Ruth Grove-Whiteis Policy Director at Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN) and responsible for developing the network’s responses to Government policy and legislation. She leads on MRN parliamentary work and representing the organisation in the media and at public events. Ruth graduated with an …
Study reveals that EU is part of most Europeans’ everyday life
University of York, David Garner Senior Press Officer The EU is becoming part of most Europeans’ everyday life irrespective of social class, according to a study in six countries. Data collected by researchers in six EU member states — Denmark, …
State governance for happiness of its citizens
Patrick Flavin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Baylor University. Alexander C. Pacek is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Benjamin Radcliff is Professor in the Department of Political Science …
EU support for Kurdish forces in Iraq
Brendan O’Leary has been Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania since 2003. He was an advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government during the making of Iraq’s Constitution. He was previously a Professor of Political Science at LSE, …
Serbia & Montenegro Russia’s Trojan horse into the EU?
Dimitar Bechev (D.Phil, Oxford) teaches international politics at Sofia University and is affiliated with the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. His former posts include the directorship of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ office in Bulgaria and lectureships at …
Strengthening democracy and civil society via LGBT
Omar G. Encarnación is Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, New York, where he teaches comparative politics and Iberian and Latin American studies. He is the author of Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. How …
EU & Morocco
Iván Martín is Senior Research Fellow at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Center of the European University Institute in Florence. He has followed EU-Morocco relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy for …
Central bank governors in EU & political affiliations
Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik is a visiting researcher at Leiden University. He can be contacted at: l.ennser-jedenastik@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Over recent decades it has become the norm for central banks to be made formally independent from governments and political actors. Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik writes that despite this insulation …
Independent Scotland
Norman Bonney is emeritus professor at Edinburgh Napier University. His recent publications are listed here and he tweets from @NormanBonne Scotland will hold an independence referendum on 18 September, but what would actually happen if voters opted to back independence from the UK? Norman …
Spending the European Regional Development Fund
Jale Tosun is Assistant Professor of International Comparative Political Economy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her research interests comprise a wide range of topics in comparative public policy and political economy as well as political decision-making in the European …