Governance, Citizenship & Policy

Research networks

Our staff also contribute to many research networks:

Our research examines the relationships between governance institutions, democratic legitimisation and policy processes. We have expertise in Political Parties and Party Government, Political Behaviour, Environmental Policy, European Integration and Euroscepticism; Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption, in the following political spaces: the UK, Australia and New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the European Union, Central and Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Latin America.

Our core themes are:

Citizenship and political engagement
Governance after the global financial crisis
Environmental policy and politics

We apply a cross-disciplinary approach, incorporating political science, public policy analysis, political sociology and anthropological and historical perspectives.

Research focus

Legislative politics, party politics and political participation
Citizenship and socio-political movements, migration and multiculturalism
Multi-level governance within the EU and internationally
Policy-making in fields such as social and welfare policies, climate, energy and sustainability, migration policy, and foreign and defence policies

Core themes

Citizenship and political engagement

Staff	Research
Prof Anna Bull	Post-terrorism reconciliation and victims' activism for truth and justice in Italy
Dr Ingolfur Blühdorn	Conceptions of participation, representation, legitimacy. Political disengagement, protest movements, anti-politics. Transformation of democracy, 'post-democratic turn', 'simulative democracy', 'reactionary democracy'.
Dr David Galbreath	Minority rights governance and political engagement
Dr Peter Lambert	Democratization, governance and political organisation in Paraguay
Dr Steve Wharton	LGBT activism from a comparative Franco-British perspective
Dr Anne White	Polish migration to the UK Migration as a livelihood strategy in post-communist Europe

Governance after the global financial crisis

Staff	Research
Dr Lisbeth Aggestam	European governance and foreign policy Multiculturalism and foreign policy
Prof Anna Bull	Northern League's influence on policy-making
Prof Charles Lees	Party politics of growth and competiveness

Environmental policy and politics

Staff	Research
Dr Ingolfur Blühdorn	Environmental policy 'Post-ecologist politics' 'Politics of unsustainability’
Prof Charles Lees	Environmental politics and policy
Dr Joseph Szarka	Energy policy, with particular reference to renewables Climate policy in the EU Environmental policy and politics

Student research

Some of our student research projects also relate to this cluster.

Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies