Research and publications

Staff Research Interests

Member of staff	Research theme	Research interests
Dr John Bartle	British politics Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour	Voting behaviour British political parties The British Judiciary
Dr Daniel Berger	Comparative politics	Economic Development Informal Institutions Local Politics in Developing Countries Natural (Quasi) Experiments
Dr Sandhya Bhattacharya	Ideology and discourse analysis International relations Political Economy	Political economy Transnational and comparative media reporting during conflict Identity construction
Professor Sarah Birch	Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour Environmental politics	Electoral malpractice Electoral systems Semi-authoritarianism
Dr Vincenzo Bove	Political economy International relations	Political Cycles in Public Expenditure Third Party Intervention in Civil War
Professor Ian Budge	Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour	Mandate theory of party democracy Party election programmes Democratic processes
Professor Han Dorussen	Comparative politics International relations Methodology Political economy	Trade and conflict Peacekeeping Burden-sharing and regional security Policy convergence in the European Union
Dr Martin Elff	Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour Methodology	Political attitudes and behaviour in Germany Political knowledge and sophistication Survey research methodology Computational statistics Ecological inference
Dr Lawrence Ezrow	Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour Methodology	Comparative political representation Western European politics Elections, political parties, voting, party strategies, political institutions Quantitative methodologies
Dr Natasha Ezrow	Comparative politics International relations	US foreign policy Traditional theories of international relations Democratisation East Asia Latin America
Professor Michael Freeman	International relations Political theory	The theory and practice of human rights, especially world poverty as a problem of human rights and global justice
Dr Ismene Gizelis	Comparative politics International relations Political economy	International conflict and cooperation Peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction Gender and conflict resolution Comparative political economy
Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch	Comparative politics International relations Methodology	Conflict and cooperation Democratisation Spatial dimensions of social and political processes Mathematical models in the social sciences
Dr Jason Glynos	Ideology and discourse analysis Political theory	Political philosophy Post-structural approaches Lacanian and post-Marxist discourse theories Theories of democracy and ideology Cultures and discourses of the economy
Professor Bob Goodin	Political theory	Political theory Public policy
Dr David Howarth	Comparative politics Ideology and discourse analysis Political theory	Post-structuralist political theory Social movements Identity politics South African politics
Dr Rob Johns	Elections, institutions and political behaviour	Political (and specifically electoral) behaviour Public opinion and political psychology (especially the nature, structure and impact of attitudes) Research methods and survey methodology
Professor Anthony King	British politics Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour	British constitution British prime ministership American politics and government History of democracy
Professor Emil Kirchner	Comparative politics International relations	European integration European security policy EU decision making German politics Political parties and European integration
Professor Todd Landman	Comparative politics International relations Methodology	Human rights International relations Quantitative and qualitative political methodology
Dr Rene Lindstaedt	Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour International relations Methodology Political economy	Policy diffusion Social learning Political accountability and representation Strategic communication and co-operation Legislative, bureaucratic and judicial politics Globalisation
Professor David McKay	Comparative politics	Comparative and US politics
Dr Aletta Norval	Comparative politics Ideology and discourse analysis Political theory	Democratic theory Post-structuralism South African politics Theories of ethnicity Feminist theory The construction of political identities
Dr Avia Pasternak	Political theory	Collective responsibility and collective punishment Global justice Human rights
Dr Steven Pickering	International relations	Rugged terrain and war Maps and war Borders and war Distance and war
Professor Thomas Plumper	Elections, institutions and political behaviour International relations Methodology Political economy	International economic policy spillovers International unions Panel data analysis Multiparty competition
Dr Tom Quinn	British politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour	Executive-legislative relations in Westminster-type systems British political parties Political party organisation Political institutions Rational choice theory British politics
Dr Alejandro Quiroz Flores	International relations Methodology Political economy	International security War initiation and duration Links to domestic politics Survival analysis and copula functions Natural disasters
Professor David Sanders	British politics Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour Methodology	British Election Study Political participation Election forecasting Politics of UK public sector Measuring and assessing European citizenship
Dr Thomas Scotto	British politics Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour International relations Methodology	American, British, and Canadian electoral behaviour and public opinion Public opinion on foreign policy
Professor Hugh Ward	Environmental politics International relations Methodology Political economy Political theory	Environmental politics Political economy
Professor Paul Whiteley	British politics Comparative politics Elections, institutions and political behaviour	British Election Study British political parties Electoral behaviour Political economy Comparative analysis of citizenship and social capital

Last modified on 01 May 2012

Research and publications

Staff Research Interests

Member of staff

Research theme

Research interests