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Rod Rhodes holds a joint appointment as Professor of Government in the School of Government at the University of Tasmania and as Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the Political Science Program at the Australian National University. He is also Professor Emeritus, University of Newcastle (UK). He is the former Research Director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s ‘Whitehall Programme’ (1994-1999); and of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (2007-8).
He is the author or editor of some 30 books including: Comparing Westminster (joint author, 2009, forthcoming); Observing Government Elites: up close and personal (joint editor, 2007); The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions (joint editor, 2006, paperback 2008), and Governance Stories (with Mark Bevir, 2006, paperback 2007). He has been editor of Public Administration since 1986.
He is Treasurer of the Australasian Political Studies Association, life Vice-President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in both Australia and Britain.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.” (George Orwell)
