Keith Dowding

Keith Martin Dowding (born 6 May 1960),^[1] is Professor of Political Science in Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia arriving from the London School of Economics, UK in 2007. He has published widely in the fields of public choice, public administration, public policy, British politics, comparative politics, urban political economy, positive political theory and normative political philosophy. His work is informed by social and rational choice theories. He has been one of the editors of The Journal of Theoretical Politics (Sage) since 1996.

Early life

Downling obtained his BA in Philosophy and Politics from Keele University in 1982, and a DPhil from Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1987.^[2]

Introduction to works

Keith Dowding is unusual in that he has influentially written in both political philosophy and mainstream empirical political science. Dowding is best known for his work on 'power', applying insights from formal analysis to central debates on the nature of power and structure of power in society. Expanding on Brian Barry's concept of 'luck' (getting what you want without trying) he argues that some groups of people are 'systematically lucky' in that they are advantaged because of the way society is structured. Such people are not powerful in the sense they have resources that they could use that other groups do not (though they might have this power 'as well') but rather systematically lucky in that they tend to get what they want without having to do anything. Alternatively, other groups are systematically unlucky. This argument has caused great controversy with critics including Brian Barry, Steven Lukes, Peter Morriss and more recently Andrew Hindmoor.

Dowding has also worked extensively on the Tiebout model of individuals moving location to get the local services they require, showing that such moving does occur in the UK though only to a small extent, and that people tend to move 'to' areas for service reasons, but do not decide to leave 'from' areas for those reasons. He has extended this work into examining Albert Hirschman's 'Exit, Voice and Loyalty' model and has a forthcoming Cambridge University Press book Exits, Voices and Social Investment co-authored with long-time collaborator Peter John extending and applying Hirschman's model to citizen satisfaction with government services.

More recently his work has examined why UK cabinet ministers resign based on a large dataset of all UK ministerial resignations and non-resignations, and compiled another on Australia. Following his lead similar datasets are being compiled by scholars all round the world for intensive comparative analysis.

Recent activity

Recently Dowding left LSE and joined the political science programme in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU) as a Research Professor of Political Science in July 2007 moving to the School of Politics and International Relations when the Arts Faculty coalesced with the Research School. He is the Chair of a network of scholars Selection and De-selection of Political Elites (SEDEPE) who are interested in the career paths of political elites http://sedepe.net/.

The Careers of Cabinet Ministers

This project comes under the rubric of SEDEPE. Dowding’s work so far has largely been concerned with ministers in the British Cabinet and thus far largely concerned with their resignations. But now he is working to extend this work into the careers of ministers more broadly, and to extend its scope beyond the UK most notably into ministers in the Australian states and Commonwealth government. Publications from this project include the following:

• Dowding, Keith; Kang, Won-Taek (Autumn 1998). "Ministerial resignations 1945–97". Public Administration. Wiley. 76 (3): 411–429. doi:10.1111/1467-9299.00109. 
• Dowding, Keith; Dewan, Torun (January 2005). "The corrective effect of ministerial resignations on government popularity". American Journal of Political Science. Wiley. 49 (1): 46–56. doi:10.1111/j.0092-5853.2005.00109.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; Berlinski, Samuel; Dewan, Torun (April 2007). "The length of ministerial tenure in the United Kingdom, 1945–97". British Journal of Political Science. Cambridge Journals. 37 (2): 245–262. doi:10.1017/S0007123407000129. 
• Dowding, Keith; Dumont, Patrick (2009). The selection of ministers in Europe: hiring and firing. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415430814. 
• Dowding, Keith; Berlinski, Samuel; Dewan, Torun (April 2010). "The impact of individual and collective performance on ministerial tenure". The Journal of Politics. Cambridge Journals. 72 (2): 559–571. doi:10.1017/S0022381609990843. 
• Dowding, Keith; McLeay, Elizabeth (2011), "The firing line: when and why do prime ministers fire ministerial colleagues?", in 't Hart, Paul; Uhr, John, How power changes hands: transition and succession in government, Understanding Governance, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 157–173, ISBN 9780230242968. 
• Dowding, Keith; Berlinski, Samuel; Dewan, Torun (2012). Accounting for ministers: scandal and survival in British government, 1945-2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521519724. 

