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Organisation 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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Disability and Political Parties
Reher, S. (Principal Investigator)
ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)
1/12/25 → 30/11/29
Project: Research
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Disability and Political Parties / R241814
Reher, S. (Principal Investigator)
1/12/25 → 30/11/29
Project: Research - Internally Allocated
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The Contested Afterlives of Nuclear Bases
Eschle, C. (Principal Investigator)
31/03/25 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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Understanding generational shifts and democratic support in China: value change vs. life satisfaction
Chen, J., Huhe, N. & Lin, Z., 7 Dec 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Contemporary China. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Indexes, currencies, and the political economy of sovereign bond market access
Cormier, B. & Naqvi, N., 4 Dec 2025, In: International Studies Quarterly. 69, 4, 19 p., sqaf088.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Decisive or distracted: the effects of US constraint on security networks
Choi, H. E., de Marchi, S., Gallop, M. & Minhas, S., 27 Nov 2025, In: British Journal of Political Science. 55, 17 p., e169.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Datasets
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Replication Data for: Earmarked Funding and the Control-Performance Trade-Off in International Development Organizations
Heinzel, M. (Creator), Cormier, B. (Creator), Reinsberg, B. (Creator) & Heinzel, M. (Contributor), Harvard Dataverse, 13 Sept 2023
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/w0fhqx
Dataset
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ParlEE plenary speeches V3 data set: Annotated full-text of 10 million sentence-level plenary speeches of six EU legislative chambers
Sylvester, C. (Creator) & Greene, Z. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 13 Sept 2023
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ietnnb
Dataset
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Replication Data and Code for: On the effects of unilateral environmental policy on offshoring in multi-stage production processes
Schenker, O. (Creator), Löschel, A. (Creator), Koesler, S. (Creator) & Turner, K. (Other), Borealis, 13 Jun 2023
DOI: 10.5683/sp3/13jw9j, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/caje.12354
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Prizes
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2014 Giandomenico Majone Prize
Patrikios, S. (Recipient), Jun 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2019 Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize
Eschle, C. (Recipient), May 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2025 Ronald F. Inglehart Honorary Lecture Award
Mattes, R. (Recipient), 31 May 2025
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Interview about Torness nuclear power plant on BBC Radio Scotland
Turner, K. (Recipient)
12 Dec 2025Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Graeme Ramshaw
Cormier, B. (Host)
14 Nov 2025Activity: Hosting a Visitor › Hosting an external, non-academic visitor
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European Journal of International Security (Journal)
Hall, G. (Peer reviewer)
4 Nov 2025Activity: Publication Peer-Review and Editorial Work › Journal peer review
Impacts
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Increased public and media awareness of voter behaviour at elections
Curtice, J. (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.
Rose, R. (Participant) & Mishler, W. (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
Ozgur Keysan, A. (Author), 22 Oct 2015Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Engineering democracy : the relationship between electoral rules and political engagement
Boyle, B. (Author), Brandenburg, H. (Supervisor) & Borz, G. (Supervisor), 2 Jun 2021Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Explaining state cooperation with the international criminal courts and tribunals
Jakusova, E. (Author), 30 Jun 2016Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis