Patrick Dunleavy is a professor from the London School of Economics (LSE) in the fields of public policy and government. Dunleavy writes books or written reports in a range of subjects including British Politics, E-Government, the Labour ID cards Proposal and Public Policy and Public Policy Research. Currently he is a professor for the LSE and an LSE MPA programme director. It has been suggested that LSE Computer Security Research Centre be merged into this article or section. ...
Dunleavy's published material includes:
"Developments in British Politics" series (1-8)
"Government on the Web"
"Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice",
"Theories of the State: The Politics of Liberal Democracy"
"Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, the State, and E-Government"
Dunleavy's central contributions have focused on the concepts of sectors and sectoral conflicts, rational choice theories of politics, the bureau-shaping model of bureaucracy, and the claimed contemporary public management paradigm of digital era governance. A sector is a part of a whole. ... Rational choice theory is a way of looking at deliberations between a number of potential courses of action, in which rationality of one form or another is used either to decide which course of action would be the best to take, or to predict which course of action actually will... Bureau-shaping is a rational choice model of bureaucracy that argues that rational officials will not want to maximize their budgets, but instead to shape their agency so as to maximize their personal utilities from their work. ... This page is about the sociological concept. ...
Dunleavy is also the author of his own series of academic writing texts for social sciences students, most notably his 2003 book "Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral dissertation or thesis". He lives in Milton Keynes with his wife Sheila where he enjoys walking and reading.
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