school_tradition color main_interests notable_ideas birth_date alma_mater article_title birth_name image_name
political science #b 0c4de public executive , policy networks , public administration , administrative ethnography policy . , political institutions ; governance , core governance ; policy networks 15 august 1944 university of essex , oxford university r. a. w. rhodes
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r. a. w. rhodes

roderick arthur william ` r.a.w. ' rhodes -lrb- born 15 august 1944 -rrb- , is a professor of political science .
rod rhodes is professor of government at the university of southampton -lrb- uk -rrb- ; and emeritus professor of politics at the university of newcastle -lrb- uk -rrb- .
previously , he was : professor of government at griffith university -lrb- 2012-2015 -rrb- ; director of the uk economic and social research council 's ` whitehall programme ' -lrb- 1994-1999 -rrb- ; distinguished professor of political science at the australian national university -lrb- 2006-11 -rrb- ; and director of the research school of social sciences at the australian national university -lrb- 2007-8 -rrb- .
he is a life vice-president and former chair and president of the political studies association of the united kingdom ; a fellow of both the academy of the social sciences in australia ; and the academy of social sciences -lrb- uk -rrb- .
he has also been a fellow of the royal society of arts , editor of ` public administration : an international quarterly ' from 1986 to 2011 , and treasurer of the australian political studies association , 2004-2011 .
