Far right and authoritarianism
Prof Stijn van Kessel
Stijn is Professor of Comparative Politics. He is co-author of Populist Radical Right Parties in Action. The Survival of the Mass Party and The Failure of Remain: anti-Brexit activism in the United Kingdom and author of Populist Parties in Europe: Agents of Discontent?
Stijn’s main research interests are in populism, the radical right, Euroscepticism and the wider politics of European integration. More generally Stijn's expertise includes elections and party competition, party system change in Europe, and democratic backsliding. His recent research has focused on the organisation and internal life of populist radical right parties, the consequences of Brexit, and pro-European social movements.
Prof Jean-François Drolet
Jean-François is a Professor in Politics and International Relations, working at the intersection of political theory, international relations and intellectual history. He has published extensively on the political theory and international political thought of the Right in North America and Europe.
He was one of the leading co-investigators of the research project Global Right established in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, Canada and is co-author of World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and World Order (2024).
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Prof Tim Bale
Tim is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary and one of the most respected commentators on British politics. He is an expert in political parties and their membership, grassroots campaigning and the politics of immigration.
He is the author of The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation and co-author of The British General Election of 2024.
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Dr Richard Saull
Rick is a Reader in International Politics. He is co-editor, with Alexander Anievas, of The Far-Right in World Politics (2024) and author of Capital, Race and Space, Volume One: The Far-Right from Bonapartism to Fascism (2023) and Volume Two: The Far-Right from ‘Post-Fascism to Trumpism (2023).
His recent work focuses on far-right social and political movements, examining the ways in which the capitalist political economy of the international system has conditioned the historical rise and contemporary development of such movements.
Rick has expertise in the historical evolution of the far-right from the middle of the nineteenth century up to the contemporary era, the European far-right and the relationship between the far-right and neoliberalism. Rick's research interests also include the history of the Cold War and the French Revolution.
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- Email: r.g.saull@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Yunyun Zhou
Yunyun is a Lecturer in Politics and Gender. She is a political sociologist with expertise in gender and authoritarianism, representation, political institution, nationalism, and the politics of affects.
Yunyun has expertise in topics including gender lobbying and legislation, substantive political representation, institutional change, state feminism, and authoritarianism, particularly in East Asia and China.
Dr Emilia Simison
Emilia is Lecturer in Latin American Politics. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of policymaking and policy change. Using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods, her research analyses how political institutions across regime types shape the extent to which citizens and interest groups influence policymaking, and how that affects policy outputs.
Emilia's expertise includes political economy, political institutions, authoritarian politics, Latin American politics and public policy.
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Dr Corina Lacatus
Corina is a Senior Lecturer in Global Governance. She is an expert in international co-operation and global governance, focusing on the influence that international organisations like the United Nations and the European Union have on domestic institutions, politics, and societies.
Her research has explored different areas of policy-making and practice, including the governance of care for migrants, social exclusion and vulnerability, south-to-north and south-to-south migration, human rights institutions, peace agreements and human rights after conflict, and corruption control. She also has expertise in political communication, focusing on the formation and strategic uses of electoral rhetoric to advance populist political agendas.
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- Email: c.lacatus@qmul.ac.uk
Prof Javier Sajuria
Javier is Professor of Comparative Politics. His research interests include political behaviour, comparative politics, social media and politics, and political methodology.
Javier's expertise includes party members and campaigning; parliamentary candidates (selection, campaigning, localism, independent candidates); polling and public opinion; populism and the impact of misinformation.
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Prof Ray Kiely
Ray is Professor of International Politics.
He has published in the following broad areas: the Politics of the World Economy; Right wing political theory; Politics, Knowledge and the Culture Wars; development and post-development theory; East Asian politics; Caribbean politics; comparative industrialisations with particular reference to East Asia; neo-liberalism and structural adjustment; globalisation and development; international labour, labour standards and international trade unionism; international capital flows; poverty and inequality; US imperialism and globalisation; neo-conservatism and liberal imperialism; cosmopolitanism; anti-globalisation and the ‘global justice movement; China and globalisation.
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Dr Ksenia Northmore-Ball
Ksenia is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics. Her research interests span comparative politics and political behaviour particularly in the context of Eastern European new democracies as well as Russia.
Her research applies advanced statistical methods to areas including voter turnout, political and economic inequality, authoritarian legacies, and political socialization in new democracies. She has expertise in voter turnout and political socialization in the context of regime change in post-communist Eastern Europe and other new democracies, religion and politics in Eastern Europe and the perceptions of the left and right in new democracies.