Richard Rose (political scientist)
Richard Rose is an American political scientist who is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy and Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He studied as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University and completed his doctorate entitled The relation of socialist principles to British Labour foreign policy, 1945-51 at the University of Oxford in 1960. He has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including the Northern Ireland conflict, EU enlargement, democratisation, elections and voting, and policy transfer. With the exception of a gap during which he served as Sixth Century Chair in Politics at the University of Aberdeen between 2005 and 2011, Rose has been Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde since 1966. He was formerly Lecturer in Government at the University of Manchester, from 1961 to 1966.
Rose was made a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1985, Honorary Vice President of the Political Studies Association in 1986, a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994, and a Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 2000. In 2000, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Political Studies Association. There is also a PSA award named after him, the Richard Rose Prize, which is awarded annually to scholar under 40 years of age making a distinctive contribution to the study of British politics. Rose was awarded an honorary doctorate by Örebro University, Sweden, in 2005. He was awarded the Lasswell Lifetime Achievement Award, named after Harold Lasswell, by the Policy Studies Organization in 1999. In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