Analytical Account of Freedom and Rights

This is a joint work in collaboration with Martin van Hees. The object is to complete a book on the measurement of freedom and rights. Publications from this project include the following:

• Dowding, Keith; van Hees, Martin (May 2003). "The construction of rights". American Political Science Review. Cambridge Journals. 97 (2): 281–293. doi:10.1017/s0003055403000674. 
• Dowding, Keith (March 2004). "Social choice and the grammar of rights and freedoms". Political Studies. Wiley. 52 (1): 144–161. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2004.00469.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; van Hees, Martin (June 2004). "Poverty and the local contingency of universal rights". International Social Science Journal. Wiley. 56 (180): 301–312. doi:10.1111/j.0020-8701.2004.00492.x. 
• Dowding, Keith (March 2010). "Luck, equality and responsibility". Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, special issue: Democracy, Equality, and Justice. Taylor and Francis. 13 (1): 71–92. doi:10.1080/13698230903326265. 

Reprinted in Matravers, Matt; Meyer, Lukas (2011). Democracy, equality, and justice. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415592925. 

• Dowding, Keith (August 2011). "Republican freedom, rights, and the coalition problem". Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Sage. 10 (3): 301–322. doi:10.1177/1470594X10388380. 

Work on Amartya Sen

Dowding is fascinated by empirical measurement of freedom and rights. He has worked as part of a team led by Paul Anand, Open University, UK. They have been empirically examining Amartya Sen's capability approach through survey data ('Capabilities and Well-Being: Operationalizing the Capabilities Framework'). This research was supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board. Currently he is writing a book on the works of Amartya Sen which is expected to be published soon.

• Dowding, Keith (2009), "What is welfare and how might it be measured?", in Kincaid, Harold; Ross, Don, The Oxford handbook of philosophy of economics, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 511–539, ISBN 9780195189254. 

Publications

Books

• Dowding, Keith M. (1991). Rational choice and political power. Aldershot, Hampshire, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781852783358. 
• Dowding, Keith (1995). The civil service. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415075688. 
• Dowding, Keith; King, Desmond (1995). Preferences, institutions, and rational choice. Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198278955. 
• Dowding, Keith (1996). Power. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press (series: Concepts in the Social Sciences). ISBN 9780816629404. 
• Dowding, Keith; Margetts, Helen; Hughes, James (2001). Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions. The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave. ISBN 9780333789827. 
• Dowding, Keith; de Wispelaere, Jurgen; White, Stuart (2003). The ethics of stakeholding. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403905802. 
• Dowding, Keith; Pateman, Carole; Goodin, Robert E. (2004). Justice and democracy: essays for Brian Barry. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521836951. 
• Dowding, Keith; Dumont, Patrick (2009). The selection of ministers in Europe: hiring and firing. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415430814. 
• Dowding, Keith; Dewan, Torun; Shepsle, Kenneth A. (2009). Rational choice politics (4 volume set). London: Sage Library of Political Science. ISBN 9781412945028. 

Volume I: Social choice, equilibrium and electoral systems

Volume II: Voting, elections and pressure politics

Volume III: Legislatures

Volume IV: Bureaucracy, constitutional arrangements and the state

• Dowding, Keith (2011). Encyclopedia of power. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishing. ISBN 9781412927482. 
• Dowding, Keith; Berlinski, Samuel; Dewan, Torun (2012). Accounting for ministers: scandal and survival in British government, 1945-2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521519724. 

Chapters in books

• Dowding, Keith (1992), "Unit 22: running the civil service", in Cochrane, Allan, Running the country, units 20-25, case studies: 3, Milton Keynes: Open University, pp. 89–120, ISBN 9780749200695. 
• Dowding, Keith (1993), "Government at the centre", in Dunleavy, Patrick; Gamble, Andrew; Holliday, Ian; et al., Developments in British politics 4, New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 175–193, ISBN 9780312100872. 
• Dowding, Keith (1993), "Managing the civil service", in Thompson, Grahame; Maidment, Richard A., Managing the UK: an introduction to its political economy and public policy, London: Sage, pp. 236–257, ISBN 9780803988514. 
• Dowding, Keith (1994), "Institutional persistence and change at the core of British government", in Kastendiek, Hans; Stinshoff, Richard, Changing conceptions of constitutional government: developments in British politics and the constitutional debate since the 1960s, Bochum: Universitätsverlag Brockmeyer, pp. 95–113, ISBN 9783819602443. 
• Dowding, Keith (1994), "Policy networks: don't take a good idea too far", in Dunleavy, Patrick; Stanyer, Jeffrey, Contemporary political studies, 1994, 1, Belfast: Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, ISBN 9780952315001. 
• Dowding, Keith (1994), "Rational mobilization", in Dunleavy, Patrick; Stanyer, Jeffrey, Contemporary political studies, 1994, 2, Belfast: Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, ISBN 9780952315018. 
• Dowding, Keith (1995), "Introduction", in Dowding, Keith; King, Desmond, Preferences, institutions, and rational choice, Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, pp. 1–19, ISBN 9780198278955. 
• Dowding, Keith (1995), "Interpreting formal coalition theory", in Dowding, Keith; King, Desmond, Preferences, institutions, and rational choice, Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, pp. 43–59, ISBN 9780198278955. 
• Dowding, Keith (1996), "Public choice and local governance", in Stoker, Gerry; King, Desmond, Rethinking local democracy, Government Beyond the Centre, Basingstoke, England: Macmillan In association with the Economic & Social Research Council Local Programme, pp. 91–116, ISBN 9780333638538. 
• Dowding, Keith; Dunleavy, Patrick (1996), "Production, disursement and consumption: the modes and modalities of goods and services", in Edgell, Stephen; Hetherington, Kevin; Warde, Alan, Consumption matters: the production and experience of consumption, Oxford, England Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, pp. 36–65, ISBN 9780631203506. 
• Dowding, Keith (1998), "Secession and isolation", in Lehning, Percy B., Theories of secession, London New York: Routledge, pp. 71–91, ISBN 9780415171922. 
• Dowding, Keith; Kang, Won-Taek (Autumn 1998). "Ministerial resignations 1945–97". Public Administration. Wiley. 76 (3): 411–429. doi:10.1111/1467-9299.00109. 
• Dowding, Keith (2000), "Model or metaphor? A critical review of the policy network approach", in Rhodes, R. A. W., The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government: United Kingdom, 1, Aldershot, Hants, England: Brookfield, Vermont Ashgate/Dartmouth, pp. 173–195, ISBN 9781840140453. 
• Dowding, Keith (2000), "Model or metaphor? A critical review of the policy network approach", in Dunleavy, Patrick; Kelly, Paul; Moran, Michael, British political science: fifty years of political studies, Oxford: Political Studies Association Blackwell, pp. 196–213, ISBN 9780631224129. 

This chapter is an abridged version of: Dowding, Keith (August 1995). "Model or metaphor? A critical review of the policy network approach". Political Studies. Wiley. 43 (s1): 136–158. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1995.tb01705.x. 

• Dowding, Keith; Dunleavy, Patrick; King, Desmond (2000), "Understanding urban governance: the contribution of rational choice", in Stoker, Gerry, The new politics of British local governance, New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 91–116, ISBN 9780333728185. 
• Dowding, Keith; Margetts, Helen; Hughes, James (2001), "Introduction", in Dowding, Keith; Margetts, Helen; Hughes, James, Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions, The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave, pp. xi–xvii, ISBN 9780333789827.  Pdf.
• Dowding, Keith (2002), "Model or metaphor? A critical review of the policy network approach", in Scott, John, Social networks: critical concepts in sociology volume 4 - applications: political protest and policy networks, London New York: Routledge, ISBN 9780415251112. 
• Dowding, Keith (2002), "Rational choice and institutional change: an overview of current theories", in Steunenberg, Bernard, Widening the European Union: the politics of institutional change and reform, London New York: Routledge, pp. 21–38, ISBN 9780415268356. 
• Dowding, Keith (2003), "The civil service", in Hollowell, Jonathan, Britain since 1945, Making Contemporary Britain, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 179–193, ISBN 9780631209683. 
• Dowding, Keith (2003), "Rational choice and trust", in King, Preston, Trusting in reason: Martin Hollis and the philosophy of social action, London Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass Publishers, pp. 205–218, ISBN 9780714684000. 

This chapter is a reprint of: Dowding, Keith (2001). "Rational choice and trust". Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, special issue: Trusting in Reason: Martin Hollis and the Philosophy of Social Action. Taylor and Francis. 4 (4): 207–220. doi:10.1080/13698230108403372. 

• Dowding, Keith; de Wispelaere, Jurgen; White, Stuart (2003), "Stakeholding - a new paradigm in social policy", in Dowding, Keith; de Wispelaere, Jurgen; White, Stuart, The ethics of stakeholding, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–28, ISBN 9781403905802. 
• Dowding, Keith; Pateman, Carole; Goodin, Robert E. (2004), "Introduction: between justice and democracy", in Dowding, Keith; Pateman, Carole; Goodin, Robert E., Justice and democracy: essays for Brian Barry, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–24, ISBN 9780521836951. 
• Dowding, Keith (2004), "Are democratic and just institutions the same?", in Dowding, Keith; Pateman, Carole; Goodin, Robert E., Justice and democracy: essays for Brian Barry, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 25–39, ISBN 9780521836951. 
• Dowding, Keith (2004), "Rational choice approaches to analyzing power", in Nash, Kate; Scott, Alan, The Blackwell companion to political sociology (2nd ed.), Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, pp. 29–39, ISBN 9781405122658. 
• Dowding, Keith; McLeay, Elizabeth (2011), "The firing line: when and why do prime ministers fire ministerial colleagues?", in 't Hart, Paul; Uhr, John, How power changes hands: transition and succession in government, Understanding Governance, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 157–173, ISBN 9780230242968. 
• Dowding, Keith (2011), Matravers, Matt; Meyer, Lukas, eds., Democracy, equality, and justice, London: Routledge, ISBN 9780415592925. 

