Professor Keith Dowding
Areas of expertise
- Public Administration 160509
- Political Theory And Political Philosophy 160609
- Urban Policy 160514
- Public Policy 160510
- Comparative Government And Politics 160603
- Political Science 1606
Research interests
I am interested in supervising students in the areas of
•Public administration - especially politician-agency relations, public sector reform, Australian Politics - especially cabinet, career paths of politicians, federalism.
•Comparative Politics - all areas especially electoral systems, comparative legislatures, comparative executives, comparative party systems; collective action.
•British politics; all areas.
•Australian Politics - ministers; policy agendas. Political Sociology - collective action/mass mobilization; agency-structure; choice.
•Urban Politics - especially satisfaction with services, the Tiebout framework, competitive local government, fiscal federalism.
•Political Theory and Political Philosophy - analytic political theory, especially freedom, equality, power, democratic theory, theories of justice, rational choice theory, philosophy of social science.
Biography
I joined arrived at the ANU as Professor of Political Science in July 2007 from the London School of Economics since 1993 the last seven years as Professor of Political Science. Prior to the LSE I had held teaching appointments at Brunel University in West London and at the University of Oxford.
I received a First Class degree in Philosophy and Politics from Keele University in 1982, and a DPhil from Oxford University (where I studied at Nuffield College) in 1987. I was a Hallsworth Fellow at Manchester University in 1993-94, and Visiting Fellow at RSSS in 2000-01; Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) October-December 2007 under the Social Software Program. I held a British Academy Research Readership 2005-07. I was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia in 2008.
I am the Chair of a network of scholars 'Selection and De-selection of Political Elites' (SEDEPE) who are interested in the career paths of political elites. I was vice-Chair at the Citizens' Income Trust in the UK an organization educating people about a Citizen's or Basic Income for all to replace all other kinds of social welfare assistance.
I have been one of the editors of the Journal of Theoretical Politics since 1996.
Researcher's projects
All of my research is informed by the rational choice approach which I have found myself defending against misinformed criticism for many years. The funny thing is, I always thought I was a critic of classical rational choice.
Having a very short attention span I work on many different projects at the same time. My main research projects are:
The Careers of Cabinet Ministers
This project comes under the rubric of SEDEPE. My work so far has largely been concerned with ministers in the British government with a forthcoming jointly authored book Accounting for Ministers to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 and largely concerned with accountability issues concerned with their selection, promotion or demotion and removal. These career concerns provide the bedrock for ministerial accountability in all its forms. Through SEDEPE we are enlarging the scope of analysis to countries around the world with a network of scholars collecting a dedicated dataset for comparative analysis. I an currently collecting data on Australian ministers using Australian Research Council (ARC) grant for three years The Accountability of Australian Ministers2009-2011.
Policy Agendas in Australia
I hold an ARC research award to examine the nature of the policy agenda in Australia.
Power and Freedom
I have long had an interest in the concept of power having written two books and many articles on it. The Encyclopedia of Power Sage was published in 2011.
I have published articles on freedom and rights many of them with Martin van Hees and am completing a book on the work of Amartya Sen.
Satisfaction with Public Services
I have long been engaged with examining urban service-delivery (mostly with Peter John) and we have just completed a book manuscript Exits, Voices and Social Investment: Citizens' Responses to Public Services the empirics based on a five-year internet panel survey. This will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2012
Methodology
I am writing a book for Palgrave on the Philosophy and Methods of Political Science
Current student projects
Chair
Adam Packer ‘Democratization and Institutional Choice'
David Monk ‘Non-Majoritarian Institutions’
Andrew Klassen ‘The New Separation of Powers’
William Boswell ‘Language and Political Theory’
Brad Taylor ‘Competition and Political Institutions’
Panel Member
Evan Williams (Chair Juliet Pietsche)
Past student projects
Mhairi Cowden ‘Should Children Have Rights?’ ANU, graduated 2012
Michael Dalvean ‘The Selection of Ministers in the Australian Federal Parliament’, ANU graduated 2012
Matthew Laing ‘New Perspectives on Political Time: Populists, Prime Ministers and Perpetual Preemptionf’ (Chair Paul ‘t Hart), ANU graduated 2012
Joanne Lau ‘Culture and Obeying the Law’ (Chair Bob Goodin), ANU graduated 2012
Aaron Martin ‘Why Don’t Young People Vote? A Study of Advanced Democracies’ (Chair Ian McAllister) ANU, graduated 2010
Andre Alves ‘The Employment Effects of Welfare Regimes’ [with Valentino Larcinese] LSE, graduated 2009
Zsuzsunna Chappell ‘Deliberative Democracy and the Discursive Dilemma’ [with Christian List], LSE, graduated 2009
Rekha Diwakar ‘Determinants of the Size of Party in the Indian States’, LSE, graduated 2006
Daniel Rubenson ‘Is It Really about Bowling: How Institutions and Community Affect Participation in American Cities, LSE, graduated 2006
Stewart Astill ‘Networks that Form Policy: The Case of Pension Reform’, LSE, graduated 2006
Rotem Bressler-Gonen ‘Shirking and Shifting Policies: Uncooperative Political Appointees in Local Governments – the Case of Israel’, LSE, graduated 2005
Oliver Curry ‘New Evolutionary Ethics: An Adaptationist Account of Morality’, LSE, graduated 2005
Kennedy Stewart ‘“Persistent Losing” and Electoral Fairness in Four World Cities’, LSE, graduated 2003
Tom Quinn ‘Organizational Reform in the British Labour Party Since 1983’, LSE, graduated 2002
Oliver James ‘The “Next Steps” Agency Model in the UK Central Government 1988-98, with Special Reference to the Benefits Agency’ [with Patrick Dunleavy], LSE, graduated 2001
Yoav Schechter ‘Interests, Strategies and Institutions: Lobbying in the Pharmaceutical Industry in the European Union’, LSE, graduated 1999
Maijia Setala ‘Theories of Referendums and the Analysis of Agenda-Setting’ [with Brian Barry], LSE, graduated 1997
Andrew Hindmoor ‘Socialism and Entrepreneurship: A Rational Choice Approach to an Issue of Compatibility’, LSE, graduated 1996
Shlomo Mizrahi ‘A Theory of Constitutional Change: Game-theoretical Analysis of Socio-Political Processes in Poland, 1976-1981’ [with Brian Barry], LSE, graduated 1995
Publications
- Dowding, Keith 2013, 'Presidentialisation Again: A Comment on Kefford', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 147-149.
- Dowding, Keith 2013, 'The Prime Ministerialisation of the British Prime Minister', Parliamentary Affairs, no. 2012, pp. 1-19.
- Dowding, Keith 2013, 'Beneath the Surface: Replies to Three Critics', Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 66, no. 2013, pp. 663-672.
- Dowding, Keith, Hindmoor, Andrew & Martin, Aaron 2013, 'Australian Public Policy: Attention, Content and Style', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 82-88.
- Dowding, Keith 2013, 'The Role of Political Argument in Justice as Impartiality', Political Studies, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 67-81.
- Keith Dowding and Peter John 2012, Exits, Voices and Social Investment, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.
- Berlinski, Samuel, Dewan, Torun & Dowding, Keith 2012, Accounting for Ministers: Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945-2007, Cambridge University Press, New York.
- Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis (ed) 2012 Ministerial Careers and Accountability in the Australian Commonwealth Government Canberra: ANU E Press
- Keith Dowding, Jörn Fischer and Patrick Dumont 2012 'The Duration and Durability of Cabinet Ministers' International Political Science Review vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 505-519
- Keith Dowding, Nick Faulkner, Andrew Hindmoor and Aaron Martin 2012 'Change and Continuity in the Ideology of Australian Prime Ministers: The Governor-General's Speeches (1946-2010)' Australian Journal of Political Science vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 455-472
- Dowding, Keith, John, Peter & Rubenson, Daneil 2012, 'Geographic Mobility, Social Connections and Voter Turnout', Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 109-122.
- Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis 2012 'Culture, Newspaper Reporting and Changing Perceptions of Ministerial Accountability in Australia' Australian Journal of Politics and History vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 226-250
- Keith Dowding 2012 'Why Should We Care About the Definition of Power?' Journal of Political Power vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 119-135
- Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis 2012 'Hiring, Firing, Roles and Responsibilities of Ministers' in Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis (edited) Ministerial Careers and Accountability in the Australian Commonwealth Government Canberra: ANU E Press, pp. 1-14
- Keith Dowding, Chris Lewis and Adam Packer 2012 'The Pattern of Forced Exits from the Ministry' in Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis (edited) Ministerial Careers and Accountability in the Australian Commonwealth Government Canberra: ANU E Press, pp. 115-134
- Keith Dowding and Martin van Hees 2012 'Freedom, Rights and Social Software' in Jan van Eijck and Rineke Verbrugge (eds) Games, Actions and Social Software Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 14-28
- Dowding, Keith & Feiock, Richard 2012, 'Intralocal Competition and Cooperation', in Karen Mossberger, Susan E Clarke, Peter John (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics, Oxford University Press, New York USA, pp. 29-50.
- Keith Dowding 2012 'Resources, Power and Systematic Luck: A Response to Barry' in Mark Haugaard and Stewart Clegg (ed) Power and Politics , Los Angeles: Sage, reprinted from Politics, Philosophy and Economics , vol. 2, no. 3 (Oct) 2003, pp. 305-322
- Keith Dowding 2012 'Review: Katharine Gelber Speech Matters: Getting Free Speech Right' Centre for the Study of Australian Politics, School of Politics, CASS, ANU http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/centre-study-australian/politics/publications, January.
- Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis 2012 'Enhancing Ministerial Accountability: the Role of the Print Media' ON LINE opinion Australia's e-journal of social and political debate, www.onlineopinion.co.au 4 July
- Keith Dowding 2012 'Forced Exits of Ministers in the Australian States and Territories' at The Selection and De-Selection of Political Elites: Multi-Level Systems in Comparative Perspective, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 17-19 October.
- Keith Dowding 2012 'Luck and Perceptions of Leadership' US Studies Centre, Sydney 'Why Leaders Can't Lead' Workshop 21-22nd June 2012
- Dowding, Keith, ed., 2011 Encyclopedia of Power Beverly Hills, Sage, xxvi+755pp
- Keith Dowding 2011 Political Analysis and Public Choice, London: University of London, 110pp; 2nd edition.
- Dowding, Keith and Peter John 2011, 'Voice and Choice in Health Care in England: Citizen Responses to Dissatisfaction', Public Administration, 89(4)pp. 1403-18.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Republican Freedom, Rights, and the Coalition Problem', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 301-322.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'What is the Idea of Justice?', Indian Journal of Human Development, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 83-98.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Working Within the Constraints', Public Service Review, no. 23, p. 13.
- Dowding, Keith & McLeay, Elizabeth 2011, 'The Firing Line: When and Why Do Prime Ministers Fire Ministerial Colleagues?', in Paul 't Hart and John Uhr (ed.), How Power Changes Hands: Transition and Succession in Government, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, London, pp. 157-173.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Rational Choice Theory', in Mark Bevir (ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Governance, Sage Publications, India, US, UK, pp. 36-50.
- Dowding, Keith 2011 "Introduction" Encyclopedia of Power Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, pp. xxiii-xxvi
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Absolutism', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 2-3.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Adverse Selection', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 5-6.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Agency', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 6-10.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Agency-Structure Problem', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 10-11.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Louis Althusser (1918-1990)', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 17-18.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Appeasement', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 25-26.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Authority', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 36-39.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Arms Race', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 31-32.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Peter Bachrach and Morton Baratz', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 45-46.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Business and Power', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 79-81.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Cabal', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, p. 83.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Complex Equality (Walzer)', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 126-127.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Control', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 141-142.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Cooperation', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 143-146.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Coordination', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, p. 146.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Consent', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 137-138.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Corporatism', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 148-150.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Decentering (of Subject, of Structure)', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 164-165.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'G. William Domhoff (1936- )', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 201-202.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Free Will', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 263-264.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Growth Coalition', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 298-299.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Jurgen Habermas (1929- )', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 301-302.
- Dowding, K 2011, 'Hierarchy', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications Inc, California, pp. 319-321.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Floyd Hunter (1912-1992)', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 329-330.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Influence', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, p. 342.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Leadership', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 373-377.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Manipulation', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 397-399.
