Patrick Dunleavy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 374227 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrick Dunleavy |
| NOMBRES | Patrick |
| APELLIDO | Dunleavy |
| FIRMA | DUNLEAVY P |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2650-6398 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1453 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 18 |
‘Digital citizen vigilance’ makes republican theory real
In the modern digital era public services and public administrators are increasingly accountable (often in real time) to citizens querying or critiquing policy mistakes or decisions or actions, or voicing complaints and demanding redress, directly in the sphere of public debate, using social media and networks. Citizens’ posts often relay compelling evidence to back up their messages, using photographs, videos, sound recordings, digital scanning …
Data science, artificial intelligence and the third wave of digital era governance
This article examines the model of digital era governance (DEG) in the light of the latest-wave of data-driven technologies, such as data science methodologies and artificial intelligence (labelled here DSAI). It identifies four key top-level macro-themes through which digital changes in response to these developments may be investigated. First, the capability to store and analyse large quantities of digital data obviates the need for data ‘compr…
Restructuring UK government at the Centre—Why the IfG Commission's Naïve Plan will not Work
An Institute for Government (IfG) report on ‘government at the centre’ recommends creating new, rationalist policy machinery (including an inner cabinet) to manage the UK government's four‐year policy programmes—faithfully following how the Cameron‐Clegg coalition operated in 2010–15. That government's disastrous example shows how politically naïve this plan would be. This article draws out its complete infeasibility in late 2024 conditions. The …
Collective Consumption
“Collective consumption” involves people consuming (using up) services (and some goods) that are particularly subject to political and state influence because their costs are partly socialized through government subsidies; or their provision is specially regulated to foster social equality; or government agencies organize service provision. In the 1980s, some theorists argued that collective consumption processes uniquely define the scope of urba…
Australian administrative elites and the challenges of digital-era change
Within long-lived public sector bureaucracies, the organizational cultures developed by administrative elites have strong filtering and focusing effects on the kinds of technological changes adopted, especially in the modern era. Normally seen as very slow-moving and hard to alter, senior officials' attitudes towards digital changes have recently begun to alter in more substantial ways in Australia. We review first a considerable reappraisal of t…
The Impact of the Social Sciences
The impact agenda is set to shape the way in which social scientists prioritise the work they choose to pursue, the research methods they use and how they publish their findings over the coming decade, but how much is currently known about how social science research has made a mark on society? Based on a three year research project studying the impact of 360 UK-based academics on business, government and civil society sectors, this groundbreakin…
Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice
Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice
The second wave of digital-era governance
Widespread use of the Internet and the Web has transformed the public management ‘quasi-paradigm’ in advanced industrial countries. The toolkit for public management reform has shifted away from a ‘new public management’ (NPM) approach stressing fragmentation, competition and incentivization and towards a ‘digital-era governance’ (DEG) one, focusing on reintegrating services, providing holistic services for citizens and implementing thoroughgoing…
Analysing multiparty competition in plurality rule elections
The study of general election outcomes can be helped by finding better approaches for visualizing large quantities of information and asking questions about its patterning. We review the Nagayama or ‘all possibilities' triangle display, and show that it can only legitimately be used to show an overall ‘field’ of results that is logically feasible, called the effective space of competition, which varies with the number of observable parties. We ap…
New Worlds in Political Science
Political science’ is a ‘vanguard’ field concerned with advancing generic knowledge of political processes, while a wider ‘political scholarship’ utilising eclectic approaches has more modest or varied ambitions. Political science nonetheless necessarily depends upon and is epistemologically comparable with political scholarship. I deploy Boyer's distinctions between discovery, integration, application and renewing the profession to show that the…
Theories of the Democratic State
We live in a world governed by states whose enduring importance and domination of contemporary politics has been strikingly underlined by their renewed activism in the face of a global economic crisis. Yet the very nature of states remains deeply contested, with a range of competing theories offering very different views of how they actually do or should operate. In the past this competition has lead to deep ideological conflict – and even to war…
Assessing How Far Charter 88 and the Constitutional Reform Coalition Influenced Voting System Reform in Britain
Led in large part by Charter 88 and the Scottish Constitutional Convention, the activities of the constitutional reform movement since the early 1990s have clearly helped to introduce new proportional voting systems into UK politics. Yet, at the same time, the Labour governments after 1997 decisively rejected voting reform for the House of Commons and dragged out Lords reform to prevent any direct election of a second chamber. To explore how Char…
Australian e-Government in comparative perspective
The initial emergence of e-governance appeared to be part of a more general government modernization process with the major focus concerning the potential for service delivery online and saving resources. Governments in Australia (and internationally) quickly raced towards grand e-government strategies. However, subsequent implementation has proved more problematic. e-Government has also raised wider questions about government policy making, stru…
Digital Era Governance
This title explores the world of e-government - the use by government of IT to interact with citizens, businesses, and other governments, and the significant role of IT corporations in this process in seven countries. This work is useful for public managers, IT professionals, and business executives.
