Andrew Richards

Andrew Richards is Professor of Political Science at the Juan March Institute. He obtained his doctorate at Princeton University, where he taught European politics and Soviet/Russian politics and has been Visiting Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, where he taught comparative and European politics. He is the author of "Miners on Strike: Class Solidarity and Division in Britain" (1996) (Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences Annual Report 2001/2002: 12) and has contributed to "Europe Today. National Politics, European Integration, and European Security" (1999), "Unemployment in the New Europe" (2001) and "Can Class Still Unite? The Differentiated Work Force, Class Solidarity and Trade Unions" (2001). His areas of research include social movements and protests, trade unions and labor relations, consequences of labor market inequality, and workers’ political behavior in relation to their location in the labor market.