Prof Shamit Saggar

Biography

Currently Professor of Political Science at the University of Sussex. Director of Doctoral Studies. Convenor, MA in European Politics. On Secondment to HM Government Jan-Dec 2013 based at DCMS.

Previously Senior Policy Advisor in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office; Reader in Political Behaviour at Queen Mary, University of London; Harkness Fellow at UCLA; Yale World Fellow at Yale University; and Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

Interests/publications Professor Saggar's main interests lie in public policy, regulation, international migration, ethnic pluralism and political participation.

Professor Saggar has published widely on migration, public policy, political participation, regulation, ethnic pluralism, and radical Islam and violent extremism. His latest book, Pariah Politics: Western Radical Islam and What Should be Done, was published in paperback by Oxford in 2011.

His external activities include:

• Solicitors Regulation Authority, Non-Executive Director
• Law Society Legal Complaints Board, Chairman 
• National Asylum Commission, Commissioner
• Better Regulation Commission, Commissioner
• Financial Services Authority, Non-Executive Director
• National Consumer Council, Non-Executive Director
• Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, Non-Executive Director
• Peabody Trust, Governor
• Accountancy Foundation Ethics Standards Board, Non-Executive Director
• Institute for Citizenship, Advisory Council
• Foreign Policy Centre Global Britons Programme, Advisory Council
• Foreign Policy Centre/British Council European Inclusion Index, Senior Advisor
• Royal National Institute for the Blind, Advisory Council
• RSA Migration Commission, Commissioner

He has also held adjunct and advisory roles with Demos, the Institute for Public Policy Research, Policy Network and the Fabians.

Research Supervision

Any topic, broadly conceived, from the list of the current interests:

• Migration
• Public policy
• Political and civic participation
• Regulation
• Ethnic Pluralism
• Radical extremism

ENDS

Role

Professor of Political Science

(On leave Jan-Dec 2013)

Community and Business

Professor Saggar's external activities include:

• Solicitors Regulation Authority, Non-Executive Director
• Law Society Legal Complaints Board, Chairman 
• National Asylum Commission, Commissioner
• Better Regulation Commission, Commissioner
• Financial Services Authority, Non-Executive Director
• National Consumer Council, Non-Executive Director
• Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, Non-Executive Director
• Peabody Trust, Governor
• Accountancy Foundation Ethics Standards Board, Non-Executive Director
• Institute for Citizenship, Advisory Council
• Foreign Policy Centre Global Britons Programme, Advisory Council
• Foreign Policy Centre/British Council European Inclusion Index, Senior Advisor
• Royal National Institute for the Blind, Advisory Council
• RSA Migration Commission, Commissioner

Current research interests and expertise:

• Public Policy
• Regulation
• Migration
• Electoral Behaviour
• Ethnic Pluralism
• Social Capital
• Social Exclusion
• Religious Extremism
• Labour Markets

Professor Saggar's teaching includes:

* Contemporary Public Policy (BA) 

* Explanatory Concepts in Political Science (BA)

* Comparative Politics (BA)

* Regulatory Politics (BA)

* Politics of Race and Ethnicity (BA)

* Migration and Politics (MA)

* Politics and Public Policy (MA)

Student Consultation

Office Hours: Tuesday, 12-1. Wednesday 1-2 (by appointment). SS

Saggar, Shamit (2010) What do voters want from leaders on immigration? In: Performance politics: Building public confidence in immigration policy, 13 December 2010, Westminster, UK.

Saggar, Shamit (2010) Immigration as performance politics. In: Immigration under Labour. Prospect, Institute for Public Policy Research, London, pp. 42-44.

Saggar, Shamit (2010) Regulation, equality and the public interest. In: Options for Britain II: cross cutting policy issues - changes and challenges. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester. ISBN 9781444333954

The Speaker,, Saggar, Shamit, Childs, Sarah, Gradwell, Lorraine and Whiteley, Paul (2010) Speaker's conference (on parliamentary representation): final report. Discussion Paper. The Stationery Office, London.

Saggar, Shamit (2010) Will a Conservative vision for community cohesion work? In: Conservatism and community cohesion: a perspective by Dominic Grieve QC MP. Runnymede Perspectives . Runnymade, London, pp. 18-20. ISBN 9781906732356

Saggar, Shamit (2009) Book review: Reflections on the revolution in Europe by Christopher Caldwell, 2009. International Affairs, 85 (6). pp. 1258-1259. ISSN 0020-5850

Saggar, Shamit (2009) Race and political behaviour. In: The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior. Oxford Handbooks Online. ISBN 9780199566013

Saggar, Shamit (2009) Boomerangs and slingshots: radical Islamism and counter-terrorism strategy. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35 (3). pp. 381-402. ISSN 1369-183X

Saggar, Shamit and Uberoi, Varun (2009) Diversity and extremism. In: Options for a new Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230574854

Saggar, Shamit (2009) Pariah politics: understanding Western radical Islamism and what should be done. Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York. ISBN 9780199558131

Saggar, Shamit (2009) A commentary on global migration and modern regulation. In: Migration, public opinion and politics: the transatlantic council on migration. Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh, pp. 344-352. ISBN 9783867930406

Saggar, Shamit (2009) Book Review: Immigration under new labour, by Will Somerville. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35 (6). pp. 1056-1057. ISSN 1369-183X

Saggar, Shamit (2009) Shamit Saggar, University of Sussex: Response. In: International affairs Forum: "Tackling the terrorist threat in Britain", 2009, Online.

Saggar, Shamit (2008) Regulation, equality and the Public Interest. Political Quarterly, 79 (S1). pp. 82-99. ISSN 0032-3179

Saggar, Shamit (2008) Response to International Affairs Forum. In: Tackling the terrorist threat in Britain, Online.

Clarke, Kimberly (ed), Saggar, Shamit and Ladbury, Sarah (2007) Civil paths to peace: report of the Commonwealth Commission on respect and understanding. Project Report. Commonwealth Secretariat, London.

Saggar, Shamit (2007) Race and political behaviour. In: The Oxford handbook of political behaviour. The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science . Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, pp. 504-517. ISBN 9780199270125

Saggar, Shamit (2006) The one per cent world: managing the myth of muslim religious extremism. Political Quarterly, 77 (3). pp. 314-327. ISSN 0032-3179