- Dowding, K 2011, 'Moral Hazard', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications Inc, California, pp. 425-426.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Neoclassical Capital', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 86-87.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Opportunity', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 458-460.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Talcott Parsons (1902-1979)', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 472-473.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Pluralism', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 481-484.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Post-Fordism', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 496-497.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Public Goods', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 540-541.
- Dowding, K 2011, 'Rationality', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications Inc, California, pp. 551-554.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'Relative Autonomy of the State', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, pp. 567-568.
- Dowding, Keith 2011, 'William H. Riker (1920-1993)', in Keith Dowding (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, Sage Publications, California, p. 582.
- Dowding, Keith, Packer, Adam, Hindmoor, Andrew, Martin, Aaron 2011, 'The Agenda of "Policy Agendas in Australia"', APSA Conference 2011, Crisis, Uncertainty and Democracy, Conference Organising Committee, Canberra Australia, pp. 1-25.
- Dowding, Keith 2010, 'Luck, Equality and Responsibility', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy , vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 71-92.
- Berlinski, Samuel, Dewan, Torun & Dowding, Keith 2010, 'The Impact of Individual and Collective Performance on Ministerial Tenure', Journal of Politics, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 559 - 571.
- Dowding, Keith, Hindmoor, Andrew, Iles, Richard and John, Peter 2010, 'Policy Agendas in Australian Politics: The Governor-General's Speeches, 1945-2008', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 533-557.
- Dowding, Keith, Dewan, Torun & Shepsle, Kenneth A., eds, 2009, Rational Choice Politics, Volume I: Social Choice, Equilibrium and Electoral Systems, Vol II: Voting, Elections and Pressure Politics, Volume III: Legislatures, Volume IV: Bureaucracy, Constitutional Arrangments., Sage Publications, London.
- Dowding, Keith & Dumont, Patrick, eds, 2009, The Selection of Ministers in Europe: Hiring and Firing, Routledge, London.
- Dowding, Keith & John, Peter 2009, "The Value of Choice in Public Policy", Public Administration, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 219-233.
- Bresler Gonen, Rotem & Dowding, Keith 2009, 'Shifting and Shirking: Political Appointments for Contracting Out Sservices in Israeli local Government', Urban Affairs Review, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 807-831.
- Dowding, Keith 2009, 'Rational Choice Approaches', in S. Clegg, M. Haugaard and C. Lester (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Power, Sage Publications, London, pp. 40-53.
- Dowding, Keith & Dumont, Patrick 2009, 'Structural and Strategic Factors Affecting the Hiring and Firing of Ministers', in Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont (ed.), The Selection of Ministers in Europe: Hiring and Firing, Routledge, London, pp. 1-20.
- Berlinski, Samuel, Dewan, Torun, Dowding, Keith and Subrahmanyam, Gita 2009, 'Choosing, Moving and Resigning at Westminster, UK', in Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont (ed.), The Selection of Ministers in Europe: Hiring and Firing, Routledge, London, pp. 58-78.
- Dewan, Torun, Dowding, Keith & Shepsle, Kenneth A. 2009, 'Introduction: Rational Choice Classics in Political Science', in Keith Dowding, Torun Dewan and Kenneth A. Shepsle (ed.), Rational Choice Politics, Volumes I - 4, Sage Publications, London, pp. xix-li.
- Anand, Paul, Hunter, Graham, Carter, Ian,, Dowding, Keith, and Van Hees, Martin 2009, 'The Development of Capability Indicators', Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 125-152.
- Dowding, Keith 2009, 'What is Welfare and How Might it Be Measured?', in Don Ross and Harold Kincaid (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 511-539.
- Dowding, Keith 2009, 'Rational Choice and British Politics', in Andrew Gamble, Colin Hay, Matthew Flinders and Michael Kenny (ed.), Oxford Handbook of British Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 75-91.
- Dowding, Keith and van Hees, Martin 2009, 'Freedom of Choice', in Paul Anand, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Clemens Puppe (ed.), The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice: an overview of new foundations and applications, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 374-392.
- Dowding, Keith & Verbrugge, Renate 2009, 'Social Software and the Social Sciences', in Jan van Eijck and Renate Verbrugge (ed.), Discourses on Social Software, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 57-70.
