French Politics and public policy, Comparative European Politics (especially, but not exclusively Franco-British and Franco-German comparisons), Comparative Public Policy, Multi-level Governance, Europeanisation, Cities and Regions.
Selected Publications
Alistair Cole (2008) Governing and Governance in France (in press)Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
Alistair Cole (2006) Beyond Devolution and Decentralisation. Building Regional Capacity in Wales and Brittany Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Alistair Cole, Patrick Le Galès and Jonah Levy (eds) (2005) Developments in French Politics 3, Palgrave: Basingstoke
Alistair Cole, French Politics and Society Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead, 1998. 250pp
Alistair Cole Local Governance in England and France Routledge: London, 2001. 220pp. (with Peter John)
Alistair Cole, François Mitterrand: a Study in Political Leadership, Routledge, London, 1997, 225 pp. Second Edition.
Social Change in Modern France: Towards a Cultural Anthropology of the Fifth Republic, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 253 pp., 1991. (with Henri Mendras)