Postgraduate Prospectus

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Staff and their research interests
John Bartle, BA York, MA PhD Essex
(Senior Lecturer)
British and American voting behaviour;
British political parties; political
methodology; public opinion; British
judiciary
Sandhya Bhattacharya, BA Madras,
MA Denver, PhD Pennsylvania (Lecturer)
Political economy; transnational and
comparative media; reporting during
conflict; identity construction; comparative
mediated representations of the war
on terror
Sarah Birch, BA Dartmouth, MPhil DPhil
Oxford, MA PhD Essex (Reader)
Electoral systems and behaviour;
electoral integrity and corruption;
semi-authoritarianism; electoral
malpractice
Paul Bou-Habib, BSc MSc LSE, PhD
Princeton (Lecturer)
Contemporary theories of distributive
justice; the just distribution of resources
between age groups; the role of
the concept of dignity in normative
political theory
Xun Cao, BA Beijing, MA PhD
Washington (Lecturer)
Environmental politics; networks, network
analysis and political science; international
and comparative political economy; inter
and intra-state conflicts; political
geography
Marian De Vooght, MA Nijmegen, PhD
Texas (Lecturer)
Political aspects of literary values and
aesthetic judgement; political discourse
in literature; the use of literature and
translation for imperialistic purposes
Han Dorussen, BA MA Nijmegen, PhD
Texas (Professor)
International relations; inter and intra-state
conflicts; international and comparative
political economy; applied game theory;
trade and conflict peacekeeping
Lawrence Ezrow, BA UNC-Chapel Hill,
MA PhD Santa Barbara (Reader)
Comparative political representation;
Western European politics; elections;
political parties; voting; party strategies;
political strategies; political institutions;
quantitative methodologies
Natasha Ezrow, BA California Irvine,
MA PhD Santa Barbara (Lecturer)
Development studies; Middle East politics;
Latin American studies
Ismene Gizelis, BA La Verne, CA, MA
PhD Claremont, CA (Lecturer and
Graduate Director (PGT))
International conflict and cooperation;
peacekeeping and post-conflict
reconstruction; conflict management
institutions; political and economic
development; welfare and social policy;
gender and development
Kristian Gleditsch, Cand Mag Oslo,
PhD Colorado (Professor and Director
of Research)
Conflict and co-operation;
democratisation; spatial dimensions
of social and political processes;
mathematical models in the social
sciences
Jason Glynos, BA Cambridge, LLB LLM
British Columbia, PhD Essex (Senior
Lecturer)
Lacanian psychoanalysis and
post-Marxism; discourse analytic and
psychoanalytic approaches to social and
political theory and analysis, focusing on
issues relating to ideology, democracy and
freedom; philosophy and methodology of
social and political science
David Howarth, MA Natal, MA PhD
Essex (Reader)
Post-structuralist political theory; South
African politics; social movements; the
politics of identity/difference
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journals of the profession and to undertake
your own projects that involve testing the
empirical implications of theoretical
arguments, as well as positive political
analysis. In addition, our focus on
methodology provides a better preparation
for you if you wish to enrol in a PhD
programme at leading political science
departments in the US and throughout
Europe, which focus on model building
and empirical testing or behavioural
political science.
Our MRes is a two-year programme which
adds additional training in research design
and research methods to our MA/MSc
courses. The first year follows our MA/MSc
structure in your chosen discipline.
Between the first and second years, you
attend our Essex Summer School and
take two, two-week intensive modules in
advanced research methods. In the second
year, you take three further optional
full-year modules and a compulsory
module in research design, as well as
write a dissertation.
MA/MSc Politics•†
How do political scientists explain political
outcomes? How do political science
approaches differ from historical accounts
of political phenomenon? How can political
science be used to analyse the real world?
This course gives a general overview of
such topics but you have a wider choice of
modules than for our other MA courses.
Graduates go on to work in market
research, the media, central or local
government, or use our course as a
foundation for further research.
MA/MSc Conflict Resolution•
How do you put an end to war? What
are the benefits and consequences of
intervention? What roles do international
and non-government organisations play in
the prevention and resolution of conflict?
Our MA/MSc Conflict Resolution provides
an overview of the evolving field of
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