Associate Professor for Government at the Department of Government

Before joining the Department of Government, Christopher was Lecturer in European Politics at University College London. He has also held positions as John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and as Thyssen Postdoc Fellow at the Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne. He obtained his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Christopher's research interests are in democratic representation, political behavior and public opinion, with a special focus on politics in the European Union. His research studies how citizens form their political views towards and in response to democratic politics, and if, when, and how political elites adopt these views in their legislative behavior. Christopher is also interested in new advances in quantitative methods in the areas of survey experiments, text analysis, multivariate measurement, and time-series-cross-section analysis. For his work on government responsiveness in the Council of the EU he received a “Best Article Award” by the American Political Science Association in 2018.

You can find more information on Christopher's website and on Google Scholar.