Comparative Politics

The Comparative Politics cluster focuses on insights that can be learnt from considering similarities and differences between and within countries and over time. Members work on a range of topics including elections and democracy, justice and peacebuilding, and migration and security. Members use a range of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods including archival research, interviews, participant observation, mobile research, surveys, and big data. Members produce world-class research and have real impact. The cluster holds an annual workshop, organises research seminars, lectures, and book workshops in collaboration with other clusters and centres, and is actively involved in the PAIS works in progress seminar series.