Toby James
Professor
Politics and Public Policy
Fellow, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
University of East Anglia
Toby S. James is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of East Anglia in the UK and fellow with the Queen’s Institute for Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR). He is also the co-Director of the Electoral Integrity Project and Editor in Chief of the journal Policy Studies.
His research focuses on concepts of democracy, electoral integrity and applied policy solutions to improving the quality of elections. He work also covers politics, political leadership the policy making process more generally.
He is the author or co-editor of eight books, including: Comparative Electoral Management (Routledge, 2020), The Trump Administration(Routledge, 2022) and Elections During Emergencies and Crises: Lessons for Electoral Integrity from the Covid-19 Pandemic (International IDEA, 2023)
Toby has written commissioned policy reports for national and international organisations, and collaborated with organisations such as International IDEA, Venice Commission, IFES, the Carter Center, Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He has regularly given invited evidence to many Parliamentary committees. His research has been externally funded by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, SSHRC, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust and the McDougall Trust.
Twitter: @tobysjames