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Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Gómez Peña, A. L., & Howarth, D. (2024). Lending Overlap in Europe’s Financial Architecture: A Comparative Analysis. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2024.2380400

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Gómez, A. L., & Howarth, D. (2024). Data Note: Overlapping lending by the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2024.2312120 Database at http://www.econpoint.unican.es/databases

Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel, Howarth, David (2024) Los Bancos Regionales de Desarollo: Cambios en sus Funciones y Desafíos futuros para la transición ecológico ICE Información Comercial Española, (934), p. 83-96. https://revistasice.com/index.php/ICE/article/view/7734

Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2023) How do State Owned Enterprise Multinationals behave abroad? A Multi-dimensional framework for analysis. Journal of Economic Policy Reform.

Clifton, J., Cagigas, D. Diaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández-Gutiérrez, M., & Harpes, C. (2023). “Blockchain in government: toward an evaluation framework.” Policy Design and Practice, 6(4), 397–414. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2023.2230702

Clifton, J., Cacigas, D., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández-Gutiérrez, Juan Echevarría-Cuenca; Celia Gilsanz-Gómez (2022) Explaining public officials’ opinions on blockchain adoption: a vignette experiment. Policy and Society. (Free to download)

Clifton, J., and Pal., L. (2022) The Policy Dilemmas of Blockchain. Policy and Society. (Free to download)

Clifton, J. Batty, M., Tyler, P. and Wan, Li (2022) The Post-Covid City. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society. 2022.

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Kavvadia, H. (2022) The European Investment Bank and its role in financing water. Water International.

Clifton, J., Cordella, T. and Vagliasindi, M. (2022) Rethinking State-Owned Enterprise. Journal of Economic Policy Reform. Papers derived from World Bank Project “Rethinking SOEs” (2020-21).

Clifton, J., Martin, R. and Martinelli, F. (2022) Rethinking spatial policy in an era of multiple crises, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society, 2022, https://academic.oup.com/cjres/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cjres/rsab037/6516561?login=true open access

Clifton, J, Marcos Fernández-Gutiérrez and Michael Howlett (2022) Assessing public services from the citizen perspective: what can we learn from surveys? Journal of Economic Policy Reform, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17487870.2020.1795444

Clifton, J., Andrews, R., Ferry, L. (2022) Corporatization of Public Services. Public Administration.

Alonso, J. M., Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2022) Corporatization and Political Ideology: The Case of Hospitals in Spain. Public Administration. (Open Access)

Cagigas, D., Clifton, J. Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. (2021) Blockchain for Public Services. A systematic literature review. IEEE Access.

Clifton, J., Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. and Howlett, M. (2020).Assessing public services from the citizen perspective: what can we learn from surveys? Introduction to the special issue, Journal of Economic Policy Reform. https://doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2020.1795444

Clifton, J., Glasmeier, A., Gray, M., (2020) When Machines Think for Us. Consequences for Work and Place. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Free download

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Llamosas, G. (2020) A behavioral perspective on saving behavior: Empirical evidence for policy-makers in the financial sector. Global Policy. Free download

Clifton, J. Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Revuelta, J. (2020) Falling inequality in Latin America: The Role of Fiscal Policy. Journal of Latin American Studies, doi:10.1017/S0022216X20000334

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Llamosas, G., (2019) ICT-based co-production of public services: Barriers and enablers. A systematic review." Information Polity, DOI 10.3233/IP-190122

Clifton, J., Warner, M., Gradus, R., Bel, G., (2019). Re-municipalization of public services: Trend or Hype? Journal of Economic Policy Reform.

Alonso, J., Clifton, J and Diaz-Fuentes (2019) Factors influencing citizens’ co-production of environmental outcomes: a multi-level analysis. Public Management Review.

Caroll, T., Clifton, J., and Jarvis, D. (2019) Power, leverage and marketization: the diffusion of neoliberalism from the North to South and back again. Globalizations. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2018.1560180

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Gómez, A. (2018) The Crisis as Opportunity? On the role of the Troika in constructing the European Consolidation State. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society. 11(3), 587-608. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsy021

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Gómez, A. (2018) The European Investment Bank: Development, Integration, Investment? JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12614

Burns, C., Clifton, J. and Quaglia, L (2017) Explaining policy change: financial reform after the crisis. Journal of European Public Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1301535.

