Centre Members
Co-directors
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: political party (funding) regulation, party (system) institutionalisation, democracy promotion, qualitative methods.
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Assistant Professor in British Politics
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: race, voting behaviour, political attitudes and representation.
Assistant Professor in Political Science
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: quantitative methods, parties and elections, subnational politics, conscription and conflict.
Associate Director
Professor of European Politics
Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
Research interests: campaigning, party politics in Central and Eastern Europe, politics of Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
Members
Professor of Comparative Politics
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: South Asian politics; political parties in divided societies.
Twitter handle: @KatAdeney
Professor of Politics
Department of Politics, Centre for Britain and Europe, University of Surrey
Keywords: populism, radical right, party organisation, political activism.
Associate Professor
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science, University of Valencia
Research interests: political parties, political elites, digitalisation, decentralisation.
Assistant Professor
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: African politics, political parties, democratisation, political mobilisation, security, qualitative methods
Research Associate for the project ‘Digital Campaigning and Electoral Democracy’ (DiCED)
Cathie Marsh Institute, University of Manchester
Research interests: digital campaigning and electoral democracy.
X (Twitter) handle: @EsmeraldaVBon
Assistant Professor in British Politics
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: British politics, British political parties, UK Parliament, political leadership
Professor of Democracy and International Development
International Development Department, University of Birmingham
Nic mainly works on democracy, elections and development and has conducted in-country research in a range of African countries including Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, but has also published on Latin America and post-communist Europe.
Global Development Institute
University of Manchester
Research interest: political parties, legislatures, urban politics, African politics.
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham
Research interests: political parties, party members, Spanish politics.
Assistant Professor in-Residence
Metropolitan Autonomous University, Campus Iztapalapa (UAM-I), Mexico and Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO), Mexico
Research interests: electoral justice, gender quotas, Latin American politics, political parties, Mexican elections.
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: political parties, legislatures, European Union.
Research interests: elites, democracy, populism, conspiracy theories.
Professor Emeritus of Political History
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: British Labour party, British political culture.
Senior Lecture in Criminology
School of Applied Social Studies, University of Bedfordshire
Research interests: political finance; political institutions; elections; comparative politics.
X (Twitter) handle: @willhorncastle
Research website:
Associate Professor in Political Theroy
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: concept development, identification/populism paradox/contradiction, dependency, freedom.
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Governance and Department of Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University
Research interests: political economy of institutions, comparative regime types, elections and parties in democracy, Asian politics.
Professor of Politics
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: electoral behaviour, British politics, and political campaigning.
Twitter handle: @CaitlinMilazzo
Associate Professor
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: quantitative methods, legislative institutions, voting.
Associate Professor in European politics and Director of Centre of Institutions and Political Behaviour (CIPB)
School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
Research interests: comparative politics, European Union politics, electoral and party politics.
PDI-Titular d'Universitat
Constitutional Law, Political and Administrative Sciences, Universitat de Valencia
Associate Professor in Politics and Research Methodology
Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University Leicester
Research interests: corruption, governance, public attitudes, quantitative methods
Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Research interests: political parties, democratisation and authoritarian resilience/upgrading, primarily in the Middle East and North Africa.
Assistant Professor
School of politics and International Relations
Research interests: territorial politics and federalism.
Associate Professor in Politics and Head of School
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创.
Research interests: campaigning, political participation, public opinion and British politics.
Senior Lecturer in Territorial Politics
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Research interests:territorial politics and public policy; multi-level party politics; populism; social democracy.
Professor Emeritus of Social Science Research Methods
School of Politics and International Relations, 糖心原创
Research interests: comparative electoral research, public opinion, democratic theory, methodology, knowledge graphs.
Annemarie Walter
Research interests: party strategy, election campaigns, political scandals, public opinion.