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Paul M Heywood

Emeritus Sir Francis Hill Chair of Politics, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Professor Paul Heywood is author, co-author or editor of nineteen books and more than eighty journal articles and book chapters. His research focuses primarily on political corruption and integrity management, as well as institutional design and state capacity.

He retired from the 糖心原创 in June 2025, having previously been seconded 0.7 FTE to work with the at the University of Sussex, where he was Director of the FCDO-funded Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence programme (). The programme is designed to identify new initiatives that can help developing countries tackle the scourge of corruption and the negative impact it has on millions of people's lives. It follows on from earlier initiatives funded by DFID/FCDO and managed by the British Academy and Global Integrity respectively (2015-23) that Professor Heywood also led. He remains a Visiting Professor at the University of Sussex.

Other funded research includes an ESRC/Hong Kong project on in the UK, HK and China; an EU FP7 project, , on anti-corruption policies; and , an EU project on tackling corruption through open data. He was the on Corruption (2012-16) for the European Commission's DG Home Affairs, helping to produce the 2014 EU Anti-Corruption Report. He is co-founder of , an initiative that focuses on sector-based approaches to tackling corruption.

Professor Heywood graduated with an MA in Politics (First Class) from the University of Edinburgh, then did postgraduate studies in Madrid and at the LSE, from where he received his MSc(Econ) and PhD (Politics). Before taking up a Chair at Nottingham in 1995, he taught at the University of Glasgow and at the University of London. He also worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit, London (1989-93). He has been a member of the ESRC Research Grants Board (2001-05) and was Dean of the 糖心原创 Graduate School from 2003-07. From 2011 until 2015 he was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and also Director of the 糖心原创's ESRC , supporting research students in the social sciences. Between 2003 and 2009 he was co-editor of the international journal Government and Opposition, and was Chair of the Board of Directors until 2016.

In 2006, Heywood was appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Hunan (China), where he is Senior Adviser to the Center for Clean Governance. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (elected 2002), and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (elected 2012). In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of from 2015 until 2024, where he chaired the Research Committee, and in 2025 was appointed Chair of TI's . Professor Heywood served as Head of the School of Politics and International Relations from 1995-99, 2001-02, and 2008-11.

Research Summary

There are three separate, but interlinked, strands to Professor Heywood's research which are all driven by the core question of how can we better understand the relationship between institutional… read more

Recent Publications

  • HEYWOOD, P. M., 2024. Political Corruption. In: ROBERT BARRINGTON, ELIZABETH D脕VID-BARRETT, REBECCA DOBSON PHILLIPS and GEORGIA GARROD, eds., Dictionary of Corruption Agenda. 249-252
  • PYMAN, MARK and HEYWOOD, PAUL M., 2024. Palgrave Macmillan Cham.
  • HEYWOOD, P. M., 2023. The Review of Politics. 85(2), 250-254
  • MUNGIU-PIPPIDI, ALINA and HEYWOOD, PAUL M., eds., 2020. First. Edward Elgar.

Current Research

There are three separate, but interlinked, strands to Professor Heywood's research which are all driven by the core question of how can we better understand the relationship between institutional structures, policy formulation and political outcomes. His approach has been informed by neo-institutionalism, both in its historical ('path dependency') and political ('network modelling') variants. Political corruption:

  • Why do the core 'remedies' for corruption, as prescribed by the World Bank, OECD and other institutions, fail to work as expected in established democracies?
  • What can we learn from 'least corrupt' countries, such as the UK and Sweden, about the 'danger zones' of corruption?
  • Does the increased focus on corruption by political leaders and the media since the early 1990s reflect a rise in the incidence of corruption, or a change in its political instrumentalisation?
  • What are the relationships between corruption, scandal and political trust?

Executive capacity:

  • How do political executives in developed European democracies manage increased public expectation in the context of declining capacity?
  • What can the literature on comparative politics bring to the analysis of the role of the executive in policy-making which public policy approaches fail to capture?

