ROSIE COLLINGTON

PUBLICATIONS

Peer reviewed articles

  1. Collington, R. 2025. ‘The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies’. Review of International Political Economy. 32(6). Available here.
  2. Christensen, R. C.* & Collington, R.* 2025. ‘New development: Climate consulting and the transformation of climate governance’. Public Money & Management. Online first. Available here.
  3. Collington, R.* & Mazzucato M. 2024. ‘Beyond Outsourcing: Re-embedding the State in Public Value Production’. Organization. 31(7), pp. 1136-1156. Available here. 
  4. Collington, R. ​​2022. ‘Disrupting the Welfare State? Digitalisation and the retrenchment of public sector capacity’. New Political Economy. 27(2), pp. 312-328. Available here.

Book

  • Mazzucato, M.* & Collington, R.* 2023. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies. Penguin Allen Lane (UK); Penguin Press (USA); Nieuw Amsterdam (Netherlands); Laterza (Italy); Campus Verlag (Germany); Taurus (Spain); Companhia de Letras (Brazil); Heterodox (Poland); Keiei Kagaku Publishing (Japan); Temas e Debates (Portugal).

Selected reviews and features (at time of writing): The Lancet (Michael Marmot, 2023); British Journal of Sociology (Paul Lagneau-Ymonet, 2024); The Journal of International Business Studies (Mehdi Boussebaa, 2023); Economic Development Quarterly (Timothy Slaper, 2023); The Financial Times (Diane Coyle, 2023); International Affairs; Action Learning: Research and Practice; Law, Economics, and Social Practice; Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Times, Politiken, Information, Bloomberg, Australian Financial Review, The Washington Post, Forbes, Australian Financial Review, New Zealand Herald, Le Monde, BBC Radio 4, NPR.

Book chapters

  • Collington, R. 2025. ‘Shifting Dynamics of Advice: Non-State Experts and Private Sector Consultancies in Public Policy’, in: G. Bouckaert, A. Hondeghem, T. Steen & S. Van de Walle (eds.) Futures for the Public Sector. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
  • Collington, R.* & Mazzucato, M.* 2023. ‘Berater und der Moderne Staat’ [‘Consultants and the Modern State’], in: T. Hartmann-Cwiertnia, J. Dahm & F. Decker (eds.) Der Moderne Staat: Was er ist, was er braucht, was er kann [The Modern State: What It Is, What It Needs, What It Can Do]. Berlin: Dietz Verlag.

Work-in-progress

Journal articles under review

  • Collington, R. ‘‘State Capacity and Decarbonization: From Investable Transitions to Green Transformations’. (R&R)
  • Collington, R. and Hasselbalch, J. ‘Epistemic De-risking: How states wield energy modelling and planning capacity to mobilize private finance’. (R&R)

Journal articles in development

  • Collington, R. ‘The Ministerial Politics of Distributive Conflicts: Negotiating Approaches to Decarbonization in National Climate Bureaucracies’.
  • Collington, R. & Seabrooke, L. ‘The Infrastructural Limits of Normative Power: Scripting Struggles and Algorithmic Governance in Environmental and Social Risks’.
  • Collington, R. ‘From Pennsylvania Avenue to Wall Street and Back Again: The Origins of De-Risking in Development Finance’.

    Book in development

    • Collington, R. Another State Is Possible. [Under Contract – UK & Commonwealth]

      Essays and book reviews

      • Collington, R. 2025. ‘Unbankable Transitions: Towards a Political Economy of Other Planet-Critical Sectors’. Available here.
      • Collington, R. 2024. Review of A Thousand Cuts: Social Protection in the Age of Austerity by Alexandros Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs. International Affairs, 100(3), pp. 1331–1333. Available here.
      • Collington, R. 2019. ‘Digital Public Assets: Rethinking value, access, control and ownership of public sector data’. Common Wealth. Available here.

        Working papers and policy reports

        • Diski, R. & Collington, R. 2024. ‘Carbon Emissions Regulation in the UK: A Case Study’. Ada Lovelace Foundation, part of report New rules? Lessons for AI regulation from the governance of other high-tech sectors, commissioned by UK government. Available here.
        • Collington, R. & Lazonick, W. 2022. ‘Pricing for Medicine Innovation: A Conditionality Approach to Support Patient Access and Drug Development’. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series. Available here.
        • Collington, R. 2020. ‘Profits, Innovation and Financialization in the Insulin Industry’. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series. Available here. 
        • Collington, R. 2017. ‘Leaving No One Behind: Why England needs an implementation plan for the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases’. Genetic Alliance UK. Available here.