Keith Dowding is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Political Philosophy. He arrived at the ANU  in July 2007 from the LSE where he was Professor of Political Science He has also held appointments at Brunel University in West London and at the University of Oxford.

He has been a Hallsworth Fellow at Manchester University in 1993-94; Visiting Fellow at RSSS, ANU in 2000-01; British Academy Research Fellow 2005-07, Visiting Fellow Nuffield College, Oxford 2005-07; Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) October-December 2007; Viisting PPE Fellow at the Free University of Amsterdam May-June 2019; Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Munich 2019-2020; and a Visiting Fellow (remotely) at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo, 2021, and in person May-June 2022.

He currently holds (with others) an ARC Discovery Grant Pathways to Power: Australian Political Careers

He formed (with others) a network of scholars Selection and De-selection of Political Elites (SEDEPE) who are interested in the career paths of political elites.

He formed (with others) the ECPR Standing Group on Methods in Normative Political Theory

He 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. He edited the Journal of Theoretical Politics from 1996 to 2014 and was Associate editor of Research and Politics 2014-18.

He owns and curates the second largest cornflake collection in the world.

BA(Hons) (Keele); DPhil (Oxon)

I am interested in supervising students in the areas of

• Political Theory and Political Philosophy - analytic political theory, synthetic political theory, especially freedom, equality, power, democratic theory, theories of justice, rational choice theory, philosophy of social science.

• Public administration - especially politician-agency relations, public sector reform, Australian Politics - especially cabinet, career paths of politicians.

• Comparative Politics - all areas especially electoral systems, comparative legislatures, comparative executives, comparative party systems; collective action.

• British politics; all areas.

• Australian Politics - political elites: ministers, parliamentarians, public service; policy agendas.

• Political Sociology - collective action/mass mobilization; agency-structure; choice.