Facing Up to Multi-Party Politics
In every region of the country, modern British party systems now involve at least six or seven parties with significant vote shares at one election or another, a potential for legislative representation at some level, office-seeking capabilities and endurance over time, and distinctive ideological positions which are not encompassed by Labour versus Conservative differences. Whenever voters exercise their choices in proportional systems of voting…
The Impact of UK Electoral Systems
Journal Article The Impact of UK Electoral Systems Get access Patrick Dunleavy, Patrick Dunleavy Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, LSE Public Policy Group, London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Helen Margetts Helen Margetts Professor of Society and Internet, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
New Public Management Is Dead--Long Live Digital-Era Governance
The "new public management" (NPM) wave in public sector organizational change was founded on themes of disaggregation, competition, and incentivization. Although its effects are still working through in countries new to NPM, this wave has now largely stalled or been reversed in some key "leading-edge" countries. This ebbing chiefly reflects the cumulation of adverse indirect effects on citizens' capacities for solving social problems because NPM …
How proportional are the ‘British AMS’ systems
This article explores the performance of the additional member systems of proportional representation introduced in the UK for elections to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Greater London Assembly. It sets out the key features of these systems and examines how they have fared in terms of delivering (more) proportional results, using a range of measures of deviation from proportionality. On all measures the British …
Constructing the Number of Parties
Forming an idea of the number of parties competing at elections or winning seats in legislatures is fundamental to disaggregated approaches to mapping party systems. We set out a method for systematically relating the behaviour of any `number of parties' index to the size of the largest party's vote and the numbers of parties in competition. This approach shows that the `effective number of parties' ( N2) can confuse real changes in party competi…
Modelling Coalitions that Cannot Coalesce
The Laver and Shepsle (LS) model assumes that coalition government partners can never co‐operate to agree policy jointly, but must allocate ministerial portfolios between them, with each side's ministers acting as partisan ‘barons ‘ in their departments. Portfolio allocations do indeed make some initial difference as a stage through which all coalition negotiations must pass. But in the LS pure model their empirical significance for a coalition's…
Modelling coalitions that cannot coalesce
The Laver and Shepsle (LS) model assumes that coalition government partners can never co‐operate to agree policy jointly, but must allocate ministerial portfolios between them, with each side's ministers acting as partisan ‘barons ‘ in their departments. Portfolio allocations do indeed make some initial difference as a stage through which all coalition negotiations must pass. But in the LS pure model their empirical significance for a coalition's…
Constitutional Reform, New Labour in Power and Public Trust in Government
Journal Article Constitutional Reform, New Labour in Power and Public Trust in Government Get access Patrick Dunleavy, Patrick Dunleavy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Helen Margetts, Helen Margetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Trevor Smith, Trevor Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stuart Weir Stuart Weir Search for ot…
From Majoritarian to Pluralist Democracy
The rapid changes in electoral systems and party systems in Britain since 1997 pose fundamental problems of explanation both for electoral system analysts and for students of British politics. We first describe the main types of electoral system change introduced and show how the new systems have already brought about important differences in party systems and patterns of party government across the UK. Possible explanations of the changes includ…
Mixed Electoral Systems in Britain and the Jenkins Commission on Electoral Reform
Mixed electoral systems seek to combine elements from different voting methods so as to maximise the numbers of individually accountable constituency MPs, while achieving more proportional outcomes in terms of parties' representation. This paper looks in detail at two kinds of mixed systems: variants of the Additional Member System; and AV Plus (or SV Plus). We examine how they would have operated in British conditions during the 1990s—how ballot…
New Public Management Is Dead--Long Live Digital-Era Governance
