James makes a compelling case that election administration matters, that it can affect turnout or electoral outcomes, and that party elites seek to manipulate election administration to further their own interests.
André Blais, Université de Montréal
A very important contribution to the theoretical debate about European integration and Europeanization ... the definitive account of how European air transport has been deregulated.
Professor Martin Staniland, University of Pittsburgh

Researchers include: Alan Finlayson, Toby James, Hussein Kassim, John Street, John Turnpenny

Current projects include:

  • Analytical Tools and Policy Venues (Turnpenny)
  • Effects of Performance Monitoring Schemes on Election Administration (James)
  • The European Commission in Question (Kassim)
  • Ideology and Policies in British Politics (Finlayson)
  • EU State Aid Policy: The Current Crisis and Beyond (Kassim)
  • Methods for Assessing National Political Leaders (James)
  • National Competition Policy Regimes (Kassim)
  • National Coordination of EU Policy (Kassim)
  • Policy Analysis and Rhetoric (Finlayson)

Recent books include:

James, Toby (2012) Elite Statecraft and Election Administration, Palgrave Macmillan

Hanretty, Chris (2011) Public Broadcasting and Political Interference, Routledge

Kassim, Hussein (2010) Air Transport and the European Union. Europeanization and its Limits, Palgrave

Kassim, Hussein et al forthcoming, The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century, Oxford University Press

Comment

Chris Hanretty ‘Public service broadcasting's continued rude health', 25 April 2012, British Academy symposium

Hussein Kassim ‘Putting myths to the test', European Voice, 1 March 2012'

Events

The Too Difficult Box

UEA Policy Briefings

Media and Politics

Orwell Lecture

The Coalition at One

Links

ESRC Centre for Competition Policy

media@UEA

Science, Society and Sustainability

The Tyndall Centre