Clifton, J., García, M. and Fernández, M. (2017) Including vulnerable groups in financial services: insights from consumer satisfaction. J. of Economic Policy Reform, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2017.1308866

Alonso, J. M, Clifton, J. & Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2017) The impact of government outsourcing on public spending: evidence from European Union. Journal of Policy Modelling. 39. 333-348.

Clifton, J., Glasmeier, A. and Seth, A. (2017) Revisiting development theory: Alice H. Amsden’s impact on the field. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsw034

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Warner, M. (2016) The Loss of Public Values when Public Utilities Go Abroad, Utilities Policy. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957178715300825

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. (2016) Regulating public infrastructure services in the European Union: Challenges for territorial cohesion policies, Regional Studies.

Alonso, J. M, Clifton, J. & Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2015) Did New Public Management Matter? An empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size, Public Management Review, vol. 17(5), pages 643-660. DOI:10.1080/14719037.2013.822532

Alonso, J., Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2015) The impact of New Public Management on efficiency: an analysis of Madrid's hospitals. Health Policy.

Clifton, J. Editorial: Impact factor improvements, new members of the editorial board and future planning, Journal of Economic Policy Reform 18 (3), 189-190.

Warner, M., and Clifton, J. (2014) Marketization, Public Services and the City: The Potential for Polanyian Counter Movements, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Editors’ choice doi:10.1093/cjres/rst028 Free download

Clifton, J. (2014) “Beyond Hollowing Out: Straitjacketing the State” The Political Quarterly.

Clifton, J, and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2014) Is the OECD ready for China? Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.

Clifton, J, and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2014) On the limits of policy transfer: The OECD and “The Rest, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2013.877674

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, F. and Lanthier, P. (2014) Utility Policy and development since Bretton Woods: The role of Multinationals, governments and International Financial Institutions. Editorial, Utilities Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2014.03.010

Clifton, J, Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Revuelta (2014) Financing utilities: How the role of the European Investment Bank shifted from regional development to making markets, Utilities Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2013.10.004

Clifton, J, Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. (2014) The impact of socio-economic background on satisfaction: evidence for policy-makers, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 10.1007/s11149-014-9251-1

Alonso, J. M., Clifton, J., D. Díaz-Fuentes, M. Fernández and J. Revuelta (2013) The race for international markets: Were privatized telecommunications incumbents more successful than their public counterparts? International Review of Applied Economics, 27(3), 215-235

Clifton, J., and Díaz Fuentes, D. (2013) The regulation of water services in the EU. The European Union’s Concessions Directive: A Critical Reading, INTERECONOMICS Review of European Economic Policy, 48(3)

Clifton, J. and Lanthier, P. (Guest Editors) (2013) Regulation and Investment in Infrastructure, Entreprises et Histoire, No. 70.

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández, M. & Revuelta, J. (2012) Territorial differences in access to Services of General Economic Interest. Evaluation of regulatory policies from a regional perspective, Investigaciones Regionales, 22, 165-177

Clifton, J. and D. Díaz-Fuentes, (2011) From club of the rich to globalization a la carte: Evaluating Reform at the OECD, Global Policy 2(3):300–311.

Clifton, J. and D. Díaz-Fuentes, (2011), Editorial: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 1961-2011: Challenges for the Next fifty years, Global Policy 2(3), 297–299.

Clifton, J. and D. Díaz-Fuentes, (2011) The OECD and the Phases in International Political Economy of the OECD: 1961-2011, Review of International Political Economy, 18(5) 552-569.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2011): From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization, Business History, 5(3):761-781.

Clifton, J., D. Diaz Fuentes (2011) The New Political Economy of the OECD in a context of shifting world wealth: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Economic Governance, Revista de Economía Mundial, 28, 113-42.

Clifton, J., Lanthier, P. and Schröter, H., (2011) Regulating and deregulating the public utilities 1830–2010, Business History, 5 (3) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00076791.2011.599592

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández, M. and Revuelta, J., (2011): Is Market-Oriented Reform producing a Two Track Europe? Cases from Electricity and Telecommunications, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 82(4), 495–513.

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández, M., and Revuelta, J., (2011). Los ciudadanos ante la regulación europea de servicios públicos/ Citizens, Public Services and European Regulation. CIRIEC: Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa 79, 5-31.

Clifton, J. Díaz-Fuentes, D., and Revuelta, J., (2010) The Political Economy of Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the Single Market, Journal of European Public Policy. 17(7), 988-1006.

Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2010): “Evaluating European Union policies on public services: A citizens´ perspective”, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 81(2), 281–311.

Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D., (2008) The New Public Service Transnationals: consequences for labour, Work Organization, Labour and Globalization.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2006): Privatization in the European Union: Pragmatic, Ideological, Inevitable? Journal of European Public Policy, 13(5), 736-756.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2006) Las politicas de privatización de la Unión Europea: ¿La vía británica o la senda europea?. Revista de Economía Mundial/Review of World Economy. 15, 121-153.

Clifton, Judith Political Science in Spain – what hope for ‘young’ professionals? European Political Science, ISSN 16804333, 2006, pp 235-44.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2005), Empowering Europe´s Citizens? On the prospects for a Charter for Services of General Interest. Public Management Review 7(3), 417-443

Clifton, J. (2000) On the political consequences of privatisation. The case of Teléfonos de México. Bulletin of Latin American Review. 19.

Clifton, J. (1999) Sindicatos y política en México. El caso de la privatización de TELMEX. Política y Gobierno. VI (2).

Books

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., and Howarth, D. (Editors) (forthcoming in 2020, in print) Regional Development Banks. Oxford University Press (in print).

Clifton, J., P. Lanthier and H. Schröter (Editors) (2013) The Economic and Social Regulation of Public Utilities: An International History, Routledge.

Clifton, J., F., Comín and D., Díaz-Fuentes, (Editors) (2007) Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North America: Transnationalisation, Networks and Integration, Palgrave: London/New York, 2007.

Clifton, J., Comín, F., Díaz-Fuentes, D. et al. (Editors) (2005), Redes de Empresas en España: perspectiva teórica, histórica y global, Lid: Madrid, ISBN, 84 88717571.

Clifton, J., Comín, F., and Díaz-Fuentes, D., (2003) Privatization in the European Union: Public enterprises and integration, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht.

Clifton, J. (2000) The Politics of Telecommunications in Mexico. Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

Clifton, J. (2020) Entry for “International Organizations: IMF; World Bank; WTO and OECD” in The Annual Register, ProQuest.

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D. & Gómez, A., (forthcoming) “The European Investment Bank: Development, Integration, Investment”, in Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., and Howarth, D. (Editors) (forthcoming in 2020, accepted) Regional Development Banks. Oxford University Press.

Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2018) “The State and Public Corporations”. In edited A. Nolke et al., Handbook of the International Political Economy of the Corporation. Edward Elgar.

Alonso, J., Clifton, J. and Diaz-Fuentes, D, (2015). “The Spanish National Agency for the Evaluation of Public Policies and Quality of Services”. In Organizing for Coordination in the Public Sector. Practices and Lessons from 12 European Countries. Palgrave.

Alonso, J., Clifton, J., and Diaz-Fuentes, D, (2015). “Public management reform in Southern Europe: Spain”. In (ed) Steven Van Walle and Gerhard Hammerschid, Public Administration Reforms in Europe: The View from the Top. Edward Elgar.

Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2015) “From club of the rich to globalization a la carte: Evaluating Reform at the OECD”, (Copyright secured to re-use original article from Wiley Publishers) in Rising Powers and Multilateral Institutions, edited by Dries Lesage and Thijs Van de Graaf, Palgrave.

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., and Revuelta, J. (2014) “How Policies shape Foreign Direct Investment: Understanding the dynamics of flows from Latin America to the European Union”. In (ed) A. Nolke, Multinational Corporations from Emerging Countries. State Capitalism 3.0. Palgrave, Macmillan.

Clifton, J., Lanthier, P. and Schröter, H. (2013) “The economic and social regulation of utilities”. In Clifton, J. et al. (eds) The Economic and Social Regulation of Utilities. Routledge.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2013) “From national monopoly to multinational corporation: How regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization”. In Clifton, J. et al. (eds) The Economic and Social Regulation of Utilities. Routledge.

Clifton, J., and Díaz Fuentes, D. (2013) “Inward FDI in Spain and its policy context”, Inward and Outward FDI Country Profiles, edited by K. Sauvant, P. Mallampally and G. McAllister, Vale Columbia Centre-Harvard Law School-The Earth Institute, Columbia University.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2011) “From national monopoly to multinational corporation: How regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization”. In Clifton, J. et al. (eds) The Economic and Social Regulation of Utilities. Routledge.

Clifton, J.; Díaz-Fuentes, D.; Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. and Revuelta, J. (2011): “La evaluación de la protección de los consumidores a partir de herramientas económicas. Aplicación al caso de los Servicios Económicos de Interés General (SEIG)”. In Tomillo, J. and Álvarez, J. (Editors): La Protección Jurídica de los Consumidores como Motor de Desarrollo Económico, pp. 39-64, Thomson Reuters.