The "new public management" (NPM) wave in public sector organizational change was founded on themes of disaggregation, competition, and incentivization. Although its effects are still working through in countries new to NPM, this wave has now largely stalled or been reversed in some key "leading-edge" countries. This ebbing chiefly reflects the cumulation of adverse indirect effects on citizens' capacities for solving social problems because NPM …
The Urban Basis of Political Alignment
The declining association between occupational class and political alignment in Britain has now been documented by a number of studies. For the political analyst the decline of a previously important cleavage must raise complex questions of causation. One of the most important possible explanations for such a change is that a new cleavage has arisen or grown in political significance so that its influence on political alignment cross-cuts that of…
Core Executive Studies in Britain
Discussions of core executive operations in Britain have focused on a limited controversy about whether monocratic control is exercised by the premier or whether more collegial decision making persists in Cabinet. An extended typology of institutionalist views is examined, including the prime ministerial clique interpretation, models of ministerial government, segmented decision making, and bureaucratic coordination. This restricted debate reflec…
Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice
Bureaucrats, Budgets and the Growth of the State
This article forms part of a longer-term project dealing with the impact of public choice theories in political science. The focus here is on economic models of bureaucracy, which despite their increasing theoretical significance and influence on practical politics have heretofore been little analysed, except by their exponents. I have argued elsewhere that amongst existing public choice accounts there are two seminal works, Antony Downs's plural…
The Political Implications of Sectoral Cleavages and the Growth of State Employment
Class dealignment in British politics provides a context within which existing interpretations of non-class production cleavages need to be reassessed. In Part 1 of this paper, three approaches are considered which tend to assimilate production locations into occupational or social class-empiricist analyses, Weberian accounts, and radical Weberian/conventional Marxist interpretations. All three focus primarily on unionization, which is seen eithe…
Understanding the Dynamics of Electoral Reform
After a long period of stasis 1993 marked a burst of change in liberal democracies' electoral arrangements. There were major shifts in three established democratic countries (Italy, Japan, and New Zealand), and a new system in Russia. All four changes show some parallels as well as some distinct features, especially in adopting "mixed" electoral systems. The roots of this pattern lie deep in the multiple criteria involved in debates about voting …
Policy Disasters
Explaining the Privatization Boom
Public choice theories of bureaucracy, especially the budget maximization thesis, have been influential in stimulating the drive towards privatization in Britain and the USA. But these accounts are strangely silent about why changes in state agency practices have come about under‘new right’ governments. They apparently attribute the scope of change entirely to‘virtuous’ political direction overcoming previously inherent features of bureaucratic b…
Constructing the Number of Parties
Forming an idea of the number of parties competing at elections or winning seats in legislatures is fundamental to disaggregated approaches to mapping party systems. We set out a method for systematically relating the behaviour of any `number of parties' index to the size of the largest party's vote and the numbers of parties in competition. This approach shows that the `effective number of parties' ( N2) can confuse real changes in party competi…
Regime Politics in London Local Government
The authors provide an encompassing eight-point characterization of regimes designed to cover all cases of this complex multicriteria concept, arguing that not all eight characteristics need be present for a regime to exist but that the larger the subset, the more a governing coalition constitutes a regime. The regime concept is then applied to six London boroughs during the early to mid-1990s. They demonstrate the utility and limits of the regim…
Exogenous Voter Preferences and Parties with State Power
This paper deals with the theories of electoral or party competition in liberal democracies which have been put forward in ‘economic’ models of democracy by Downs, Riker and Ordeshook, Robertson and others. There can be few doubts about the growing importance or appeal of these models, especially for North American political science. Barry, for example, argues that ‘we have seen the last of the “sociologists” in political science’, while in contr…
The Electoral System
