Patrick Dunleavy
@patrickdunleavy.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science.
Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition.
And in open social science, universities.
Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition.
And in open social science, universities.
You cannot grow public sector agencies’ productivity in a year. Asking for this is just demanding the impossible. You need 5 to 10 years of consistent effort, as this free to download book outlines. eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
You cannot grow public sector agencies’ productivity in a year. Asking for this is just demanding the impossible. You need 5 to 10 years of consistent effort, as this free to download book outlines. eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
I am talking to the Cambridge
History and Politics seminar at 5.30 pm at Sydney Sussex College on why Westminster systems in both the UK and Australia have had problems doing federalism. All welcome i if you’re in Cambridge.
History and Politics seminar at 5.30 pm at Sydney Sussex College on why Westminster systems in both the UK and Australia have had problems doing federalism. All welcome i if you’re in Cambridge.
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I am talking to the Cambridge
History and Politics seminar at 5.30 pm at Sydney Sussex College on why Westminster systems in both the UK and Australia have had problems doing federalism. All welcome i if you’re in Cambridge.
History and Politics seminar at 5.30 pm at Sydney Sussex College on why Westminster systems in both the UK and Australia have had problems doing federalism. All welcome i if you’re in Cambridge.
Nice thread here. Perhaps David is thinking of our book on “The Impact of the Social Sciences”? Sadly it’s still paywall from Sage, but it should be readable free in any Uni library. methods.sagepub.com/book/mono/th...
There’s a chapter on media that explores common pitfalls and ways forward.
There’s a chapter on media that explores common pitfalls and ways forward.
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Nice thread here. Perhaps David is thinking of our book on “The Impact of the Social Sciences”? Sadly it’s still paywall from Sage, but it should be readable free in any Uni library. methods.sagepub.com/book/mono/th...
There’s a chapter on media that explores common pitfalls and ways forward.
There’s a chapter on media that explores common pitfalls and ways forward.
Long run changes like productivity need to be assessed in the long run, not a year. And they need real research, not a few aggregate statistics.
Here’s a free book that shows you how to research on public services productivity.
eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
Here’s a free book that shows you how to research on public services productivity.
eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Long run changes like productivity need to be assessed in the long run, not a year. And they need real research, not a few aggregate statistics.
Here’s a free book that shows you how to research on public services productivity.
eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
Here’s a free book that shows you how to research on public services productivity.
eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
I’ve not said Wes is performing well, just that it is really a bit bonkers to claim on no research and a few general stats that he’s failed to improve NHS productivity in a year - which is anyway impossible to do. Growing productivity in public services requires 5 to 10 years of consistent effort
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I’ve not said Wes is performing well, just that it is really a bit bonkers to claim on no research and a few general stats that he’s failed to improve NHS productivity in a year - which is anyway impossible to do. Growing productivity in public services requires 5 to 10 years of consistent effort
This free article from the OECD’s journal on budgeting provides a short account of public service productivity growth
eprints.lse.ac.uk/87207/1/Dunl...
And this free book shows how to grow it in central government and NHS eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
eprints.lse.ac.uk/87207/1/Dunl...
And this free book shows how to grow it in central government and NHS eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This free article from the OECD’s journal on budgeting provides a short account of public service productivity growth
eprints.lse.ac.uk/87207/1/Dunl...
And this free book shows how to grow it in central government and NHS eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
eprints.lse.ac.uk/87207/1/Dunl...
And this free book shows how to grow it in central government and NHS eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
This free article from the OECD’s journal on budgeting provides a short account of public service productivity growth
eprints.lse.ac.uk/87207/1/Dunl...
And this free book shows how to grow it in central government and NHS eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
eprints.lse.ac.uk/87207/1/Dunl...
And this free book shows how to grow it in central government and NHS eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This free article from the OECD’s journal on budgeting provides a short account of public service productivity growth
eprints.lse.ac.uk/87207/1/Dunl...
And this free book shows how to grow it in central government and NHS eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
eprints.lse.ac.uk/87207/1/Dunl...
And this free book shows how to grow it in central government and NHS eprints.lse.ac.uk/46380/1/Dunl...
