Research summary

My current research focuses on:

• coalition politics,

• legislative politics,

• parliamentary institutions,

• institutional change in European parliamentary democracies.

My research interests include:

Government, Constitutions, Institutions and Governments, Comparative Politics and Government, Institutions and organisations, Legislatures, Parliaments

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• Introduction to Politics (Prelims)

I am Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Hugh’s College. Previously, I was the Director of the Latin American Centre.

I am currently serving as Head of the Social Sciences Division. Since 2005, I have held a joint appointment between the Department of Politics & International Relations and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA), wherein I am based at the Latin American Centre.

Paul Chaisty is Professor of Russian and East European Politics. He joined the Department of Politics and International Relations and OSGA in 2005, following a three-year appointment in Politics at Pembroke College, Oxford. His research interests cover legislative, party and interest group politics in post-communist Russia; political attitudes in Russia; nationalism in Russia and Ukraine; and comparative presidentialism. His latest book with Stephen Whitefield is entitled How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation.

Tena Prelec (PhD, Sussex University, School of Law, Politics and Sociology) is a Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford. Her research focuses, broadly, on issues of good governance and anti-corruption, with a specific focus on how transnational kleptocracy is enabled by the global financial architecture.

I am the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. Previously I was an associate professor of philosophy at St John’s College, Oxford, and before that a lecturer in philosophy at University College London.

I completed my BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford, and before that I did a BA at Yale. I work on topics in political philosophy, epistemology, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy.

I joined Oxford in September 2012 from Warwick where I was Associate Professor of Political Theory. Before that I was Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Reading and at Manchester and a Barbara McCoy Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. I studied PPE at New College and completed my MPhil and DPhil at Nuffield College. I grew up in Warsaw.

Professional Activities

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Subject co-Editor (Social and Political Philosophy)

Philosophy and Public Affairs Associate Editor