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Biography

Hugo Drochon is a political theorist and historian of political thought, with interests in Nietzsche's politics, democratic theory, liberalism, centrism and conspiracy theories. He studies the different facets of modern democracy to develop a 'dynamic' theory of democracy.

Before coming to Nottingham he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the research project at CRASSH, Cambridge, where he also completed my PhD. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Remarque Institute at NYU, the MacMillan Center at Yale, the Centre Raymond Aron at the EHESS, the Politics Department at Princeton and the Department of History at the EUI. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society for the Arts and the Higher Education Academy, and has won a number of prizes, including the Nottingham Reward Scheme and the St John's Mansergh History Prize at Cambridge.

His first book came out with Princeton University Press in 2016 (paperback 2018). It was reviewed in a number of popular and scholarly publications including the , , , , , and . It also featured in interviews with and the . It was selected as one of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017, longlisted for the Bronislaw Geremek First Academic Book Prize and has been translated into (Adriana Hidalgo, 2023) and Chinese (Commercial Press, 2023).

His current research is on elite theories of democracy - Mosca, Pareto and Michels - and the impact their thinking had on the development of democratic theory in the US and Europe after WWII, notably on figures such as Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Dahl, C Wright Mills and Raymond Aron. He has a book entitled Elites and Dynamic Democracy under contract with Princeton University Press.

He regularly writes for the , , , , , , , , , , , the and , and has appeared on and , , and . He has spoken at the and Literary Festivals.

Teaching Summary

Left and Rights in Contemporary Politics (POLI3132)

Democracy and Its Critics (POLI2013)

Introduction to Political Theory (POLI1013)

Selected Publications

• HUGO DROCHON, 2016. Princeton University Press, (Paperback 2018).
• HUGO DROCHON and ADAM ENDERS, CHRISTINA FARHART, JOANNE MILLER, JOSEPH USCINSKI, KYLE SAUNDERS, 2023. Political Behavior, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2023, pp. 2001–2024.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2022. Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2022, pp. 330-346.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2020. Constellations, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2020, pp. 185-198.

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PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising students who want to work in the following areas:

• Nietzsche's politics
• Democratic theory
• Liberalism
• Centrism
• Conspiracy theories

I am currently supervising the following students:

Gareth King: 'Red Tories and Blue Labour'

Selim Koru: 'Ressentiment in Nietzsche's politics'

Fraser Logan: 'Nietzsche on Honesty' (viva passed 12/06/23)

• HUGO DROCHON, 2024. . In: David Ragazzoni and Aurelian Craiutu eds., Norberto Bobbio: A Life for Democracy on the Battlefield of Ideologies, London, Routledge, 2024, pp. 84-100
• HUGO DROCHON, 2024. History of European Ideas, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024, pp. 153-154.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2024. History of European Ideas, Vol. 50, No. 3, 2024, p. 535.
• HUGO DROCHON and ADAM ENDERS, CASEY KLOFSTAD, AMANDA DIEKMAN, JOEL ROGERS DE WAAL, SHANE LITTRELL, KAMAL PREMARATNE, DANIEL VERDEAR, STEFAN WUCHTY, JOSEPH USCINSKI, 2024. Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, Article number: 14184, 2024.
• HUGO DROCHON and STEVEN SMALLPAGE, ADAM ENDERS, JOSEPH USCINSKI, 2023. Political Science Research and Methods, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2023, pp. 555-569.
• HUGO DROCHON and ADAM ENDERS, CHRISTINA FARHART, JOANNE MILLER, JOSEPH USCINSKI, KYLE SAUNDERS, 2023. Political Behavior, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2023, pp. 2001–2024.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2023. History of European Ideas, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023, pp. 152-153.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2023. History of European Ideas, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023, p. 175.
• HUGO DROCHON and ANNEMARIE WALTER, 2022. Political Studies, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2022, pp. 483-501.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2022. History of European Ideas, Vol. 48, No. 8, 2022, p. 1093.
• HUGO DROCHON and JOSEPH USCINSKI, ADAM ENDERS, CASEY KLOFSTAD, MICHELLE SEELIG, KAMAL PREMARATNE AND MANOHAR MURTHI, 2022. PLOS ONE, published online 20 July 2022.
• HUGO DROCHON and DAVID BELL, 2022. trans. Malcolm DeBevoise, Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. vii-xx.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2022. Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2022, pp. 330-346.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2022. . In: Corinna Schubert and Martin Ruehl eds., Nietzsches Perspektiven des Politischen, de Gruyter, 2022, pp. 359-374
• HUGO DROCHON, 2021. Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2021, pp. 604-605.
• HUGO DROCHON and STEVEN SMALLPAGE, JOSEPH USCINSKI, CASEY KLOFSTAD, 2020. . In: Michael Butter and Peter Knight eds., The Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories, Routledge, 2020, pp. 263-277
• HUGO DROCHON, 2020. Constellations, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2020, pp. 185-198.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2020. The Review of Politics, Vol. 82, No. 4, 2020, pp. 631-634.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2019. . In: Joseph Uscinski ed., Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, Oxford University Press, pp. 337-346
• HUGO DROCHON, 2019. Global Intellectual History, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 389-395.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2019. History of European Ideas, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 754-760.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2019. Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 621-642.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2019. The Review of Politics, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 730-732.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2018. Politics, Religion and Ideology, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 246-249.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2018. The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 918-921.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2017. History of Political Thought, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 323-344.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2017. European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 481-489.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2017. Politics, Religion and Ideology, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 333-336.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2017. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 119-123.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2017. Le Débat, Vol. 197, No. 5, 2017, pp. 160-165.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2016. Princeton University Press, (Paperback 2018).
• HUGO DROCHON, 2016. History of European Ideas, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 1055-1068.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2010. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 39, pp. 66-85.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2010. Nietzsche-Studien, Vol. 39, pp. 663-677.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2010. Nietzsche-Studien, Vol. 39, pp. 678-681.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2009. Nietzscheforschung, Vol. 16, pp. 175-182.
• HUGO DROCHON, 2009. The Agonist: A Nietzsche Circle Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 55-64.