Team Leader: Dario Castiglione is the Director of the Centre for Political Thought at the University of Exeter. His main fields of interest are political and democratic theory and the history of early modern political philosophy. He has published on democratic theory, civil society, and social capital; on citizenship and constitutionalism in Europe; and on early modern political philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Currently, his main research interests are on theories of political representation and political legitimacy. He has been involved in many European research projects and international research networks. He was the academic editor of the ECPR Press from 2009 to 2015.
University webpage: https://politics.exeter.ac.uk/staff/castiglione/
The Centre for Political Thought at Exeter: https://politics.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/cpt/
Lise Esther Herman is Senior Lecturer in Politics. Her research bridges the fields of comparative politics, party studies and normative democratic theory, with a primary focus on the theory and practice of democratic partisanship. Specifically, she is interested in the role of partisan agency in contemporary democratic deficits, and in the politicization of democracy by both populist and non-populist actors. Current research projects include a mixed-method analysis of the positions of Members of the European Parliament on rule of law backsliding in the EU, and a comparative study of political debates around citizen participation and democratic innovations in France and the United Kingdom. Her first monograph, Democratic Partisanship: Party Activism in an Age of Democratic Crises, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.
University webpage: https://politics.exeter.ac.uk/staff/herman/
Oliver James is a Professor of Political Science, focusing on topics in public policy including: citizen-state relations (especially participation in policy-making and implementation), evaluation in the policy process, digital technology and public services. His research includes using behavioural techniques to encourage citizen and user participation and cooperation to achieve policy outcomes with methods including survey and field experiments, especially using online tools. Current interests particularly focus on citizen-state relations in policy areas including local government and communities, the environment (especially citizen participation in nature and biodiversity policy and programmes), citizenship and taxation, public health and education. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules at Exeter including topics in public policy, British and comparative politics, quantitative methods and on the Exeter MSc in Public Policy and MPA programmes.
Twitter: @_Oliver_James_
University webpage: https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/james/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=DSD56zwAAAAJ&hl=en
Alice Moseley is a Senior Lecturer in Politics, specialising in public policy & administration, with research interests in behavioural public policy, public and stakeholder engagement in the policy process, and knowledge co-production. Her recent work explores the role of institutional mechanisms to facilitate deliberative engagement over contested policy issues, and their integration within representative politics, especially related to climate change. She is an officer of the UK’s Public Administration Committee and serves on the Editorial Board of Teaching Public Administration.
University webpage: https://politics.exeter.ac.uk/staff/moseley/
Andrew Schaap works in contemporary political theory, with a particular focus on democratic theory. His current research interests include twentieth century political thought, political representation and the politics of civility. He is particularly interested in the relation between representative claim-making and constituent power, which he has written about in the context of debates about the Aboriginal land rights struggle in Australia. Andrew is the author of Political Reconciliation (2003) and has edited books on Hannah Arendt, Law and Agonistic Politics and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
University webpage: https://politics.exeter.ac.uk/staff/schaap/