Eleanor Bindman, Ph.D.

e.bindman@mmu.ac.uk

Manchester Metropolitan University

City: Manchester, England

Country: United Kingdom

About Me:

I joined Manchester Metropolitan as Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration in January 2019. Prior to my current appointment I was Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. I completed her PhD in Russian and EU Politics at the University of Glasgow in 2013 and has held visiting fellowships at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki) and at New York University.My research interests include policymaking processes in electoral authoritarian regimes, welfare reform, social policy and social rights in Russia and other post-Soviet states. I am currently working on two research projects: 1) a comparative project on social security and social service delivery in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan and 2) a project in collaboration with Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) exploring how authoritarian regimes use conservative family policy to achieve political outcomes, using Russia and Belarus as case studies. My book ‘Social Rights in Russia: From Imperfect Past to Uncertain Future’ was published by Routledge in October 2017.

Research Interests

Post-Communist Politics

Public Policy

Non-Democratic Regimes

Public Administration

Authoritarian Regimes

Post-Soviet Countries

Countries of Interest

Russia

Ukraine

Belarus