To see how well Australian democracy compares with other leading liberal democracies download this free Democratic Audit book chapter.
press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
To see how well Australian democracy compares with other leading liberal democracies download this free Democratic Audit book chapter.
press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
To learn more about Australia’s unique democratic credentials, download this free chapter press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
To learn more about Australia’s unique democratic credentials, download this free chapter press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
To learn more about Australia’s unique democratic system download this free chapter
press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To learn more about Australia’s unique democratic system download this free chapter
press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
For background reading, try this great free chapter by John Phillmore and Alan Fenna on 'How democratic is Australian federalism? press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
and this free chapter on the UK's complex devolution setup press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
and this free chapter on the UK's complex devolution setup press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For background reading, try this great free chapter by John Phillmore and Alan Fenna on 'How democratic is Australian federalism? press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
and this free chapter on the UK's complex devolution setup press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
and this free chapter on the UK's complex devolution setup press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...
If you're in Cambridge on Wed 19 November I'm talking about ‘Comparing Australian Federalism & UK Devolution: Why Westminster systems struggle with federalism.’
at the History and Politics Seminar in the Knox Shaw Room at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge at 5:30pm. All welcome pic.x.com/DtrpG4EnGq
at the History and Politics Seminar in the Knox Shaw Room at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge at 5:30pm. All welcome pic.x.com/DtrpG4EnGq
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If you're in Cambridge on Wed 19 November I'm talking about ‘Comparing Australian Federalism & UK Devolution: Why Westminster systems struggle with federalism.’
at the History and Politics Seminar in the Knox Shaw Room at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge at 5:30pm. All welcome pic.x.com/DtrpG4EnGq
at the History and Politics Seminar in the Knox Shaw Room at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge at 5:30pm. All welcome pic.x.com/DtrpG4EnGq
Nice effort to explain for the Prison Service how new public management (NPM) combined with political short-termism, wreaks havoc, every time, with productivity in any public agency
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
See also
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
See also
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Nice effort to explain for the Prison Service how new public management (NPM) combined with political short-termism, wreaks havoc, every time, with productivity in any public agency
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
See also
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
See also
Sam Freedman lazily recycles ERS blunder:
Voters back multiple parties, But
"In 2024, 85% of seats were won on less than half the vote, up from 35% in 2019".
But 70% of Labour & Lib Dem MPs won 40%+ support locally. In a multi-party system 50% is an absurd target.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Voters back multiple parties, But
"In 2024, 85% of seats were won on less than half the vote, up from 35% in 2019".
But 70% of Labour & Lib Dem MPs won 40%+ support locally. In a multi-party system 50% is an absurd target.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
October 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Sam Freedman lazily recycles ERS blunder:
Voters back multiple parties, But
"In 2024, 85% of seats were won on less than half the vote, up from 35% in 2019".
But 70% of Labour & Lib Dem MPs won 40%+ support locally. In a multi-party system 50% is an absurd target.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Voters back multiple parties, But
"In 2024, 85% of seats were won on less than half the vote, up from 35% in 2019".
But 70% of Labour & Lib Dem MPs won 40%+ support locally. In a multi-party system 50% is an absurd target.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Dr Robert Bohan
“My president-elect Catherine Connolly. She’s got a landslide, knocking the right into the shadows & showing up the petulance & ignorance of far right clowns & Ultra-Catholic theocrat’s ‘spoil the vote’ campaign. Ireland remains one of the few liberal democracies to reject fascism”
“My president-elect Catherine Connolly. She’s got a landslide, knocking the right into the shadows & showing up the petulance & ignorance of far right clowns & Ultra-Catholic theocrat’s ‘spoil the vote’ campaign. Ireland remains one of the few liberal democracies to reject fascism”
October 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Dr Robert Bohan
“My president-elect Catherine Connolly. She’s got a landslide, knocking the right into the shadows & showing up the petulance & ignorance of far right clowns & Ultra-Catholic theocrat’s ‘spoil the vote’ campaign. Ireland remains one of the few liberal democracies to reject fascism”
“My president-elect Catherine Connolly. She’s got a landslide, knocking the right into the shadows & showing up the petulance & ignorance of far right clowns & Ultra-Catholic theocrat’s ‘spoil the vote’ campaign. Ireland remains one of the few liberal democracies to reject fascism”
Recent ‘democratic backsliding’ in countries like Hungary, or the modern rise of authoritarianism, show elections are worthless unless media rules guarantee diversity & a rough partisanship balance in news sources available to citizens.”
