Professor Wilfried Swenden
Job Title
Professor of South Asian and Comparative Politics, Head of Politics and International Relations
Profile
Wilfried Swenden (DPhil Politics, Oxford) is Professor of South Asian and Comparative Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Between 2015 and 2018 he was Co-Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the university.
Wilfried’s current research interests are situated in the following three areas:
- the comparative study of constitutional dynamics and intergovernmental relations in federal states, especially India
- multi-level party systems and territorial party politics, in particular the organization and strategies of statewide parties in a multi-level context;
- the strength and weaknesses of territorial management for governing divided societies and their comparison with other strategies for conflict management, especially in India and South Asia.
His research has been supported by the British Academy, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders) and the Leverhulme Trust.
He has published two monographs, six edited collections and (co-) authored several articles, which appeared among others in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Comparative European Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Government and Opposition, India Review, the International Political Science Review, the Journal of Common Market Studies, Party Politics, Publius: the Journal of Federalism, Regional & Federal Studies, Regional Studies, Seminar, Territory, Politics and Governance, the Swiss Political Science Review and West European Politics.