Professor Giovanni Capoccia awarded John Fell OUP Research Grant

Professor Giovanni Capoccia has been awarded a grant from the John Fell OUP Research Fund for his project, Political Geography and Institutional Design. Shaping political participation in post-authoritarian democracies. The grant will run from 1 August 2011 until 31 July 2012.

This project seeks to test a new approach to the analysis of the origins of electoral institutions, focusing on sub-national variation in socio-economic conditions and its influence on the politics of institutional design at the national level.