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Dr Eunice Goes

Professor of Politics

Contact:
Email: [email protected]
School: Department of Social Sciences & Humanities
Research centre: The State Power & Globalisation

I joined the Department of 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 conducting research on the crisis social democratic parties. I recently published a short history of European social democracy, entitled Social Democracy,  (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Agenda Publishing 2024).

My previous book The Labour Party Under Ed Miliband: Trying But Failing to Renew Social Democracy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016) explored how political parties use policy ideas to renew their programmes. The research of this book led to 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, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569317.2021.1894698, which won 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 engage with theoretical concepts and apply them to empirical evidence to apply theory to concrete examples and in the use of workshops to enable students to conduct evidence-based research.

I am a regular panellist in the BBC programme Weekend, I have been a member of the Next Left Focus Group from the Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS) since October 2022. In this capacity I have published several book chapters on a range of public policy from industrial relations, welfare policy, transparency policies and policy narratives. and I am a Visiting Research Fellow at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations and the co-convener of the Labour Movements specialist group at the Political Studies Association, UK.

You can contact me on [email protected] or follow me on BlueSky @eunicegoes.bsky.social.

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.

Books:

Journal Articles:

  • ‘Wrapped Up in the Union Jack: Starmer’s Patriotic Turn’, Renewal: Journal of Social Democracy, 2021, Vol. 29, No. 1, https://renewal.org.uk/,
  • ‘Labour’s Campaign: A Defeat of Epic Proportions’, Parliamentary Affairs, 2020, Vol. 73, Supplementary Issue, 84-102.

Book Chapters:

  • ‘Political Parties: Vehicles, Users and Producers of Ideologies’, in Matthew Humphrey, Juliette Fauré and David Laycock (editors) Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis, London: Routledge: 2026 https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Ideology-Analysis/Faure-Humphrey-Laycock/p/book/9781032534350
  • ‘Governing Through Inter-Party Dialogue: Lessons in Collaborative Statecraft from Portugal 2015-2022’, in Magnus Feldman, Mark Wickham-Jones, Jonas Hinnfors (editors) Practical Social Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
  • ‘The Labour Party Under Keir Starmer: Plotting the Route to a Shallow Landslide’, in Alastair Clark, Louise Thompson, Stuart Wilks-Heeg (editors) Britain Votes 2024, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.
  • Rebuilding Trust and Strengthening Democracy in Andreas Schieder et al, The Progressive Compass, Brussels: FEPS, https://feps-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Next-Left-Vol-16-The-progressive-compass.pdf
  • ‘Pragmatic, Social Democratic, Radical’, in Mark Perryman (editor) The Starmer Symptom, London: Pluto Press, 2025.
  • ‘Tackling Employment Insecurity: A Fair Deal for Platform Workers’, in Patrick Diamond and Ania Skrzypek (editors) The Politics of Polycrisis, 10 Years Oxford Symposium, Poland, FEPS, 2024.
  • ‘Renewing the Social Europe Agenda: Democracy in the Workplace’, in Andreas Schieder, Lázlò Andor, Maria Maltschning, Ania Skrzypek (editors) Progressive Ambition: How to Shape Europe in the Next Decade, Brussels: FEPS, 2024.
  • ‘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.
  • (co-written with Cristina Leston-Bandeira) ‘The Role of the Assembleia da República: An Adaptive and Assertive Legislature’ in Jorge M Fernandes, The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics, Oxford University Press, 2022.
  • “The Labour Party Under Jeremy Corbyn: Zigzagging Towards Brexit’ in Andrew Crines (editor) Corbynism in Perspective: The Labour Party Under Jeremy Corbyn, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing Ltd, 2021
  • (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).

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