Charlie Jeffery

Name
Professor Charlie Jeffery
Title
Head of School;
Organisation
Head of School's Office and Subject Secretaries, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Rm 6.04 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 3553
E-Mail
URL
http://www.institute-of-governance.org/about/staff_profiles/jeffery_charlie

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) European Studies (Loughborough University)
  • PhD European Studies (Loughborough University)

Areas of interest

Charlie teaches on German politics, European integration and comparative territorial politics.

His research is in three main fields:

  • German politics, in particular EU policy-making, and the German federal system;
  • comparative territorial politics, including multi-level governance in the EU, and the regional dimensions of party systems and voting behaviour;
  • and devolution in the UK.

Biographical statement

Charlie Jeffery has held a Chair in Politics since October 2004. He had been Professor of German Politics and Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham. He directed the Economic and Social Research Council's research programme on Devolution and Constitutional Change from 2000-6, which ran 35 projects at UK universities, including four at Edinburgh. He is a member of Council of the Economic and Social Research Council and chairs its Strategic Research Board. He has been advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the EU Committee of the Regions

Publications

He has recently edited collections on Multi-Level Electoral Competition (with Daniel Hough and Michael Keating), in European Urban and Regional Studies, 2003; Money Matters: Territorial Finance in Decentralised States (with David Heald), in Regional and Federal Studies, 2003, and Devolution in the United Kingdom: Statehood and Citizenship Transition in Publius. The Journal of Federalism, 2006. His latest book is Devolution & Electoral Politics with Dan Hough (eds) (Manchester University Press, 2006). He is managing editor of Regional and Federal Studies. The Final Report of the ESRC Devolution & Constitutional Change Programme is at: http://www.devolution.ac.uk/final_report.htm


 

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