About Richard Rose (political scientist)
Richard Rose is a political scientist, author, and academic whose comparative studies in social science have significantly influenced political science and public policy in both practice and theory. He is a Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde (UOS) in Scotland, and is a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Rose is most known for his research in the comparative study of public policy, employing both quantitative and qualitative analyses. Rose's publications encompass peer-reviewed articles and books covering democracy, elections and parties, governance, public expenditure and the welfare state. He has received numerous awards, including honorary doctorates from the European University Institute in Florence and Orebro University in Sweden, as well as lifetime achievement awards from various organizations such as the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, the European Consortium for Political Research, the Policy Studies Organization, and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). Rose is also Fellow of the British Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Former Fellow of Woodrow Wilson International Center. He is an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and was a founding editor of the Journal of Public Policy. Rose's first books were about British politics and elections, starting with The British General Election of 1959 with D. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rose created a series of New Democracy Barometer sample surveys to collect evidence about the political, economic and social transformation of post-Communist societies.
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