Ben was interviewed by Mark Blyth for the Rhodes Centre Podcast about the myth of banishing politics through technocratic governance, as explored in his recent OBR book published with OUP.

A new article co-authored by Ben Clift and former PAIS Professor Ben Rosamond is just published in New Political Economy. Entitled ‘Technocratic reason in hard times: the mobilisation of economic knowledge and the discursive politics of BrexitLink opens in a new window’, it explores why credentialed economic expertise did not enjoy a privileged position within the Brexit debate.

While at CIDE in Mexico, Andreas Murr has been developing election forecasts for the upcoming Mexican presidential election on 2 June. In two blog posts written together with Mike Lewis-Beck he describes what citizens as well as other approaches forecast.

A team of political scientists from VUB and the University of Warwick has won the Frank Cass Prize for the best article of 2023. Kamil Bernaerts, affiliated both with the Department of Political Science of the VUB and of the University of Warwick wrote the article “Institutional design and polarization. Do consensus democracies fare better in fighting polarization than majoritarian democracies?” together with Benjamin Blanckaert (VUB) and Didier Caluwaerts (VUB). The article was published in the leading journal Democratization and has made an important contribution to understanding democratisation and political polarisation.

Many congratulations to Sam Pordale who has been recognized for his work on the national campaign ‘lift the ban’, which advocates for asylum seekers to be given the right to work, and his service as youth advocates for Refugee Education UK