[2] In addition Dunleavy is an ANZSOG Institute for Governance Centenary Chair at the University of Canberra, Australia.

[3] As an undergraduate Patrick Dunleavy studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in 1973.

He moved to Nuffield College, Oxford to work on his doctoral thesis which was published in 1981 as The Politics of Mass Housing in Britain, 1945-75: Study of Corporate Power and Professional Influence in the Welfare State.

[4] Dunleavy is a prominent political theorist specialising in the fields of public policy and government.

[8][9] Both the Yes and No camps in the independence debate claimed the report to differing extents validated their own arguments and figures.