Paul Chaisty

Paul Chaisty is Professor of Russian and East European Politics at the University of Oxford and Head of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. His research interests cover legislative, party and interest group politics in post-communist Russia; political attitudes in Russia; nationalism in Russia and Ukraine; and comparative presidentialism. His publications include Legislative Politics and Economic Power in Russia (Palgrave, 2006); (with Nic Cheeseman and Tim Power) Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Executives in Multiparty Systems (Oxford University Press, 2018), and forthcoming (with Stephen Whitefield) Consolidation and Contestation: How Russians Understand the New Russia.