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Patrick Dunleavy

Patrick Dunleavy received his M.A. (Hons.) in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University in 1973 and his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1978. He has been professor of government at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 1989 and is chair of the LSE Public Policy Group, a public policy research and advisory body, working for a number of major public sector clients.

Dunleavy has been involved in more than a dozen funded research projects, and he was a member of the Political Studies Association Executive for three periods. He was founding editor of Politics, 1980-2; general editor of Political Studies, 1999-present; and a founding academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences, 1999.

Recent publications include Developments in British Politics 5 (2000), Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive (1995) and Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice (1991). He is also the author of the NAO Government on the Web publication, with Dr. Helen Margetts (1999).

Dunleavy has a number of forthcoming publications covering London governance, the American federal bureaucracy and themes in public policy, public choice theory and electoral systems.