| Post: | Reader in Politics |
| Location: | Friston Building FR-215 |
| Email: | D.T.Hough@sussex.ac.uk |
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Biography
Dan Hough graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1997. On leaving the North-East he headed for the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham to complete his PhD. Following the completion of his doctoral studies in 2000 he spent another two years in Birmingham working on a Leverhulme Trust funded research project with Charlie Jeffery and then as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow. He then moved to the University of Nottingham for a year before joining the department in the Autumn of 2003.
Dan is the department's exams officer and he sits on SOCCUL's Student Support and Development Committee. If Dan is not in his office then he is likely either to be watching Shrewsbury Town Football Club or playing cricket for Twickenham CC.
2009- Reader in Politics, University of Sussex
2006-2009 Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sussex
2003-2006 Lecturer in Politics, University of Sussex
2002-03 Lecturer in Politics, University of Nottingham
2001-02 ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
2000-01 Research Assistant on a Leverhulme Trust funded project with Professor Charlie Jeffery, University of Birmingham
1997-2000 PhD, University of Birmingham
1995-96 University of Leipzig, Germany
1993-1997 BA (Hons), University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Research
Comparative Politics, German Politics, The GDR/East Germany, Party Politics, Political Corruption, Electoral Behaviour, Post-Communist Politics
RESEARCH FUNDING
DAAD Research Grant ('Study Visits for Academics'), November-December 2009, Euro 3,990.
British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, German Studies Association Conference Minneapolis/St Paul, October 2008, £500.
Nuffield Foundation Small Grant, 'Party Formation in Theory and Practice: The Party of the Left in Germany', March 2006 - August 2006, £2,568.
ESRC Small Grant, 'Government Participation and the De-Radicalisation of Left-Wing Populist Parties', January 2005 - February 2006, £44,613.
Co-applicant, Leverhulme Trust funded project on 'Policy Transfer and Programmatic Change in the Communist Successor Parties of East Central Europe', March 2002 - June 2003, £107,000.
Teaching
UNDERGRADUATE
Winner of the PSA's Bernard Crick Award for Outstanding Teaching, New Entrants Prize, 2005.
Political Change: Modern Germany
Political Governance: Modern Germany
Political Corruption
Research Skills and Methods in Political Science
POSTGRADUATE
West European Politics (option)
Post-War Germany (option)
Publications
Monographs
The Left Party in Contemporary German Politics (with Michael Koss and Jonathan Olsen) (London: Palgrave, 2007). Nominated for the Political Studies Association's 'Book of the Year' award in 2008.
The Politics of the New Germany (with Simon Green, Alister Miskimmon and Graham Timmins) (London: Routledge, 2007).
The Fall and Rise of the PDS in Eastern Germany, 1989-2000 (Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 2002).
Edited Volumes
Left Parties in National Governments (with Jonathan Olsen and Michael Koss, eds) (London: Palgrave, 2010).
Germany at 60: Stability and Success, Problems and Challenges (with Emil Kirchner, eds), Special Issue of German Politics, 19 (1), Spring 2010.
Devolution and Electoral Politics: A Comparative Exploration (with Charlie Jeffery, eds.) (Manchester: MUP, 2006).
Policy Transfer and the Communist Successor Parties of East Central Europe (with James Sloam and William E. Paterson, eds.) (London: Routledge, 2005).
Multi-level Electoral Competition: Regional Elections and Party Systems in Decentralised States (with Charlie Jeffery and Michael Keating, eds.), Special Issue of Journal of European Urban and Regional Studies, 10 (3), Summer 2003.
Selected Other Publications
2010
'Towards an analytical framework for party mergers - operationalising the cases of the German Left Party and the Dutch GroenLinks' (with Charlie Lees and Dan Keith), West European Politics, 33, 2010, forthcoming.
'From pariah to prospective partner? The German Left Party's winding path towards government', in Left Parties in National Governments (Jonathan Olsen, Dan Hough and Michael Koss, eds) (London: Palgrave, 2010), forthcoming.
'A Regional(ist) Party in Denial? The German PDS and its Arrival in Unified Germany' (with Michael Koss), in Eve Hepburn (ed.), New Challenges for Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties (London: Routledge, 2010), forthcoming.
