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 Please do not cite without permission)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)
