Rate My Professor Patrick Dumont

Dumont's research specializations encompass political elites, executive-legislative relations, parties and party systems, coalition theory, elections, and voting advice applications. He is the co-founder of the Selection and Deselection of Political Elites (SEDEPE) international network alongside Keith Dowding, co-convenor of the Standing Group on Elites and Political Leadership within the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) with Matthew Kerby, and chair of the Research Committee on 'Elites' of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He co-edits the Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites book series and previously served on the executive board of the ABSP-CF (Political Science Association – French-speaking Belgium) from 2003 to 2009 and the editorial board of the Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée from 2011 to 2017. His influential publications include 'Politicians' Theories of Voting Behavior' (2024, American Political Science Review, co-authored with J. Lucas et al.), 'Pieces of the puzzle? Coalition formation and tangential preferences' (2024, West European Politics, co-authored with A. Falcó-Gimeno et al.), 'Introduction: Old Puzzles, Conceptual Vagueness and New Developments in the Study of Coalition Governments' (2024, Studies in Public Choice), and 'A comparison of two views on the European Commission: engine of integration and conduit of national interests' (2022, Journal of European Public Policy). Dumont leads major projects such as How Politicians Evaluate Public Opinion (POLPOP), Promissory Democratic Representation: Campaign Promises in Australia, and Sharing is Caring: Comparative Ministerial Elites across Time and Space.