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Dr. Ryan Bakker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. His research focuses on comparative politics, party systems, and quantitative political analysis. He teaches courses including Quantitative Political Analysis, Advanced Quantitative Political Analysis, and a doctoral seminar in political economy. His work examines party positioning, European integration, socio-cultural policy dimensions, and electoral behavior across nations.
He has supervised PhD students such as Kristijan Garic (current) and Eunhyea Oh (awarded 2025), whose thesis explored voting behavior in EU institutions. His research employs expert survey data (e.g., Chapel Hill Expert Survey) and methodological innovations to study political representation, ideological congruence, and anti-establishment movements. Key themes include urban-rural political divisions, pandemic governance responses, and transatlantic policy comparisons.
His publications span topics from measuring human rights through practitioner surveys to analyzing the evolving dimensions of West European party politics. Despite no listed awards, Bakker’s work contributes significantly to comparative political methodology and data infrastructure through collaborative projects like the Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend files.
