Pat Leslie

Patrick Leslie is a senior lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy. His research interests combine political science and public policy, with particular interests in legislative politics and legislation, law and courts, and gambling policy.

He is currently working across several research projects:

Politicians’ temporal focus (principal investigator; lead on term lengths and future focus)

Pathways to Power: Australian Political Careers (post-doc; lead on ministerial selection, legislative complexity)

Australian Parliamentary Speech: How Deliberative? How Representative? (post-doc; lead on representational linkage, legislative-executive speech)

An Empirical Study of Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia (post-doc; lead on judicial ideology, quantitative analysis)