Dr Fred Paxton

  • Research Fellow (Political & International Studies)

Biography

Fred Paxton joined the University of Glasgow in September 2024. He is working on a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship titled Identity at the roots: place-based identity politics in divided societies. 

Fred was awarded his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 2021. His work has been published in leading journals including Political Science Research and Methods, and Government and Opposition. His first book, Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government, was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.

Research interests

  • Populism
  • Radical (left and right) parties
  • Subnational (regional and local) politics
  • Social media and online political communication
  • Social movements and movement parties

Research groups

  • Politics

Publications

Prior publications

ORCiD

Endre Borbáth, Fred Paxton, (2024) Movement parties in Europe: a comparative assessment Acta Politica (doi: 10.1057/s41269-024-00381-3); source: Crossref

Fred Paxton, (2024) Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties Acta Politica (doi: 10.1057/s41269-024-00334-w); source: Crossref

Fred Paxton, (2023) Restrained Radicals Cambridge University Press (doi: 10.1017/9781009379069)(isbn: 9781009379069)(isbn: 9781009379083)(isbn: 9781009379113); source: Fred Paxton

Fred Paxton, (2022) With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Consequences of Populists in National Government for Policymaking in Local Government Government and Opposition (doi: 10.1017/gov.2021.11); source: Crossref

(2022) How do populists make decisions? : the Five Star Movement and the Lega in local government during the 'refugee crisis' (doi: 10.1080/23248823.2021.2005338)(issn: 2324-8823)(issn: 2324-8831)(uri: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77564); source: Cadmus, EUI Research Repository

Fred Paxton, (2021) Varieties of inclusionary and exclusionary populism in the Italian regional elections 2018-20 Contemporary Italian Politics (doi: 10.1080/23248823.2021.1969785); source: Crossref

(2021) The populist radical right in local power : understanding different forms of local government leadership by populist radical right parties in western Europe (uri: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72519); source: Cadmus, EUI Research Repository

(2021) What's in a buzzword? a systematic review of the state of populism research in political science (doi: 10.1017/psrm.2021.44)(uri: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72611); source: Cadmus, EUI Research Repository

Fred Paxton, (2020) Towards a Populist Local Democracy? The Consequences of Populist Radical Right Local Government Leadership in Western Europe Representation (doi: 10.1080/00344893.2019.1643771); source: Crossref

(2019) The populist performance of urban crisis : the policy influence of radical right populist parties in leadership of local government in Austria and Italy (uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/65064); source: Cadmus, EUI Research Repository

Grants

Identity at the roots: place-based identity politics in divided societies

Early Career Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust. September 2024 - August 2027.


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