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Francis G. (aka Frank) Castles is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor in the Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, former Head of the RSSS Political Science Program, former Head of the ANU’s Public Policy Program and one-time Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty at the Open University in the UK. In 1989, he was awarded the degree of Litt.D. from his alma mater, the University of Leeds, for a body of published research making a substantial original contribution to the literature of comparative public policy. Working in both quantitative and historical modes, virtually all his research output has been comparative and much of it focused on the political economy of welfare state development in industrialized societies. He is the author of seven books, editor of thirteen more and author of more than a hundred refereed articles and book chapters. Recent books include Australia Reshaped: 200 years of institutional development [Co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2002], The Future of the Welfare State: Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities [Oxford University Press, 2004], Federalism of the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences [Co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2005].