Courses Taught

    * Pol 100A (First Year Seminar) Debating Capitalism
    * Political Science 114: Comparative Government and Politics
    * Political Science 234: UK Politics in a Global Age
    * Political Science 239: State, Economy, and International Competitiveness
    * Political Science 292: Comparative Labor Movements: Origins and Developments

Recent Publications Online
(This is work in progress. Please do not cite without permission)

• ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Gender Dimensions of Treasury Policy under New Labour’ (with Sarah Oettinger), in C. Annersley, F. Gains and K. Rummery (editors) Women and New Labour (Polity Press, 2007)
• ‘The rise and fall of Japan as a model of “progressive capitalism”’, in D. Coffey (ed), Crisis in Japan: State and Industrial Economy, Edward Elgar (forthcoming)
• “Capitalist flattening or flattening capitalism? Class forces and political choices in the Global Knowledge Economy", in Work Organization, Labour and Globalization, Fall 2007
• “Darling, it is entirely my fault!Gordon Brown’s legacy to Alistair and himself" Paper presented to the APSA conference, Chicago, August 2007
• "Double-Shuffling Our Way to a Better Future" Renewal, forthcoming
• "Life after Blair", British Politics, forthcoming
• ‘The concept of labour: its continuing relevance in social theory’, in A Gamble et al, Labour, the state, social movements and the challenge of neo-liberal globalization, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007
• ‘A just war, or just another of Tony Blair’s wars?’ in A Bartholomew, Empire’s Law, London, Pluto Press (2006)
• ‘Labour Parties and the State in Australia and the UK’ (with Greg Patmore), Labour History, vol. 28, May 2005, pp. 121-142
• ‘Campaigning in Poetry, Governing in Prose’. The Poteat Lecture delivered at Wake Forest University, March 2005
• ‘Paradigms of Explanation’ and ‘Conclusion: choosing between paradigms, a personal view’: both in D. Coates (ed), Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches, London, Palgrave, 2005
• ‘The development of the Anglo-American model of trade union and political party relations’, (with Matthew Bodah and Steve Ludlam), Labour Studies Journal vol 28, no 2, Summer 2003, p. 1-22
• "Arguments on the War", internal paper March 2003
• "Strategic choices in the study of New Labour", British Journal of Politics and International Relations vol 4, no. 3, October 2002
• "The Virtues of Turning Left: Paradigms of Explanation and Varieties of Capitalism", paper presented to the Wake Forest Conference on the Convergence of Capitalist Economies, September 2002
• "Trajectories of solidarity: changing union-party links in the UK and USA", (with Steve Ludlam and Matthew Bodah), British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 4, no. 2, June 2002
• "Capitalist models and social democracy: the case of New Labour": published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol.3, no.3, 2001
• "The state as lubricator: a report on New Labour's first term in office": paper presented at the Center for European Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, December 2001
• "The Character of New Labour"
• "New Labour's Industrial and Employment Policy"
  (Both published in David Coates and Peter Lawler (eds) New Labour in Power. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)
• "The New Political Economy of Post-War Britain"
  (To be published in Colin Hay (ed) British Politics Today. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001)
• "Trade Unions and the Third Way in Britain and the United States"
  (with Matthew Bodah and Steve Ludlam paper to the PSA Conferences, London, April 2000)
• "Home and Away? The Political Economy of New Labour"
  (with Colin Hay. Paper to the PSA Conference, London, April 2000)
• "New Class Forces, Old Class Realities"(paper presented to Socialist Register conference, Toronto, January 2000)