Working papers

Comments on any of these papers welcome to keith.dowding@anu.edu.au. Please reference paper to this website in any writings updating to published version as appropriate. Click on paper for link.

The Careers of Cabinet Ministers

‘Performance Evaluation of British Ministers, 1945-1997’ (with Samuel Berlinski and Torun Dewan)

Measurement of Rights and Freedom Project

‘Freedom, Coercion and Ability’ (with Martin van Hees) in Matthew Braham and Frank Steffen (eds) Power and Freedom: Conceptual, Formal and Applied Dimensions, Springer, forthcoming 2007

‘Counterfactual Success and Negative Freedom’ (with Martin van Hees) Economics and Philosophy 2007, 141-162

‘Freedom of Choice’ (with Martin van Hees) in Paul Anand, Clemons Puppe and Prasanta Pattaniak (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Rational and Social Choice Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

‘Social Software and the Social Sciences: A Dialogue’ (with Rineke Verbrugge) for Jan van Eijck and Rinke Verbrugge (eds) Games, Action and Social Software, Kluwer, forthcoming 2008

‘Freedom, Rights and Social Software’ (with Martin van Hees) in Jan van Eijck and Rinke Verbrugge (eds) Games, Action and Social Software, Kluwer, forthcoming 2008

‘The Development of Capability Indicators and their Relation to Life Satisfaction’ (with Paul Anand, Graham Hunter, Ian Carter, Francesco Guala, Martin van Hees)

Related Political Philosophy

‘What is Welfare and How Might it Be Measured’ for Don Ross and Harold Kincaid eds Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007/08.

‘Luck and Responsibility’ Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy forthcoming in 2008 and to be reprinted in Matt Matravers and Lukas Meyer eds Democracy, Equality and Justice London: Routledge, 2008.

‘Is Utilitarianism Informationally Poor?’

Satisfaction with Public Services

‘The Three Exit, Three Voice and Loyalty Framework: A Test with Survey Data on Local Services’ (with Peter John) Political Studies forthcoming 2007
 
‘The Value of Choice in Public Policy’ (with Peter John)

‘Satisfaction from Public Services as an Allocation Rule: the Case of Local Government Services’ (with Thanos Mergoupis and Torun Dewan)

Other Papers

‘Rational Choice Perspectives’ for Stewart Clegg, Mark Haugaard and Cleo Lester (eds) Handbook of Power London: Sage, forthcoming 2008

‘Rational Choice and British Politics’ for Mathew Flinders, Andrew Gamble, Colin Hay and Michael Kenny Oxford Handbook of British Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008/09

‘Shirking and Shifting: Principal-Agent Problems in Local Bureaucracies’ (with Rotem Bressler-Gonen)

‘Power, Capability and Abeleness: The Fallacy of the Vehicle Fallacy’ (forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory)

'Agency and Structure: Interpreting Power Relationships' Journal of Power Studies 2008 1(1), forthcoming

Published Papers

‘In Praise of Manipulation’ (with Martin van Hees) British Journal of Political Science, 2007
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