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/