Democratic design and state development:

  • The particular focus here is on Spain: how was this country able to establish a functioning democracy in the aftermath of a long-term repressive dictatorship, and how has territorial integrity been maintained?
  • What are the key threats to democratic stability in Spain, and how have the 'contradictions' of the country been managed?
  • HEYWOOD, P. M., 2024. Political Corruption. In: ROBERT BARRINGTON, ELIZABETH D脕VID-BARRETT, REBECCA DOBSON PHILLIPS and GEORGIA GARROD, eds., Dictionary of Corruption Agenda. 249-252
  • PYMAN, MARK and HEYWOOD, PAUL M., 2024. Palgrave Macmillan Cham.
  • HEYWOOD, P. M., 2023. The Review of Politics. 85(2), 250-254
  • MUNGIU-PIPPIDI, ALINA and HEYWOOD, PAUL M., eds., 2020. First. Edward Elgar.
  • MUNGIU-PIPPIDI, ALINA and HEYWOOD, PAUL M., 2020. . In: MUNGIU-PIPPIDI, ALINA and HEYWOOD, PAUL M., eds., A Research Agenda for Studies of Corruption First. Edward Elgar. 2-6
  • HEYWOOD, PAUL M., 2020. . In: MUNGIU-PIPPIDI, ALINA and HEYWOOD, PAUL M., eds., A Research Agenda for Studies of Corruption First. Edward Elgar. 27-40
  • HEYWOOD, PAUL M. and KIRBY, NIKOLAS, 2020. Public Integrity: from anti-corruption rhetoric to substantive moral ideal Etica Pubblica.: Studi su Legalit脿 e Partecipazione. 11-31
  • DOBSON, REBECCA and HEYWOOD, P. M., 2019. Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo. 38(1), 414-32
  • HEYWOOD, P.M., 2018. Daedalus. 147(3), 83-97
  • BULL, M.J. and HEYWOOD, P.M., 2018. European Political Science.
  • D脕VID-BARRETT, ELIZABETH and HEYWOOD, PAUL M., 2018. Available at: <https://www.publicadministrationreview.com/corruption-a-blog-symposium/>
  • D脕VID-BARRETT, ELIZABETH and HEYWOOD, PAUL M., 2018. Available at: <https://www.publicadministrationreview.com/2018/10/22/615/>
  • HEYWOOD, P M and ELIZABETH JOHNSON, 2017. Crime, Law & Social Change. 1-16
  • HEYWOOD, P M, 2017. Slavonic and East European Review. 95(1), 21-48
  • HEYWOOD, P. M., 2017. Introduction: carrots versus sticks in patron-client networks. In: ALENA LEDENEVA, ed., The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality 2. UCL Press. 347-50
  • HEYWOOD, P. M., MARQUETTE, HEATHER, PEIFFER, CARYN and ZU脩IGA, NIEVES, 2017. ANTICORRP.EU.
  • ZU脩IGA, NIEVES and HEYWOOD, P.M., 2017. ANTICORRP.EU.
  • LAMBOO, T, VAN DOOREN, W and HEYWOOD, P M, 2016. The Netherlands Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
  • HEYWOOD, P M, ed., 2015. Routledge.
  • HEYWOOD, P M, 2015. Introduction: Scale and Focus in the 糖心原创 of Corruption. In: HEYWOOD, P M, ed., Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption Routledge. 1-13
  • HEYWOOD, P M, 2015. Measuring corruption: perspectives, critiques and limits. In: HEYWOOD, P M, ed., Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption Routledge. 137-53
  • HARDI, P., HEYWOOD, P M and TORSELLO, D., eds., 2015. Debates of Corruption and Integrity: Perspectives from Europe and the US Palgrave Macmillan.
  • HEYWOOD, P M and ROSE, J., 2015. Curbing Corruption or Promoting Integrity? Probing the Hidden Conceptual Challenge. In: HARDI, P., HEYWOOD, P M and TORSELLO, D., eds., Debates of Corruption and Integrity: Perspectives from Europe and the US Palgrave Macmillan. 102-19
  • HEYWOOD, P M and JONATHAN ROSE, 2015. The limits of rule governance. In: ALAN LAWTON, ZEGER VAN DER WAL and LEO HUBERTS, eds., Ethics in Public Policy and Management: A Global Research Companion Routledge. 181-196
  • Z脷脩IGA, N and HEYWOOD, P M, 2015. Available at: <https://lif.blob.core.windows.net/lif/docs/default-source/publications/cleaning-up-la-paz---curbing-corruption-september-2015-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=2>
  • DAVID-BARRETT, ELIZABETH, HEYWOOD, P.M. and THEODORAKIS, NIKOLAOS, 2015. TACOD: Towards a European Strategy to Reduce Corruption by Enhancing the Use of Open Data: National Research: United Kingdom RiSSC.
  • HEYWOOD, P.M. and JONATHAN ROSE, 2014. Journal of Public Policy. 34(3), 1-23
  • HEYWOOD, P.M. and MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2013. Public Administration and Development. 33(3), 191-204
  • HEYWOOD, P.M. and ROSE, J., 2013. Political Science Approaches to Integrity and Corruption Human Affairs. (In Press.)
  • HEYWOOD, P. M., 2012. International Review of Administrative Sciences. 78(3), 474-493
  • JONES, E., HEYWOOD, P. M., RHODES, M. and AND SEDELMEIER, U., eds., 2011. Developments in European Politics 2 Palgrave Macmillan.
  • HEYWOOD, P. M. AND WOOD, C., 2011. Culture versus institutions: social capital, trust and corruption. In: JONES, E., HEYWOOD, P. M., RHODES, M. and AND SEDELMEIER, U., eds., Developments in European Politics 2 Palgrave Macmillan. 138-54
  • HEYWOOD, P. M., 2011. Spain's EU Presidency: Ambitions beyond Capacity? Journal of Common Market Studies. 49(Annual Review), 79-91
