Ph.D. Professor of European Politics, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, Co-Chair European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy.

Publications include: Charisma and the Revival of the European Extreme Right (2005), The Nature of Fascism: or Essentialism by Another Name? (2004), The BNP and the Problem of Legitimacy in H.-G. Betz and S. Immerfall (eds), The New Politics of the Radical Right (1998), The Extreme Right and British Exceptionalism: the Primacy of Politics, in P. Hainsworth (ed.), The Politics of the Extreme Right (2000), Ethnocentric Party Mobilization in Europe: the Importance of a Three Dimensional Approach, in R. Koopmans and P. Statham (eds), Challenging Immigration and Ethnic relations Politics. Comparative European Perspectives (2000).