John Schwarzmantel

John Schwarzmantel "has been a trustee of the Lipman-Miliband Trust since 1982. Between 1985-2001 he was our treasurer and from 1994-2001 he also acted as chair and secretary. He is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds where is currently Director of the Centre for Democratisation Studies (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/research/democStd/). His main academic interests are in political theory, with a particular focus on questions of nationalism, democratic theory and political ideologies in contemporary politics. In April 2001, he organised a conference on behalf of the Trust on ‘Nationalism and the Left’ with wide participation of speakers from the UK and abroad. His most recent publications include Citizenship and Identity (2003), The Age of Ideology (1998) and he is co-editor of Democracy; a Reader (2001)."


 * Trustee, Lipman Miliband Trust

Books

 * Schwarzmantel, J.J. (forthcoming 2008) Ideology and Politics, Sage.
 * Schwarzmantel, J.J. (2003) Citizenship and identity: towards a new republic. Routledge.