James+Sloam

**Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations**
My work is situated at the intersection between academic work and public policy. I have three principal areas of interest: German Politics, Political Parties/ European Social Democracy, Youth Participation in Democracy/Civic Education.

I am the Co-Director and Co-Founder of the [|Centre for European Politics] and was the organiser of a high-profile launch event in 2007 featuring Rt. Hon. Peter Mandelson, Sir Stephen Wall, John Peet (The Economist).

I have published widely in the field of German Politics and youth participation/ civic education. My last book was //The European Policy of the German Social Democrats: interpreting a changing world// (Palgrave, 2005) was nominated for University Association for Contemporary European Studies best book prize. In the run-up to the 2009 German elections I have co-edited a volume on the Gathering Crisis in German Politics (Palgrave, 2008), and will publish a textbook on the Foundations of German Politics (CUP, 2009) next year.

I organised (in September 2008) the inaugural conference of the PSA Teaching and Learning Group, and recently published an article in the //British Journal of Politics and International Relations// 10 (3), ‘Teaching Democracy: The Role of Political Science Education’, and have recently launched a research project under the same name. To coincide with the launch of the project I have hosted a talk by David Willetts MP on ‘The Social Role of Higher Education’. I am on the Editorial Board for the American Political Science Association-sponsored //[|Journal of Political Science Education]//.

[|James Sloam at RHUL]

[|Department of Politics and International Relations, RHUL]

Lecture: Yes We Can - The Obama Effect and Youth Participation in Politics

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