- Dowding, Keith 2009, 'Book review: Legislative Voting and Accountability', Perspectives on Politics, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 683-684.
- Dowding, Keith 2008, 'Agency and Structure: Interpreting Power Relationships', Journal of Power, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 21-36.
- Dowding, Keith & van Hees, Martin 2008, 'In Praise of Manipulation', British Journal of Political Science , vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
- Dowding, Keith 2008, 'Power, Capability and Ableness: The Fallacy of the Vehicle Fallacy', Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 238-258.
- Dowding, Keith 2008, 'A Pandemonium of Confusion: Kay and Marsh on Tiebout', New Political Economy, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 335-348.
- Dowding, Keith 2008, 'Una defensa de la preferencia revelada (A Defence of Revealed Preference Analysis)', Revista Internacional de Sociologia, vol. LXV1, no. 49, pp. 9-31.
- Dowding, Keith 2008, 'Why are inheritance taxes unpopular?', Political Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 179-183.
- Dowding, Keith & van Hees, Martin 2008, 'Counterfactual Success Again: Response to Carter and Kramer', Economics and Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 97-103.
- Dowding, Keith & John, Peter 2008, 'The Three Exit, Three Voice and Loyalty Framework: A Test with Survey Data on Local Services', Political Studies, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 288-311.
- Dowding, Keith & van Hees, Martin 2008, 'Freedom, Coercion and Ability', in Matthew Braham and Frank Steffen (ed.), Power, Freedom and Voting, Springer, Berlin, pp. 307-324.
- Dowding, Keith 2008, 'Desafios a Administracao Publica: Dar Poder aos Consumidores (Challenges to Public Administration: Empowering Consumers)', in José Manuel Moreira; Carlos Jalali; André Azevedo Alves (ed.), Estado, Sociedade Civil e Administração Pública, Almedina, Portugal, pp. 11-23.
- Dowding, Keith 2008, 'Perceptions of Leadership', in Paul t'Hart and John Uhr (ed.), Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 93-102.
- Dowding, Keith & van Hees, Martin 2007, 'Counterfactual Success and Negative Freedom', Economics and Philosophy, vol. 23, pp. 141-162.
- Berlinski, Samuel, Dewan, Torun & Dowding, Keith 2007, 'The length of ministerial tenure in the UK, 1945-97', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 245-262.
- Dowding, Keith 2007, 'Externalism, Expensive Tastes and Equality', in Barbara. Montero, Mark.D. White (ed.), Economics and the Mind, Routledge, London, pp. 101-115.
- Dowding, Keith 2007, 'Issues in the Political Economy of European Union Enlargement', in Herman W. Hoen and Torsten J. Selck (ed.), Europa: Charming Zeus ... and Numerous Others! International Political Economy of EU Accession, Peeters Publishers, Leuven, pp. 1-14.
- Dowding, Keith 2006, 'Can populism be defended? William Riker, Gerry Mackie and the interpretation of democracy', Government and Opposition, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 327-346.
- Dowding, Keith 2006, 'The Economic Approach to the Study of British Politics', British Politics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 26-43.
- Dowding, Keith 2006, 'The D-Term: A Reply to Stephen Parsons', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 299-302.
- Dowding, Keith 2006, 'Three Dimensional Power: A Discussion of Steven Lukes Power: A Radical View (2nd ed)', Political Studies Review, vol. 4, no, 2 (May) 2006, pp. 136-145.
- Dowding, Keith 2006, 'Can Capabilities Reconcile Freedom and Equality?', Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 323-336.
- Dowding, Keith & Dewan, Torun 2005, 'The Corrective Effect of Ministerial Resignations on Government Popularity', American Journal of Political Science, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 46-56.
- Dowding, Keith 2005, 'Is it Rational to Vote? Five Types of Answer and a Suggestion', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 442-459.
- Dowding, Keith and van Hees, Martin 2004, 'Poverty and the Local Contigency of Universal Rights', International Social Science Journal, vol. 180, pp. 301-312.
- Dowding, Keith 2004, 'Interpretation, Truth and Investigation: Coments on the Interpretative Political Science of Bevir and Rhodes', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 136-142.