  • HEYWOOD, P. M. AND L. MCLAREN, 2010. Mediterranean Europe. In: DYSON, KENNETH AND ANGELOS SEPOS, ed., Which Europe?: The Politics of Differentiated Integration 1st. Palgrave Macmillan. 170-183
  • ANDERSSON, S. and HEYWOOD, P. M., 2009. Political Studies. 57(4), 746-67
  • CHARI, R. and HEYWOOD, P.M., 2009. West European Politics. 32(1), 26-54
  • HEYWOOD, P. M., 2009. Corruption. In: LANDMAN, TODD & ROBINSON, NEIL, ed., SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics London: Sage. 362-377
  • ANDERSSON, S. & HEYWOOD, P. M., 2009. Anti-Corruption as a Risk to Democracy: on the Unintended Consequences of International Anti-Corruption Campaigns. In: HINDESS, B, LARMOUR, P. AND DE SOUSA, L., ed., Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption: The new integrity warriors London: Routledge. 33-50
  • HEYWOOD, P. M. & MEYER-SAHLING, J-H., 2008. Warsaw: Ernst & Young.
  • CHARI, R.S. & HEYWOOD, P. M., 2008. Institutions, European Integration, and the Policy Process in Contemporary Spain. In: FIELD, B. & HAMANN, K., ed., Democracy and Institutional Development: Spain in Comparative Theoretical Perspective New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 178-202
  • HEYWOOD, P. M., 2007. PS: Political Science and Politics. 40(4),
  • HEYWOOD, P., JONES, E., RHODES, M. and SEDELMEIER, U., eds., 2006. Developments in European Politics Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK.
  • HEYWOOD, P., JONES, E., RHODES, M. and SEDELMEIER, U., 2006. Introduction: Developments in European Politics. In: Developments in European Politics Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK. 1-12
  • HEYWOOD, P. and KRASTEV, I., 2006. Political Scandals and Corruption. In: Developments in European Politics Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK. 157-177
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2005. Corruption, democracy and governance in contemporary Spain. In: BALFOUR, S., ed., The politics of contemporary Spain Abingdon: Routledge. 39-60
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2005. European Political Science. 4(1),
  • CLOSA, C. and HEYWOOD, P.M., 2004. Spain and the European Union Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • FIESCHI, C. and HEYWOOD, P., 2004. Journal of Political Ideologies. 9(3), 289-309
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2004. Spain: "middle player" or "major power"?. In: Europe Today Rowman and Littlefield, Inc, Boulder. 385-407
  • THRELFALL, M., OPPENHEIMER, W. and HEYWOOD, P., 2004. International Journal of Iberian Studies. VOL 17(NUMB 1), 41-53
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2003. Desperately Seeking Influence: Spain and the war in Iraq European Political Science. 3(1), 35-40
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2003. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1+3 Funding Model脙 (8)
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2002. Analysing political corruption in Western Europe: Spain and the UK in comparative perspective. In: DELLA PORTA, D. and ROSE-ACKERMAN, S., eds., Corrupt exchanges: empirical themes in the politics and political economy of corruption Baden-Baden: Nomos. 37-57
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2002. Executive Capacity and Legislative Limits. In: Developments in West European Politics 2 Palgrave Publishing Co. Ltd, The, Weybridge, Surrey, UK. 151-67
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2002. Political Corruption, Democracy, and Governance in Western Europe. In: Developments in West European Politics 2 Palgrave Publishing Co. Ltd, The, Weybridge, Surrey, UK. 184-200
  • HEYWOOD, P., ed., 2002. Developments in West European Politics 2 Palgrave Publishing Co. Ltd, The, Weybridge, Surrey, UK.
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2002. Introduction: West European States Confront the Challenge of a New Millennium. In: Developments in West European Politics 2 Palgrave Publishing Co. Ltd, The, Weybridge, Surrey, UK. 1-14
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2000. A Quasi-Presidential Premiership: Administering the Executive Summit in Spain. In: Administering the Summit MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London. 110-33
  • HEYWOOD, P., 2000. Spanish Regionalism: A Case 糖心原创. In: Regional Government in France & Spain
  • HEYWOOD, P., ed., 1999. Politics and Policy in Democratic Spain. No Longer Different Cass (Frank) & Co. Ltd, Liford, Essex, UK.
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1998. Francisco Franco. In: Oxford Dictionary of Political Biography Oxford University Press, Oxford. 173-4
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1998. Felipe Gonzalez. In: Oxford Dictionary of Political Biography Oxford University Press, Oxford. 191-2
