Sheffield Interdisciplinary Political Economy Research Group
Sheffield Interdisciplinary Political Economy Research Group (SiPErg) supports interdisciplinary research in the area of Political Economy by bringing together active researchers in the field.
Our research group takes a quantitative political economy approach to analyse how institutions and social conflict shape the behaviour of political actors and how political decisions influence economic processes (and vice versa). Combining large datasets and cutting-edge quantitative methods, we aim to address contemporary political economic issues with real world relevance.
Research areas
Our current research areas include:
- voting behaviour
- electoral and partisan cycles
- politics of economic policy-making
- political economy of foreign aid
- British political economy and Brexit
- women’s political preferences
- electoral fraud
- political participation
- economic development
- economic history
- immigration
- terrorism