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The research group is a diverse community of scholars, utilising a wide array of methodological approaches to answer empirical and theoretical questions relating to democracy and governance.
Our research ranges across political activism and citizens, legislative politics, voting behaviour, applied ethics, public administration, electoral integrity, concepts of democracy, political rhetoric and speech, cultural policy, the EU administration, policy appraisals and political leadership.
Staff Research Interests
The politics, institutions and theory group includes:
Pierre Bocquillon energy, regulation, EU institutions
Sally Broughton Micova media freedom, online platforms and digital technology in democracy.
Alex Brown political philosophy, jurisprudence, applied ethics, history of political thought
Alan Finlayson political thought, social theory, cultural studies, rhetoric, ideology, interpretive methods, critical policy studies, democratic theory, agonism, cultural politics
Carla Ibled contemporary discourses of neoliberalism
Juvaria Jafri financial inclusion, digital financial access, and financial instruments
Toby James electoral integrity, democratic theory, electoral administration and management, statecraft, political leadership, the policy process
Hussein Kassim (Honorary Professor) EU institutions and policy, the EU and its member states, aviation, competition policy and regulation
Ben Little political activism, digital capitalism
Kate Mattocks policy learning, decision-making, cultural policy
Anuradha Sajjanhar race and ethnicity, processes of policy making, and right-wing mobilisation in the US, UK and India
John Street (Emeritus Professor) copyright and copyright policy, the politics of music, celebrity politics, political communication
Eitan Tzelgov legislative/party politics, text analysis, quantitative methods
John Turnpenny evidence and public policy-making, policy analysis tools, scientific evidence
Alex Williams hegemony, political strategy, digital cultures, digital politics, digital platforms, Marxism, social movements, politics of work
Contact
To learn more about this research group, please contact Professor Toby James.
Prospective research students with interests in the areas covered by this research group are invited to visit postgraduate research for general enquiries, or contact Dr. Sally Broughton-Micova.