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
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, British political thought Britain’s relationship with Europe and European politics I am also very interested in exploring the role of ideas in politics. My latest research project is the monograph The Labour Party Under Ed Miliband: Trying But Failing to Renew Social Democracy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016). This book examines the Labour Party’s response to the 2008 global financial crisis and identifies the factors that explain Ed Miliband’s failure to renew social democracy. Currently, I am conducting research on European social democratic parties’ approach to the European Union.
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 TheConversation.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 a Visiting Research Fellow at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations.
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. As such I am interested in political parties and how their ideologies interplay with their office-seeking goals. Currently I am writing a book on the Labour Party under Ed Miliband that fits into this research area. I am interested in Britain’s relationship with the European Union and I conduct research on the coalition government’s approach to the EU.
Teaching & learning
I teach on:
Political Science
Development Studies
International Relations programmes
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Research Projects in Focus
The Labour Party Under Ed Miliband: Trying But Failing to Renew Social Democracy
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)
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.
“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.
Blogs