Centre Members

Staff

Nick Allen

Professor of Politics

• British cabinet government
• politicians’ ethics
• electoral and party politics

Michael Bankole

Lecturer in Politics

• Political representation
• Racism
• British electoral politics

Giacomo Benedetto

Senior Lecturer in Politics

• European Union budgets
• Social democracy
• Comparative European politics

Ursula Hackett

Senior Lecturer in Politics

• American political development
• education policy
• politics of public policy

Chris Hanretty

Professor of Politics

• substantive representation
• local public opinion
• judicial behaviour

Oliver Heath

Professor of Politics

• voting behaviour
• political representation
• Indian electoral politics

Andrew Hunter

Research Fellow, Department of Psychology

• comparative politics
• political psychology
• misinformation

Chris Prosser

Lecturer in Politics

• survey methodology
• electoral participation
• political psychology

Jennifer M. Piscopo

Professor of Gender and Politics

• gender politics
• legislative politics
• Latin America

Miriam Sorace

Lecturer in Public Opinion

• public opinion
• quantitative research methods
• European political behaviour

James Sloam

Professor of Politics

• youth politics
• electoral participation
• environmental politics

Kaat Smets

Senior Lecturer in Politics (Quantitative Methods)

• electoral participation
• age differences in political behaviour
• attitude change

Joost van Spanje

Professor of Politics

• new parties
• militant democracy
• political speech

PhD Students

Administrative Support

The Democracy and Elections Centre operates out of the Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway.