11 Facts About Robert Garner

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Robert Garner is a British political scientist, political theorist, and intellectual historian.

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Robert Garner is a Professor Emeritus in the politics department at the University of Leicester, where he has worked for much of his career.

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3.

Robert Garner has authored or co-authored several textbooks on political science, political parties, and green politics.

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4.

Robert Garner read for a BA at the University of Salford and an MA at the University of Manchester, before reading for a doctorate, at Manchester.

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5.

Robert Garner published work on the Labour Party in 1990, and in 1991, by which time he was working at the University of Buckingham, he published a paper on political lobbying on behalf of animals.

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Also in 1993, co-writing with Richard Kelly, Robert Garner published a textbook entitled British Political Parties Today.

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In 1998, Robert Garner published his second research monograph: Political Animals: Animal Protection Politics in Britain and the United States.

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In 2005, Robert Garner published both Animal Ethics and The Political Theory of Animal Rights.

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Robert Garner became a founding member in 2011 of the Centre for Animals and Social Justice, a British charity that aims to "embed animal protection as a core goal of public policy".

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10.

In 2020, writing with Yewande Okuleye, Robert Garner published The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights with Oxford University Press.

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11.

Robert Garner retired from Leicester in 2020 and began an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

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