Journal articles

• Dowding, Keith (August 1995). "Model or metaphor? A critical review of the policy network approach". Political Studies. Wiley. 43 (s1): 136–158. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1995.tb01705.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; Dunleavy, Patrick; King, Desmond; Margetts, Helen; Rydin, Yvonne (March 1999). "Regime politics in London local government". Urban Affairs Review. Sage. 34 (4): 515–545. doi:10.1177/10780879922184068. 
• Dowding, Keith (February 2000). "Institutionalist research on the European Union: a critical review". European Union Politics. Sage. 1 (1): 125–144. doi:10.1177/1465116500001001006. 
• Dowding, Keith (April 2000). "How not to use evolutionary theory in politics: a critique of Peter John". British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Wiley. 2 (1): 72–80. doi:10.1111/1467-856X.00025. 
• Dowding, Keith; King, Desmond (May 2000). "Rooflessness in London". Policy Studies Journal. Wiley. 28 (2): 365–381. doi:10.1111/j.1541-0072.2000.tb02036.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; van Vugt, Mark; John, Peter; Mergoupis, Thanos (June 2000). "Exit, voice and loyalty: Analytic and empirical developments". European Journal of Political Research. Wiley. 37 (4): 469–495. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.00522. 
• Dowding, Keith (March 2001). "There must be end to confusion: policy networks, intellectual fatigue, and the need for political science methods courses in British universities". Political Studies. Wiley. 49 (1): 89–105. doi:10.1111/1467-9248.00304. 
• Dowding, Keith (March 2001). "Explaining urban regimes". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Wiley. 25 (1): 7–19. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.00294. 
• Dowding, Keith (2001). "Rational choice and trust". Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, special issue: Trusting in Reason: Martin Hollis and the Philosophy of Social Action. Taylor and Francis. 4 (4): 207–220. doi:10.1080/13698230108403372. 
• Dowding, Keith (August 2002). "Revealed preference and external reference". Rationality and Society. Sage. 14 (3): 257–282. doi:10.1177/1043463102014003001. 
• Dowding, Keith; van Vugt, Mark; John, Peter; van Dijk, Eric (February 2003). "The exit of residential mobility or the voice of political action? Strategies for problem solving in residential communities". Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Wiley. 33 (2): 321–338. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2003.tb01899.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; van Hees, Martin (May 2003). "The construction of rights". American Political Science Review. Cambridge Journals. 97 (2): 281–293. doi:10.1017/s0003055403000674. 
• Dowding, Keith (October 2003). "Resources, power and systematic luck: a response to Barry". Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Sage. 2 (3): 305–322. doi:10.1177/1470594X030023002. 

This article was a response to: Barry, Brian (June 2002). "Capitalists rule ok? Some puzzles about power". Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Sage. 1 (2): 155–184. doi:10.1177/1470594X02001002001. 

Brian Barry replied to Dowding's article with this further article: Barry, Brian (October 2003). "Capitalists rule. OK? A commentary on Keith Dowding". Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Sage. 2 (3): 323–341. doi:10.1177/1470594X030023003. 

• Dowding, Keith; Mergoupis, Thanos (November 2003). "Fragmentation, fiscal mobility, and efficiency". The Journal of Politics. Cambridge Journals. 65 (4): 1190–1207. doi:10.1111/1468-2508.t01-1-00132. 
• Dowding, Keith (January 2004). "Analysing bureau-shaping models: comments on Marsh, Smith and Richards". British Journal of Political Science. Cambridge Journals. 34 (1): 183–189. doi:10.1017/S0007123403250390. 

This article was a response to: Marsh, David; Smith, Martin John; Richards, David (July 2000). "Bureaucrats, politicians and reform in Whitehall: analysing the bureau-shaping model". British Journal of Political Science. Cambridge Journals. 30 (3): 461–482. doi:10.1017/s0007123400000193. 

• Dowding, Keith (March 2004). "Social choice and the grammar of rights and freedoms". Political Studies. Wiley. 52 (1): 144–161. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2004.00469.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; Bevir, Mark; Finlayson, Alan; Rhodes, R. A. W.; Hay, Colin (May 2004). "The interpretive approach in political science: a symposium". The British Journal of Politics & International Relations. Wiley. 6 (2): 129–164. doi:10.1111/j.1467-856X.2004.t01-6-00131.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; van Hees, Martin (June 2004). "Poverty and the local contingency of universal rights". International Social Science Journal. Wiley. 56 (180): 301–312. doi:10.1111/j.0020-8701.2004.00492.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; John, Peter; Ward, Hugh (July 2004). "The bidding game: competitive funding regimes and the political targeting of urban programme schemes". British Journal of Political Science. Cambridge Journals. 34 (3): 405–428. doi:10.1017/S0007123404000110. 
• Dowding, Keith; Dewan, Torun (January 2005). "The corrective effect of ministerial resignations on government popularity". American Journal of Political Science. Wiley. 49 (1): 46–56. doi:10.1111/j.0092-5853.2005.00109.x. 
• Dowding, Keith (August 2005). "Is it rational to vote? Five types of answer and a suggestion". The British Journal of Politics & International Relations. Wiley. 7 (3): 442–459. doi:10.1111/j.1467-856X.2005.00188.x. 
• Dowding, Keith (April 2006). "The economic approach to the study of British politics". British Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. 1 (1): 26–43. doi:10.1057/palgrave.bp.420000 (inactive 2016-07-05). 
• Dowding, Keith (May 2006). "The "D-term": a reply to Stephen Parsons". The British Journal of Politics & International Relations. Wiley. 8 (2): 299–302. doi:10.1111/j.1467-856X.2006.00214.x. 

