Patrick Dunleavy

@patrickdunleavy.bsky.social

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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.
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Patrick John Dunleavy, is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the Government Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was also Co-Director of the Democratic Audit and the Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group. In addition Dunleavy is an ANZSOG Institute for Governance Centenary Chair at the University of Canberra, Australia. .. more

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · Oct 11

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...

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 19h

Interesting view on UK perhaps lagging on AI again now?https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb2621

Britain must step up on AI policy

In their Policy Forum, “Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy” (31 July, 10.1126/science.adu8449), R. Bommasani et al. emphasize the importance of evidence-led policy-making for artificial i...

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Perpetual Despair @finl3y.bsky.social · 19h

Should read:

Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed - by charlatans like himself who spearheaded their betrayal.

Fixed it.

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Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live

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John Dalton - brain marinated in woke sauce @johndaledalton.bsky.social · 20h

Farage is a politician who sits as a host of a TV show on GB News, the most egregious and blatant demonstration of bias it is possible to imagine. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit... #wato

Extra edition: The populist assault on the BBC

Johnson, Gibb and the Telegraph are trying to turn the BBC into GB News.

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 21h

Is the role of academic publishing now to provide structured and reliable training data for LLMs? Asking for a friend #AcademicChatter

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Liberal net zero decision unlikely to heal divide and could 'destroy' Ley

As Liberals descend on Canberra to settle a climate policy, conservatives and moderates remain opposed on the question of net zero, threatening a deeper rupture.

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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 22h

Which raises the question of why Farage isn’t a radical green in his policies. If he had genuine concerns about the ability of any country to manage mass migration (as distinct from being a racist grifter) he’d be working to make it safe to stay home.
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