Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 3461
E-Mail:	dlowery@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Instituut Bestuurskunde
Office Address:	Pieter de la Court gebouw Wassenaarseweg 52 2333 AK Leiden Room number 5B49

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David Lowery joined the Department of Public Administration (Leiden University) in 2004. Professor Lowery received a BA from St. Anselm College in 1974, an MPA from the University of Rhode Island in 1976, an MA from Michigan State University in 1977, and a PhD from Michigan State University in 1981. While in graduate school, Dr. Lowery worked as a policy analyst in the Michigan Department of Treasury and was Chief Legislative Aide to the House Committee on Taxation in the Michigan Legislature. Dr. Lowery taught in the Department of Political Science and the Martin School of Public Administration at the University of Kentucky from 1979 to 1986 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1986 through 2004, where he was the Thomas J. Pearsall Professor of the Department of Political Science.

Professor Lowery teaches and conducts research on the politics of interest representation, urban politics and administration, bureaucratic politics, and tax and spending policy.

He has authored a number of papers on these and other topics that have appeared in such professional journals as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. He is also the co-author of The Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Lobbying Communities in the American States (University of Michigan Press, 1996) and Organised Interests and American Politics (McGraw-Hill, 2004). Professor Lowery was Chair of the UNC Department of Political Science from 1990 to 1995 and Editor of the Journal of Politics from 1997 to 2001. He is current co-editor of State Politics and Policy Quarterly and is associate editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.