Journal Article The Electoral System Get access PATRICK DUNLEAVY, PATRICK DUNLEAVY * Professor of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar HELEN MARGETTS HELEN MARGETTS * Professor of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Vo…
The Political Implications of Sectoral Cleavages and the Growth of State Employment
Part 1 of this paper (last issue) outlined four alternative approaches to the analysis of non-class production cleavages, namely: empiricist electoral analysis, Weberian accounts, radical Weberian/conventional Marxist approaches, and sectoral theory. In Part 2, the sectoral approach is applied in two areas of empirical concern. The first is the analysis of the cleavage structures underlying party differentiation in modern Britain, looking in part…
The Globalization of Public Services Production
New public management strategies (NPM) constitute a powerful model of how virtually all aspects of public services production can be brought to more closely approximate those in private industry. Although the full NPM agenda is only partially implemented in some countries, it has already had enormous impacts in creating a proto-market in the public services. This 'market' may remain a domain of diversified, small-scale, mainly single-country prov…
The Architecture of the British Central State, Part I
In the bureau‐shaping model of bureaucracy rationally self‐interested officials are primarily concerned to maximize their agencies' core budgets, equivalent to their running costs. They are much less interested in those parts of their overall budget which are allocated as transfer payments to the private sector or passed on to other public sector bodies. The varying importance of core budgets and other spending yields a typology of public sector …
Rational Choice and Community Power Structures
The community power debate concluded with each side believing they had won. Political theorists have generalized power, making empirical investigation very difficult; urban scholars have turned their attention to more manageable empirical problems. Rational choice advances the debate, exposing the errors of all sides and facilitating a new approach which transcends structural versus individualist methods. By separating various aspects of power in…
Modelling coalitions that cannot coalesce
The Laver and Shepsle (LS) model assumes that coalition government partners can never co‐operate to agree policy jointly, but must allocate ministerial portfolios between them, with each side's ministers acting as partisan ‘barons ‘ in their departments. Portfolio allocations do indeed make some initial difference as a stage through which all coalition negotiations must pass. But in the LS pure model their empirical significance for a coalition's…
Group Identities and Individual Influence
Public-choice models argue that large interest groups are less likely to overcome free-rider problems because of the irrelevance of individual's participation to the supply of non-excludable group benefits. But these accounts are constructed in terms of ‘objective’ variables, and hence rely on perfect information assumptions. Paying attention instead to how people learn that interest groups are relevant for them indicates a key role for group ide…
Facing Up to Multi-Party Politics
In every region of the country, modern British party systems now involve at least six or seven parties with significant vote shares at one election or another, a potential for legislative representation at some level, office-seeking capabilities and endurance over time, and distinctive ideological positions which are not encompassed by Labour versus Conservative differences. Whenever voters exercise their choices in proportional systems of voting…
Mass Political Behaviour
Research progress in voting studies and party competition, the mass media, work on social movements, interest groups and collective action, is reviewed for the last decade. Theoretical impetus in applied work seems weak in British studies; sub-fields of research are being pursued in isolation. In electoral studies at least there are signs of over-specialization and loss of valuable interconnections with the mainstream of political science. A numb…
Leaders, Politics and Institutional Change
In the Westminster system the prime minister's active participation in parliamentary proceedings is a key mechanism for ensuring the accountability of the executive. We survey the evolution of the four main prime ministerial activities across the period 1868–1990. There has been a long-term decline in prime ministers' speeches in the Commons, a stepped decline in debating interventions and a significant decrease in question-answering from the lat…
Class Dealignment in Britain Revisited
Recent tranformations in voting patterns have made Britain one of the best known examples of electoral dealignment in Western Europe. But recently Heath, Jowell and Curtice have defended older accounts of class voting by questioning whether there has been any change at all in relative class voting, as measured by a particular index, the odds ratio. This article first outlines the innovative elements in Heath el al.'s argument. Second, it demonstr…
