About Me

I am a research fellow at the Australian National University’s School of Politics and International Relations. This website is a central space for my research, teaching and supervision, data, and outreach.

You can find my CV here.

My research interests combine political science and public policy, with particular interests in legislative politics and legislation, law and courts, and gambling policy.

My current projects are spread across four research grants:

• 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)

I have taught widely on political institutions, public policy, comparative politics and research methods. From 2021-23 I was the first director of the ANU’s online Summer School in Political Analysis.

I currently supervise three PhD students:

• Mr Pratyush Sarma (chair; party organisation)
• Ms Eve Cheng (associate; topology and networks)
• Ms Amalina Mohd (associate; judicial politics)

I am an editorial board member at the Australian Journal of Political Science.

Contact Me

Email: patrick.leslie [at] anu.edu.au

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