Prof Dr Patrick Dunleavy

Patrick Dunleavy is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

His research covers public choice theory, bureaucracy and government structures, electoral systems, party competition and public management. He joined LSE in 1979 after posts at Nuffield College, Oxford, and the Open University, became professor in 1989 and founded the LSE Public Policy Group in 1992. From 2020 he served as Editor-in-Chief of LSE Press. Dunleavy is a Fellow of the British Academy and a founding Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Patrick studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and completed his doctorate at Nuffield College.