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Professor John Dryzek

Australian Research Council Federation Fellow
Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences (College of Arts and Social Sciences)

Ph.D. in Government and Politics, University of Maryland, 1980
M.Sc. in Politics, University of Strathclyde, 1976
B.A. (Honours) in Economics and Politics, University of Lancaster, 1974

Professional Background

Prior to coming to ANU, Dryzek taught in the Political Science Departments at the University of Oregon and University of Melbourne.

Research and Teaching Interests

Dryzek works mostly in the areas of democracy and environmental politics. His ARC Federation Fellowship is in the area of ‘Deliberative Global Governance’.  This includes a project on the Global Governance of Climate Change, on which he works with Hayley Stevenson. With Richard Norgaard (Berkeley) and David Schlosberg (Northern Arizona), Dryzek is co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society for Oxford University Press.

Notable Publications

Dryzek, John S. (2005) The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dryzek, John S. and David Schlosberg, eds, (2005) Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader, 2nd edition.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

DSryzek, John S., David Downes, Christian Hunold, David Schlosberg, with Hans-Kristian Hernes (2003). Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway. Oxford: Oxford University Press.