My work covers three main areas: comparative political communication (the Internet's impact on political engagement and mobilisation); comparative governance (e-government, e-democracy) and comparative and international public policy (Internet governance and regulation). My latest book is the Handbook of Internet Politics, co-edited with Philip N. Howard (Routledge, 2008; Paperback edition, 2009). The book before that was Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies (Oxford University Press), which won the American Sociological Association Outstanding Book Award (Communication and Information Technologies Section), 2007. I have recently completed editing a double special issue of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics entitled "Politics: Web 2.0", published in August 2009. I am currently working on my next book, which is under contract with Oxford University Press.

 

I was the founding Director of the New Political Communication Unit in April 2007 and was the organiser of its recent international conference Politics: Web 2.0. In March 2009, Dr Ben O'Loughlin moved from being the Unit's Associate Director to become its Co-Director.

 

I am the series editor for Oxford Studies in Digital Politics - a new Oxford University Press USA book series.The first five books have now been commissioned. See here for details.

 

My work has appeared in a wide range of academic journals, including Political Studies, Governance (including a 2003 piece that has become one of the most frequently cited academic articles on e-government), Political Communication, The Journal of Political Ideologies, Information, Communication and Society, and Social Science Computer Review. You can download some of these at my Publications page.

 

I have presented numerous papers, for example, at the UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference, the European Consortium for Political Research, the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, and to the US Congressional Research Service. You can read a list of these and download some at my Presentations page.

 

I add to my tumblelog at http://www.andrewchadwick.com and contribute to the New Political Communication Unit's group blog.

 

Other notable recent research activity:

- One of the founders of the NSF-funded International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policymaking.
- Founding Associate Editor (2006-09) and Senior Editorial Board member (ongoing) of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, the journal of the organized section on Information Technology & Politics (ITP) of the American Political Science Association (APSA). JITP is published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis.

- Executive Committee member, APSA Information Technology and Politics Section; Prize Committee member for 2008-2010.

- Founding member, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on the Internet and Politics.

- Programme Committee member, Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010), Institute for Communications Studies, University of Leeds, June 2010.

- Programme Committee member, YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States, a two-day conference at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, April 2009.

- Research has been supported by the European Commission, the Parliament of Canada and the Leverhulme Trust.