Fred Paxton

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Fred Paxton joined the University of Glasgow in September 2024. He is working on a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship titled Identity at the roots: place-based identity politics in divided societies.

Fred was awarded his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 2021. His work has been published in leading journals including Political Science Research and Methods, and Government and Opposition. His first book, Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government, was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.

His research interests include:
Populism
Radical (left and right) parties
Subnational (regional and local) politics
Social media and online political communication
Social movements and movement parties

Experience

  • –present
    Research Fellow, Political & International Studies, University of Glasgow

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