Peter Kerr (born 26 April 1967, in Scotland) is a Scottish political scientist. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham and a specialist in Britishpolitics, political sociology, state theory and theories of social and political change. He specialises and teaches in the area of British politics, with a particular focus on governmental strategies, UK political parties, political leadership and ideology in the UK and, changes and continuities in British political institutions and public policy since 1945.
Kerr studied Politics and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde and then for his PhD on the Thatcher governments at Birmingham.[1]
Kerr authored Postwar British Politics: From Conflict to Consensus in 2001.[2] In the book, Kerr challenges conventional views of British politics.[clarification needed] He was the protégé of the British political scientists Colin Hay and David Marsh.
