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Keith Dowding

Keith Dowding is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Political Philosophy, School of Politics and International Relations, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He published over ninety articles in major journals and more then fifty chapters in books, on comparative politics, public administration and public policy, philosophy and methods of political science and political philosophy and on various topics in political philosophy.  He has published over twenty books, most recently It’s the Government’s Fault, Stupid, (2020), a new edition of Rational Choice and Political Power (2019), Economic Perspectives on Government  (with Brad Taylor) (2019), Power, Luck and Freedom: Collected Essays, (2017), Policy Agendas in Australia (with Aaron Martin) (2017) The Philosophy and Methods of Political Science (2016).  He edited the Journal of Theoretical Politics 1996-2013.