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. and Revuelta, J., (2011): “Regulating Public Services: A Citizen Perspective” in (ed.) P. Bance et al., Renewal of Public Intervention in the Contemporary Crisis, Edward Elgar.

Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. and Revuelta, J. (2011): "Infrastructure regulation: What works, why, and how do we know? Lessons from Europe”, Infrastructure regulation: What works, why, and how do we know? Lessons from Asian and Beyond, M. Ramesh, D. Jarvis, W. Xun and E. Aral (eds.), World Scientific Publishing.

Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2010) “The European Union, Southern Multinationals and the question of the Strategic Industries”, The Emergence of Southern Multinationals, Brennan, Louis (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan.

Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2010) “Is the European Union ready for FDI from Emerging Markets?” Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets: The Challenges Ahead, Karl Sauvant with W. Maschek and Geraldine. McAllister (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan: London/New York. ISBN: 9780230100213.

Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2009) “Los mundos cambiantes de los servicios públicos: consecuencias para el trabajo” in Ana Guillén et al., Calidad del Trabajo en la Unión Europea: Concepto, tensiones, dimensiones, Civitas: Madrid, ISSN: 9788447031368.

Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2009) “Changing World of Public Services. Consequences for the Organisation of Work”, Quality of Work in the European Union Concept, Data and Debates from a Transnational Perspective. Guillén, Ana and Dahl, Sven (eds.), Peter Lang: Berlin. ISBN 9789052015774.

Clifton, J., Comín, F: and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2008) “The rise of the new public service transnationals in Europe”. In Schröter, H. (ed.) The European Enterprise, Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 9783540740360.

Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2008) Substantial contribution to chapters two and three of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development World Investment Report 2008, UNCTAD: Geneva, Switzerland.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2007) “Transforming Network services in Europe and the Americas: From Ugly Ducklings to Swans?” In Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North America: Transnationalisation, Networks and Integration, Palgrave: London/New York, pp. 3-15.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2007) “Transforming Network services in Spain”. In (eds) J. Clifton, F. Comín and D. Díaz-Fuentes, Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North America: Transnationalisation, Networks and Integration, Palgrave: London/New York, pp. 90-115.

Clifton, J., Daniel Díaz-Fuentes and Carlos Marichal (2007) “Taking Control: Transforming Telecommunications in Mexico”. In (eds) J. Clifton, F. Comín and D. Díaz-Fuentes, Tranforming Public Enterprise in Europe and the Americas: Networks, Integration and Transnationalisation, Palgrave: London/New York, pp. 172-90.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2007) “Towards Understanding Network Service Transnationalisation in (eds) J. Clifton, F. Comín and D. Díaz-Fuentes, Transforming Public Enterprise in Europe and the Americas: Networks, Integration and Transnationalisation, Palgrave: London/New York, pp. 221-32.

Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2006) “La internacionalización dual de las empresas públicas industriales y de servicios públicos desde la transición política y económica española en Julio Tascón, La Inversión Extranjera en España, Minerva: Madrid. ISBN: 9788488123688, pp. 223-46.

Reports and Policy Impact – Selective

Clifton, J. (forthcoming) “International State-Owned Enterprises”. Commissioned by the World Bank.

Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (forthcoming) The role of the European Investment Bank in times of COVID-19. Policy Note. Commissioned by MSP and the United Nations.

Clifton, J. (2018) Critique of the European Commission’s Report “An Analysis of Public Assets and their Management in the EU”. Commissioned by European Public Services Union.

Clifton, J. (2016) “On the need for public intervention and best practice management of the public sector”. Study for the Government of the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Finance for ECB/EC/IMF Negotiations (Confidential, not for publication)

Clifton, J. (together with UNCTAD team and other international experts) (2008) Infrastructure Multinationals. Commissioned by the United Nationals Conference on Trade and Development for World Investment Report 2008.

Policy Blogs

Clifton, J., Glasmeier, A. and Gray, M. (2020) When Machines Think for Us. Consquences for Work and Place. Social Europe blog

Clifton, J., et al (2018) Ideology (not economics) explains why the Troika treated Ireland less harshly than Greece. LSE blogs EUROPP European Politics and Policy.

Clifton, J. (2014) “Straightjacketing the State: Local and national governments have lost power over specific areas of public service governance to Brussels”, LSE Blog on British Politics and Policy.