Political Institutions

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The Political Institutions research division researches how governments create, enforce and apply policies and law.

Political institutions set the rules for how governments create, enforce and apply policies and laws. The division conducts research on legislatures, executives, courts, political parties and electoral systems. It focuses on how the rules of the political game are formed and how different combinations of rules lead to a variety of political outcomes. This includes developing an understanding of the myriad institutional designs in the advanced, industrialized world and how they lead to different policy outputs as well as applying these lessons to the developing world to help build institutions that lead to stable democratic governments.

The Political Institutions research division also contributes to three departmental methods working groups: mixed-methods research, data science and quantitative political methodology, and evidence and public policy. The methods working groups encourage collaboration across research divisions based on shared methodological interests and facilitate interdisciplinary research.

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University of Essex
Colchester