- John, Peter, Ward, Hugh & Dowding, Keith 2004, 'The Bidding Game: Competitive Funding Regimes and the Political Targeting of Urban Programme Schemes', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 405-428.
- Dowding, Keith 2004, 'Are Democratic and Just Institutions the Same?', in Dowding Keith , Goodin Robert E., Pateman Carole, (ed.), Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry, Cambridge University Press, United States, pp. 25-39.
- Dowding, Keith & James, Oliver 2004, 'Analysing Bureau-Shaping Models', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 183-189
- Dowding, Keith 2004, 'Thoughts on Modeling the State', Government and Opposition, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 101-109.
- Dowding, Keith 2004, 'Social Choice and the Grammar of Rights and Freedoms', Political Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 144-161.
- Dowding, Keith 2004, 'A Rational Choice Approach to Political Power', in Kate Nash and Alan Scott (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology (2nd ed), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 29-39.
- Dowding, Keith, Goodin, Robert E. & Pateman, Carole 2004, 'Introduction: Between Justice and Democracy', in Dowding K, Goodin RE, Pateman C, (ed.), Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry, Cambridge University Press, United States, pp. 1-24.
- Dowding, Keith 2003, 'Rational Choice and Trust', in Preston King (ed.), Trusting in Reason: Martin Hollis and the Philosophy of Social Action, Frank Cass & Co Ltd, UK, pp. 207-220.
- Dowding, Keith 2003, 'The Civil Service', in Jonathan Hollowell (ed.), Britain Since 1945, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 179-193.
- Dowding, Keith & Mergoupis, Thanos 2003, 'Fragmentation, Fiscal Mobility and Efficiency', Journal of Politics, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 1190-1207.
- Dowding, Keith 2003, 'Resources, Power and Systematic Luck: A Response to Barry', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 305-322.
- van Vugt, Mark, Dowding, Keith, van Dijk, Erik and John, Peter 2003, 'The Exit of Residential Mobility or the Voice of Political Action? Understanding Problem-Solving in Residential Communities', Journal of Applied Social Psychology, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 321-338.
- Dowding, Keith & van Hees, Martin 2003, 'The Construction of Rights', American Political Science Review, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 281-293.
- Dowding, Keith, De Wispelaere, Jurgen & White, Stuart, eds, 2003, The Ethics of Stakeholding, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, United States.
- Dowding, Keith, De Wispelaere, Jurgen and White, Stuart 2003, 'Stakeholding- A New Paradigm in Social Policy', in Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Stuart White (ed.), The Ethics of Stakeholding, Palgrave MacMillan, United States, pp. 1-28.
- Dowding, Keith 2002, 'Revealed preference and external reference', Rationality and Society, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 257-282.
- Dowding, Keith 2002, 'Model or Metaphor? A Critical Review of the Policy Network Approach', in John Scott (ed.), Social Networks: Critical Concepts in Sociology vol 4: Applications: Political Protest and Policy Networks, Routledge, London, pp. 80-116.
- Dowding, Keith 2002, 'Rational Choice and Institutional Change: An Overview of Current Theories', in Bernard Steunenberg (ed.), Widening the European Union, Routledge, USA & Canada, pp. 21-38.
- Dowding, Keith, Hughes, James & Margetts, Helen, eds, 2001, Challenges to Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, UK.
- Dowding, Keith, Hughes, James & Margetts, Helen 2001, 'Introduction (Challenges to Democracy: Ideas, Involvement and Institutions)', in Keith Dowding, James Hughes and Helen Margetts (ed.), Challenges to Democracy: Ideas, Involvement and Institutions, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, UK, pp. xi-xvii.
- Dowding, Keith 2001, 'There must be end to confusion: Policy networks, intellectual fatigue, and the need for political science methods courses in British universities', Political Studies, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 89-105.
- Dowding, Keith 2001, 'Rational Choice and Trust', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 207-220.
- Dowding, Keith 2001, 'Explaining Urban Regimes', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 7-19.
Projects and Grants
- Policy Agendas in the Australian Commonwealth Government (Primary Investigator)
- The Accountability of Australian Cabinet Ministers (Primary Investigator)
