Professor Daniel Wincott
Blackwell Professor of Law and Society
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I hold the Blackwell Law and Society Chair in Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics. I'm based in its Wales Governance Centre. I have directed the Economic and Social Research Council’s Governance after Brexit Research Programme since 2018 and am Research Director of its King’s College London based UK in a Changing Europe initiative. These roles have encompassed co-ordination of over 40 individual ESRC research projects.
A political scientist/policy analyst by background, my research interests are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary (across politics, law, socio-legal studies, social and public policy). They embrace UK and comparative territorial politics, constitutional law and politics, public attitudes and national identity politics, social policy and the welfare state as well as political and socio-legal theory and methods. I collaborate on several large-scale research projects, including Welsh Election Study, Between two Unions and WISERD (all ESRC funded) and the Future of England/State of the Union Surveys
A Fellow of Edinburgh University’s Centre on Constitutional Change, I have held an Honorary Professorial Fellowship in its School of Social and Political Sciences. I am a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and Academy of the Social Sciences.
As Head of Cardiff Law School from 2013, leading its merger with Politics and International Relations during 2013/14. I then designed and implemented a transformative expansion of International Relations at Cardiff – appointing 18 new members of staff at all levels during 2015. My period as Head ended in 2016.
I have been a member of the ESRC's Strategic Advisory Network and, earlier, its Research Committee. I also served on the Wales ESRC Doctoral Training Centre management goup. Currently a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Law and Society and the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, I was previously Editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies.
Biography
I moved to Cardiff from a Chair in European and Comparative Politics at the University of Birmingham and earlier held positions in Law and Politics at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick. I completed my PhD on ‘The policy configurations of ‘welfare states’ and women’s role in the workforce in advanced industrial societies’ at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Publications
2021
- Henderson, A.et al. 2021. Analysing vote choice in a multi-national state: national identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote. Regional Studies 55(9), pp. 1502-1516. (10.1080/00343404.2020.1813883)
- Wincott, D., Murray, C. and Davies, G. 2021. The Anglo-British Imaginary and the rebuilding of the territorial constitution after Brexit - unitary state or union state?. Territory, Politics, Governance (10.1080/21622671.2021.1921613)
- Davies, G. and Wincott, D. 2021. Unionism in the courts? A critique of the Act of Union Bill. Public Law, pp. 293-310.
- Davies, G. and Wincott, D. 2021. Brexit, the press and the territorial constitution. Social and Legal Studies 30(2), pp. 157-179. (10.1177/0964663920921922)
- Wincott, D., Davies, G. and Wager, A. 2021. Conceptualising crisis, UK pluri-constitutionalism and Brexit politics. Regional Studies 55(9), pp. 1528-1537. (10.1080/00343404.2020.1805423)
- Wincott, D., Chaney, P. and Sophocleous, C. 2021. Voluntary action, territory and timing: the Council of Social Service for Wales, periodisation and the new historiography of the 'British Welfare State', 1919-1980. Journal of Social Policy
- Wincott, D. 2021. Multi-level dynamics of the UK's EU exit: identity, territory, policy and power. Regional Studies 55(9), pp. 1491-1501. (10.1080/00343404.2021.1950915)
2020
- Wincott, D. 2020. Symposium introduction: the paradox of structure: the UK state, society and ‘Brexit’. Journal of Common Market Studies 58(6), pp. 1578-1586. (10.1111/jcms.13109)
- Murray, C. R. G. and Wincott, D. 2020. Partition by degrees: routine exceptions in border and immigration practice between the UK and Ireland, 1921-1972. Journal of Law and Society 47(S1), pp. S145-S163. (10.1111/jols.12246)
- Chaney, P., Sophocleous, C. and Wincott, D. 2020. Exploring the meso-territorialization of third sector administration and welfare delivery in federal and union states: evidence and theory-building from the UK. Regional and Federal Studies (10.1080/13597566.2020.1822341)
- Hunt, J. and Wincott, D. 2020. The constitutional implications of the UK internal market proposals. Senedd Cymru| Y Gwasanaeth Ymchwil / Welsh Parliament | Research Service. Available at: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/2461875/Paper-to-note-3-The-Constitutional-Implications-of-the-UK-Internal-Market-Proposals-29-September-.pdf
- Dougan, M.et al. 2020. UK internal market bill, devolution and the union. Centre on Constitutional Change, UK in a Changing Europe, Wales Governance Centre. Available at: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/2468038/UK-INTERNAL-MARKET-BILL,-DEVOLUTION-AND-THE-UNION-4.pdf
2018
- Wincott, D. 2018. Brexit and the state of the United Kingdom. In: Diamond, P., Nedergaard, P. and Rosamond, B. eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Brexit. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 15-26.
