richard rose (born 9 april 1933 in st louis, missouri) is an american political scientist who is currently director of the centre for the study of public policy and professor of politics at the university of strathclyde, scotland. he studied as an undergraduate at johns hopkins university and completed his doctorate entitled "the relation of socialist principles to british labour foreign policy, 1945-51" at the university of oxford in 1960. he has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including the northern ireland conflict, eu enlargement, democratisation, elections and voting, and policy transfer. with the exception of a gap during which he served as sixth century chair in politics at the university of aberdeen between 2005 and 2011, rose has been professor of politics at the university of strathclyde since 1966. he was formerly lecturer in government at the university of manchester, from 1961 to 1966.