Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

A particular interest in EU politics that has developed from earlier teaching, research and publications in Italian, French and British politics. This has culminated in my current investigation of the notion of Europeanisation and domestic politics.

Qualifications

•  MA Kent (Comparative Politics) 1971
• BSc Econ (Government) London 1968
• Cert Ed (Further/Higher) 1969

Discipline Areas

• European Union Studies

Research CV

Current Research Projects

•  Proposed Reader editor/contributor The Europeanisation of European Politics (with Charlotte Bretherton LJMU)

Authored Books

•  British Government and Politics – Balancing Europeanization and Independence Boulder Co. Rowman and Littlefield, 2011

Edited Books

• Pushing Back the Boundaries – the EU and Central and Eastern Europe. Manchester University Press, 1999
• The Redundant Counties Ormskirk Hesketh & Co, 1984 (with D Kermode)

Journal Articles (since 2001)

• EMU and the Democratic Deficit. Politiques Européene 2003
• Act Global – think Local – the reform of Jersey government Policy and Politics 34(3) 387-406, 2006

Book Chapters (since 1999)

• The Politics of Structural Funding, in Carr F and Massie A (eds) Policy –making in the New Europe Elgar 1999
• Britain in Europe in Tiersky R ed. Europe Today Rowman & Littlefield 2004
• Regional Policy in the EU in Carr F and Massie A Policy-making in the New Europe Elgar 2006
• The Labour Party and Institutional reform of the EU in The European left and the Institutional Reform of the EU. MUP 2010

Other Publications

• The Labour Party and Institutional reform of the EU in M. Holmes et al (eds) The European left and the EU Constitution.  Manchester  MUP 2011
• E-government, Democracy and Political Change. Foreign and Commonwealth Office HMSO 2001

Grants Received (since 1999)

• Jean Monnet Chair, 1999
• Fulbright Scholarship, 2002
• Lowenstein Fellow, Politics 2005
• Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam), 2006