I am an Associate Professor in Politics (CUF) and Fellow and Praelector in Politics at The Queen's College. For the Department, I provide undergraduate lectures and classes, mostly in British political history and modern British politics and government, and supervise graduate students in the fields of modern British politics and government, political history and the politics and history of modern social movements.
I am a Professor in the Politics of China in the Department of Politics (DPIR) and the University of Oxford China Centre, and Tutor in the Politics of China at Merton College. I am currently a Council Member of the British Association for Chinese Studies, having previously served as a member of the East and Inner Asia Council (EAIC, formerly CIAC-- China-Inner Asia Council) of the Association for Asian Studies.
Stathis N. Kalyvas is Gladstone Professor of Government and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford. Until 2018 he was Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he founded and directed the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence and co-directed the Hellenic Studies Program. In 2019 he founded and directs the T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence at All Souls College.
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
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.
