Area of Expertise

The presidency; presidential elections; executive-legislative relations; media politics; women leaders and women in politics; national government and politics in the U. S., U. K., Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

Additional Information

In both her teaching and her research, Patricia Sykes focuses on the U.S. presidency, comparative executive leadership, political parties, democratic theory, and political development. She is the author of two scholarly books – Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition and Losing from the Inside: the Cost of Conflict in the British Social Democratic Party.Sykes has also written numerous book chapters in texts edited by internationally renowned scholars, and her articles appear in distinguished, peer-reviewed journals such as Studies in American Political Development and Presidential Studies Quarterly.She has delivered expert testimony before the Committee on Rules in the U.S. House of Representatives and provided political analysis on CBS, NBC, CNN, the BBC, and for other national and international news organizations. She is a past recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lilly Endowment. She is a former Fulbright Senior Scholar in political science at Trinity College Dublin, a former visiting research fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, and the 2008 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Political Science in Australia. In 2010, the Canadian government granted Sykes a Faculty Research Award for her research on female leaders in Canadian politics. She is currently writing a book on women as executive leaders in Anglo-American systems.