Roderick rhodes biography

Professor Roderick Rhodes

About

Rod Rhodes is Professor of Government (Research) at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Centre for Political Ethnography.

In January 2022, Rhodes published a book with Patrick Weller and Dennis Grube entitled Comparing Cabinets (Oxford University Press). 

For more details go to Rhodes' personal web site : http://www.raw-rhodes.co.uk/

 

 

Research

Research groups

Research interests

  • Public Administration
  • Public Policy
  • Comparative Politics
  • Ethnography
  • Governance

Current research

Rhodes, R. A. W. The Prime Ministerial Court: Conservative Statecraft in the Twenty-first Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Court politics is about who in British government did what to whom, when, how, why, and with what consequences. This book has two overarching ambitions and a subsidiary one. First, I want to provide not only an accurate description of the court politics of the Conservative governments of the twenty-first century but also to move beyond metaphor and provid

Rodrick Rhodes

American basketball player and coach

Rodrick Rhodes (born September 24, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Houston Rockets in the first round (24th pick overall) of the 1997 NBA draft.

High school career

As a prep player, Rhodes was a superstar from the time he was a freshman. He was a three time Parade All-American, and helped Jersey City's St. Anthony High School, led by Coach Bob Hurley, win two state titles in 1989 and 1991. At one point, he was considered as promising a prospect as future NBA star Jason Kidd.

College career

He played collegiately at the University of Kentucky for three years. He transferred to the University of Southern California for his senior year. Kentucky coach Rick Pitino asked Rhodes to redshirt after his junior year, which is highly unusual and was seen by many, including Rhodes' high school coach Bob Hurley, as a way to force Rhodes out. Kentucky landed star recruit Ron Mercer, considered by many experts the top prep senior in his class (along with Kevin Garnet

R. A. W. Rhodes

British political scientist (born 1944)

R. A. W. Rhodes

Rhodes in 2019

Born

Roderick Arthur William Rhodes


(1944-08-15) 15 August 1944 (age 80)
Alma materUniversity of Essex
Oxford University

Main interests

Political science, public policy, political institutions, public administration, comparative politics

Notable ideas

Differentiated polity, governance, core executive, policy networks, interpretive political science, decentred theory of governance, political ethnography
Websitewww.raw-rhodes.co.uk

Roderick Arthur William Rhodes (born 15 August 1944),[1] usually cited as R. A. W. Rhodes, is a British professor of political science.

Rod Rhodes is professor of government at the University of Southampton (UK) and director of the Centre for Political Ethnography. He is also emeritus professor of politics at the University of Newcastle (UK). Previously, he was: Professor of Government at Griffith University (2012–2015); director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s ‘Whitehall Progr

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