Alan+Renwick

=Dr Alan Renwick=

Lecturer in Politics University of Reading

Responsibilities:
I teach and convene the Part One module on Modern Government, the Part Two Module on British Government and Politics and the Part Three module on the Politics of Electoral Systems. I also teach Part Two Comparative Government and Politics. For graduates, I convene a module of the research methods training programme in the University's Graduate School for the Social Sciences and I supervise doctoral students in the area of comparative politics. I am also convenor of the School's weekly research seminars.

Areas of Interest:
My work lies in the area of comparative politics and is nested within the School's research theme on Applied Political Theory. My principal current research focuses on the politics of electoral system change. My book on electoral reform in established democracies, //The Politics of Electoral Reform: Changing the Rules of Democracy//, will be published by Cambridge University Press in early 2010. I am now extending that research to include a wider range of countries and settings. I am particularly interested in understanding how changing popular attitudes towards democracy and representation influence institutional choices, how values as well as self-interest influence the ways in which both politicians and mass publics approach issues of institutional reform, and how choices in new democracies differ from those in established democracies. I also have a secondary research stream looking into the nature of political leadership. I am particularly interested in understanding what leaders actually do and how this varies across diverse contexts.

Contact details:
a.renwick@reading.ac.uk+44 (0) 118 378 7126 Dr Alan Renwick will present a lecture entitled "Rules of Democracy "

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