2017
- Wincott, D. 2017. Brexit dilemmas: new opportunities and tough choices in unsettled times. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 19(4), pp. 680-695. (10.1177/1369148117725316)
- Henderson, A.et al. 2017. How Brexit was made in England. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 19(4), pp. 631-646. (10.1177/1369148117730542)
2016
- Menon, A., Minto, R. and Wincott, D. 2016. Introduction: The UK and the European Union. Political Quarterly 87(2), pp. 174-178. (10.1111/1467-923X.12266)
- Henderson, A.et al. 2016. England, Englishness and Brexit. Political Quarterly 87(2), pp. 187-199. (10.1111/1467-923X.12262)
- Cowan, D. and Wincott, D. eds. 2016. Exploring the 'legal' in socio-legal studies. Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Cowan, D. and Wincott, D. 2016. Exploring the 'legal'. In: Cowan, D. and Wincott, D. eds. Exploring the 'Legal' in Sociology-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-31.
2015
- Priban, J. 2015. The concept of law in global societal constitutionalism. In: Cowan, D. and Wincott, D. eds. Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies Palgrave, pp. 57-79.
- Wincott, D. 2015. Original and imitated or elusive and limited? Towards a genealogy of the Welfare State idea in Britain. In: Beland, D. and Peterson, K. eds. Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives. Policy Press, pp. 127-142.
2014
- Chaney, P. and Wincott, D. 2014. Envisioning the third sector's welfare role: critical discourse analysis of 'post-devolution' public policy in the UK 1998-2012. Social Policy and Administration 48(7), pp. 757-781. (10.1111/spol.12062)
2013
- Wincott, D. 2013. The (golden) age of the Welfare State: Interrogating a conventional wisdom. Public Administration 91(4), pp. 806-822. (10.1111/j.1467-9299.2012.02067.x)
- Henderson, A., Jeffery, C. and Wincott, D. eds. 2013. Citizenship after the nation state: Regionalism, nationalism and public attitudes in Europe. Comparative Territorial Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wincott, D. and Wyn Jones, R. 2013. Conclusion: citizenship after the nation state: the 2009 survey and beyond. In: Henderson, A., Jeffery, C. and Wincott, D. eds. Citizenship after the nation state: Regionalism, nationalism and public attitudes in Europe. Comparative Territorial Politics Baskingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 181-205.
- Henderson, A.et al. 2013. Citizenship after devolution in the United Kingdom: public attitudes in Scotland and Wales. In: Henderson, A., Jeffery, C. and Wincott, D. eds. Citizenship after the nation state: Regionalism, nationalism and public attitudes in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 31-51.
- Wyn Jones, R.et al. 2013. England and its two unions: The anatomy of a nation and its discontents. Project Report. [Online]. London: Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Available at: http://www.ippr.org/publication/55/11003/england-and-its-two-unions-the-anatomy-of-a-nation-and-its-discontents
- Henderson, A.et al. 2013. Reflections on the 'devolution paradox': a comparative examination of multilevel citizenship. Regional Studies 47(3), pp. 303-322. (10.1080/00343404.2013.768764)
2012
- Hay, C. and Wincott, D. 2012. The political economy of European welfare capitalism. 21st Century Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wyn Jones, R.et al. 2012. The dog that finally barked: England as an emerging political community. Project Report. [Online]. London: Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Available at: http://www.ippr.org/images/media/files/publication/2012/02/dog-that-finally-barked_englishness_Jan2012_8542.pdf
2011
- Wincott, D. 2011. Images of welfare in law and society: the British welfare state in comparative perspective. Journal of Law and Society 38(3), pp. 343-375. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2011.00548.x)
- Wincott, D. 2011. Ideas, policy change and the welfare state. In: Beland, D. and Cox, R. H. eds. Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 143-166.
2010
- Jeffery, C. and Wincott, D. 2010. The challenge of territorial politics: beyond methodological nationalism. In: Hay, C. ed. New Directions in Political Science: Responding to the Challenges of an Interdependent World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-188.
2009
- Wincott, D. 2009. Citizenship in space and time: observations on T.H. Marshall's Citizenship and Social Class. In: Greer, S. L. ed. Devolution and Social Citizenship in the UK. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 39-56.
My research interests are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, encompassing both leadership and extensive collaboration. I direct the ESRC's Governance after Brexit programme and serve as Research Director of its UK in a Changing Europe programme. My other ESRC funded collaborative research includes the Welsh Election Study, Between two Unions large project and WISERD Research Centre - and I collaborate on the Future of England/State of the Union Surveys.
Since 2016 I have edited special editions/symposia of The Political Quarterly, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, the Journal of Common Market Studies and Regional Studies.
Over the past five years, my Brexit-focused publications have developed novel analyses of the UK's 'Anglo-British' territorial constitution and the role of Relative Territorial Identity explaining the national (English, Scottish, Welsh) politics of Brexit vote-choice , begging basic questions about conventional models of British politics and constitutional law. Publications on social policy raise similar questions about standard narratives about territoriality and the history of the welfare state.
Over the longer term, my research has often engaged theoretical and methodological questions as well as empirical analysis. They have ranged over:
- devolution and territorial governance
- public attitudes and public opinion
- constitutional law and politics
- comparative welfare state theory and analysis
- European integration, especially social policy and law.
My recent books touch on several of these themes:
- The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism (Palgrave 2012, co-author with Colin Hay)
- Citizenship after the Nation State (Palgrave 2013, co-editor with Ailsa Henderson and Charlie Jeffery)
- Exploring the 'legal' in socio-legal studies (Palgrave 2015, co-editor with David Cowan).
