Governance and Political Organisations
Core research foci:
- Africa and Asia
- Britain, Europe, the EU and North America
- Political communication and electoral processes
- The policy-making process
- Democratic governance
- Social and political involvement (social capital)
- Party systems
- Interest group politics
- Europeanization
- Environmental politics
The Cluster serves as co-host for the Jean Monnet Centre at Newcastle University (see http://research.ncl.ac.uk/jeanmonnet/index.html); the Centre has the role of facilitating EU research throughout the HASS Faculty as well as the wider region. As co-host to the Centre, Politics normally co-hosts at least one research seminar on European integration studies per year and one session involving an EU practitioner per year.
The co-ordinator of this cluster is Tony Zito