Professor Michael Freeden is one of the leading political theorist in contemporary political studies. Profesor Michael Freeden is professor of Political Ideology at the University of Nottingham and Emeritus Professor of Politics at University of Oxford. He is also a founder editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies. Between 2004-2007 he was ESRC Professorial Fellow. In 2012 Professor Freeden was awarded PSA’s Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies. Also in 2012 Professor Freeden was awarded the Medal for Science by the Institute of Advance Studies of the University of Bologna in “recognition of research contributions characterized by both excellence and influence”.

Selected books:

• The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform (Oxford, 1978)
• Liberalism Divided: A Study in British Political Thought 1914-1939 (Oxford, 1986)
• J.A. Hobson: A Reader (London, 1988)
• Reappraising J.A. Hobson: Humanism and Welfare (ed.) (London, 1990)
• Rights (Buckingham, 1991)
• Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach (Oxford, 1996)
• Reassessing Political Ideologies: The Durability of Dissent (ed.) (London, 2001)
• Ideology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2003)
• Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth Century Progressive Thought (Princeton, 2005)
• Taking Ideology Seriously: 21st Century Reconfigurations (co-editor with G. Talshir and M. Humphrey) (London, 2006)
• The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies (co-editor with M. Stears i Sargent) (Oxford 2012)
• The Political Theory of Political Thinking. The Anatomy of Practice (Oxford, 2013)