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Paul Chaisty is Professor of Russian and East European Politics at the University of Oxford and previous Head of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). He joined the Department of Politics and International Relations and OSGA in 2005, following a three-year appointment in Politics at Pembroke College, Oxford. Before that, he taught at various UK Universities including Leeds, York, East London, Royal Holloway, and Essex. He received his PhD from the University of Leeds and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
His research interests cover legislative, party and interest group politics in post-communist Russia; political attitudes in Eastern Europe, and comparative presidentialism. His books include (with Stephen Whitefield) How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation (Princeton University Press, 2025), (with Nic Cheeseman and Timothy J Power), Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Legislative Politics and Economic Power in Russia (Palgrave, 2006).