Mark Philp

My research includes work in political theory and political sociology, most recently on political corruption and issues relating to standards in public life, as well as in the history of political thought and British history at the time of the French Revolution. I am currently working on issues relating to political conduct and corruption, the re-imaging of democracy at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, the Godwin Diaries, political realism and political ethics, and the history of political thought.

I chair the Research Advisory Board to the Committee on Standards in Public Life and contributed the paper Public Ethics and Political Judgment to the Committee's inquiry on Ethics in Practice in July 2014 which was launched by Michael Ignatieff on 14 July 2014 (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/launch-of-ethics-in-practice-promoting-ethical-conduct-in-public-life)