- Patrick Dunleavy
Patrick Dunleavy (born June 1952) is a professor from the
London School of Economics (LSE) in the fields of public policy and government. Dunleavy's published material includes:
* (co-edited)"Developments in British Politics" series (1-8) (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan 1983 to 2005)
*"Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice", (London: Pearson Education, 1991)
* (co-authored) "Theories of the State: The Politics of Liberal Democracy" (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987)
*"Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, the State, and E-Government" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
* (co-authored) "Government on the Web" [Report] (London: The Stationary Office, 1999).Dunleavy's central contributions have focused on the concepts of sectors and sectoral conflicts,
rational choice theories of politics, thebureau-shaping model ofbureaucracy , and the claimed contemporary public management paradigm ofdigital era governance .Dunleavy is also the author of advice texts for humanities and social sciences students, most notably his 2003 book "Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral dissertation or thesis" (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003).
Patrick Dunleavy is currently the Director of the MPA (Master of Public Administration) Programme at the London School of Economics.
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