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Dr Eunice Goes

Professor of Politics

Contact:
Email: eunice.goes@richmond.ac.uk
School: School of Communications, Arts & Social Sciences
Research centre: The State Power & Globalisation

About

I joined the School of Communications, Arts and Social Sciences at Richmond University in 2008. I hold a DPhil in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2002), a M.A. in Politics from the University of Warwick (1997) and a B.A. in International Relations from Lusíada University (Lisbon, Portugal, 1994).

My areas of expertise are British party politics, Britain’s relationship with Europe and European politics, political ideologies I am also very interested in exploring the role of ideas in politics. I am currently writing a book on the history of European social democracy (to be published by Agenda Publishing in 2024) and conducting research on how political parties relate to ideologies. This research project started in my 2016 monograph The Labour Party Under Ed Miliband: Trying But Failing to Renew Social Democracy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), was further developed in the article “Ideas and Party Change: Predistribution and Socialist Renewal in the Labour Party Under Ed Miliband“, published in the Journal of Political Ideologies, June 2021 Vol. 26, 2, 180-200. This article was the Winner of the inaugural Michael Freeden Prize for best article published by the Journal of Political Ideologies in 2021 (awarded in 2022).

I have also conducted research on Britain’s Labour Party since 1994, the Portuguese Socialist Party and the Portuguese Parliament, and on political parties approaches to European integration.

I am passionate about teaching and my pedagogy focuses on supporting students to develop their critical thinking skills. In recent years, this approach has translated in the creation of new assessment formats that enable students to learn how to apply theory to concrete examples.

I am an enthusiastic blogger and often contribute to the academic blogs The Conversation.com, LSE Democratic Audit, LSE Politics&Policy, LSE Europp, Political Insight and OpenDemocracy.net, Social Europe. I am a regular panellist in the BBC programmes Dateline London and Weekend and I am one of the current editors of the journal Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy and I collaborate with the Federation of European Progressive Studies.

You can contact me on Eunice.goes@richmond.ac.uk or follow me on Twitter @DrEuniceGoes.

Research interests

My research interests lie in British politics and the role of ideas in policy-making and in ideologies. I am currently writing a monograph on the history of European social democracy.

I teach on:

  • Political Science
  • Development Studies
  • International Relations

Some of the courses I teach:

  • PLT 3100 Foundations of Politics
  • PLT 5205 British Politics: Inside Parliament
  • PLT 6430 Democracy and Democratisation
  • PLT 6205 Policy-Making in the Globalised World
  • PLT 6296/6297 Senior Seminar I and II in Political Science

Books:

Journal Articles:

Book Chapters:

  • “From Workers on Company Boards to Workers’ Voices: Explaining May’s Failed One Nation Industrial Policy”, in Andrew Crines and David Jeffery (editors) Policies and Politics under Prime Minister Theresa May: A Question of Statecraft, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (forthcoming)
  • (co-written with Cristina Leston-Bandeira) “The Portuguese Assembleia da Republica in Context”, in Jorge M. Fernandes and Cristina Leston-Bandeira (editors) The Iberian Legislatures in Comparative Perspective, Abingdon: Routledge, 2019,
  • “The British Party System(s): Fragmented, Unstable and Very Capricious”, in Marco Lisi (editor) Party System Change, the European Crisis and the State of Democracy, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018
  • “’Jez, We Can!’ Labour’s Campaign: A Defeat With the Taste of Victory”, in J. Tonge, C. Leston-Bandeira, S. Wilks-Heeg (editors) Britain Votes 2017, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
  • “The Left and the Financial Crisis: The Labour Party in Search of a New Economic Narrative”, in João Rosas and Ana Rita Ferreira (Editors) Left and Right: The Great Dichotomy Revisited, (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2013),
  • “The End of British Tolerance? Changing Elite Attitudes Towards Muslim Veiled Women in Britain”, in Media, Culture and Identity and Europe, Savaş Arslan, Defne Karaosmanoğlu, Süheyla Kirca Schroeder (Editors), (Istanbul: Bahçeşehir University Press, 2009),
  • “It’s Good to Talk: Addressing Moral Conflict in Multicultural Societies”, in Tarun Pokyia, Managing a Multicultural World: Policy and Practice (New Delhi: ICFAI University Press, 2008),
  • “The Third Way and the Politics of Community” in Luke Martell et al. The Third Way and Beyond: Criticisms, Futures and Alternatives, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).

Non-academic journal articles:

Blog Posts

The Labour Party Under Ed Miliband: Trying But Failing to Renew Social Democracy

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The 2008 global financial crisis offered an opportunity for a renewal of social democratic politics in Europe. In 2010, the recently elected Labour leader, Ed Miliband, was one of Europe’s social democratic leaders who believed that a social democratic moment was within his grasp. By mapping the ideas that informed Labour’s 2015 electoral manifesto this book explains Labour’s attempt to develop a social democratic programme that addressed the policy puzzles raised by the global financial crisis. But timing, the scarcity of ideas and institutional constraints conspired against these efforts. This failure is one of the reasons why Labour lost the 2015 general election.

The Blair Era (Lisbon: Quimera, 2003)

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This book examines the political and policy achievements of the New Labour governments until 2003. Blair’s approach to the economy, social justice, constitutional reform, foreign policy and Europe are examined and assessed in the context of Third Way politics.

Extracts from Recent Research

“The Coalition and Europe: A Tale of Reckless Drivers, Steady Navigators and Imperfect Maps“, in Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 1 January 2014.
This paper examines how the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats negotiated and agreed the coalition’s approach to the EU with a view to shed light on how each party exerted influence over this policy area. For that purpose the article analyses how the two parties of the coalition negotiated the programme of government, agreed on the distribution of government portfolios and have handled three of the most divisive European issues faced by the coalition, namely the European Union Act 2011, the exercise of the veto at the December 2011 EU summit, and the announcement of the referendum on EU membership. The article argues that the Conservatives are the drivers of the coalition’s approach to the EU however the Liberal Democrats have acted as steady navigators ensuring, most of the time, that the agreed roadmap is respected.