Saul Newman is a British political theorist and central post-anarchist thinker.
Keith Martin Dowding, is Professor of Political Science in Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia arriving from the London School of Economics, UK in 2007. He has published widely in the fields of public choice, public administration, public policy, British politics, comparative politics, urban political economy, positive political theory and normative political philosophy. His work is informed by social and rational choice theories. He edited the Journal of Theoretical Politics (Sage) from 1996 to 2012.
Henning Meyer,, is a German social scientist, consultant and analyst. He is Editor-in-Chief of Social Europe, Director of the network consultancy New Global Strategy, and a Research Associate of the Public Policy Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of arts, commerce and manufacture (RSA).
Carole Pateman is a feminist and political theorist. She is known as a critic of liberal democracy and has been a member of the British Academy since 2007.
Anthony Elliott-Kelly FAcSS or Anthony Kelly, better known as Tony Kelly, is an Irish academic who is currently Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, England, specialising in education / schooling theory as it relates to school improvement, school effectiveness and school leadership, and system-wide policy.
Jean Blondel is a French political scientist specialising in comparative politics. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting professor at the University of Siena. He lives in London.
Patrick John Dunleavy, is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the Government Department of the London School of Economics (LSE). He is also Co-Director of Democratic Audit and Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group. In addition Dunleavy has been appointed to an ANZSOG Institute for Governance Centenary Chair at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Mark Bevir is a professor of political science and the Director of the Center for British Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently teaches courses on political theory and philosophy, public policy and organisation, and methodology. He is also a Professor in the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University (MERIT) and a Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University.
Professor David Judge, is a British political scientist based at the University of Strathclyde, where he is head of the Department of Government. His main research interests include legislative studies, United Kingdom political institutions, the European Parliament and representative democracy.
Richard Ned Lebow, Fellow of the British Academy is an American political scientist best known for his work in international relations, political psychology, classics and philosophy of science. He is Professor of International Political Theory at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College.
Colin Hay, is Professor of Political Sciences at Sciences Po, Paris and Affiliate Professor of Political Analysis at the University of Sheffield and joint editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative European Politics.
David Marsh, is a British political scientist. He is currently Professor of Political Sociology and the Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Birmingham and Fellow at the Institute of Governance and Policy Analysis (IGPA).
John S. Dryzek is a Centenary Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra's Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis.
Paul Beynon-Davies is a British academic, author and consultant.
Aletta Norval is a South African born political theorist. A prominent member of the Essex School of discourse analysis, she is mainly known for her deconstructionist analysis of Apartheid discourse, for her methodological contributions to discourse analysis and for her work on decentred, democratic and poststructuralist political theory. Her other research interests include feminist theory, South-African politics, ethnicity and the politics of race. More recently, she has worked on biometrics, focussing on issues of citizen consent to identity management techniques.
Raia Prokhovnik, is Reader in Politics at the Open University's Faculty of Social Sciences, for their Department of Politics and International Studies, and founding editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory. She is the chair of the OU's interdisciplinary politics module, Living political ideas, and contributed to other modules including Power, dissent, equality: understanding contemporary politics.
Malcolm Payne, is a retired Polish-English academic and writer in the field of social work. He is best known for his Modern social work theory textbook, which is in its fourth edition. He is an Adviser at St Christophers Hospice, London, Emeritus Professor of Community Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Honorary Professor, Kingston University St Georges Medical School.
Michael Saward, is an Australian professor of politics at the University of Warwick, the professor and head of department in politics and international studies at the Open University.
Helen Zerlina Margetts OBE, is Professor of Internet and Society at the University of Oxford. and from 2011 to 2018 was Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). She is currently Director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a political scientist specialising in digital era governance and politics, and has published over a hundred books, journal articles and research reports in this field. Prior to joining the OII in October 2004, she was a Professor in Political Science and Director of the Public Policy Programme at University College London. She holds many advisory positions, including sitting on the UK Government's Digital Economy Council, the Home Office Scientific Advisory Council, and the Government Digital Advisory Board.
Siobhan O'Sullivan is an Australian political scientist and political theorist who is currently a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. Her research has focused, among other things, on animal welfare policy and the welfare state. She is the author of Animals, Equality and Democracy and a coauthor of Getting Welfare to Work. She co-edited Contracting-out Welfare Services and The Political Turn in Animal Ethics. She produces a regular podcast entitled Knowing Animals.
