Dr Grant Duncan
MA, PhD (Auckland)
Associate Professor, Politics Programme.
Location: Albany Campus
Office: AT2.31, Level 2, Atrium BuildingPhone: 09 414 0800 extn 9086Email: L.G.Duncan@massey.ac.nz
Teaching
- 200.162 Politics and Public Policy in NZ
- 200.215 Political Theory from Plato to Marx
- 200.315 Contemporary Political Theory
- 144.721 Public Policy and Poltical Economy
- 144.724 Public Sector Management and Law
Research Interests
Grant's principal teaching duties are in the politics minor and the Masters in Public Policy degree. His teaching focuses on applied political theory, political economy and the development of social policy in New Zealand.
His research and publications have covered general changes in social policy and public management in New Zealand, specialising in accident compensation legislation and policy. He has analysed the means by which policy institutions construct and administer populations, with a focus on work-capacity and chronic-pain disability. He also has a special interest in the political uses of happiness..
Grant is a correspondent of the Max Planck Institute for International Social Law, Munich, for which he writes an annual report on changes in social-security laws in New Zealand.
Recent Publications
Duncan, G. and Chapman, J. (2010). New Millennium, New Public Management and the New Zealand Model. Australian Journal of Public Administration 69(3): 301313. 
ajpa2010 (2).pdf This article is available online at Wiley InterScience www.interscience.wiley.com
Duncan, G. (2010). Should happiness-maximization be the goal of government? Journal of Happiness Studies, 11 (2): 163- See the original publication.
Duncan, G. and Browning, J. (2009). Adult Attachment in Children Raised by Parents with Schizophrenia. Journal of Adult Development 16(2): 76-86. (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com).
