Research

Recent Externally funded projects
2001-2002 ‘The State of Democracy in Scotland and Scandinavia’ Principal Investigator: David Arter
The project involved three workshops involving academics from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, which were funded jointly by the ESRC and the national research councils of the four mainland Nordic countries

2002-2003 ‘Nation-Building and Minority Politics in Post-Socialist States: Interests, Influence and Identities in Estonia and Latvia’ William J. Fulbright Research Fellow to Latvia.

2002-2004 ‘The Scottish Committees: Towards a Scandinavian-style Consensus Politics?’ Principal Investigator: David Arter. Research Assistant: Dr Roger Bobacka, Nordic Policy Studies Centre. This project was funded as part of the ESRC’s ‘Devolution and Constitutional Change’ programme.

2004-2005 ‘Nation-Building and Minority Politics: Interests, Influences and Identities’ Principal Investigator: David J. Galbreath. Research Assistant: Jeremy W. Lamoreaux, Nordic Policy Studies Centre. This project was funded by the Carnegie Trust of Scotland and allowed for interviews in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania culminating in journal articles in Cooperation and Conflict (2006) and Geopolitics (2007).

2005-2006 ‘EU Enlargement and the Minority Rights Regime? The Prospect for Value transfer in Central and Eastern Europe’ Principal Investigator: David J. Galbreath. Funded by the British Academy, resulting in the book The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Routledge 2007).

2006-2007 ‘Continuity and Change in the Baltic Sea Region: comparing foreign policies after EU/NATO enlargement’ Principal Investigator: David J. Galbreath. Funded by the Carnegie Trust of Scotland for the forthcoming book Continuity and Change in the Baltic Sea Region: Comparing Foreign Policies (Rodopi, 2008).

2007-2009 ‘Viewing Campaigns from the Candidate’s Perspective: the 2007 Finnish General Election’ Principal Investigator: David Arter. Research Analyst: Dr Anders Widfeldt, Nordic Policy Studies Centre

 

Conference Papers (2007)
David Arter, ‘Hearing the Executive in Public: Comparing the Experience of Open Committee Hearings in the Norwegian and Swedish Legislatures’ Southern Political Science Association’s Annual Conference, New Orleans, January 2007

David J. Galbreath, ‘The Opportunities and Constraints of European Integration on Baltic Foreign Policies: Living with CFSP and ESDP’ University of Umeä, Sweden, March 2007.

David Arter, ‘From a Contingent Party System to Party System Implosion? Party System Change in Finland, 1945-2007’ Political Studies Association’s Annual Conference, University of Bath, April 2007.

Anders Widfeldt, ‘The Sweden Democrats: The New Kid on the Block?’ Political Studies Association’s Annual Conference, University of Bath, April 2007.

David J. Galbreath (and Ainius Lasas), ‘Continuity and Change in the Baltic Sea Region: looking at the impact of enlargement on Baltic foreign policy’ ECPR Standing Group on International Relations, Turin, Italy, September 2007.