The Growth of Sectoral Cleavages and the Stabilization of State Expenditures
Existing radical explanations of the turndown in public expenditure and welfare state growth across most liberal democracies from the mid-1970s are of two types. In economic explanations the shift is attributed to the changing economic imperatives of capitalist economies in the new world recession, In ideological explanations it is argued that governments have tried to reestablish the predominance of market disciplines and allocation systems in s…
The Politics of Mass Housing in Britain 1945-1975. A Study of Corporate Power, and Professional Influence in the Welfare State
An Issue Centred Approach to the Study of Power
Methodological sectarianism in urban sociology
Book reviewed in this article: Becquart‐Leclercq, Jeanne , 1976: Paradoxes du pouvoir local. Paris: Presse de la fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 115 francs (cloth) and 80 francs (paper). Biarez, S., Bouchet, C., de Boisberranger, G., Mingasson, C., Monzies, M‐C . and Pouyet, C. , 1973: Institution communale et pouvoir politique. Paris: Mouton, 28 francs
Protest and quiescence in urban politics
Cet article examine les interprétations marxistes et dites 'structuralistes' des mouvements sociaux urbains. Il propose l'argument selon lequel certains aspects de méthodologie ne sont pas incompatibles avec la perspective des études pluralistes américaines employée pour le traitement des phénomènes de revendications. Ces deux perspectives partagent la měme supposition, c'est à dire que l'influence coule des mouvements de revendications à l'état;…
Reply to David McKay
The Urban Basis of Political Alignment
The declining association between occupational class and political alignment in Britain has now been documented by a number of studies. For the political analyst the decline of a previously important cleavage must raise complex questions of causation. One of the most important possible explanations for such a change is that a new cleavage has arisen or grown in political significance so that its influence on political alignment cross-cuts that of…
Urban political analysis
The Political Implications of Sectoral Cleavages and the Growth of State Employment
Part 1 of this paper (last issue) outlined four alternative approaches to the analysis of non-class production cleavages, namely: empiricist electoral analysis, Weberian accounts, radical Weberian/conventional Marxist approaches, and sectoral theory. In Part 2, the sectoral approach is applied in two areas of empirical concern. The first is the analysis of the cleavage structures underlying party differentiation in modern Britain, looking in part…
The Urban Basis of Political Alignment
Martin Harrop makes a large number of disparate observations connected with some aspects of my paper. In the space available I can do no more than take up those which seem particularly significant or contentious. Four points struck me in this way
The Political Implications of Sectoral Cleavages and the Growth of State Employment
Class dealignment in British politics provides a context within which existing interpretations of non-class production cleavages need to be reassessed. In Part 1 of this paper, three approaches are considered which tend to assimilate production locations into occupational or social class-empiricist analyses, Weberian accounts, and radical Weberian/conventional Marxist interpretations. All three focus primarily on unionization, which is seen eithe…
Exogenous Voter Preferences and Parties with State Power
This paper deals with the theories of electoral or party competition in liberal democracies which have been put forward in ‘economic’ models of democracy by Downs, Riker and Ordeshook, Robertson and others. There can be few doubts about the growing importance or appeal of these models, especially for North American political science. Barry, for example, argues that ‘we have seen the last of the “sociologists” in political science’, while in contr…
Quasi-governmental sector professionalism
In this chapter I shall explore the connections between the greatly increased numbers and activities of governmental bodies and the similarly increased role of ‘professionals’ in the making and implementation of public policy in Britain. These two modern trends in British government and society are closely connected, and must be studied together if either is to be understood. One particular result of this study is to show that the concentration o…
The Politics of Mass Housing in Britain 1945-1975. A Study of Corporate Power, and Professional Influence in the Welfare State
Is There a Radical Approach to Public Administration
How to Decide That Voters Decide
Bureaucrats, Budgets and the Growth of the State
