Professor Guibernau focuses on comparative European politics including national and ethnic diversity in the EU. In particular she has a long standing interest in the study of Catalan and Spanish politics.

Françoise Boucek focuses on comparative European politics and government including the EU particularly political parties and party factions, party systems, electoral systems and electoral reform, legislative politics and coalitions.  Her current research concentrates on party dominance, intra-party politics, the comparative study of factionalism and its impact on dominant parties; cohesion, dissent and partisanship in European legislatures. In Europe, her particular focus is on: intra-party politics and legislative cohesion/dissnet in European parliaments; factionalism inside the British Conservative Party and Labour and Italy’s Christian Democrats; the effects of electoral systems and electoral reform on the party systems of Britain, Italy, and France; one-party dominance in Britain, Italy, Sweden, and France; europeanisation and euroscepticism.  She also has a long-standing interest in economic and industrial policy in France.