Matthew J. Goodwin
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 Peer-reviewed books, articles, policy reports and impact work.
Matthew has published widely in the areas of British and European politics, radical and extreme politics, voting and elections. His academic book has been published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, the British Journal of Political Science and the European Journal of Political Research, among others. Most of the publications listed below are published in peer-reviewed journals and/or books. Some prominent lectures and research reports are also included.

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See also Matthew's profile on Google Scholar.


(Talk) Matthew Goodwin and Oliver Heath. Where next for Britain's Labour Party? Presentation of research to Labour Members of Parliament, January 2020 

(Article) David Cutts, Matthew Goodwin, Oliver Heath and Paula Surridge (2020) Brexit, the 2019 General Election and the Realignment of British Politics, forthcoming in Political Quarterly 

(Article) David Cutts, Matthew Goodwin, Oliver Heath and Caitlin Milazzo (2019) Resurgent Remain and a Rebooted Revolt on the Right: Exploring the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom. Forthcoming in Political Quarterly 

(Research report) Oliver Heath and Matthew Goodwin (2019) Low-income voters in UK general elections, 1987-2017. Report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation​

(Article) Harold Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, Erik Larsen, Paul Whiteley (2019) Party Activism in the Populist Radical Right: The Case of the UK Independence Party, forthcoming in Party Politics 

(Oxford Symposium/talk) Harold Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, Marianne Stewart and Paul Whiteley (2019) Voting for the Brexit Party in the 2019 European Parliament Elections. Oxford Symposium Talk July 2019.

(Lecture) Brexit and Populism under the Microscope - What we know so far. The 2019 Annual Academy of Social Sciences Lecture, Thursday June 20 2019

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Erik Larsen and David Cutts (2019) 'Do Terrorist Attacks Feed Populist Eurosceptics? Evidence from Two Comparative Quasi-Experiments​', European Journal of Political Research (in print)

(Book)(2018) National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, Penguin. A Sunday Times bestseller, featured on Financial Times 2018 political books of the year. Audio version, Spanish/Portuguese/Greek/Lithuanian/Italian translations out/forthcoming.

(Article) Matthew Goodwin and Eric Kaufmann (2018) 'The Diversity Wave: A Meta-Analysis of the Native-Born White Response to Ethnic Diversity', Social Science Research, 76, pp.120-131. Findings blogged at LSE British Politics and Policy

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Simon Hix and Mark Pickup (2018) For and Against Brexit: A Survey Experiment of the Impact of Campaign Frames on Public Attitudes toward EU membership, British Journal of Political Science. Findings blogged at UK In a Changing Europe website 

(Public lecture) (2018) Brexit Britain: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of the Leave Vote. The Royal Geographical Society, Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) and the Centre for British Politics and Government, King's College London

(Research Report) Matthew Goodwin and Oliver Heath (2018) Brexit, General Election and Indyref: The Role of Low-Income Voters in Scotland. Joseph Rowntree Foundation 

(Book Chapter) Matthew Goodwin, Paul Whiteley and Harold Clarke (2018) The Rise and Fall of UKIP, 2010-2017, in Nicholas Allen and John Bartle (ed.) None Past the Post: Britain at the Polls 2017, Manchester University Press

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Michael Thrasher, Colin Rallings and Galina Borisyuk (2018) 'Mobilising the People's Army at the Grassroots: Examining Support for the UK Independence Party in English Local Elections', Parliamentary Affairs (in print)

(Book) Matthew Goodwin, Harold Clarke and Paul Whiteley (2017) Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union, Cambridge University Press. Watch the Chatham House Primer on the book here.

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Mark Pickup and Eline De Rooij (2017) The Differential Impact of Threats on Ethnic Prejudice toward Three Minority Groups in Britain, Political Science Research Methods (forthcoming)

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Caitlin Milazzo and David Cutts (2017) Defeat of the People's Army? The 2015 British General Election and the UK Independence Party, Electoral Studies, 48, pp.70-83

(Article) Matthew Goodwin and Oliver Heath (2017) The 2017 General Election, Brexit and the Return to Two-Party Politics: An Aggregate-Level Analysis of the Result, Political Quarterly, 88(3), pp.345-358 

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Paul Whiteley and Harold Clarke (2017) Why Britain Voted for Brexit: An Individual-Level Analysis of the 2016 Referendum Vote, Parliamentary Affairs, 70(3), pp.439-464

(Article) Matthew Goodwin and Robert Ford (2017) 'Britain after Brexit: A Nation Divided', Journal of Democracy, 28(1), pages 17-30

(Book Chapter) Matthew Goodwin and James Dennison (2017) 'The Radical Right in the United Kingdom', in Jens Rydgren (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right, Oxford University Press 

(Research Report) Matthew Goodwin and Oliver Heath (2017) UK 2017 General Election Vote Examined: Income, Poverty and Brexit. Research report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation


(Research Report) Matthew Goodwin, Thomas Raines and David Cutts (2017) Europe's Political Tribes: Exploring the Diversity of Views Across the European Union. London: Chatham House
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(Research Report) Matthew Goodwin, David Cutts and Thomas Raines (2017) The Future Europe: Comparing Public and Elite Attitudes. Research report for Chatham House

(Article) Matthew Goodwin and Oliver Heath (2016) 'The 2016 Referendum, Brexit and the Left Behind? An Aggregate-Level Analysis of the Result', Political Quarterly, 87(3), pages 323-332. Highlighted in Times Higher as the most cited piece on Brexit.

(Report) Matthew Goodwin and Oliver Heath (2016) Brexit Vote Explained: Poverty, Low Skills and Lack of Opportunities. Research report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

(Report) Matthew Goodwin (2016) Britain's EU Referendum - A Plausible Pathway to Brexit. Research Report for Redburn, April 2016.

(Book) Matthew Goodwin & Caitlin Milazzo (2015) Ukip: Inside the Campaign to Redraw British Politics. Oxford University Press

(Article) Matthew Goodwin & Robert Ford (2015) ‘Different class: UKIP’s social base and political impact: A reply to Evans and Mellon’, Parliamentary Affairs, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsv012)
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(Article) Matthew Goodwin and James Dennison (2015) 'Immigration, Issue Ownership and the Rise of UKIP', Parliamentary Affairs, 68(1), pp.168-187. Also appears in the edited volume Andrew Geddes and Jon Tonge (2015) Britain Votes, Oxford University Press

(Research report) Matthew Goodwin & Caitlin Milazzo (2015) Britain, the European Union and the Referendum: What drives Euroscepticism? Research report for Chatham House
 

(Book chapter) Matthew Goodwin (2015) ‘The great recession and the rise of populist Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom’. Chapter in the edited volume Hans-Peter Kriesi and Takis Pappas (2015) European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession, ECPR Press
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(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Eline De Rooij, & Mark Pickup (2015) ‘Threat, Prejudice and the Riots in England’, Social Science Research, 51, pages 369-383 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.09.003)
 

(Impact case study) Matthew Goodwin (2014) Impact case study. Using evidence-based understanding to refine policy responses to right-wing extremism. University of Nottingham, REF submission.

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, David C. Cutts & Laurence Janta-Lipinski (2014) ‘Economic losers, protestors, Islamophobes or same old xenophobes? Predicting public support for a counter-Jihad movement’, Political Studies (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12159)

(Book) Matthew Goodwin & Robert Ford (2014) Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain, Routledge. Awarded Paddy Power Political Book of the Year 2015 and cited in over 300 newspapers across the world (http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315859057)

(Chapter) Matthew Goodwin (2014) ‘A breakthrough moment or false dawn? The great recession and the radical right in Europe’, in Clara Sanderlind (ed.) European Populism and Winning the Immigration Debate, European Liberal Forum

(Article) Matthew Goodwin & Robert Ford (2014) 'Identity, social change and the rise of the UK Independence Party', Political Quarterly, 85(3), pages. 277-284

(Article) Matthew Goodwin (2014) ‘Forever a false dawn? Explaining the electoral collapse of the British National Party (BNP), Parliamentary Affairs, 67 (4), pages 887-906

(Report) Matthew Goodwin, Colin Roberts & Gareth Harris (2013) Far Right Groups and Public Attitudes in Wales: A Community-Based Study. Research Report for the Welsh Government

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Robert Ford & David C. Cutts (2013) ‘Extreme right foot soldiers, Legacy effects and deprivation: A contextual analysis of the leaked British National Party Membership List’, Party Politics, 2013, 19 (6), pages 887-906 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354068811436034)

(Report) Matthew Goodwin (2013) Preventing and Countering Far-Right Extremism and Radicalisation: the United Kingdom and Germany, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Ministry of Justice, Sweden 

(Article) Matthew Goodwin & Gareth Harris (2013) ‘Rallying intolerance in the valleys: Explaining support for the extreme right in Wales', British Politics, 8 (4), pages 433-456

(Report) Matthew Goodwin (2013) The roots of extremism: The English Defence League and counter-Jihad challenge. Chatham House
 

(Article) Matthew Goodwin & David Cutts (2013) ‘Getting out the right-wing extremist vote: Extreme right party support and campaign effects at a British General Election’, European Political Science Review, 6 (1), 93-114 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755773912000288)
 

(Report) Matthew Goodwin (2013) How might changes in political allegiances affect notions of identity in the next ten years? Report for the Future of Identity Foresight Project, UK Government Office for Science

(Chapter) Matthew Goodwin & David C. Cutts (2012) ‘Mobilizing the workers? Extreme right party support and campaign effects at the 2010 British General Election’, in Jens Rydgren (Ed.) Class Politics and the Radical Right, Routledge
 

(Report) Matthew Goodwin (2012) Violent and non-violent right-wing extremism in Europe, Institute for Strategic Dialogue & Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice

(Chapter) Matthew Goodwin (2012) ‘Backlash in the ‘hood: Exploring Support for the British National Party at the Local Level’, in Andrea Mammone et al. (eds.) Mapping the Far Right in Contemporary Europe, New York and Oxford: Berghahn

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Robert Ford & David Cutts (2011) ‘Strategic Eurosceptics and polite xenophobes: Support for the UK Independence Party in the 2009 European Parliament Elections', European Journal of Political Research, 51, pages 204-234
 

(Report) Matthew Goodwin (2011) Recruiting to right-wing extremism: What do we know? Research report for the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, 2011

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Robert Ford & David C. Cutts (2011) ‘Anti-immigrant, Politically Disaffected or Still Racist After All? Examining the drivers of extreme right support in the 2009 European Elections, European Journal of Political Research, 50(3), 418-440 
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(Report) Matthew Goodwin (2011) Right response: Understanding and countering populist extremism. London: Chatham House

(Book) Matthew Goodwin (2011) New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party, Routledge 

(Oral evidence) Matthew Goodwin (2011) Submission of oral evidence on the roots of radicalisation, Home Affairs Committee

(Article) Matthew Goodwin and Robert Ford (2010) ‘Angry White Men: Individual and Contextual Predictors of Support for the British National Party’, Political Studies, 58 (1), 1-25 

(Article) Matthew Goodwin (2010) ‘Activism in Contemporary Extreme Right Parties: The Case of the British National Party’, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 20 (2), pages 31-54

(Article) Matthew Goodwin, Stephen Greasley, Peter John & Liz Richardson (2010) ‘Can We Make Environmental Citizens? A Randomized Control Trial of the Effect of a School-Based Intervention on Young People’, Environmental Politics, 19 (3), pages 392-412
 

(Book) Matthew Goodwin and Roger Eatwell (Eds.)(2010) New Extremism in 21st Century Britain, Routledge 

(Chapter) Matthew Goodwin, Robert Ford, Bobby Duffy and Rea Robey (2010)  ‘Who Votes Extreme Right in 21st Century Britain? The Bases of Support for the National Front and British National Party’, in Eatwell and Goodwin, New Extremism, pages 191-210

(Chapter) Matthew Goodwin (2010) ‘In Search of the Winning Formula: Nick Griffin and the ‘Modernization’ of the British National Party’, in Eatwell and Goodwin, New Extremism, pages 169-190

(Article) Matthew Goodwin (2009) ‘The Radical Right in Contemporary Europe: Past, Present and Future', Political Studies Review’, 7 (3), pages 322-329
 

(Chapter) Matthew Goodwin (2009) ‘Can we promote cohesion through contact? Intergroup contact and the development of ‘cohesive’ communities’, in Catherine Durose et al. (Eds.) Local Governance Changing Citizens? Policy Press, pages 91-110
 

(Report) Matthew Goodwin, Francesca Gains, Peter John and Liz Richardson (2007) Improving the representativeness of councillors: Learning from five local authorities, Research Report for Councillors Commission, Communities & Local Government

(Article) Matthew Goodwin (2007) ‘Research, revisionists and the radical right’, Politics, 28 (1), 33-40 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.2007.00308.x)

(Article) Matthew Goodwin (2007) ‘The extreme right in Britain: Still an ugly duckling but for how long?' Political Quarterly, 78, pages 241-50 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923x.2007.00851.x)
 
 

(Article) Matthew Goodwin (2006) ‘The rise and faults of the internalist perspective in extreme right studies’, Representation, 42, pp 347-364 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00344890600951924)

(Report) Matthew Goodwin and Roger Eatwell (2005) The role of ‘racist’ groups in community tension, Home Office

(Report) Matthew Goodwin, Rushanara Ali, Gavin Bailey & Alessandra Buonfino (2004) Exploring the Drivers of Far Right Support, Young Foundation
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