This article forms part of a longer-term project dealing with the impact of public choice theories in political science. The focus here is on economic models of bureaucracy, which despite their increasing theoretical significance and influence on practical politics have heretofore been little analysed, except by their exponents. I have argued elsewhere that amongst existing public choice accounts there are two seminal works, Antony Downs's plural…
Explaining the Privatization Boom
Public choice theories of bureaucracy, especially the budget maximization thesis, have been influential in stimulating the drive towards privatization in Britain and the USA. But these accounts are strangely silent about why changes in state agency practices have come about under‘new right’ governments. They apparently attribute the scope of change entirely to‘virtuous’ political direction overcoming previously inherent features of bureaucratic b…
The Growth of Sectoral Cleavages and the Stabilization of State Expenditures
Existing radical explanations of the turndown in public expenditure and welfare state growth across most liberal democracies from the mid-1970s are of two types. In economic explanations the shift is attributed to the changing economic imperatives of capitalist economies in the new world recession, In ideological explanations it is argued that governments have tried to reestablish the predominance of market disciplines and allocation systems in s…
Theories of the State
This book offers the first accessible, systematic study of the five schools of thought that dominate modern political science in the West. The authors give an account of the intellectual origins and the methodology of pluralism, the New Right, elitism, Marxism, and neo-pluralism-concentrating on the models of political mobilization, state organization, and crisis that are posited by each. Dunleavy and O'Leary end with a strikingly original evalua…
Class Dealignment in Britain Revisited
Recent tranformations in voting patterns have made Britain one of the best known examples of electoral dealignment in Western Europe. But recently Heath, Jowell and Curtice have defended older accounts of class voting by questioning whether there has been any change at all in relative class voting, as measured by a particular index, the odds ratio. This article first outlines the innovative elements in Heath el al.'s argument. Second, it demonstr…
Group Identities and Individual Influence
Public-choice models argue that large interest groups are less likely to overcome free-rider problems because of the irrelevance of individual's participation to the supply of non-excludable group benefits. But these accounts are constructed in terms of ‘objective’ variables, and hence rely on perfect information assumptions. Paying attention instead to how people learn that interest groups are relevant for them indicates a key role for group ide…
The Architecture of the British Central State, Part I
In the bureau‐shaping model of bureaucracy rationally self‐interested officials are primarily concerned to maximize their agencies' core budgets, equivalent to their running costs. They are much less interested in those parts of their overall budget which are allocated as transfer payments to the private sector or passed on to other public sector bodies. The varying importance of core budgets and other spending yields a typology of public sector …
The Architecture of the British Central State. Part Ii
Part I of this paper (autumn issue) explained the need to improve existing research into the British central state, outlined the bureau‐shaping model, and tackled a number of methodological issues involved in applying this framework. Part II demonstrates that the bureau‐shaping model is highly effective in systematizing and extending our knowledge of how Whitehall and directly attached agencies are structured. The main types of organizations iden…
The Concept of Equality in Policy Analysis
Starting from Walzer's account of `complex equality', an integrated treatment is given of three fundamental decision principles - equality of supply, proportional equality and equality of deficits - which between them exhaust all applications of `equality' considerations in policy analysis. They provide sophisticated and distinctive solutions for distributing scarce public policy benefits where individuals, households, groups or areas are recogni…
Developments in British Politics 3
Reinterpreting the Westland Affair
In a seminal study published two decades ago, Graeme Allison developed three alternative interpretations of the Cuban missile crisis and in the process shed a great deal of light upon the operations of the American core executive in foreign policy areas (Allison, 1969, 1971). Yet the contrasting models he compared were all variants of a single theory of the state, pluralism. They differed from each other chiefly in using divergent methodologies a…
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