My full CV is available here.
Current work
Book m.s. “How to think about politics: a guide for everyone”, under contract with Oxford University Press.
Papers on political reform, the British public sphere.
Book
‘The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are’ (April 2018)
Published/forthcoming articles
Allen, Peter & David S. Moon (2023), “‘Huge fan of the drama’: Politics as an object of fandom“, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
Weeks, Ana Catalano & Peter Allen (2022), “”Backlash Against ‘Identity Politics’: Far Right Success and Mainstream Party Attention to Identity Groups“, Politics, Groups & Identities.
Allen, Peter (2021), “Experience, knowledge, and political representation“, Politics & Gender.
Allen, Peter (2022), ”What now for British Politics? Reflections on Gonzalez Ginocchio, Hindmoor, and Stanley”, Political Studies Review.
Allen, Peter & David S. Moon (2020), ”Predictions, pollification, and Pol Profs: the ‘Corbyn problem’ beyond Corbyn”, The Political Quarterly.
Allen, Peter & David Cutts (2020), ”Personality and the gender gap in political ambition”, European Journal of Politics and Gender.
“Political science, punditry, and the Corbyn problem”, forthcoming British Politics.
“The Grit in the Oyster?: Women’s Parliamentary Organizations & the Substantive Representation of Women” (2019) with Sarah Childs, forthcoming Political Studies.
“Women are more likely than men to blame structural factors for women’s political under-representation: evidence from 27 countries” (2018) with David Cutts, forthcoming European Journal of Political Research.
“An Analysis of Political Ambition in Britain” (2018) with David Cutts, The Political Quarterly.
“How do gender quotas affect support for women as political leaders?” (2018) with David Cutts, West European Politics.
“Transformative experiences in political life” (2017), The Journal of Political Philosophy.
“Aspirant candidate behaviour and progressive political ambition” (2017) with David Cutts, Research & Politics.
“What do we mean when we talk about the ‘political class’?” (2017) with Paul Cairney, Political Studies Review.
“Exploring Sex Differences in Attitudes Towards the Descriptive and Substantive Representation of Women” (2016) with David Cutts, British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
“Achieving Sex Equality in Executive Appointments” (2016), Party Politics.
“Understanding legislator experiences of family-friendly working practices in political institutions” (2016) with David Cutts and Madelaine Winn, Politics & Gender.
““Measuring the quality of politicians elected via gender quotas – are they any different?” (2016), with David Cutts and Rosie Campbell, Political Studies.
“Gendered candidate emergence: why don’t more women councillors become MPs?”(2013), Politics.
“Linking the pre-parliamentary political experience and political careers of the 1997 General Election cohort” (2013) Parliamentary Affairs.
“Last in, first out: gendered patterns of local councillor dropout’’ (2013), British Politics.
“The gendered experience of women in local government” (2012), The Political Quarterly.