Eleanor F. Woodhouse

Dr Eleanor F. Woodhouse is Associate Professor of Public Policy at University College London in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy. She is a scholar of comparative politics and public administration who studies how agency relations function in modern governance. She studies the increasingly complex ways in which governments enact their policies – for example, the ever-lengthening chains of delegation from sovereign power to point of service delivery – and how this affects fundamental features of democracy, such as the ability to hold key political players to account. Before undertaking her PhD at Bocconi University, Dr Woodhouse worked as a Policy Officer at the European Commission. Dr Woodhouse’s work has appeared in political science and public administration journals including the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, and the Journal of Public Policy.