Biography

Author of The Labour Party in Crisis; Political Control of the Macroeconomy. Co-author of Advanced Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences; Pressure for the Poor - The Poverty Lobby and Policy-Making; How Voters Change: The 1987 British General Election Campaign in Perspective; Controversies in Political Economy - Canada, Great Britain and the United States; Labour's Grassroots - The Politics of Party Membership; True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership; High Intensity Participation - The Dynamics of the Party Activism in Britain; New Labour's Grassroots: The Transformation of the Labour Party Membership. Author or co-author of some fifty articles on political economy, electoral behaviour, political parties, British politics and quantitative methods in political science. Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Research Programme on Democracy and Participation, 1998-2003 and co-director of the ESRC funded British Election Study. Current research interests include British political parties, electoral behaviour, political economy and the comparative analysis of citizenship and social capital.

Teaching Responsibilities 2008/09

GV917 The Analysis of Public Opinion