Professor Robert Ladrech
- Title
- Emeritus Professor of European Politics
- Location
- CBA1.029
- Phone
- +44 (0) 1782 734316
- r.ladrech@keele.ac.uk
Biography
Robert Ladrech took his M.A. and PhD. at the University of California at Santa Barbara and taught in the U.S. before coming to Keele University. His research focuses on the politics of climate change, as well as the relationship between party politics and European integration, with a particular interest in social democratic parties. He is also, more generally, interested in the impact of the European Union on domestic politics (Europeanization). He completed a British Academy-funded project on ‘Social Democratic Parties and Climate Change’(2010) and in 2013 was awarded a research grant by the ESRC for the project ‘Climate Policy and Political Parties’. He was also a Co-Investigator on an ESRC-funded project called 'Europeanisation and National Political Parties' (2003-7).
Professor Ladrech was a Visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium from 2005 to 2016, where he supervised M.A. dissertation in the area of Europeanization studies. He was a member of the executive committee of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) from 2014 to 2016.
Research and scholarship
- Comparative European party politics
- Europeanization Studies
- French Politics
- The Politics of Climate Change
Professor Ladrech welcomes Ph.D. proposals in any of these research areas.
Professor Ladrech is a member of the Keele European Parties Research Unit (KEPRU), please follow the link to find out more about this research activity.
He is also a member of the Research Institute for Social Sciences.
Teaching
- Europeanization of National Politics
- European Social Democracy
- The European Union: Institutions and Policies
- The Politics of Climate Change
Selected Publications
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2012. Party Change and Europeanisation: Elements of an Integrated Approach. West European Politics, 574-588, vol. 35(3). doi>
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2019. Drivers of political parties’ climate policy preferences: lessons from Denmark and Ireland. Environmental Politics, 1017-1038, vol. 28(6). doi> link> full text>
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Drivers of political parties' climate policy preferences. Environmental Politics.
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2018. Party politics and EU climate policy. In EU Climate Diplomacy; Politics, Law and Negotiations. (1st ed.). Routledge.
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2018. Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties' climate policy preferences. Party Politics, 731-742, vol. 24(6). link> doi> full text>
Full Publications Listshow
Books
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2010. Europeanization and National Politics. Palgrave MacMillan.
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2007. Europe Since 1945. (5th ed.). Bedford/st Martins.
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Poguntke P, Aylott N, Carter E, Ladrech R (Eds.). 2007. The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation. Abingdon: Routledge.
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2000. Social democracy and the challenge of european union. Boulder: Lynne Reinner.
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1999. Social Democratic Parties in the European Union (Eds). Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal Articles
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2019. Drivers of political parties’ climate policy preferences: lessons from Denmark and Ireland. Environmental Politics, 1017-1038, vol. 28(6). doi> link> full text>
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Drivers of political parties' climate policy preferences. Environmental Politics.
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2018. Political parties and climate policy: A new approach to measuring parties' climate policy preferences. Party Politics, 731-742, vol. 24(6). link> doi> full text>
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2012. Party Change and Europeanisation: Elements of an Integrated Approach. West European Politics, 574-588, vol. 35(3). doi>
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2008. Europeanization and the variable influence of the EU: national parties and party systems in Western and Eastern Europe. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 139-150, vol. 10(2). doi>
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2007. National Political Parties and European Governance: The Consequences of "Missing in Action". West European Politics, 945-960, vol. 30(5).
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2007. The Europeanisation of national political parties. European Journal of Political Research, 747-771, vol. 46(4). doi>
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2003. The Left and the EU. Parliamentary Affairs, 112-124, vol. 56(1).
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2003. The Party of European Socialists: Networking Europe's Social Democrats. Journal of Policy History, 113-129, vol. 15(1). doi>
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2002. Europeanization and Political Parties: Towards a Framework for Analysis. Party Politics, 389-403, vol. 8(4). doi>
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2002. Social democracy, British-style. Contemporary Politics, 145-150, vol. 8(2). doi>
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2002. The Jospin government and European social democracy. Modern and Contemporary France: Special Issue - The Jospin Government, 371-382, vol. 10(3). doi>
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2001. Europeanization and French Social Democracy. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 37-48, vol. 3(1). doi>
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1997. Partisanship and Party Formation in European Union Politics. Comparative Politics, 167-185, vol. 29(2).
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1994. Europeanization of Domestic Politics and Institutions: The Case of France. Journal of Common Market Studies, 69-88, vol. 32(1). doi>
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1993. Parliamentary Democracy and Political Discourse in EC Institutional Change. Journal of European Integration, 53-69, vol. 17(1).
