Prof Leslie Holmes

Deputy Director: Contemporary Europe Research Centre

University of Melbourne
Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street
Carlton, Vic 3053
Tel.: (61-3) 8344 5151
Fax: (61-3) 8344 7906 / 8344 9507

e-mail: leslieth@unimelb.edu.au

Leslie Holmes is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne.

His major publications include:

• Rotten States?: Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism (Durham NC: Duke University Press: 2006)
• (with John Dryzek) Post-communist Democratization: Political Discourses Across Thirteen Countries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
• (with Philomena Murray) Citizenship and Identity in Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999)
• Post-Communism (1997)
• The End of Communist Power: Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Legitimation Crisis (1993)
• Politics in the Communist World (1986)
• The Policy Process in Communist States (1981).

His current research interests are corruption in post-communist systems, and comparative analysis of the transition to post-communism, with a focus on democratisation. Concerning the latter, he is completing, together with Prof. John Dryzek (Political Science, University of Melbourne), a major transnational study of democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe.

Leslie Holmes has acted as consultant for the World Bank, Transparency International, the Refugee Review Tribunal, and SBS. He was elected President of ICCEES (the International Council for Central and East European Studies) in July 2000, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

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