Professor Iain McLean (DPhil)

Post: Professor of Politics, Official Fellow, Nuffield College

Introduction

I have been in Oxford for most of my professional career but have also worked in other British universities, in the USA, and in Australia. I was a college tutor in an undergraduate college for 13 years, during which the college scaled the heights of PPE. I now hold a research post. I started the Department's Public Policy Unit in 2005.

I am Vice-Chairman, and a locomotive driver, of the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway.

Research Areas and Interests

Public choice

Social choice, including its history

Political science in the 18th century

Public policy (esp. UK): devolution, public finance, fiscal policy

Party systems and electoral systems

Government response to disasters

Previous Posts Held

Research Fellow, Nuffield College 1969-71

Lecturer in Politics, U of Newcastle upon Tyne 1971-8

Fellow & Praelector in Politics, University College 1978-91

Professor of Politics, U of Warwick 1991-3

Visiting professorships at Washington & Lee, Stanford, Yale, and Australian National Universities

Teaching Responsibilities

Course provider, Theory of Voting

Seminar coordinator, PPU seminar series

Media Expertise

All reseach areas listed above

Publications

http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Users/McLean/index.htm

I. McLean and J. Nou, ‘Why should we be beggars with the ballot in our hand? veto players and the failure of land value taxation in the United Kingdom 1909-14’, British Journal of Political Science 36 (XX), 2006, 000-00. ISSN 0007-1234

I. McLean and A. McMillan, State of the Union: unionism and the alternatives in the United Kingdom since 1707. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005. ISBN 0 19 924820 1

I. McLean, The Fiscal Crisis of the United Kingdom. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2005. ISBN 1-4039-0366-2

I. McLean, Rational Choice & British Politics: an analysis of rhetoric and manipulation from Peel to Blair. Oxford University Press 2001. ISBN 0198295294