Prof. Edward C. Page, PhD
Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy
Fellow of the British Academy
London School of Economics and Political Science
Department of Government 
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
UK
Tel.: +44 (0)207-849-4629
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Edward C. Page FBA has been Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 2001. His main teaching and research areas are in the field of comparative public policy and administration. He studied at Kingston Polytechnic and the University of Strathclyde, gaining a doctorate from Strathclyde in 1982. Between 1981 and 2001 he was lecturer then reader and professor at the University of Hull. He directed the UK ESRC’s Future Governance Programme between 1999 and 2003 and has served as co-editor of Political Studies, The European Journal of Political Research and The Journal of Public Policy. His books include Political Authority and Bureaucratic Power (1985/1992), Localism and Centralism in Europe (1992); Governing by Numbers: Delegated Legislation and Everyday Policy Making (2001), Policy Bureaucracy. Government with a Cast of Thousands (2005), Policy without Politicians. Bureaucratic Influence in Comparative Perspective (2012) and The Oxford Handbook of the Classics of Public Policy and Administration (2015).