'Conclusion: Left parties in National Governments', in Jonathan Olsen, Dan Hough and Michael Koss (eds.), Left Parties in National Governments (London: Palgrave, 2010), forthcoming.
'Germany at 60: Stability and Success, Problems and Challenges' (with Emil Kirchner), German Politics, 19 (1), 2010, forthcoming.
2009
'A Regional(ist) Party in Denial? The German PDS and its Arrival in Unified Germany' (with Michael Koss), in Regional and Federal Studies, 19 (4/5), 2009: 579-593.
'Populism Personified or Reinvigorated Reformers? The German Left Party in 2009 and Beyond' (with Michael Koss), in German Politics and Society, 27 (2), 2009: 76-91.
'Understanding Elections in Scotland and Wales after Devolution' (with Charlie Jeffery), in Party Politics, 15 (2), March 2009: 219-240.
'A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing or a Gift from Heaven? Left-Left Coalitions in Comparative Perspective', (with Tania Verge) in Regional and Federal Studies, 19 (1), 2009: 37-55.
'Small Parties and the Normalisation of the German Party System', in James Sloam, Alister Miskimmon and William E. Paterson (eds.): The German Crisis and the 2005 Election (London: Palgrave, 2009), pp.140-158.
'Stable instability? Party Competition and Electoral Politics in Germany' (with Michael Koss) in Bart Maddens and Wilfried Swenden (eds.), Territorial Party Politics in Western Europe (London: Palgrave, 2009), pp. 47-62.
2008
'Politicising Migration: Opportunity or Liability for the Centre-Right in Germany?' (with Christina Boswell), in Tim Bale (ed.): Immigration and Integration Policy in Europe: Why Politics - and the Centre-Right - Matter (London: Routledge, 2008).
'Politicising Migration: Opportunity or Liability for the Centre-Right in Germany?' (with Christina Boswell), in Journal of European Public Policy, 15 (3), 2008: 331-348.
'Different Road Maps, Similar Paths? Social Democratic Politics in the UK and Germany' (with James Sloam) in Simon Green and Ed Turner (eds.): Policy Convergence in the UK and Germany: Beyond the Third Way? (London: Routledge, 2008), pp.26-38.
2007
'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright: SPD-Left Party/PDS Coalitions in the Eastern German Länder' (with Jonathan Olsen), in German Politics and Society, 25 (3), 2007: 1-24.
'Different Road Maps, Similar Paths? Social Democratic Politics in the UK and Germany' (with James Sloam) in German Politics, 16 (1), March 2007, 1-13.
'Diplomats in Tracksuits? Sport and the GDR. An Introduction', in GFL, 2, 2007: 117-142.
'Die Linkspartei.PDS nach der Bundestagswahl 2005: Die ostdeutschen Landesverbaende als Hort des Pragmatismus?' (with Michael Koss), in Deutschland Archiv, 40 (1), 2007: 11-19.
'Italy and Germany's Presidency of the European Union' (with Lucia Quaglia), in Foreign Policy in Dialogue, 8 (21), February 2007: 37-44.
2006
'Landesparteien in vergleichender Perspektive: Die Linkspartei.PDS zwischen Regierungsverantwortung und Opposition' (with Michael Koss) in Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 37 (2), Summer 2006: 312-332.
'Between a Rock and many Hard Places - The PDS and Government Participation in the Eastern German Laender' (with Michael Koss), in German Politics, 15 (1), March 2006: 27-52.
'Zurück in die Zukunft? Die Linkspartei.PDS und die Verlockungen des Populismus' (with Michael Koss) in Uwe Jun, Henry Kreikenbom and Viola Neu (eds.): Kleine Parteien im Aufwind (Wiesbaden: Campus 2006), pp. 179-200.
'Germany: An Erosion of Federal-Laender Linkages?' (with Charlie Jeffery), in Dan Hough and Charlie Jeffery (eds.): Devolution and Electoral Politics (Manchester: MUP, 2006), pp. 119-139.
