11 Facts About Keith Dowding

Keith Dowding obtained his BA in Philosophy and Politics from Keele University in 1982 and completed a DPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford University, in 1987.

Keith Dowding was in the Government Department at the London School of Economics in 2006.

In 2007, Keith Dowding arrived at the Australian National University and began teaching as a Professor of Political Science.

Keith Dowding is best known for his work on "power", applying insights from formal analysis to central debates on the nature of power and the structure of power in society.

Keith Dowding has worked on the Tiebout model of individuals moving to obtain the local services they require, showing that such migration does occur in the UK though only to a small extent, and that people tend to move to areas for service reasons, but do not decide to leave from areas for those reasons.

Keith Dowding has extended this work into examining Albert Hirschman's Exit, Voice and Loyalty Model.

Keith Dowding instead suggests that the British prime minister is gaining power, but only enhancing the responsibilities that he already possesses rather than adopting new powers that are more closely attributed to the President of The United States.

Keith Dowding is working on a project examining political careers in Australia.

Keith Dowding left LSE and joined the political science programme in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University as a Research Professor of Political Science in July 2007 moving to the School of Politics and International Relations when the Arts Faculty coalesced with the Research School.

Keith Dowding has analytically and empirically studied the measurement of freedom and rights.

Keith Dowding has worked for the team led by Paul Anand, Open University, UK.