This article was a response to: Parsons, Stephen (May 2006). "The rationality of voting: a response to Dowding". The British Journal of Politics & International Relations. Wiley. 8 (2): 295–298. doi:10.1111/j.1467-856X.2006.00215.x. 

Parsons article was a response to this original article: Dowding, Keith (August 2005). "Is it rational to vote? Five types of answer and a suggestion". The British Journal of Politics & International Relations. Wiley. 7 (3): 442–459. doi:10.1111/j.1467-856X.2005.00188.x. 

• Dowding, Keith (June 2006). "Can populism be defended? William Riker, Gerry Mackie and the interpretation of democracy". Government and Opposition. Wiley. 41 (3): 327–346. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.2006.00182.x. 
• Dowding, Keith (September 2006). "Can capabilities reconcile freedom and equality?". Journal of Political Philosophy. Wiley. 14 (3): 323–336. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9760.2006.00264.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; Berlinski, Samuel; Dewan, Torun (April 2007). "The length of ministerial tenure in the United Kingdom, 1945–97". British Journal of Political Science. Cambridge Journals. 37 (2): 245–262. doi:10.1017/S0007123407000129. 
• Dowding, Keith; Aguiar, Fernando (translator) (2008). "Una defensa de la preferencia revelada from the English "In defence of revealed preference theory"". Revista Internacional de Sociología. Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados IESA-CSIC. LXVI (66) (49): 9–31. doi:10.3989/ris.2008.i49.80. 
• Dowding, Keith; van Hees, Martin (January 2008). "In praise of manipulation". British Journal of Political Science. Cambridge Journals. 38 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1017/S000712340800001X. 
• Dowding, Keith (2008). "Agency and structure: interpreting power relationships". Journal of Political Power. Taylor and Francis. 1 (1): 21–36. doi:10.1080/17540290801943380. 
• Dowding, Keith; John, Peter (June 2008). "The three exit, three voice and loyalty framework: a test with survey data on local services". Political Studies. Wiley. 56 (2): 288–311. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00688.x. 
• Dowding, Keith (April–June 2008). "Why are inheritance taxes unpopular?". The Political Quarterly. Wiley. 79 (2): 179–183. doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2008.00914.x. 
• Dowding, Keith (August 2008). "Power, capability and ableness: the fallacy of the vehicle fallacy". Contemporary Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan. 7 (3): 238–258. doi:10.1057/cpt.2008.23. 
• Dowding, Keith (September 2008). "A pandemonium of confusions: Kay and Marsh on tiebout". New Political Economy. Taylor and Francis. 13 (3): 335–348. doi:10.1080/13563460802302610. 

This article was a response to: Kay, Adrian; Marsh, Alex (June 2007). "The methodology of the public choice research programme: the case of "voting with feet"". New Political Economy. Taylor and Francis. 12 (2): 167–183. doi:10.1080/13563460701302943. 

Kay and Marsh replied to Dowding's article with this further article: Kay, Adrian; Marsh, Alex (September 2008). "On the tenacity of tiebout: a response to Dowding". New Political Economy. Taylor and Francis. 13 (3): 349–355. doi:10.1080/13563460802302636. 

• Dowding, Keith; van Hees, Martin (March 2008). "Counterfactual success again: response to Carter and Kramer". Economics and philosophy. Cambridge Journals. 24 (1): 97–103. doi:10.1017/S0266267108001697. 
• Dowding, Keith; van Hees, Martin (July 2007). "Counterfactual success and negative freedom". Economics and philosophy. Cambridge Journals. 23 (2): 141–162. doi:10.1017/S0266267107001344. 