'An Introduction to Multi-Level Electoral Politics' (with Charlie Jeffery), in Dan Hough and Charlie Jeffery (eds.): Devolution and Electoral Politics (Manchester: MUP, 2006), pp. 2-13.
'Devolution and Electoral Politics: Where Does the UK fit in?' (with Charlie Jeffery), in Dan Hough and Charlie Jeffery (eds.): Devolution and Electoral Politics (Manchester: MUP, 2006), pp. 248-256.
2005
'Learning from the West: Policy Transfer and Programmatic Change in the Communist Successor Parties of East-Central-Europe', in Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 21 (1), Spring 2005: 1-15.
'The programmatic development of the eastern German PDS: Learning what from whom and under what conditions?, in Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 21 (1), March 2005: 142-160.
'Third Ways or New Ways? The Social Democratic Left in East Central Europe', in Political Quarterly, 76 (2), April 2005: 253-263.
'Die Linke in Zentraleuropa: Herausforderungen und Moeglichkeiten', in Michael Brie and Cornelia Hildebrandt (eds.): The Radical Left in Europe (Berlin: Dietz, 2005), pp. 384-403.
2004
'The (Post-) Communist Left and the European Union: The Czech KSCM and the German PDS' (with Vladimir Handl), in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 37 (3), September 2004: 319-339.
'Wahlverhalten und Parteienwettbewerb in regionalisierten Staaten' (with Charlie Jeffery), in Matthias Chardon (ed.) Jahrbuch des Foederalismus: Foederalismus, Subsidiaritaet und Regionen in Europa (Baden Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2004), pp. 49-66.
2003
'Landtagswahlen: Bundestestwahlen oder Regionalwahlen?' (with Charlie Jeffery) in Zeitschrift fuer Parlamentsfragen, 34 (1), Spring 2003, 79-94.
'Regional Elections in Multi-Level Systems' (with Charlie Jeffery), European Urban and Regional Studies, 10 (3), July 2003: 199-212.
'Introduction. Multi-Level Electoral Competition: Elections and Parties in Decentralised States' (with Charlie Jeffery), European Urban and Regional Studies, 10 (3), July 2003: 195-198.
''It's the East Stupid!' Eastern Germany and the Outcome of the 2002 Bundestagswahl', Representation, 39 (2), 2003: 57-65.
'Elections in Multi-Level Systems: Lessons for the UK from Abroad' (with Charlie Jeffery), in Robert Hazell (ed.): The State of the Nations (Thorverton: Imprint Academic, 2003).
2002
'The PDS and the Concept of the Volkspartei', in German Politics and Society, 20 (4), Winter 2002: 27-47.
'East German Identity and Party Politics', in Jonathan Grix and Paul Cooke (eds.): East German Distinctiveness in Unified Germany (Birmingham: BUP, 2002), pp. 99-118.
'Regionalwahlen in Mehr-Ebenen-Systemen' (With Charlie Jeffery), in Thomas Conzelmann and Michele Knodt (eds.): Regionales Europa, Europaeisierte Regionen: Mannheimer Jahrbuch fuer europaeische Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, Band 6, 2002), pp. 213-237.
'Das deutsche Parteiensystem aus britischer Perspektive' (with William Paterson and Simon Green), in Reinhard C. Maier-Walser (ed.): Kampf um die politische Mitte (Munich: HSS, 2002), pp. 268-281.
2001
'The Electoral Cycle and Multi-Level Voting in Germany' (with Charlie Jeffery), in German Politics, 10 (2), August 2001: 73-98.
'Die PDS: Ein Zeichen Ostdeutscher Andersartigkeit', in Deutschland Archiv, March/April 2001, 34 (2): 284-287.
'The PDS and the SPD's Dilemma of Governance in the Eastern German Laender' (with Jonathan Grix), in Politics, 21 (3), September 2001: 159-168.
2000
''Made in Eastern Germany': The PDS and the Articulation of Eastern German Interests', in German Politics, 9 (2), August 2000: 125-148.
'Social Transformation and the Creation of a Regional Party: The PDS as a Regional Actor in Eastern Germany', in Space and Polity, 4 (1), May 2000: 57-75.