Michael de Percy explained

Michael de Percy (born 1970) is an Australian academic and political scientist who is a senior lecturer in political science in the Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society at the University of Canberra in Australia. According to Toby James, de Percy co-developed theoretical tools which show how technological and institutional legacies limited the policy options available to deploy new communications technologies in Australia and Canada.[1] He was among the people who supported change in the Australian Broadcasting Legislation amendment in 2017.[2] In 2022 de Percy was appointed to the Australian Research Council's College of Experts. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon[3] and served as an army officer before becoming an academic.

Career

Research

De Percy's PhD thesis, supervised by John Wanna, developed a model of path-dependent, punctuated equilibrium[4] to facilitate process tracing in a comparison of communications technology policy outcomes in Canada and Australia. He further expanded the research with his article in Policy Studies to also identify policy regimes.[5]

Publications

De Percy has co-edited scholarly works on transportation policy,[6] public administration,[7] and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on foreign aid and international relations.[8] His other works include telecommunications policy in Australia[9] [10] and Canada,[11] transport policy,[12] [13] models of government-business relations,[14] populism,[15] institutional exhaustion [16] and political leadership.[17]

Industry Engagement

De Percy serves with industry bodies in the transport, telecommunications, and energy sectors. He is the Chairman of the ACT and Southern NSW Chapter of CILTA,[18] and served as the Vice President of the Telecommunications Association (TelSoc) from 2022 to 2024.[19] He is a member of the Australian Nuclear Association.[20] De Percy collaborated with the Australian Civil-Military Centre on a project on Syrian refugee women in Jordan and Lebanon, where he co-authored three commissioned occasional papers.[21]

Teaching

De Percy teaches political science subjects, and has edited and written several books and scholarly articles on the topic.[22] He also teaches leadership in the University of Canberra's MBA program. He maintains a blog on his research and political commentary, Le Flaneur Politique.[23]

Political Commentary

De Percy is a conservative political commentator and his articles appear weekly in The Spectator Australia and he provides political commentary each fortnight on Spectator Australia TV.

Fellowships and appointments

From 1 January 2025, de Percy has been appointed as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy.[24] De Percy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and a Member of the Royal Society of New South Wales.[25] In 2022, he was appointed to the Australian Research Council's College of Experts in 2022 and will serve until the end of 2025.[26]

External links

Notes and References

  1. James . Toby . 10 November 2020 . Policy Studies during an age of uncertainty . Policy Studies . 42 . 1 . 1-5.
  2. Web site: ParlInfo Australian Parliamentary Library . 8 August 2017 . Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017 Bills Digest . 29 October 2024 . ParlInfo Australian Parliamentary Library.
  3. https://www.abc.net.au/news/michael-de-percy/28678
  4. Web site: De Percy, Michael Alexander . Open Research Repository, ANU.
  5. Identifying historical policy regimes in the Canadian and Australian communications industries using a model of path dependent, punctuated equilibrium . Michael . de Percy . Heba . Batainah . January 2, 2021 . Policy Studies . 42 . 1 . 42–59 . CrossRef . 10.1080/01442872.2019.1581161.
  6. Book: Road Pricing and Provision: Changed Traffic Conditions Ahead . ANU Press . Canberra . Michael . de Percy . John . Wanna . Michael . John . De Percy . Wanna . 2018 . 10.22459/RPP.07.2018 . free . 978-1-76046-230-7.
  7. Book: Politics, Policy and Public Administration in Theory and Practice . Andrew . Podger . Michael . de Percy . Sam . Vincent . November 13, 2021 . Australian National University Press . Canberra . 9781760464363 . Google Books.
  8. Web site: COVID-19 and Foreign Aid: Nationalism and Global Development in a New World Order . Viktor . Jakupec . Max . Kelly . Michael . de Percy . 2022 . Routledge . London.
  9. Towards an Australian digital communications strategy: Lessons from cross-country case studies . Michael . de Percy . Nitya . Reddy . Leith . Campbell . December 28, 2022 . Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy . 10 . 4 . 10.18080/JTDE.v10n4.650. free .
  10. Telecommunications infrastructure in Australia . Andrew . Madsen . Michael . de Percy . June 13, 2020 . Australian Journal of Social Issues . 55 . 2 . 218–238 . CrossRef . 10.1002/ajs4.121.
  11. Encyclopedia: Broadbanding the nation: Lessons from Canada or shortcomings in Australian federalism? . Australia Under Construction: Nation building past, present and future . 2008 . de Percy . Michael . ANU ePress . Canberra.
  12. Encyclopedia: Shaping the road pricing and provision debate . Road Pricing and Provision: Changed Traffic Conditions Ahead . 2018 . de Percy . Michael . ANU Press . Canberra.
  13. Encyclopedia: Road pricing and road provision in Australia: Where are we and how did we get here? . Road Pricing and Provision: Changed Traffic Conditions Ahead . 2018 . de Percy . Michael . ANU Press . Canberra.
  14. Encyclopedia: Models of government–business relations: Industry policy preferences versus pragmatism . Politics, Policy and Public Administration in Theory and Practice . 2021 . de Percy . Michael . ANU Press . Canberra.
  15. Encyclopedia: Populism and a new world order . Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid . 2020 . de Percy . Michael . 31–45 . Routledge . London . 10.4324/9780367853808-3 . 9780367853808.
  16. Encyclopedia: Institutional exhaustion and foreign aid in the time of COVID-19 . COVID-19 and Foreign Aid . 2022 . de Percy . Michael . 154–171 . Routledge . London . 10.4324/9781003273844-9 . 9781003273844.
  17. Encyclopedia: Political Leadership . Australian Politics and Public Policy . 2023 . de Percy . Michael . Chapter 25 . Pressbooks . Sydney . 10.30722/sup.9781743329542 . 9781743328859. free .
  18. News: Canberra developers could soon have the option to argue for fewer parking spots, but would it work? . ABC News . 11 April 2023.
  19. Web site: TelSoc Board . Telecommunications Association (TelSoc).
  20. Web site: About the Authors . Sydney University Press.
  21. Web site: Publications by this Author . Australian Civil-Military Centre.
  22. Encyclopedia: Political Leadership . Australian Politics and Policy . 2021 . de Percy . Michael . Jackson . Stewart . Sydney University Press . Sydney.
  23. Web site: Le Flâneur Politique . November 13, 2023.
  24. Campbell . Leith . 30 September 2024 . Editorial: Operational AI . Journal of Telecommunications and the DIgital Economy . 12 . 3 . iv-vi.
  25. Web site: Michael de Percy, 'Developing our own capability' Australia's Nuclear Journey . Robert Menzies Institute.
  26. Web site: ARC College of Experts . Australian Research Council.

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