John Loughlin

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John Loughlin is Professor of Politics at Cardiff University and was European Studies Centre Visiting Research Fellow at St Antony's College Oxford in 2005–6.

[edit] Academic achievements

John Loughlin is a member of the Committee of Independent Experts on regional and local democracy of the Council of Europe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Universities of Umea, Sweden and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Aix-en-Provence. He was a Visiting Fellow at Merton College Oxford in 2004 and a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Society for Belgium for Arts and Sciences in 2005. He has held Visiting Professorships and Fellowships in the following universities: Sciences Po, Paris; the European University Institute, Florence; the University of Santiago da Compostella; the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels.

[edit] Publishing history

John Loughlin has published widely on regionalism and local government as well as the transformation of the Welfare State. Recent books include:

Subnational Government: the French Experience, (Basingstoke: Macmillan Palgrave, 2007),
Albania and the European Union (with Mirela Bodgani, (London: I B Tauris, 2007)
Spanish Political Parties (edited with David Hanley), (Cardiff: Wales University Press, 2006)
Subnational Democracy in the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities(with Udo Bullmann, Frank Hendriks, Anders Lidstrom and Daniel-L Seiler), 2nd edition, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
La décentralisation dans les états de l'Union Européenne (edited with Alain Delcamp), (Paris: La Documentation Française, 2003).