Staff Profile

Development politics, with particular reference to poverty, inequality and democratic governance in developing societies. This comparative study focuses on the political effects of poverty and inequality, as an obstacle for democratic governance in developing societies, seeking to evaluate EU's policies towards developing democracies within that framework.

Political parties and political communication in new democracies. At present, conducting a two-year project on 'Political Communication in New Democracies: Government-Media Relationships in Transition' with colleagues from the universities of Leeds, Newcastle and Hohenheim, funded by the British Academy.

• Party and non-party actors in Latin American electoral politics. Lecture Series, Paper No. 7, Institute of the Americas, London, 2007
• Chile's new politics: the difficult arrival of the outsider, Working Papers in International Studies, Centre for International Studies, Dublin City University, November 2007 http://www.dcu.ie/~cis/PDF/publications/2007_3.pdf
• Elections and democratic engagement: a Best Value Review report, Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, 2005.
• ‘Electoral campaigning and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America: The Southern Cone’, in Katrin Voltmer (ed) Political Communication, the Mass Media and the Consolidation of New Democracies, London, Routledge/ECPR, 2006, pp 115-32.
• (with Ronnie Munck) Employment policies in Ireland, 2006.
• Employment policies in the UK, 2006.
• 'Chile's New Era', OpenDemocracy, 16 January 2006, http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/chile_election_3181.jsp
• 'Latin America: The Year of the Ballot', OpenDemocracy, 30 December 2005, http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/futurology_3153.jsp#17
• 'Michelle Bachelet: a break with Chile's male-dominated politics', OpenDemocracy, 6 December 2005, http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/chile_bachelet_3097.jsp
• (with Martin Bull) 'European universities in a global ranking of political science departments: a comment on Hix', European Political Science, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2005, pp. 27-9.
• (with Fabio García) 'Spain', in Juliet Lodge (ed) The 2004 Elections to the European Parliament, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp 230-8.
• (with María Laura Tagina) 'De los consultores a los cacerolazos: la campaña presidencial de 2003 en Argentina', in Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político (eds) La política en un mundo incierto: representación, gobernabilidad democrática e inclusión social, Buenos Aires, SAAP, 2004, (CD).
• 'Partidos, campañas y democratización en el Cono Sur de Latinoamérica', in Manuel Alcántara and Elena Martínez-Barahona (eds) Política, dinero e institucionalización partidista en America Latina, Mexico City, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2003, pp. 159-92.
• 'Professionalised campaigning and political parties in Latin America', Journal of Political Marketing, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2002, pp. 65-81.
• 'Political parties and democratization in the Southern Cone of Latin America', Democratization, Vol. 9, No. 3, Autumn 2002, pp. 109-30.
• 'No change in Uruguay: the 1999 presidential and parliamentary elections', Electoral Studies, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2001, pp. 649-57.

• Convenor, Standing Group on Latin American Politics of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
• Convenor, European Network on Poverty and Democracy (ENPD)
• Member of the editorial boards of América Latina Hoy: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Cahiers Cercal, Cahiers des Amériques Latines, Estudios Internacionales, Global Society, Journal of Political Marketing, Política.