Research and Publications

 

 

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

 

The Blair Legacy: Politics, Policy, Governance, and Foreign Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, February 2009.  Editor and Contributor of "Introduction: The Blair Decade in Perspective" and  "New Labour and the British Economy"  (with Alistair Q. Howard).

The Social Context of Economic Change in Britain: Between Policy and Performance, Manchester University Press/Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

"The Polanyian Image Reversed: Economic Citizenship in the New Great Transformation" in Maurice Mullard and Bankole Cole, Eds., Globalization, Citizenship and the War on Terror,  Edward Elgar, 2007.

"Wales: The Decline and Revival of Welsh Nationalism," in Joseph Rudolph (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Ethnic Conflicts, Greenwood Press, 2003.

 

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

"Mapping Stability and Change in Advanced Capitalisms," Comparative European Politics, Volume 7, Number 2, July 2009.

"Of Power and Plenty? Europe, Soft Power, and 'Genteel Stagnation'" Comparative European Politics, Volume 4, Number 4, December 2006.

"Social Capital and Economic Performance in the American States," with Kevin Christ. Social Science Quarterly (April 2005).  Volume 86, Issue 4, December 2005.

 

"Social Capital and Regional Economies in Britain," Political Studies. Volume 52, Number 1, March 2004.

 

"Devolution and Social Capital in the British Regions," Regional & Federal Studies, Volume 12, Number 3, Autumn 2002.

 

"Economic Policy, Institutions and Economic Growth in an Era of Globalization," The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Volume 23, Number 4, Winter 1998.

 

"Britain's Poll Tax: An Institutionalist Approach", West European Politics, Volume 19, Number 2, April 1996.

 

"The Clinton Administration and the Industrial Policy Question," The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 1993.

 

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

Organizer and Participant, "Roundtable: The Legacy of Blair, Brown, and New Labour," Political Studies Association Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, April 7-9, 2009.

Program Chair and Organizer for the British Politics Groups’ "Britain After Blair"  Conference, The Gleacher Center, University of Chicago Business School, August 29, 2007. Conference website --  http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~casey1/BAB.htm  

 "Is Britain Still a Liberal Economy? British Capitalism in Comparative Perspective," Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, August 30-September 2, 2007.

"Comparative Capitalisms and Economic Performance in the New Global Era," Political Studies Association, University of Bath, Bath, England, April 11-13, 2007.

 

"Mapping the 'Models of Capitalism' among OECD Countries" International Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA, March 22-25, 2006.

 "An Empirical Mapping of European Capitalisms", Council of European Studies Fifteenth International Conference, Chicago, IL, March 29-April 2, 2006.

"Globalization and the US Political Economy: The Domestic Sources of Liberal Leadership" Paper presented at the 2005 Political Studies Association Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, England.

 

"Comparative Disadvantage: Models of Capitalism and Economic Performance in the Global Era" Paper presented at the 2004 Political Studies Association Conference, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, England. 

"Comparative Disadvantage: Models of Capitalism and Economic Performance in the Global Era" Paper presented at the 2004 International Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

"Social Capital and the 'Prosperous Community': A State Level Analysis" Paper presented at the 2003 Indiana Political Science Association Conference Indiana University-Southeast, New Albany, IN.

 

"Globalization and Competing Conceptions of the Market," Paper presented at the 2003 Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

 

"Social Capital and Economic Performance in the American States," Poster presentation at the 2002 American Political Science Association Conference, Boston, MA.

 

"Globalization in Context: A Theoretical Framework for National Responses to Globalization," Paper presented at the 2002 International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, LA.

 

"Britain in the Global Economy: Exemplar or Exaggeration?" Paper presented at the 2001 American Political Science Association Conference, San Francisco, CA.

 

"Social Capital and Devolution in the Regions," Paper presented at the 2000 American Political Science Association Conference, Washington, DC.

 

"Social Capital is Not Enough: Regional Economies in Britain and Italy," Paper presented at the 2000 International Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

 

"Networks, Social Capital and Regional Economies: Britain and Italy Compared," Paper presented at the 1999 Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

 

"The Social Context of the North-South Divide: Regional Economic Change in Britain since 1980" Paper presented at the 1999 American Political Science Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

"Between Policy and Performance: Economic Change and Social Context in Conservative Britain," Paper presented at the Public Policy and Administration at the Turn of the Century Conference, Structure and Organization of Government Group, International Studies Association, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, July 1998.

 

"A Major Change? Assessing the Long-Term Economic Record of Britain’s Conservative Government," Paper presented at the 1997 Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Claire Berlinski, 'There is No Alternative': Why Margaret Thatcher Matters in the British Politics Group Quarterly, Number 135, Winter 2009.

Bo Rothstein, Social Traps and the Problem of Trust in Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6.  Number 1. March 2008.

Jonas Pontusson, Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America in the British Politics Group Newsletter, Number 125, Summer 2006.

Ann Florini, The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World in Democratization, Volume 13, Number 2, April 2006.

John J. Kirton and Junichi Takase (eds.), New Directions in Global Political Governance: The G-8 and the International Order in the Twenty-First Century, in Democratization, Volume 11, Issue 1, February 2004. 

Nancy Bermeo (ed.), Unemployment in the New Europe, in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Volume 11, Number 2, 2003.

Pippa Norris (ed.), Britain Votes 2001, Democratization., Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2003.

 

Pippa Norris, Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Property and the Internet Worldwide in Governance, Volume 16, Number 1, January 2003.

 

Iain McLean, Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair in the American Political Science Review. Volume 96, Number 4, December 2002

 

Alex Callinicos, Against the Third Way  in Democratization, Volume 9, Number 3, Autumn 2002.

 

Antonio Piccinni and Margaret Loseby, Agricultural Policies in Europe and the USA: Farmers Between Subsidies and Markets in Comparative Political Studies, Volume 35, Number 1, February 2002.

 

Pier Carlo Padoan (ed.), Monetary Union, Employment and Growth: The Impact of the Euro as a Global Currency in the  Journal of European Area Studies, Volume 10, Number 1, May 2002.

 

Calum Paton, World, Class, Britain: Political Economy, Political Theory, and British Politics in the British Politics Group Newsletter, Number 106, Fall 2001.

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Social Capital" in Donald P. Haider-Markel (ed.) Political Encyclopedia of U.S. States and Regions, CQ Press, November 2008  (Invited Contributor). 

Last Updated: Monday, 15 June 2009