Richard Rose (political scientist)

Richard Rose (Political scientist) Richard Rose (born 9 April 933 St. Louis, Missouri) is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy and Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow. In a career spanning more than 60 years, he has been an innovator in political science and public policy research across Europe and across continents. His works have been translated into 18 languages and he has given seminars and public policy talks in 45 countries on six continents.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Born in the United States in St. Louis, Rose took a BA in comparative literature and drama in 1953 after two years of study at Johns Hopkins University. He then studied international relations for a year at the London School of Economics and extended his research experience as a lobbyist for a scenic highway along the Mississippi River and as a reporter on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This was followed by a studentship at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was awarded his doctorate in 1960 and published his first two co-authored books as a post-graduate student.

ACADEMIC CAREER

Rose was a lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester from 1960-66. He became Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow in 1966. He was Sixth Century Professor of Politics at the Univeristy of Aberdeen, 2005-2011, and then returned to Strathclyde. The Centre for the Study of Public Policy, which he founded in 1976 at Strathclyde, Www.cspp.strath.ac.uk) was the first public policy institute in a European university. Reflections on his career are given in a memoir, Learning about Politics in Time and Space Rose is visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, Florence and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. He has previously held vesting academic appointments at the Oxford University Internet Institute, Cambridge University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins University, Central European University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC; the Max Planck Institute Berlin; the Paul Lazarsfeld Gesellschaft and the European Centre for Social Policy Research, Vienna. He was one of the founders of the European Consortium for Political Research in 1970 and of the British Politics Group (APSA) and for a dozen years served as secretary of the Committee on Political Sociology of the International Political Science and International Sociological Associations.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Initially Rose concentrated on the comparative study of parties and elections, combining quantitative data and interviews with party politicians. Major books have included, The International Almanac of Electoral Behaviour, Do Parties Make a Difference? and Representing Europeans: a Pragmatic Approach. They have been complemented by studies of United Kingdom politics ranging from Politics in England (now Politics in Britain) to Governing without Consensus: an Irish Perspective, Currently he is completing a book-length study How Referendums Challenge European Democracy: Brexit and Beyond.

In public policy Rose has produced many innovative books starting with Can Government Go Bankrupt? and Understanding Big Government, followed by books on public employment, taxation, laws, and inheritance in public policy. Concurrently, he launched the comparative study of heads of government with Presidents and Prime Ministers, The Post-Modern President: The White House Meets the World, and The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World. The theoretically informed study of learning lessons from other countries was set out in Lesson-Drawing in Time and Space, and a how-to-do-it book Learning from Comparative Public Policy: a Practical Guide.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rose created the New Europe, the New Russia and the New Baltic surveys to monitor trends in mass response to the political, economic and social transformation of no longer Communist societies. In two decades since 1991 more than 100 nationwide sample surveys have been conducted in all eleven Central and East European countries now member states of the European Union; successor states of Yugoslavia; Belarus and Ukraine; and 20 nationwide surveys in Russia. Publications include Democracy and Its Alternatives; Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime; and Understanding Post-Communist transformation. The data has been used for social medicine publications with Sir Michael Marmot and colleagues at the University College London Medical School. A spin-off has been a book on Bad Governance and Corruption, which uses survey data from 125 countries to analyse individual experience of corruption. Hundreds of articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals and books in political science, economics, sociology, public administration, law, social policy, geography and social medicine. Co-authors have come from Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Russia, the United States, Australia, Japan and other countries. Research has been funded by academic and public policy foundations in 13 countries and by European and international institutions. The UK Political Studies Association annually awards a Richard Rose prize to a political scientist under the age of 40 who has made a distinctive contribution to the study of British politic=s

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Rose has been a consultant on public policy issues for British parliamentary committees, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, OECD, the World Bank, UN agencies and, as the director of Comparative Research Ltd., a consultant for private enterprises. For more than two decades he has been a pro bono consultant for Transparency International’s Global Barometer Surveys of corruption. Rose has been an election night commentator on television for BBC and RTE; the first bylined political commentator in The Times (London), followed by The Daily Telegraph and in weeklies and monthlies in Britain, Europe and the United States. He has written dozens of blogs on the UK referendum about membership in the European Union and the consequences of Brexit.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Honorary doctorates, European University Institute, Florence; Orebro University, Sweden. Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for contribution to political science, Political Studies Association of UK. ECPR/ Dogan Foundation Prize for contribution to European Political Sociology. Lifetime Achievement Awards from the International Public Policy Association, the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, the UK Political Studies Association and the Policy Studies Organization USA. Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Honorary Foreign Member of the American

Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Robert Marjolin AMEX lst Prize International Economics

PERSONAL

Rose met Rosemary Kenny in the graduate student common room of the LSE in 1954; they married in Whitstable, Kent in 1956 and have three children. Rose’s avocations include collecting textiles, ceramics and Coptic stuff and seeing and occasionally writing comments about productions of the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. His book-length memoir is entitled Learning about Politics in Time and Space.

EXTERNAL LINKS/CITATIONS

There is a full list of Rose’s publications in his CV at http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/RRcv. More personal details at www.profrose.eu and his memoir, Learning About Politics in Time and Space (www.rowmaninternational.com/book).