Paul Taggart is Professor of Politics.

His focus is on comparative politics and his research focused primarily on populism and on Euroscepticism and more broadly on the domestic politics of European integration. He has published six books and numerous articles in these areas.

He has previously served as the Director of the Sussex European Institute, Head of Department of Politics, Deputy Head of School for Law, Politics and Sociology, at Sussex. He has acted as external examiner for Strathclyde University, Birkbeck College, Aston University, the University of Bath and Goldsmiths College, London.

He is a former editor of the journal Government and Opposition and now is Chair of the Board of Directors for Government and Opposition. He is the, former editor of the journal Politics, and co-Convenor (with Prof. Aleks Szczerbiak) of the European Referendums, Elections and Parties Network (EPERN). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Gothenberg and the University of Sarajevo, a visiting scholar at the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University and a visiting professor at King's College London.

He is a regular commentator on British, European and US politics for BBC local radio.

He is available for PhD supervision on populism, Euroscepticism and European politics.