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Recent publications include: A recent publication includes "The New Extremism in Twenty-First Century Britain"

Matthew Goodwin (with Robert Ford and David Cutts). Strategic Eurosceptics, polite xenophobes or angry men? Support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the 2009 European Parliament elections DCERN Working Paper Series.

Matthew Goodwin (with David Cutts and Robert Ford). 'Anti-immigrant, politically disaffected or still racist after all? Examining the attitudinal drivers of extreme right support in Britain in the 2009 European elections', accepted to the European Journal of Political Research(forthcoming).

Matthew Goodwin (with Robert Ford). 2010. 'Angry white men: Individual and contextual predictors of support for the British National Party', Political Studies, 58(1), pp.1-25

Matthew Goodwin (with Stephen Greasley, Peter John and Liz Richardson).2010. 'Can we make environmental citizens? A randomised control trial of the effects of a school-based intervention on the attitudes and knowledge of young people', Environmental Politics, 19(3), pp.392-412.

Matthew Goodwin (with Roger Eatwell). Eds. 2010. The New Extremism in Twenty-First Century Britain. Abingdon & New York: Routledge.

Matthew Goodwin. 2010. 'Activism in contemporary extreme right parties: The case of the British National Party (BNP)’, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 22(2), pp.31-54.

Matthew Goodwin. 2010. ‘In search of the winning formula: Nick Griffin and the ‘modernization’ of the British National Party’, in R. Eatwell & M. Goodwin (Eds) The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain. London: Routledge.

Matthew Goodwin (with Robert Ford, Bobby Duffy and Rea Robey). 2010. ‘Who votes extreme right in twenty first century Britain? The social bases of support for the National Front and British National Party’, in R. Eatwell & M. Goodwin (Eds) The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain. London: Routledge.

Matthew Goodwin (with Robert Ford). 2009. Something rotten in the heartlands? Ethnic competition, working class disaffection and the BNP challenge. Working paper for the Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network (DCERN) seminar series, University of Manchester.

Matthew Goodwin. 2009. ‘Backlash in the ‘hood: Exploring support for the British National Party at the local Level’. In Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins. Eds. Mapping the far right in contemporary Europe: Local, national, comparative, transnational. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Matthew Goodwin. 2009. ‘Can we promote cohesion through contact? Intergroup contact and the development of ‘cohesive’ local communities.' In Catherine Durose, Stephen Greasley and Liz Richardson (Eds) Local governance, changing citizens? Bristol: Policy Press, pp.91-110

Matthew Goodwin. 2009. ‘The radical right in contemporary Europe’, Political Studies Review, 7(3)

Matthew Goodwin (with Andrej Zaslove). 2009. ‘Review symposium on Cas Mudde’s Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe’, Political Studies Review, 7(3)

Matthew Goodwin. 2008. ‘Backlash in the ‘hood: The determinants of support for the British National Party at the local level’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 16(3), pp.349-363

Matthew Goodwin. 2008. ‘Research, revisionists and the radical right’, Politics, 28(1), pp. 33-40

Matthew Goodwin. 2008. ‘The far right in the twenty-first century’ in Peter Davies (Ed.) The far right in Europe: An encyclopedia. Oxford: Greenwood, pp.93-103

Matthew Goodwin.2007. ‘The extreme right in Britain: Still an ugly duckling but for how long?’ Political Quarterly, 78(2), pp.241-50

Matthew Goodwin (with Francesca Gains, Peter John and Liz Richardson). 2007. Improving the Representativeness of Councillors: Learning from Five High Performing Local Authorities in England. Research Report 4 for Councillors Commission. London: Communities & Local Government

Matthew Goodwin (with Alessandra Buonfino, Rushinara Ali & Gavin Bailey). 2007. Exploring the drivers of far right support. London: Young Foundation.

Matthew Goodwin (with Liz Richardson). 2007. Making Better Interventions: Models of Behaviour Change. Research report for Bolton Council/North West Improvement Network

Matthew Goodwin. 2006. ‘Review article: The rise and faults of the internalist perspective in extreme right studies’, Representation, 42(4), 347-364

Matthew Goodwin (with Roger Eatwell). 2005. The role of ‘racist’ groups in community tension. Research Report for the Home Office.

Matthew Goodwin. 2005. ‘Beyond the war of words? The extreme right paradigm in the twenty-first century’, Political Perspectives, Issue 2

Recent presentations include:

Matthew Goodwin, 'The Causes and Consequences of Far Right Voting'. Unravelling Extremisms: Informing the Debate, Birmingham City Council, June 2010

Matthew Goodwin, David Cutts and Robert Ford. 'Neighbourhood deprivation, political legacies and extreme right party membership'. 60th Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, Mar 2010

Matthew Goodwin, David Cutts and Robert Ford. 'Protesting, anti-immigrant or racist? Examining the drivers of support for the British National Party'. 60th Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, Mar 2010

Matthew Goodwin. 'What motivates the far right voter?' 2nd Annual Challenges to Cohesion Conference, University of Manchester, Mar 2010

Matthew Goodwin. 'Voting Extreme Right in Modern Britain'. Migration and the Rise of Nationalist Right-Wing Parties Seminar, Policy Network, University of Copenhagen, Mar 2010

Matthew Goodwin. 'Who votes for who?' Cohesion and Political Extremism Workshop, Camden London Borough Council/Institute of Community Cohesion, Feb 2010

Matthew Goodwin.'Who Supports Griffin? BNP Voters in Twenty-First Century Britain’. Migration Research Seminars - Sussex Centre for Migration Research, Dec 2009

David Cutts, Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin. 'Still racist after all? Examining the attitudinal drivers of extreme right party support in the 2009 European elections'. Religion and Right-Wing Extremism Workshop, University of Manchester Nov 2009

Robert Ford, Matthew Goodwin and Peter John. 'Explaining the far right resurgence in English local elections 2002-20080: A spatial model of aggregate data'. 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam Sep 2009

Matthew Goodwin. 'Beyond a snapshot approach: The merits of a life history approach to the study of party activism'. American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Toronto Sep 2009

Robert Ford, Matthew Goodwin and Peter John. 'The far right in the 2006-08 English local elections: Is there spatial dependence?'. 67th Midwest Political Science Association National Conference, Chicago Apr 2009

Matthew Goodwin, Stephen Greasley, Peter John and Liz Richardson. 'Can we make environmental citizens? A randomized control trial of the effect of a school-based intervention on the attitudes of young people'. 59th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, Manchester Apr 2009

Matthew Goodwin. 'Change and continuity on the British extreme right'. 13th Annual Karlsruhe Dialogues - 'Right Outside, Right-Wing Extremism in Europe Today', Germany Feb 2009

Matthew Goodwin. 'Can we make environmental citizens? A randomized control trial of the effect of a school-based intervention on the attitudes of young people'. 3rd Annual Conference of Randomized Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences, University of York Oct 2008

Matthew Goodwin. 'Party membership and activism on the fringe: The British case', ESRC Seminar Series - The Future of Political Parties, University of Birmingham Oct 2007

Matthew Goodwin. Panel Chair: 'The impact of the populist radical right', 4th ECPR General Conference, Pisa Sep 2007

Matthew Goodwin. 'A tale of two boroughs: Extreme right party politics at the neighbourhood level', 4th ECPR General Conference, Pisa Sep 2007

Matthew Goodwin. 'Converting to the cause: The dynamics of party activism in extreme right parties'. 14th PhD Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Sep 2005.