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1998. The Operation of Multi-Layer Democracy (Evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee), Routledge, London and New York.
  • MILLER, W.L., WHITE, S.L. and HEYWOOD, P.M., 1998. Electoral Studies. 17(2), 197-216
  • HEYWOOD, P., MILLER, W.L. and WHITE, S.L., 1998. Values and Political Change in Post-Communist Europe MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London.
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1998. Adolfo Suarez. In: Oxford Dictionary of Political Biography Oxford University Press, Oxford. 457
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1998. Power Diffusion or Concentration? In Search of the Spanish Policy Process West European Politics. VOL 21(NUMBER 4), 103-123
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1997. Towards a New Europe?. In: Developments in West European Politics MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London. 1-15
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1997. Political Studies. VOL 45(NUMBER 3), 417-435
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1997. Recuperaci democr?tica i vocaci europea
  • HEYWOOD, P.M., 1997. Review of The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923 by Sebastian Balfour 9(1), 43
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1997. Political Corruption
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1997. Executives, Bureaucracies and Decision-Making. In: Developments in West European Politics MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London. 75-94
  • HEYWOOD, P., RHODES, M. and WRIGHT, V., 1997. Developments in West European Politics
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1997. Catalunya, un model per a Escacia
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1997. La presidentialisation du systeme espagnol: la Moncloa 447-58
  • MILLER, W. L., WHITE, S. and HEYWOOD, P., 1996. PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY. VOL 60(NUMBER 1), 106-127
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1996. The Emergence of New Party Systems and Transitions to Democracy. Spain in Comparative Perspective. In: Stabilising Fragile Democracies: Comparing New Party Systems in Southern and Eastern Europe Routledge, London and New York. 145-66
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1996. Continuity and Change: Analysing Political Corruption in Modern Spain脙. In: Political Corruption: Latin America and Europe in Comparative Perspective MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London. 115-36
  • GREY, R. D., MILLER, W. L., WHITE, S. and HEYWOOD, P., 1995. The structure of Russian political opinion COEXISTENCE -GLASGOW THEN DORDRECHT-. VOL 32(NUMBER 3), 183
  • WYMAN, M., WHITE, S., MILLER, B. and HEYWOOD, P., 1995. Party Politics. VOL 1(NUMBER 4), 535
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1995. Parties and Voters in the Elections. In: Elections and Political Order in Russia 124-42
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1995. De la dictature la democratie: les formes changeantes de la corruption en Espagne. In: Democratie et Corruption la Decouverte. 69-82
  • WYMAN, M., WHITE, S., MILLER, B. and HEYWOOD, P., 1995. Europe-Asia Studies. VOL 47(NUMBER 4), 591
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1995. Sleaze in Spain Parliamentary Affairs. VOL 48(NUMBER 4), 726
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1995. The Government and Politics of Spain MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London.
  • HEYWOOD, P., ed., 1994. Distorting Democracy: Political Corruption in Spain, Italy and Malta
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1994. Introduction: of Chance, and Death, and Mutability. In: West European Communist Parties After the Revolutions of 1989 MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London. xvii-xxv
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1994. Political Corruption in Modern Spain. In: Distorting Democracy: Political Corruption in Spain, Italy and Malta 1-14
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1994. Electoral Studies. 13(3), 254-71
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1994. The Spanish Left: Towards a Common Home?. In: West European Communist Parties After the Revolutions of 1989 MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London. 56-89
  • BULL, MARTIN J. and HEYWOOD, P., eds., 1994. West European Communist Parties After the Revolutions of 1989 MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London.
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1993. El marxismo y el fracaso del socialismo organizado en Espana Universidad de Cantabria, Santander.