Is this true in Australia?
eprints.lse.ac.uk/126327/1/aus...
Is this true in Australia?
eprints.lse.ac.uk/126327/1/aus...
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Recent ‘democratic backsliding’ in countries like Hungary, or the modern rise of authoritarianism, show elections are worthless unless media rules guarantee diversity & a rough partisanship balance in news sources available to citizens.”
Is this true in Australia?
eprints.lse.ac.uk/126327/1/aus...
Is this true in Australia?
eprints.lse.ac.uk/126327/1/aus...
Many thanks from all our authors to the 12,000 readers who have downloaded our book “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” or any chapter this year so far. We are hugely grateful! It’s open access, always. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Many thanks from all our authors to the 12,000 readers who have downloaded our book “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” or any chapter this year so far. We are hugely grateful! It’s open access, always. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
And this is why AI’s crash will matter so much in the USA
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
And this is why AI’s crash will matter so much in the USA
Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”
Yet another Australian Commonwealth Government fiasco: The @Deloitte scandal discredits both this high (taxpayer) paid consultant and AI (artificial intelligence). Before it was cut and paste. Now AI has been exposed making stuff up. False/fraudulent. Elizabeth Knight/SMH 👇
October 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Yet another Australian Commonwealth Government fiasco: The @Deloitte scandal discredits both this high (taxpayer) paid consultant and AI (artificial intelligence). Before it was cut and paste. Now AI has been exposed making stuff up. False/fraudulent. Elizabeth Knight/SMH 👇
Quentin Dempster
Australia’s universities should be upskilled pronto. 👇thanks Bill Shorten for these fresh ideas. We’re ranked 105/145 on the world Economic Complexity Index. Reform is imperative for nation building, critical thinking, national security.
Australia’s universities should be upskilled pronto. 👇thanks Bill Shorten for these fresh ideas. We’re ranked 105/145 on the world Economic Complexity Index. Reform is imperative for nation building, critical thinking, national security.
September 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Quentin Dempster
Australia’s universities should be upskilled pronto. 👇thanks Bill Shorten for these fresh ideas. We’re ranked 105/145 on the world Economic Complexity Index. Reform is imperative for nation building, critical thinking, national security.
Australia’s universities should be upskilled pronto. 👇thanks Bill Shorten for these fresh ideas. We’re ranked 105/145 on the world Economic Complexity Index. Reform is imperative for nation building, critical thinking, national security.
And if you’d like the whole ebook (or any of the 27 chapters) completely free, it’s always just a one-click download from @LSEPress here press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
And if you’d like the whole ebook (or any of the 27 chapters) completely free, it’s always just a one-click download from @LSEPress here press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
Happy to say that the paperback book edition of “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” can be purchased for less than £11 from Amazon UK. Great value for 600 pages. www.amazon.co.uk/Australias-E...
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy to say that the paperback book edition of “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” can be purchased for less than £11 from Amazon UK. Great value for 600 pages. www.amazon.co.uk/Australias-E...
I had thought there were 4 types of malversation (legal corruption) in the UK. Turns out there were five with what B Guy Peters calls the "vast post-service wealth of politicians" perhaps the biggest of all
September 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I had thought there were 4 types of malversation (legal corruption) in the UK. Turns out there were five with what B Guy Peters calls the "vast post-service wealth of politicians" perhaps the biggest of all
Interesting effort to make public administration address key questions about "anchoring democracy'" instead of destroying it like NPM, or neglecting it like neo-Weberians.
cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...
But it really needs also the "micro-institutions" concept eprints.lse.ac.uk/111431/
cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...
But it really needs also the "micro-institutions" concept eprints.lse.ac.uk/111431/
September 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Interesting effort to make public administration address key questions about "anchoring democracy'" instead of destroying it like NPM, or neglecting it like neo-Weberians.
cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...
But it really needs also the "micro-institutions" concept eprints.lse.ac.uk/111431/
cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...
But it really needs also the "micro-institutions" concept eprints.lse.ac.uk/111431/