Post:	Head of Department
Other posts:	Professor of Politics
Location:	Friston Building FR-217
Email:	P.A.Taggart@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8292 or 8578
UK:	(01273) 678292 or (01273) 678578
International:	+44 1273 678292 or +44 1273 678578

Biography

Paul Taggart is Professor of Politics in the Sussex European Institute, Head of Department for Politics and Contemporary European Studies, and Jean Monnet Chair, Editor of Government and Opposition, former Editor of the journal Politics, co-Convenor (with Prof. Aleks Szczerbiak) of the European Referendums, Elections and Parties Network (EPERN).  He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Gothenberg and Sarajevo and is a visiting scholar at the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University.

Role

Head of Department, Politics and Contemporary European Studies

Jean Monnet Chair

Editor, Government and Opposition http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0017-257x

Co-Convenor European Parties Elections and Referendums Network (EPERN) (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/1-4-2.html)

Research

European political parties; Euroscepticism; the domestic politics of European integration; populism

 Current Research Students:

• Amy Busby "An ethnography exploring the behaviour of MEP's and the culture of the European Parliament"
• John FitzGibbon "Explaining the Emergence of Eurosceptic Protest Movement Formation in Contemporary Europe: A Comparative Approach"
• Martine Huberty "Punching Above Its Weight? Luembourg and the European Union"
• Ariadna Ripoll Servent "The Politics of Co-Decision in Justice and Home Affairs"
• Peter Simmons "The Changing Nature of EU Conditionality: A Comparative Study"
• Stijn van Kessel "Path to Populism, The Ideologies of Populist Parties in Europe"

Teaching

• Populism and Politics
• Domestic Politics of European Integration
• Comparative Politics of Western Europe
• Comparative Political Parties and Party Systems
• Comparative Method
• Politics of Governance: USA

 

Publications

Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak (eds.) Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism: Volume 1: Case Studies and Country Surveys (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak (eds.) Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism: Volume 2: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives (Oxford University Press,  2008)

'Europeanisation, Euroscepticism and Party Systems: Party-Based Euroscepticism in the Candidate States of Central and Eastern Europe' Perspectives on European Politics and Society 2002 Vol.3, No.1, pp.23-41. (with Aleks Szczerbiak)

'Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics' in Yves Meny and Yves Surel (eds.) Democracies and the Populist Challenge Palgrave, 2002.

'The Party Politics of Euroscepticism in EU Member and Candidate States' OERN Working Paper No 6, April 2002(with Aleks Szczerbiak).

'Parties, Positions and Europe: Euroscepticism in the EU Candidate States of Central and Eastern Europe¿ OERN Working Paper No 2, May 2001.(with Aleks Szczerbiak)

'Opposing Europe: Party Systems and Opposition to the Union, the Euro and Europeanisation' Sussex European Institute Working Paper No.36. 2000

Populism Open University Press, 2000

'A Touchstone of Dissent: Euroscepticism in Contemporary Western European Party Systems' European Journal of Political Research 1998 Vol.33: 363-388

The New Populism and the New Politics : new protest parties in Sweden in a comparative perspective. Macmillan, London. 1996

"New populist parties in Western Europe." West European Politics. 18:1 1995.

Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak 'Contemporary Euroscepticism in the Party Systems of the EU Candidate States of Central and Eastern Europe' European Journal of Political Research forthcoming 2004

Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak 'Supporting the Union? Euroscepticism and Domestic Politics of European Integration' in Maria Green Cowles and Desmond Dinan (ed.) Developments in the European Union 2 (Palgrave, 2004)