Keele University
Keele European Parties Research Unit
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KEPRU Members
The members of KEPRU and their main research interests are as follows:
Professor Kurt Richard Luther - Convenor and Editor of KEPRU Working Papers
Parties and consociational democracy; parties and federalism; radical right-wing parties; parties in Austria; political parties and European integration
Elections; electoral systems and other electoral institutions; electoral behaviour; party competition, right-wing extremism
Social democratic parties; European transnational party federations; French parties
British public policy; regional and urban governance; local Europeanization; environmental regulation; political ideologies and political practice
Associate Members
Professor Thomas Poguntke - Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Party organisation; party linkage; anti-party sentment; green parties; presidentialisation of parliamentary democracies; political parties and European integration; German politics
Dr Nicholas Aylott - Södertörn University College
Scandinavian parties; social democracy; parties and the European Union; party organisation
Dr Gemma Loomes - University of Birmingham
Party system change; electoral systems; political parties and democracy; institutional engineering
