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Jonathan Polk

Professor

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Contact details
Organisation
  • Department of Political Science
  • Room number: 422
  • Service point: 35
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Political Science 


Main research and teaching areas

  • Political parties
  • European politics
  • Representation
  • Comparative politics

Current research and teaching

My research focuses on the role of political parties in contemporary democracies. I am particularly interested in how citizens participate in politics through parties, and the internal relationship between party members and party leadership.

I am one of the principal investigators of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey on political party positioning, and am also the co-principal investigator of the Swedish Party Membership Survey.

My teaching includes courses on Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Behavior, and the European Union. I regularly supervise student research on related topics at the bachelor, master, and doctoral levels.

Research projects

  • Darkness on the horizon? Exploring the response to contestation of trade policy in Europe. Norwegian Research Council. (Guri Rosén, Principal Investigator).
  • Political Party Member Responses to Organizational Change. Swedish Research Council (VR).
  • The Electoral Effects of Ideological Moderation for Mainstream European Political Parties. Riksbankens Jubeliumsfond (RJ).

Publications

Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.

Introduction

Before joining the department in Lund, I was an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Gothenburg. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in August of 2012, and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg.

    10 Jan 2023