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1993. Rethinking Socialism in Spain: Programa 2000 and the Social State Coexistence. 30(3), 167-85
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1993. The Structure of Spanish Government
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1993. Spain and the European Dimension: The Integrated Market, Convergence and Beyond Strathclyde Papers on Government and Politics. 94, 31
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1992. Spain Country Report (1)
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1992. The Socialist Party in Power, 1982-92: The Price of Progress International Journal of Iberian Studies. 5(2), 3-14
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1991. Spain Country Report (4)
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1991. Spain's Next Five Years: A Political Risk Analysis
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1991. Second Republic, Spanish. In: Dictionary of British and European History Since 1914 MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London. 352-4
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1991. The Spanish Civil War. In: Dictionary of British and European History Since 1914 MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London. 379-82
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1991. Spain Country Report (1)
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1991. Governing a New Democracy: the Power of the Prime Minister in Spain West European Politics. 14(2), 97-115
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1991. Structure and agency in the Spanish transition to democracy Government and Opposition. 26(1), 133-8
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1990. Spain Country Profile 1990-91: Annual Survey of Political and Economic Background
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1990. Marxism and the Failure of Organised Socialism in Spain, 1879-1936 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1990. Spain Country Report (4)
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1990. El desarrollo de la teoria marxista en Espana y el Frente Popular. In: Los nuevos historiadores ante la Guerra Civil espanola 2. 49-62
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1990. Spain Country Report (1)
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1990. Spain Country Report (2)
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1990. Spain Country Report (3)
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1989. The Spanish Socialist Party. In: Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain 1700-1988 Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. 460-4
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1989. The Labour Movement in Spain before 1914. In: Labour and Socialist Movements in Europe before 1914 Berg Publishers, Oxford and Washington, DC. 231-65
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1989. The Spanish Civil War: Why the Republic Lost History Today. 39(3), 21-7
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1989. Electoral Studies. 8(3), 322-30
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1989. Spain Country Report (4)
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1989. Union General de Trabajadores. In: Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988 Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. 499-505
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1988. The development of Marxist theory in Spain and the Frente Popular. In: The French and Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 116-31
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1988. Spanish Defence Policy Defence. XIX(X), 759-64
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1987. Government and Opposition. 22(4), 390-401
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1987. Mirror-images: the PCE and the PSOE in the Transition to Democracy in Spain West European Politics. 10(2), 193-210
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1987. The PSOE in government Socialist Affairs. 29-31
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1986. De las dificultades para ser marxista: el PSOE 1879-1921 Sistema. 74, 17-49
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1985. Spanish Communists in Crisis Journal of Communist Studies. 1:3(4), 167-70
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1985. Santiago Carrillo and Fernando Claudin. In: Biographical Dictionary of Neo-Marxism Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. 90-4, 97-9
  • HEYWOOD, P., 1985. The Collapse of the PCE: a Coherent Paradox? Politics. 5(2), 39-44

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