Research

Publications

• ‘Partisan Strategy and Path Dependence: The Post-War Emergence of Health Systems in the UK and Sweden’
  • Accepted for publication at Comparative Politics.
  • Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1977633.
  • Presentations:
    • APSA conference (Toronto, September 2009).

Under Review

• ‘Acting Right? Left-Wing Strength and Privatization’
  • Presentations:
    • QoG Institute (Invited – Gothenburg, November 2010).
    • SASE conference (Paris, July 2009).
    • ‘Inequality and Institutions’ conference (Oxford, May 2009).
    • MPSA conference (Chicago, April 2009).

In Progress

• ‘Left Behind? Partisan Politics After the Financial Crisis’
  • With Lucy Barnes (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  • Presentations:
    • Dublin Workshops on Financialization, Consumption and Social Welfare Politics (May 2012).
    • CES conference (Boston, March 2012).
    • LSE IR Department (Invited – November, 2011).
• ‘Strategic Partisanship and Left-Wing Policy Efficiency’
  • Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1903078
  • Presentations:
    • Paris School of Economics (Invited – December, 2011)
    • APSA conference (Seattle, September 2011).
    • ECPR general conference (Reykjavik, August 2011).
    • EPSA conference (Dublin, June 2011).
• ‘Schools Policy and Politics in England and Sweden’
  • Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1900014
  • Presentations:
    • “Education, Religion and the Gender-vote-gap” conference (Invited – Bremen University, October 2011).
    • APSA conference (Seattle, September 2011).
    • EPSA conference (Dublin, June 2011).
• ‘A Partisan Political Economy of Education Policy’
  • Presentations:
    • CES conference (Boston, March 2012).
    • “Welfare State Traditions and Education and Higher Education Policy” conference (Invited – Konstanz University, May 2010).
    • CES conference (Montreal, April 2010).
    • ECPR Joint Sessions (Lisbon, April 2009).
• ‘Redistribution, Policy Resilience, and Partisan Strategy’
  • Presentations:
    • Dublin Political Economy Workshop (Trinity College, Dublin, November 2009).
    • MPSA conference (Chicago, April 2007).
• ‘Room to Manoeuvre? Public Opinion and Privatization Policy’