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Edward Morgan-Jones

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Kent

Edward joined the School of Politics and International Relations at Kent as Lecturer in Comparative Politics in 2009 and has been Senior Lecturer since 2014. He received his DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford in 2004 and before joining the School in 2009 was Research Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Keble College, University of Oxford.

His research focuses broadly on comparative political institutions in both developed and emerging democracies and he has area expertise in Western and Eastern European and Russian politics. He has particular interests in constitutional choice and its consequences, semi-presidential and parliamentary government, cabinet composition, termination, early election calling and democratic representation and accountability. His research on these topics has been published in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research and Post-Soviet Affairs. He has also published a book entitled ‘Constitutional Bargaining in Russia 1990-1993: Institutions and Uncertainty’.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Kent