Section: Research Student Profiles

Gavin Barber

Name
Gavin Barber
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
4.13, Chrystal MacMillan Building George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
E-Mail
Research Interests
Political parties,European integration,Comparative European Politics,Theories of Legitimacy,Postmodern Governance,Organisation Studies
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/barber_gavin
Gavin Barber

Qualifications

  • MSc European Politics with Distinction (University of Glasgow, 2010)
  • MA Honours First English Literature and Politics (University of Glasgow, 2009)

Supervisor

  • Dr. Nicola McEwen and Dr. Wilfried Swenden

Research Title

  • Statewide Parties and Devolution: Organisational Development after Reform. 

Awards and Publications

  • Altiero Spinelli Prize 2010 from University of Glasgow
  • SSPS Scholarship 2010 from University of Edinburgh
  • Barber, Gavin (2010) 'Participative Sovereignty' in Scottish Affairs Winter, No. 70, pp. 91-103
  • Treaty of Rome Conference First Prize 2008 from Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh, and European Parliament

Teaching

  • Scotland: Society and Politics
  • Introduction to Politics and International Relations
  • International Cooperation in Europe and Beyond
  • Democracy in Comparative Perspective
  • Social and Political Enquiry

Office Hours

  • By appointment 

Research Interests

My main interests are political parties and the politics of decentralisation in Western Europe and classic work on political party organisation.  I am also interested in the political party groupings and their organisations in the European Parliament and also, more broadly, European integration and theories of legitimacy of integration.  Organisation studies and the sociology of organisations are also particular interests.

 

This page was published on 31 January 2012


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