Vladimir Bortun

I am a Lecturer in Politics at St. John's College, University of Oxford. I also work on the Changing Elites project, where I focus on the impact of class background on the ideology and policymaking of political elites. Related to that, I am currently developing a research agenda around the class character of right-wing 'populist' parties in Western Europe, where I aim to explore their nexus with certain sections of the business class.
My work is rooted in a historical materialist approach and has been published so far in Political Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Capital & Class, New Political Science, Journal of Ethnics and Migration Studies, and European Political Science. My first book, "Crisis, Austerity and Transnational Party Cooperation in Southern Europe: The Radical Left's Lost Decade", was published in 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan.