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781802205954.00025
Bali, Azad Singh and Hannah, Adam (2021). Policy styles in healthcare understanding variations in health systems. The Routledge handbook of policy styles. (pp. 105-122) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429286322-12

Journal Articles

Carlson, Samantha J., Tomkinson, Sian, Hannah, Adam and Attwell, Katie (2024). What happens at two? Immunisation stakeholders’ perspectives on factors influencing sub-optimal childhood vaccine uptake for toddlers in regional and remote Western Australia. BMC Health Services Research, 24 (1) 968. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-11371-8
Attwell, Katie, Hannah, Adam, Drislane, Shevaun and Navin, Mark Christopher (2024). Policy Feedback and the Politics of Childhood Vaccine Mandates: Conflict and Change in California, 2012–2019. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 49 (6), 1075-1110. doi: 10.1215/03616878-11377933
Attwell, Katie, Hannah, Adam, Drislane, Shevaun, Harper, Tauel, Savage, Glenn C. and Tchilingirian, Jordan (2024). Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia. Policy Sciences, 57 (1), 29-51. doi: 10.1007/s11077-024-09522-z
Hannah, Adam, Tchilingirian, Jordan, Botterill, Linda and Attwell, Katie (2023). The role of ‘non-knowledge’ in crisis policymaking: a proposal and agenda for future research. Evidence and Policy, 19 (1), 116-130. doi: 10.1332/174426421x16552882375377
Brenton, Scott, Baekkeskov, Erik and Hannah, Adam (2023). Policy capacity: evolving theory and missing links. Policy Studies, 44 (3), 297-315. doi: 10.1080/01442872.2022.2043266
Hannah, Adam, Baekkeskov, Erik and Tubakovic, Tamara (2022). Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: existing links and research frontiers. Public Administration, 100 (3), 571-584. doi: 10.1111/padm.12862
Attwell, Katie and Hannah, Adam (2022). Convergence on coercion: functional and political pressures as drivers of global childhood vaccine mandates. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11 (11), 2660-2671. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.6518
Attwell, Katie, Hannah, Adam and Leask, Julie (2022). COVID-19: talk of ‘vaccine hesitancy’ lets governments off the hook. Nature, 602 (7898), 574-577. doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-00495-8
Hannah, Adam (2021). Procedural tools and pension reform in the long run: the case of Sweden. Policy and Society, 40 (3), 362-378. doi: 10.1080/14494035.2021.1955487
Hannah, Adam and Baekkeskov, Erik (2020). The promises and pitfalls of polysemic ideas: ‘One Health’ and antimicrobial resistance policy in Australia and the UK. Policy Sciences, 53 (3), 437-452. doi: 10.1007/s11077-020-09390-3
Hannah, Adam (2020). Evaluating the role of bricolage in US health care policy reform. Policy and Politics, 48 (3), 485-502. doi: 10.1332/030557319X15734252004022
Hannah, Adam, Brown, Jeremiah Thomas and Gibbons, Andrew (2020). Welfare capabilities: evaluating distributional inequalities and welfare policy in advanced democracies. Journal of European Social Policy, 30 (3), 293-305. doi: 10.1177/0958928719868447
Hannah, Adam (2018). Rethinking the ‘open functional’ approach: ideas, problem pressure and reform in the contemporary welfare state. Public Administration, 96 (3), 528-543. doi: 10.1111/padm.12414