Section: Politics and International Relations

Nicola McEwen

Name
Dr Nicola McEwen
Title
Co-Director, Institute of Governance and Senior Lecturer in Politics
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
1.02 21 George Square Edinburgh UK
Telephone
+44 (0)131 651 1831
E-Mail
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/politics/mcewen_nicola
Photo: Nicola McEwan

Research Areas interested in Supervising

Comparative territorial politics and public policy; devolution and multi-level governance; elections and electoral participation; nationalism and the politics of national identity; Scottish politics.

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Office Hours:

Tuesdays 2pm - 4pm

Qualifications

  • PhD Politics (Sheffield)
  • MA Political Science (Western Ontario, Canada)
  • BA (Hons) Politics and Philosophy (Strathclyde)

Biographical Statement

Initially appointed to Politics in 2001, Nicola assumed a permanent position as a Lecturer in Politics in 2003, became Senior Lecturer in 2006, and has been Co-Director of the University's Institute of Governance since 2009. Nicola also co-convenes the PSA specialist group on Territorial Politics and is Managing Editor of Regional and Federal Studies, the leading European journal in the field of territorial politics. Nicola has published widely in the field of territorial politics and multi-level government, and is actively involved in informing debate within the wider policy and political community, through media work, consultancy and public engagement. She is currently engaged in projects on intergovernmental relations, voter participation and multi-level environmental politics. The latter includes the EnGAGE Scotland project, which investigates community energy action in Scotland, funded by the UK Energy Research Centre. Nicola teaches a wide range of options, including devolution and territorial politics, multi-level democracy and Scottish politics. She convenes the Msc in Multi-level and Regional Politics and supervises a wide range of Research Masters and Dissertations spanning nationalism, devolution, multi-level government, electoral politics and party politics.

Recent Publications

'A comparative analysis of voter turnout in regional elections' (with Ailsa Henderson), Electoral Studies (vol.29, no.3, 2010)

Revolution or Evolution? The 2007 Scottish Elections (with John Curtice, David McCrone, Michael Marsh and Rachel Ormiston), Edinburgh University Press, 2009

'Voice or recognition? Comparing strategies for accommodating territorial minorities in multinational states' (with Andre Lecours), Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, (vol.46, no.2, 2008)

Nationalism and the State: Welfare and Identity in Scotland and Quebec. Regionalism and Federalism Book Series. Presses interuniversitaires europennes/Peter Lang, 2006.

Keating, M and N McEwen (eds), Devolution and Public Policies (Taylor and Francis, 2006)

'Does the recognition of national minorities undermine the welfare state?', in Banting, K and W Kymlicka, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and redistribution in contemporary democracies (Oxford University Press, 2006)

'Do shared values underpin national identity?: National identity and value consensus in Canada and the UK' (with Ailsa Henderson), National Identities (Vol.7, no.2, 2005)

'Adapting to multi-level politics: the political parties and the General Election in Scotland ', Scottish Affairs (no.53, 2005)

McEwen, N and L Moreno (eds), The Territorial Politics of Welfare (Routledge, 2005).

'The territorial consequences of policy divergence', in Keating M and N McEwen (eds), Regional and Federal Studies, (vol 15, no.4, 2005)

This page was published on 16 January 2012


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