Matthew James Goodwin was born on 17 December 1981 and is a British academic who is Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent.
15 Facts About Matthew Goodwin
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Matthew Goodwin completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree under the supervision of Roger Eatwell at the University of Bath in 2007.
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Matthew Goodwin is a former senior fellow for the think tank UK in a Changing Europe, and was the founding director of the Centre for UK Prosperity within the Legatum Institute.
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Matthew Goodwin's research focuses on British politics, radical-right politics, and Euroscepticism.
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Matthew Goodwin is the co-editor of The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain, and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy.
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Matthew Goodwin is the author of New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party and co-author of Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain.
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Matthew Goodwin's research has appeared in the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Westminster Hour and Prospect magazine.
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Matthew Goodwin is on the advisory panel of the Free Speech Union, a group founded by Toby Young that "stands up for the speech rights of its members" and "fights Twitter 'Witch-Hunts'".
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Matthew Goodwin has served as specialist adviser to the House of Commons Education Committee on left-behind pupils and has given evidence to a Public Bill Committee on the importance of defending academic freedom in universities.
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Eagleton argued that Matthew Goodwin had become "part of the right-populist movement he once sought to explain".
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Matthew Goodwin empathises strongly with the revolt and is a cheerleader for the realignment.
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Matthew Goodwin probably knows the data as well as anybody, but he deploys that evidence selectively, more in the style of a prosecuting barrister than a dispassionate judge, for this is a book as much of advocacy as analysis.
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Matthew Goodwin argues that the dominant response of those on the losing side of the 2016 referendum was to 'deride' much of the country as 'ignorant bigots, racists, fascists, Nazis and gammons'.
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The wish to rebut one-dimensional caricatures of the Leave tribe is a valid one, but Matthew Goodwin is not above dishing out caricatures of the other half of the country all the same.
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In 2014, aged 33, Matthew Goodwin was awarded the Richard Rose Prize by the Political Studies Association, which is given to one early-career academic each year for their contribution to research.