Patrick Dunleavy

Centenary Research Professor at University of Canberra /Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science

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  • The London School of Economics and Political Science

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Biography

The London School of Economics and Political Science

Patrick Dunleavy is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at LSE. He was Professor in the Department of Government at LSE from 1989-2020, having previously moved to the School from Nuffield College and the Open University in 1979. He is now Emeritus Professor, and Editor-in-Chief for LSE Press since autumn 2020. Patrick is a (founding) fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

His most recent books are Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research (Macmillan/Red Globe Press, 2020, with Jane Tinkler); The UK’s Changing Democracy (LSE Press, 20218, edited with Alice Park and Ros Taylor), open access; The Impact of the Social Sciences (Sage, 2014, with Jane Tinkler and Simon Bastow); and Growing the Productivity of Government Services (Elgar, 2013, with Leandro Carrera).

Research interests

  • Public choice theory
  • Electoral systems
  • Voting behaviour and party competition
  • Bureau shaping and bureaucracy
  • Government structures and institutional analysis
  • Executive budgeting
  • New public management and globalization
  • Urban politics
  • Political sociology

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