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Torun Dewan


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Accounting for Ministers: Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945-2007

Torun dewan on the cabinet and its shadow


Torun Dewan is professor of political science at the London School of Economics. Dewan is a specialist in political parties and coalitions, ministerial turnover and legislative and executive behaviour.

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Torun Dewan Torun Dewan Political Scientist

Dewan earned his M.Sc. at the London School of Economics and his D.Phil. at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Theoretical Politics and on the editorial board of the Journal of the European Political Science Association.

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Dewan specialises in theoretical applications of game theory and political economy. His work focuses on pirate bargaining procedures in ships at sea and their formal application to legislative decision making.

Among his students, Prof. Dewan is known as a dedicated and highly-involved lecturer.

Selected publications

  • "The declining talent pool of government." American Journal of Political Science, 54 (2), 2010, pp. 267–286. (With David P. Myatt)
  • "Political economy models of elections", Annual Review of Political Science, 14, 2011, pp. 311–330. (With Kenneth A. Shepsle)
  • "Strategic opposition and government cohesion in Westminster democracies." American Political Science Review, 105 (102), 2011, pp. 337–358. (With Arthur Spirling)
  • Accounting for Ministers: Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945-2007. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012. (with Samuel Berlinski and Keith Dowding)

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