Professor of Political Theory and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
Simon Tormey is Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. A political theorist, Simon is the author of numerous books and articles including Anti-Capitalism – recently revised with Oneworld. His latest book, The End of Representative Politics, has just been published by Polity.
Prior to his appointment at Sydney in 2009 he was Professor and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham UK. He was educated at the University of Wales, Swansea receiving his doctorate in 1991. He was a Research Scholar and Lecturer at the University of Leicester before joining Nottingham in 1990. In 2005 he was awarded a personal chair ('professorship') in Politics and Critical Theory.
Simon appears regularly in the media commenting in particular on European politics for Sky Business, Sky News, ABC News, Bloomberg and the BBC.
Is populism democracy’s deadly cure?
Sep 21, 2017 14:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
It is impossible to follow the news without catching reference to the rise of populism. A once little-used term that denoted a handful of parties in otherwise unconnected political contexts, populism now seems almost...
How the Spanish political laboratory is reconfiguring democracy
Mar 23, 2017 03:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st...
Whither anarchy: the fantasy of natural law
Aug 06, 2016 07:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
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‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India