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Biography
Patrick Leslie is a senior lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy. His research interests combine political science and public policy, with particular interests in legislative politics and legislation, law and courts, and gambling policy.
He is currently working across several research projects:
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Politicians’ temporal focus (principal investigator; lead on term lengths and future focus)
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Pathways to Power: Australian Political Careers (post-doc; lead on ministerial selection, legislative complexity)
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Australian Parliamentary Speech: How Deliberative? How Representative? (post-doc; lead on representational linkage, legislative-executive speech)
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An Empirical Study of Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia (post-doc; lead on judicial ideology, quantitative analysis)
Qualifications
Ph.D University of Essex, M.Sci University of Nottingham
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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The parliamentary voting behaviour of ‘teal’ independent MPs
Leslie, P., 28 Apr 2025, In: Australian Journal of Political Science. 60, 1, p. 1-10 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Judicial Ideology in the Absence of Rights: Evidence from Australia
Robinson, Z., Leslie, P. & Sheppard, J., 21 Oct 2022, In: Journal of Law and Courts. 10, 2, p. 239-264 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Policy success and failure in Australia
Dowding, K., Leslie, P. & Taflaga, M., 26 Jan 2025, In: Australian Journal of Public Administration. 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A global scale of economic left-right party positions: cross-national and cross-expert perceptions of party placements
de la Cerda, N., Bakker, R., Jolly, S., Polk, J., Dassonneville, R., Koedam, J., Leslie, P., Sheppard, J. & Zur, R., 2025, In: Journal of Politics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Legislators talk less about the future as they age
Hanretty, C., Koskimaa, V. & Leslie, P., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Politics. 46 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
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An Empirical study of Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia
Leslie, P. (CoI)
16/12/22 → 15/12/26
Project: Research
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An Empirical Study of Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia
Robinson, Z. (PI), Leslie, P. (CoI) & Smyth, R. (CoI)
16/12/22 → 15/12/26
Project: Research
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Politicians' Temporal Focus
Hanretty, C. (PI), Leslie, P. (PI) & Koskimaa, V. (CoI)
22/03/23 → 24/12/24
Project: Research
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ACT Gambling Survey 2019
Paterson, M. (PI), Biddle, N. (CoI), Gray, M. (CoI), Leslie, P. (CoI) & Taylor, M. (CoI)
10/12/18 → 20/09/19
Project: Research