Sara Hobolt is professor of political science at the Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science. She specialises in research on elections, referendums, public opinion, and European politics. She is also Chair of the European Election Study and President of the European Political Science Society. Her most recent book, co-authored with James Tilley, is Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain (Oxford University Press, 2026).

Experience

  • –present
    Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Head of Department, London School of Economics and Political Science

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