Richard Rose

Professor Richard Rose is currently the Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy and Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Richard Rose has pioneered the study of comparative politics and public policy in Europe as Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, the first public policy institute in a European university. In addition to his professorship at Strathclyde in Glasgow, he is a Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, Florence. From these bases he concentrates on the problems of Representing Europeans (OUP, 2015) when there is a democratic surplus in member states and a democratic deficit at the EU level. Initially Rose concentrated on the comparative study of parties and elections. Major books include The International Almanac of Electoral Behaviour and Do Parties Make a Difference? They are complemented by comparative studies of United Kingdom politics, including Politics in England (many editions since 1964); Governing without Consensus: an Irish Perspective and Understanding the United Kingdom.