ACU Researcher

Dr Daniel Casey is a lecturer in politics and international relations at the Australian Catholic University and visiting fellow at the Australian National University (ANU).

He completed his PhD in August 2024 at ANU. His PhD examines letters from members of the public to Australian Prime Minister Howard - who writes; why they write; and the impact of the letters on public policy and the political agenda.

His broader research interests include: elite-mass linkages, with a focus on different forms of communication between the public and leaders; public policy and public administration; and representation. These research interests are driven by his 15 year public service career, including working for members of parliament.

He has recently launched CanberraInbox, a new dataset of all e-newsletters of Australian politicians.

His research has been published in Government and Opposition; Legislative Studies Quarterly; PS: Political Science & Politics amongst other leading journals.

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Website

www.daniel-casey.org

www.canberrainbox.com.au

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Casey, D. (2025) Responsiveness to the public opinion expressed in letters to political leaders: insights from Australia. Government and Opposition (forthcoming)

Casey, D. (2025) CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles-Studying Legislators' e-Newsletters in Australia. Legislative Studies Quarterly. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lsq.70004

Casey, D. (2024). Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set-top boxes. Australian Journal of Public Administration. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12663

Casey, D. (2024) The Opinion-Agenda Linkage: How Letters From the Public to the Prime Minister Impact the Policy Agenda (PhD Dissertation) http://hdl.handle.net/1885/316695

Casey, D., & Black, J. (2024). Selective rememberings?: Access to 'private' documents at the national archives of Australia. Humanities Research, 20(1), 89-103. http://doi.org/10.22459/HR.XX.01.2024.06

Casey, D. (2024). Punctuated equilibrium and the dynamics of political participation: the case of letter writing. Policy Studies, 45(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2202385

Casey, D. (2024). ChatGPT in public policy teaching and assessment: An examination of opportunities and challenges. Australian Journal of Public Administration. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8500.12647

Casey, D., Rutledge-Prior, S., Young, L., Malloy, J., & Berdahl, L. (2023). Hard Work and You Can't Get It: An International Comparative Analysis of Gender, Career Aspirations, and Preparedness Among Politics and International Relations PhD Students. PS: Political Science & Politics, 56(3), 402-410. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096523000057

Casey, D., & Rutledge-Prior, S. (2023). Bridging the expectation gap: a survey of Australian PhD candidates and supervisors in politics and international relations. Australian Journal of Political Science, 58(4), 494-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2023.2277927

Rutledge-Prior, S., & Casey, D. (2023). "An Isolating Experience Aggravated by COVID": Exploring Disconnections Between Political Science PhD Candidates and Supervisors. PS: Political Science & Politics, 56(3), 357-364. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096523000161

Awards

World Association of Public Opinion Research - Naomi Turner Prize for best paper written and presented by a student at their annual conference for Democratic Responsiveness to Different Forms of Public Opinion (2023)

Australian Political Studies Association - Postgraduate Conference Paper Prize for Democratic Responsiveness to Different Forms of Public Opinion (2023)

American Political Science Association - Virginia Gray Graduate Student Research Award (2022)

American Political Science Association - Presidential and Executive Politics Section Travel Grant (2022)

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