| Profile: Professor John Dryzek |
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John Dryzek is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Political Science Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. John is ANU's Chief Investigator for the Citizens' Parliament Project. 
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, former Head of the Departments of Political Science at the Universities of Oregon and Melbourne and the Social and Political Theory program at ANU, and former editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science. Working in both political theory and empirical social science, he is best known for his contributions in the areas of democratic theory and practice and environmental politics. One of the instigators of the 'deliberative turn' in democratic theory, he has published four books in this area with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Polity Press. His work in environmental politics ranges from green political philosophy to studies of environmental discourses and movements, and he has published three books in this area with Oxford University Press and Basil Blackwell. His 1990 book Discursive Democracy was the first book-length treatment of what came to be known as deliberative democracy. He has also worked on comparative studies of democratisation in the post-communist world, post-positivist public policy analysis, and the history and philosophy of social science. More recently he has extended his deliberative approach into global politics, and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory. John has just been awarded a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council. The Fellowship will be used to study how international institutions can be made both more democratic and more effective in dealing with pressing global issues such as climate change. John will be Director of the new Centre for Deliberative Global Governance at ANU. |