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1993. Social Democratic parties and EC Integration: Transnational Party Responses to Europe 1992. European Journal of Political Research, 195-210, vol. 24(2).
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1989. Social Movements and Party Systems: The French Socialist Party and New Social Movements. West European Politics, 262-279, vol. 12(3).
Chapters
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2018. Party politics and EU climate policy. In EU Climate Diplomacy; Politics, Law and Negotiations. (1st ed.). Routledge.
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2014. Rethinking the Relationship between Europeanization and European Integration. In Europeanization and European Integration: From Incremental to Structural Change. Coman R, Kostera T, Tomini L (Eds.). (10 vols.). Basingstoke: Palgrave. doi> link> full text>
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2012. Historical Background. In Contemporary Europe. Sakwa R and Stevens A (Eds.). (3rd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.
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2012. Understanding Causality and Change in Party Politics. In Research Design in European Studies: Establishing Causality in Europeanization. Exadaktylos T and Radaelli CM (Eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2012. An Obdurately National Party Politics. In European Disunion: Between Sovereignty and Solidarity. Hayward J and Wurzel R (Eds.). Palgrave.
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2011. (Shallow) Europeanisation and party system instability in post-communist states. In Europeanising Party Politics? Comparative Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe. Markowski R and Lewis P (Eds.). Manchester: Manchester Univ Pr.
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2007. Continuity amidst political system change: Why French political parties remain immune to EU adaptive pressure. In The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation. Poguntke T, Aylott N, Carter E, Ladrech R, Luther KR (Eds.). London: Routledge.
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2007. Europeanization and national party organization: limited but appropriate adaptation?. In The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation. Poguntke T, Aylott N, Carter E, Ladrech R, Luther KR (Eds.). Routledge.
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2007. Government Change, Organizational Continuity: The Limited Europeanization of British Political Parties. In The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation. Poguntke T, Aylott N, Carter E, Ladrech R, Luther KR (Eds.). Abingdon: Routledge.
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2007. Political Parties and Party Systems. In European Politics. Hay C and Menon A (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2006. The European Union and Political Parties. In Handbook of Party Politics. Katz RS and Crotty W (Eds.). London: SAGE.
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2005. Programmatic Change in the Party of European Socialists. In Social Democracy in Europe. Delwit P (Ed.). Brussels: Editions de l'Universite de Bruxelles.
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2005. The Europeanisation of interest groups and political parties. In The Member States of the European Union. Bulmer S and LeQuesne C (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
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2004. Europeanization and the member states. In Developments in the European Union 2. Dinan D and Cowles M (Eds.). Palgrave, Basingstoke.
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2003. The Party of European Socialists: Networking Europe's Social Democrats. In The Future of the Democratic Left in Industrial Societies. Hargrove EC (Ed.). Penn State Press, Pennsylvania.
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2002. The Party of European Socialists. In European Political Parties between Cooperation and Integration. Johansson K-M and Zervakis P (Eds.). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, Germany.
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2000. Party groups in the European Parliament. In Encyclopedia of the European Union. Dinan D (Ed.). Lynne Rienner Pub.
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1999. Political Parties and the Problem of Legitimacy in the European Union. In Legitimacy and the European Union: the contsted polity. Banchoff T and Smith MP (Eds.). London: Routledge.
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1999. The French Socialist party. In Social Democratic Parties in the European Union: History, Organization, Policies. Ladrech R and Marliere P (Eds.). Basingstoke: Macmillan.
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1998. Party Networks,Issue Agendas and European Union Policy Governance. In Transnational Parties in the European Union. Bell DS and Lord C (Eds.). Aldershot: Ashgate.
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1998. Redefining 'Grandeur': France and European Security After the Cold War. In The Promise and Reality of European Security Cooperation: States, Interests, and Institutions. McKenzie MM and Loedel PH (Eds.). Westport: Praeger.
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1996. Political parties in the European Parliament. In Political Parties and the European Union. Gaffney J (Ed.). London: Routledge.
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1995. Pierre Mendes-France. In Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe: A Biographical Dictionary. Wilsford D (Ed.). Westport, Conn., USA: Greenwood Press.
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1993. La cooperation transnationale des partis socialistes europeens. In De La Nation a l'Europe: Paradoxes et Dilemmes de la Social-Democratie. Brussels: Bruylant.
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1993. The European Left and Political Integration: A New Stage in Social Democracy?. In Germany and the European Community. Lankowski CF (Ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press.
Other
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2009. Europeanization and political parties. link>
PhD Supervision
I am able to supervise research students on the following topics:
Comparative European party politics, Europeanization Studies and French Politics.
Please see my research and scholarship tab for more details about my area of expertise.
Further information is available about studying in SPIRE, including funding available for pursuing a doctoral research degree.
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