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Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2025). Germany's populist disruptors and the “politics of fluidity”. Frontiers in Political Science, 7, article number 1650892. doi: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1650892

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 & Praino, R. (2024). Young voters, older candidates and policy preferences: Evidence from two experiments. International Political Science Review/ Revue internationale de science politique, 45(2), pp. 278-298. doi: 10.1177/01925121221139544

Manwaring, R., Duncan, G. & Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2024). 'Thin labourism': Ideological and policy comparisons between the Australian, British, and New Zealand labour parties. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26(1), pp. 39-61. doi: 10.1177/13691481221148326

Chen, G. C-F. & Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2022). Greening the Chinese Leviathan: China's renewable energy governance as a source of soft power. Journal of International Relations and Development, 25(1), pp. 79-106. doi: 10.1057/s41268-021-00213-3

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2021). Brexit, the failure of the British political class, and the case for greater diversity in UK political recruitment. British Politics, 16(1), pp. 36-57. doi: 10.1057/s41293-020-00136-6

Chen, G. C. & Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2019). Political Recentralisation and the Diffusion of Solar Energy in China. Europe-Asia Studies, 71(7), pp. 1162-1182. doi: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1619669

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2018). The ‘Alternative for Germany’: The rise of right-wing populism at the heart of Europe. Politics, 38(3), pp. 295-310. doi: 10.1177/0263395718777718

Chen, G. C. & Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2018). The New, Green, Urbanization in China: Between Authoritarian Environmentalism and Decentralization. Chinese Political Science Review, 3(2), pp. 212-231. doi: 10.1007/s41111-018-0095-1

Chen, G. C. & Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2016). Growing China's renewables sector: a developmental state approach. New Political Economy, 21(6), pp. 574-586. doi: 10.1080/13563467.2016.1183113

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2013). Christian Democracy is Dead; Long Live the Union Parties: Explaining CDU/CSU Dominance within the German Party System. German Politics, 22(1-2), pp. 64-81. doi: 10.1080/09644008.2013.794453

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2011). How Unusual is the United Kingdom Coalition (and What are the Chances of It Happening Again)?. Political Quarterly, 82(2), pp. 279-292. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2011.02192.x

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2011). Coalition Formation and the German Party System. German Politics, 20(1), pp. 146-163. doi: 10.1080/09644008.2011.554114

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2010). The Grand Coalition and the Party System. German Politics, 19(3-4), pp. 312-331. doi: 10.1080/09644008.2010.515773

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2010). Coalition Dynamics and the Changing German Party System. German Politics and Society, 28(3), pp. 119-132. doi: 10.3167/gps.2010.280307

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2010). Rule Makers and Rule Takers: On Volkspartei Adaptation and Strategy. German Politics, 19(1), pp. 89-104. doi: 10.1080/09644001003588747

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2007). Environmental Policy in the United Kingdom and Germany. German Politics, 16(1), pp. 164-183. doi: 10.1080/09644000601157640

Odmalm, P. & Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2006). Getting Ethnic Questions on the Agenda: Party Formation as a Strategy for Social Movements. Social Movement Studies, 5(1), pp. 1-18. doi: 10.1080/14742830600620987

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2002). "Dark matter": Institutional constraints and the failure of party-based euroscepticism in Germany. Political Studies, 50(2), pp. 244-267. doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00369

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2001). Coalitions: Beyond the Politics of Centrality?. German Politics, 10(2), pp. 117-134. doi: 10.1080/772713266

Monograph

Lees, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-3517-2211 (2019). Using Social Network Analysis to Explore Patterns of Europeanisation and Multi-Level Governance in South East Europe (10.4135/9781526473127). SAGE Publications Ltd.