Professor Dennis Grube

Professor of Politics & Public Policy at Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge

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Professor Dennis C. Grube is Professor of Politics & Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow at St Catharine’s College.

Dennis’ research interests include political decision-making, administrative leadership, institutional memory, and the role of political rhetoric in public policy. His most recent book is a co-authored monograph, Memory & Institutional Amnesia in Government, published with Oxford University Press in 2026. Other recent works include Why Governments Get it Wrong, published by Pan Macmillan in 2022, Megaphone Bureaucracy, published by Princeton University Press in 2019, and a 2021 co-authored book comparing the traditions of cabinet government across five countries.

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Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge

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    Is institutional memory in decline?

    The Centre for Science and Policy organised a seminar hosted by Professor Dennis Grube, Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and Professor of Politics and Public Policy at POLIS. His talk concerned the characterisation, and supposed decline, of ‘institutional memory’.