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Lecturer awarded an EU COST Grant
06 October 2011Lecturer Andrew Glencross has been awarded an EU COST grant for a Short Term Scientific Mission at the Humboldt University, Berlin. This award is part of the EU COST Action: International Law between Constitutionalism and Fragmentation
Lecturer awarded a grant from European Commission
15 July 2011Andrew Glencross, lecturer in PIR, has been awarded a grant for 21,000 euros by the European Commission as part of its Jean Monnet Programme to promote the study of EU integration. This is one of only eight such grants given to a UK university this year. Further information on this...
James Brown wins prize for best journal article
28 April 2011James Brown’s paper “A Stereotype, Wrapped in a Cliché, Inside a Caricature: Russian Foreign Policy and Orientalism” has been awarded the Political Studies Association’s prize for best paper published in Politics in 2010.
According to the PSA: “The jury particularly liked the way the article applied a classic...
Andrea Teti took part in Tuesday's Good Morning Scotland
11 February 2011Andrea Teti took part in Tuesday's Good Morning Scotland, interview available on the BBC iPlayer at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00ymw9c/Good_Morning_Scotland_01_02_2011
at time mark: 1:10.52.
Inside Story interview: Egyptian Uprising
11 February 2011Andrea Teti took part in Inside Story, one of Al-Jazeera's 'in-depth' programmes on the 'Egyptian Uprising'. The link is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOkaKSO-GZk
How to know when election turnout makes a difference
29 October 2010Low and declining voter turnout at elections raises questions about the legitimacy of democratic politics when fewer and fewer people choose to take part. Political scientists have frequently pointed out that these concerns may be unfounded, as the vote shares of political parties are unlikely to be affected by changing...
The Eastern European Student Experience
17 August 2010A research group of undergraduate social scientists at the University of Aberdeen has completed successfully its study into the Eastern European student experience. The project was funded by C-SAP, the Higher Education Academy’s Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, and supervised by Professor Claire Wallace. The students,...
An article with stamina
29 June 2010Professor Richard Rose's article, "Parties, Factions and Tendencies in Britain", has been voted one of the twelve best articles in POLITICAL STUDIES in the past 60 years. It was first published in 1964 and has been reprinted and cited many times since.
Electoral Reform of the European Parliament
02 June 2010The Constitutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament cites a new CSPP study on Variability in Turnout (SPP 468) by Professor Richard Rose and Dr. Gabriela Borz in its review of problems of strengthening the legitimacy of the EU through improving citizen engagement. The CSPP analysis is part of...
Should civil society organizations in Aberdeen and elsewhere be democratic?
18 May 2010This question is tackled in a new study by Patrick Bernhagen (Aberdeen) and William Maloney (Newcastle).* As part of an international project investigating the democratic role of civil society organizations in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the study asks to what extent civic associations should be...