Short Biography
Rod Rhodes holds a joint appointment as Professor of Government in the School of Government at the University of Tasmania and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. He is also Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Newcastle (UK).
He is the author or editor of 25 books including recently; 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.
