Prof Paul Taggart

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)

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"

• 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

Student Consultation

Mondays 10-10.50 and Fridays 10.00-10.50. **Please note that the office hour on Friday 30th November is cancelled**. Location: Friston 217

Taggart, Paul and Szczerbiak, Aleks (2012) Coming in from the cold? Euroscepticism and government participation and party positions on Europe. Journal of Common Market Studies, 51 (1). pp. 17-37. ISSN 0021-9886

Bale, Tim, van Kessel, Stijn and Taggart, Paul (2011) Thrown around with abandon? Popular understandings of populism as conveyed by the print media: a UK case study. Acta Politica, 46 (2). pp. 111-131. ISSN 0001-6810

Webb, Paul, Bale, Tim and Taggart, Paul (2011) Deliberative Versus Parliamentary Democracy in the UK: An Experimental Study. Working Paper. Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.

Szczerbiak, Aleks and Taggart, Paul (2009) EU enlargement and referendums. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415568296

Szczerbiak, Aleks and Taggart, Paul, eds. (2008) Case Studies and Country Surveys. Opposing Europe? The Comparative Politics of Euroscepticism, 1 . Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, p. 2. ISBN 9780199258307

Szczerbiak, Aleks and Taggart, Paul, eds. (2008) Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives. Opposing Europe? The Comparative Politics of Euroscepticism, 2 . Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, p. 2. ISBN 9780199258352

Taggart, Prof Paul, ed. (2008) Opposing Europe? Case Studies and Country Surveys Vol1. Oxford University Press, p. 1. ISBN 978-0-19-925830-7

Bale, Tim, Taggart, Paul and Webb, Paul (2006) You can't always get what you want: populism and the power inquiry. Political Quarterly, 77 (2). pp. 195-203. ISSN 0032-3179

Szczerbiak, Aleks and Taggart, Paul, eds. (2005) EU enlargement and referendums. Routledge, Oxon. ISBN 9780415360074

Taggart, Paul and Szczerbiak, Aleks (2002) The party politics of euroscepticism in EU member and candidate states. SEI Working Papers (51). ISSN 1350-4649

Taggart, Paul (1995) New populist parties in Western Europe. West European Politics, 18 (1). pp. 34-51. ISSN 0140-2382