• This article was a response to: Ian, Carter; Kramer, Matthew H. (March 2008). "How changes in one's preferences can affect one's freedom (and how they cannot): a reply to Dowding and van Hees". Economics and philosophy. Cambridge Journals. 24 (1): 81–96. doi:10.1017/S0266267108001685. 

• Dowding, Keith; van Hees, Martin; Anand, Paul; Hunter, Graham; Carter, Ian; Guala, Francesco (2009). "The development of capability indicators". Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Taylor and Francis. 10 (1): 125–152. doi:10.1080/14649880802675366. 
• Dowding, Keith; John, Peter (June 2009). "The value of choice in public policy". Public Administration. Wiley. 87 (2): 219–233. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9299.2008.01732.x. 
• Dowding, Keith; Bressler-Gonen, Rotem (July 2009). "Shifting and shirking: political appointments for contracting out services in Israeli local government". Urban Affairs Review. Sage. 44 (6): 807–831. doi:10.1177/1078087408328050. 
• Dowding, Keith (March 2010). "Luck, equality and responsibility". Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, special issue: Democracy, Equality, and Justice. Taylor and Francis. 13 (1): 71–92. doi:10.1080/13698230903326265. 
• Dowding, Keith; Berlinski, Samuel; Dewan, Torun (April 2010). "The impact of individual and collective performance on ministerial tenure". The Journal of Politics. Cambridge Journals. 72 (2): 559–571. doi:10.1017/S0022381609990843. 
• Dowding, Keith; Hindmoor, Andrew; Iles, Richard; John, Peter (December 2010). "Policy agendas in Australian politics: the Governor-General's speeches, 1945–2008". Australian Journal of Political Science. Taylor and Francis. 45 (4): 533–557. doi:10.1080/10361146.2010.517174. 
• Dowding, Keith (January–June 2011). "What is the idea of Justice?". Indian Journal of Human Development. Institute for Human Development. 5 (1): 83–98. 
• Dowding, Keith (August 2011). "Republican freedom, rights, and the coalition problem". Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Sage. 10 (3): 301–322. doi:10.1177/1470594X10388380. 
• Dowding, Keith (2012). "Why should we care about the definition of power?". Journal of Political Power. Taylor and Francis. 5 (1): 119–135. doi:10.1080/2158379X.2012.661917. 
• Dowding, Keith; Fischer, Jörn; Dumont, Patrick (November 2012). "The duration and durability of cabinet ministers". International Political Science Review. Sage. 33 (5): 505–519. doi:10.1177/0192512112462971. 
• Dowding, Keith; Hindmoor, Andrew; Martin, Aaron (June 2013). "Australian public policy: attention, content and style". Australian Journal of Public Administration. Wiley. 72 (2): 82–88. doi:10.1111/1467-8500.12012. 
• Dowding, Keith; Hindmoor, Andrew; Martin, Aaron (December 2013). "Causes, content and party influence on the Australian policy agenda". Australian Journal of Public Administration. Wiley. 72 (4): 481–484. doi:10.1111/1467-8500.12045. 
• Dowding, Keith; Hindmoor, Andrew; Martin, Aaron; Gibbons, Andrew (August 2014). "The opinion–policy link in Australia". Australian Journal of Political Science. Taylor and Francis. 49 (3): 499–517. doi:10.1080/10361146.2014.934655. 
• Dowding, Keith; Hindmoor, Andrew; Martin, Aaron (September 2014). "Australian public policy: attention, content and style". Australian Journal of Political Science. Taylor and Francis. 49 (4): 694. doi:10.1080/10361146.2014.948378. 

References

External links

• Dowding's web page at the ANU
• Power and the force of luck by Faizul Latif Chowdhury