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Professor John Dryzek

Federation Fellowship winner 2008/

Project : Deliberative global governance.

Current institution : The Australian National University .

Host institution : The Australian National University .

Primary research field : Political science.

Professor Dryzek is one of the world's leading political scientists, whose work has significantly influenced the fields of critical policy analysis, deliberative democracy, and environmental politics.

In a newly-established Centre for Deliberative Global Governance, Professor Dryzek's research program will involve applying the theory of deliberative democracy to the practice of global governance and comparative politics of democratisation. His work will help to advance the understanding of deliberative democracy and its application in new domains—for example, the democratisation of the international system, with special reference to climate change, and the democratisation of authoritarian systems, such as China.

Professor Dryzek obtained his PhD in political science from University of Maryland in the US . He has served as Head of the Department of Political Science at University of Oregon and The University of Melbourne, and as Head of the Department of Social and Political Theory at The Australian National University.

Professor Dryzek is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia . His book Democracy in Capitalist Times was awarded the Spitz Prize by the American Conference for the Study of Political Thought for the best book in democracy or liberal theory. From 1995 to 1999 he was the editor of Australian Journal of Political Science .