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Organization profile
Organisation profile
Research strengths within Politics fall within the following broad areas:
Elections and representation: With a specialist Centre for Elections and Representation Studies, the School studies voting behaviour, political attitudes and political behaviour. It has particular interests in political institutions and public opinion, political representation, participatory democracy, campaigns and elections, political communication, electoral systems, media and politics, and party activism.
Governance and Institutions: Scotland, UK, European and youth parliaments, European institutions, multi-level government and devolution and the politics of nationalism and regionalism. Expertise exists on theories of social movements and social change, Scottish and EU identity, state-society relations in the EU, civil society, religion and politics, environmental politics.
International politics: West European and South-East European politics. International politics, including international public policy, international institutions and global governance, international security, Asian international politics and security, the international role of NGOs, anti-globalisation movements, constructivist theories of security, feminist theory and Chilean politics.
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Profiles
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Sustainable Development and Citizenship in Africa (SGSSS award)
1/09/22 → 28/02/26
Project: Research - Studentship
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How Credible are Firms’ Voluntary Climate Commitments? An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Climate Action
Bayer, P.
1/05/22 → 31/07/23
Project: Research
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Political parties and democracy in South Africa
Mattes, R., Krönke, M. & Lockwood, S. J., 24 Nov 2023, (Accepted/In press) Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy. Poguntke, T. & Hofmeister, W. (eds.). OxfordResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Jobs and UK CCUS: the constrained employment impacts of a new UK CO2 Transport and Storage Industry
Turner, K., Katris, A., Calvillo, C., Race, J. & Corbett, H., 9 Jun 2023, Glasgow: University of Strathclyde. 5 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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It takes two to toyi-toyi: one party dominance and opposition party failure in South Africa's 2019 national election
Mattes, R. & Schulz-Herzenberg, C., 6 Jun 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Democratization. 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Datasets
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parlCymru: a Dataset of Spoken Contributions from the Welsh Parliament 2016-2021
Braby, D. (Contributor) & Larner, J. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 9 Jun 2023
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/1cwewr
Dataset
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Replication Data for: "Leadership competition and disagreement at party national congresses"
Greene, Z. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 10 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/7j67ds
Dataset
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Pre-analysis plan for a survey experiment on UK party conferences
Greene, Z. (Creator) & Toner, L. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 26 May 2023
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/189k54
Dataset
Prizes
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2019 Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize
Eschle, Catherine (Recipient), May 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Academy of Science of South Africa
Mattes, Robert (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Election to learned society
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APSA STEP Emerging Young Scholar Award
Bayer, Patrick (Recipient), 23 Jun 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Nuffield College, University Of Oxford
Despina Alexiadou (Visiting researcher)
2025 → …Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
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European Political Science Association, Glasgow 2023
Despina Alexiadou (Participant)
Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organiser of major conference
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Working for Net Zero: How Do We Deliver On The Promise of Green Jobs?
Hannah Corbett (Organiser) & Karen Turner (Speaker)
9 May 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organiser of major conference
Impacts
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Increased public and media awareness of voter behaviour at elections
John Curtice (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Public understanding, information and debate
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Influencing the work of Transparency International in monitoring and reporting on global corruption through an online survey.
Richard Rose (Participant) & William Mishler (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Public understanding, information and debate
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Student theses
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Engendering "civil society"?, Discourses of women's organisations in Turkey
Author: Ozgur Keysan, A., 22 Oct 2015Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Engineering democracy : the relationship between electoral rules and political engagement
Author: Boyle, B., 2 Jun 2021Supervisor: Brandenburg, H. (Supervisor) & Borz, G. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Explaining state cooperation with the international criminal courts and tribunals
Author: Jakusova, E., 30 Jun 2016Supervisor: Rüdig, W. (Supervisor) & Yusuf, H. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis