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Overview

Robert Ford is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science as notable subfields. Their work encompasses topics such as Social Policy and Reform Studies, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Political and Economic history of the UK and US, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, European Union Policy and Governance, and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies.

Their recent scholarly contributions include publications in diverse peer-reviewed venues:

  • The Changing Cleavage Politics of Western Europe, 2020, Annual Review of Political Science
  • The status stratification of radical right support: Reconsidering the occupational profile of UKIP's electorate, 2020, Electoral Studies
  • Brexit and Britain's Culture Wars, 2020, Political Insight
  • "These benefits are ours because we were here first": relating autochthony to welfare chauvinism and welfare ethnocentrism, 2023, Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • What drives welfare chauvinism in Europe?, 2025, West European Politics

Frequent publication venues where Robert Ford has contributed include:

  • Annual Review of Political Science
  • Electoral Studies
  • Political Insight
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • West European Politics

They have also published a book titled Brexitland in 2020 through Cambridge University Press, accumulating citations in academic discourse.

Robert Ford's collaborative research encompasses working with scholars such as Maria Sobolewska, Will Jennings, Leonardo Carella, Tom Nijs, and Borja Martinović, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement across overlapping areas of inquiry.

Best Publications

  • Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain

    Robert Anthony Ford;Matthew J. Goodwin

  • Acceptable and Unacceptable Immigrants: How Opposition to Immigration in Britain is Affected by Migrants' Region of Origin

    Robert Ford

  • Angry White Men: Individual and Contextual Predictors of Support for the British National Party

    Robert Ford;Matthew J. Goodwin

  • The Changing Cleavage Politics of Western Europe

    Robert Ford;William Jennings

  • Strategic Eurosceptics and polite xenophobes: Support for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in the 2009 European Parliament elections

    Robert Ford;Matthew J. Goodwin;David Cutts

  • Brexitland

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  • Structural and functional diversity calls for a new classification of ABC transporters.

    Christoph Thomas;Stephen G. Aller;Konstantinos Beis;Konstantinos Beis;Elisabeth P. Carpenter

  • Britain After Brexit: A Nation Divided

    Matthew J. Goodwin;Robert Ford

  • The Better Angels of Our Nature: How the Antiprejudice Norm Affects Policy and Party Preferences in Great Britain and Germany

    Scott Blinder;Robert Ford;Elisabeth Ivarsflaten

  • Anti-immigrant, politically disaffected or still racist after all? Examining the attitudinal drivers of extreme right support in Britain in the 2009 European elections

    David Cutts;Robert Ford;Matthew J. Goodwin

  • Is racial prejudice declining in Britain

    Robert Ford

  • Understanding UKIP: Identity, social change and the left behind

    Robert Ford;Matthew J. Goodwin

  • Public opinion, responsiveness and constraint: Britain's three immigration policy regimes

    Robert Ford;Will Jennings;Will Somerville

  • Appendix 2: An analysis of the results

    J Curtice;S Fisher;R Ford

  • Ethnicity as a political cleavage

    Nicholas Cheeseman;R. Ford

  • Who Should We Help? An Experimental Test of Discrimination in the British Welfare State:

    Robert Ford

  • The Anti‐Racism Norm in Western European Immigration Politics: Why we Need to Consider it and How to Measure it

    Elisabeth Ivarsflaten;Scott Blinder;Robert Ford

  • Contested terrain: explaining divergent patterns of public opinion towards immigration within Europe

    Anthony Heath;Eldad Davidov;Robert Ford;Eva G. T. Green

  • The Impact of Migration on Social Cohesion and Integration

    Shamit Saggar;Will Sommerville;Robert Ford;Maria Sobolewska

  • Is ethnic prejudice declining in Britain? Change in social distance attitudes among ethnic majority and minority Britons.

    Ingrid Storm;Maria Sobolewska;Robert Ford

  • Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics

    Maria Sobolewska;Robert Ford

  • British Culture Wars? Brexit and the Future Politics of Immigration and Ethnic Diversity

    Maria Sobolewska;Robert Ford

  • Political realignment of British Jews: Testing competing explanations

    Andrew Barclay;Maria Sobolewska;Robert Ford

  • Brexit and Britain’s Culture Wars:

    Maria Sobolewska;Robert Ford

  • Immigration: How attitudes in the UK compare with Europe

    Robert Ford;Kitty Lymperopoulou

  • UKIP, Brexit and the Disruptive Political Potential of English National Identity

    Robert Ford;Maria Sobolewska

  • Parochial and Cosmopolitan Britain: Examining the social divide in reactions to immigration

    R Ford

  • 'Fewer but better?' British attitudes to immigration

    R Ford;G Morrell;A Heath

  • The Politics of Immigration: Old and New

    Robert Ford;Maria Sobolewska

  • Immigration and the 2010 election

    D Flynn;R Ford;W Somerville

  • The Man Who Wasn’t There: Labour Under Corbyn

    Robert Ford;Tim Bale;Will Jennings;Paula Surridge

  • Get Brexit Done: The National Campaign

    Robert Ford;Tim Bale;Will Jennings;Paula Surridge

  • UKIP, Brexit and the Disruptive Potential of English National Identity

    Robert Ford;Maria Sobolewska

  • The 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study

    Andrew Barclay;Robert Ford;Maria Sobolewska

  • Brexitland: Identity Conflicts in British Politics

    Maria Sobolewska;Robert Ford

  • The Long Divorce: Parties and Voters Parting Ways

    Maria Sobolewska;Robert Ford

  • Terror and Tolerance: The Challenge of Inclusion of Muslims in Western Europe (Chapter in At the Forefront of Political Psychology Essays in Honor of John L. Sullivan)

    Paul Sniderman;Rune Slothuus;Michael Bang Petersen;Rune Stubager

Frequent Co-Authors

Will Jennings
Will Jennings University of Southampton
Matthew J. Goodwin
Matthew J. Goodwin University of Kent
Tim Bale
Tim Bale Queen Mary University of London
Douglas Laxton
Douglas Laxton International Monetary Fund
Anthony Heath
Anthony Heath University of Oxford
Christopher Wlezien
Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin
David Cutts
David Cutts Brown University
Christopher McCrudden
Christopher McCrudden Queen's University Belfast
Peter John
Peter John King's College London
Philip Cowley
Philip Cowley Queen Mary University of London

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