Research in Politics

The University of Glasgow has a long tradition of researching and teaching Politics, which dates back to the 1760s when Adam Smith gave a series of lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms.

We continue to study Politics from a broad base in close association with other social sciences (and with History, Philosophy and Law) and take a leading role in developing the discipline.

We are a centre for political research of international excellence, with long-established strengths in political theory, comparative and international politics, and European politics. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise we achieved more 'gold standard' 4* research than any other Scottish Politics department.

PhD Programme

Find out more about postgraduate research in Politics.

Current Research Projects

• Causes of Compliance: The EU and the WTO
• Crafting Electoral Authoritarianism: the Russian Case
• The Internet and Everyday Rights
• Legal Cultures in Transition
• Managed Democracy
• Performance evaluations, trust and utilization of health care in China
• The Putin Succession

Research Groups

• Citizens, Communication and Political Actors
• Global and Regional Governance
• Glasgow Human Rights Network (GHRN)
• Information Democracy Technology Network
• Social and International Theory
• Stevenson Trust for Citizenship
• Transformation

Research Centres

• Scottish Centre for China Research
• Scottish Jean Monnet Centre of European Excellence

Research Grants

• List of Grants 2001-10

Journals

• Politics (edited by Prof Jane Duckett, Dr Paul Graham and Prof Alasdair Young)
• Bulletin of Italian Politics (co-edited by Dr Maurizio Carbone)
• Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics (co-edited by Prof Stephen White)

Completed Research Projects

• Building a New Democracy
• Coloured Revolution
• Crafting Authoritarian Politics
• De Valera's Legacy and the Birth of the Celtic Tiger
• Distributive Justice and Responsibility
• European Union Trade Politics
• New Security Challenges
• New Zealand, New Politics and Mixed-Member PR
• NGOs and Health Policy in China
• Observing Russian Elections 2007-08
• Poland's Third Transition
• Safer Spaces: Communication Design for Counter Terror
• ‘The Civility of Civic Nationalism’ & ‘Inclusive and Exclusive Attitudes towards Minorities in Post-devolution Scotland’
• The Responsibility to Protect, to Prosecute or to Feed
• Ukrainian Elections of March 2006 and their Implications