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Ben Clift - Selected Publications

Books

French Socialism in a Global Era: The Political Economy of the New Social Democracy in France  Where are National Capitalisms Now? 

Where are National Capitalisms Now? (co-edited with Jonathon Perraton)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 312

ISBN 9780333928943
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Economic Patriotism in Open Economies (co-edited with Cornelia Woll)

Routledge, 2012 , pp. 149.

ISBN 9780415624749

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The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 304.

ISBN: 9780198813088

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Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets Global Capitalism (2nd Edition)

Red Globe Press, 2021, pp. 368.

ISBN 9781352011255

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Selected Journal Articles

(joint Authored with Sean McDaniel) 'The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective' British Journal of Politics and International Relations Vol. 24, No. 4 (2022), pp. 563-81 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13691481211044638 *shortlisted for the BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Award *

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‘Technocratic Economic Governance and the Politics of UK Fiscal Rules’ British Politics (2023) Vol. 18, No. 2 pp. 254–278 DOI: 10.1057/s41293-022-00204-z

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41293-022-00204-z

 
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'(co-authored with Ben Rosamond & Peter Marcus Kristensen), ‘Remembering and Forgetting IPE: Disciplinary History as Boundary Work’ Review of International Political Economy (2022) Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 339-370 https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1826341

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(joint-authored with Te-Anne Robles) ‘The IMF, tackling inequality, and post-neoliberal re-globalisation: the paradoxes of political legitimation within economistic parameters’, Globalizations (2021). Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 39-54.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1774325 

 

(joint Authored with Sean McDaniel) ‘Capitalist convergence? European (dis?)integration and the post-crash restructuring of French and European capitalisms’ New Political Economy (2021) Volume 26, No. 1, pp. 1-19 https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2019.1680963

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'Contingent Keynesianism: The IMF’s Model Answer to the Post-Crash Fiscal Policy Efficacy Question in Advanced Economies’ Review of International Political Economy (2019) Volume 26, Issue 6, 1211-1237

https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2019.1640126

 
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‘The Hollowing out of Monetarism: the Rise of Rules-Based Monetary Policy-making in the UK and US and Problems with the Paradigm Change Framework’ Comparative European Politics (2020) Volume 18, No. 3, pp 281-308 DOI: 10.1057/s41295-019-00186-1

 

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‘The IMF, the Eurozone and Global Financial Crises, and the Politics of Economic Ideas’ Comparative European Politics (2020), Volume 18, Issue 1, 99-108 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-018-0146-x Part of a Book symposium on The IMF and the Politics of Austerity (2018) featuring Manuela Moschella, Cornel Ban, Alison Johnston, and Dermot Hodson

 
mcf.jpg (joint authored with Sean McDaniel) 'Is this crisis of French socialism different? Hollande, the rise of Macron, and the reconfiguration of the left in the 2017 presidential and parliamentary elections' Modern & Contemporary France (2017) Volume 25, Issue 4 jict (joint-authored with Magnus Ryner) ‘Joined at the Hip, But Pulling Apart? Franco-German Relations, the Eurozone Crisis, and the Politics of Austerity’ French PoliticsLink opens in a new window, (2014) Volume 12, No. 2  
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 'Le Changement? French Socialism, the 2012 Presidential Election and the Politics of Economic Credibility amidst the Eurozone Crisis' (Open Access) Parliamentary Affairs Volume 66, Number 1, (2013), pp. 106-123.

 

 npe 'Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-Dirigiste Responses to the Global Financial Crisis' (OPEN ACCESS) New Political Economy Volume 17, Number 4, (2012), pp. 565-590  JEPP cover 'Economic Patriotism: Re-Inventing Control over Open Markets' (with Cornelia Woll) (OPEN ACCESS) Journal of European Public Policy Volume 19, Number 3 (2012), pp. 307-323    
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'The frozen pendulum: The ideological, organisational and electoral travails of French Socialism'Link opens in a new window

Renewal  Volume 19, Number 1 (2011), pp. 16-26

 
Click to visit journal homepage Second Time as Farce? The EU Takeover Directive, the Clash of Capitalisms and the Hamstrung Harmonisation of European (and French) Corporate Governance’ Journal of Common Market StudiesLink opens in a new window 47:1(2009), 55-79  Click to visit journal homepage
'Negotiating Credibility: Britain and the IMF 1956-1976' (with Jim Tomlinson)
   
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'Whatever Happened to the UK Balance of Payments "problem"? The Contingent (Re)Construction of British Economic Performance Assessment' (with Jim Tomlinson)
Click to visit journal homepage The Fifth Republic at Fifty: The Changing Face of French Politics and Political Economy'
Modern and Contemporary FranceLink opens in a new window 16: 4 (2008), 383-98
 
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'French Corporate Governance in the New Global Economy: Mechanisms of Change and Hybridisation within Models of Capitalism'.

Political StudiesLink opens in a new window 55: 3 (2007), 546-67.

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'Europeanizing Social Models?' (Review Article)
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'The Ségolène Royal Phenomenon: Political Renewal in France?'
 
 bjpir The New Political Economy of Dirigisme: French Macroeconomic Policy, Unrepentant Sinning, and the Stability and Growth Pact’. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 8: 3 (2006), 388-409  Click to visit journal homepage
'Party Finance Reform as constitutional engineering? The effectiveness and unintended consequences of Party Finance Reform in France and Britain' (with Justin Fisher)
   
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Party PoliticsLink opens in a new window 10: 6 (2004), 677-99
   
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‘The Political Economy of the Jospin Government’
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‘Tawney and the Third Way’ (with Jim Tomlinson)
 
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‘Social Democracy in the 21st Century: still a class act? The place of class in Jospinism and Blairism’
   
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'The French Third Way’
 
 
     
 
 
 

 

Selected Chapters in Books

 
 
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‘Unusual Bedfellows? The IMF, Tackling Inequality and Social Democratic Policy Renewal’ In Daniel Bailey and Colin Hay (eds) Diverging Capitalisms: Britain, the City of London and Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 195-220.

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‘Economic Patriotism, the politics of market-making, and the role of the state in 21st Century Capitalism’ in Tamás Gerőcs And Miklós Szanyi (eds.) Market Liberalism And Economic Patriotism In Capitalist Systems in the Capitalist World System (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 9-20.

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‘French Economic Policy’ in Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman and Amy Mazur (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of French Politics Oxford University Press (2016), pp. 509-534.

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‘The UK Macroeconomic Policy Debate and the British Growth Crisis: Debt and Deficit Discourse in the Great Recession’ in Jeremy Green and Colin Hay (eds) The British Growth Crisis Palgrave (2015), pp. 151-173.

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‘French responses to the global economic crisis: the political economy of ‘post-dirigisme’ and new state activism’,

The Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis Link opens in a new windoweds. Wyn Grant and Graham Wilson (eds.) . Oxford University Press (2012), pp. 204-223

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‘The Revival of Economic Patriotism’, (with Cornelia Woll)

Capitalism and Capitalisms in the 21st CenturyLink opens in a new window. Glenn Morgan and Richard Whitley (eds.) Oxford University Press. (2012), pp. 70-89.

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'European Economy'

The Oxford Handbook of British PoliticsLink opens in a new window eds. Matthew Flinders, Andrew Gamble, Colin Hay & Mike Kenny

Oxford University Press, 2009, p912-31
ISBN 9780199230952

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'Lineages of a British International Political Economy' (with Ben Rosamond)

Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy: IPE as a Global ConversationLink opens in a new window ed. Mark Blyth

Routledge, 2009, p95-111
ISBN 9780415771269

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'French social democratic economic policy autonomy 1997-2002: credibility, dirigisme, and globalisation'

In Search of Social Democracy: Responses to Crisis and ModernisationLink opens in a new window eds. John Callaghan, Nina Fishman, Ben Jackson & Martin McIvor

Manchester University Press, 2009, p73-92
ISBN 9780719079207

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'Economic Interventionism in the Fifth Republic'

The French Republic at Fifty: Beyond StereotypesLink opens in a new window 

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p153-73
ISBN 9780230221246

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'Economic Policy'

Developments in French Politics 4Link opens in a new window eds. Alistair Cole, Patrick le Galès & Jonah Levy 

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, p191-208
ISBN 9780230537002

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'Dyarchic Presidentialization in a Presidentialized Polity: The French Fifth Republic'

The Presidentialization of Politics - A Comparative Study of Modern DemocraciesLink opens in a new window eds. Thomas Poguntke & Paul Webb

Oxford University Press, 2005, p219-243
ISBN 0199252017

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'The French Model of Capitalism: Still Exceptional?'

Where Are National Capitalisms Now?Link opens in a new window eds. Ben Clift & Jonathon Perraton

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p91-110
ISBN 9780333928943

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'New Labour’s Second Term and European Social Democracy'

Governing As New LabourLink opens in a new window eds. Steve Ludlam & Martin Smith

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, p34-51
ISBN 1403906785

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'The Changing Political Economy of France: Dirigisme under Duress'

A Ruined Fortress? Neo-Liberal Hegemony and Transformation in EuropeLink opens in a new window eds. Alan W. Cafruny & Magnus Ryner

Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, p173-200
ISBN 0742511421

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'New Labour’s Third Way and European Social Democracy'

New Labour in GovernmentLink opens in a new window eds. Steve Ludlam & Martin Smith

Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, p55-72
ISBN 0333761014

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'So Where Are National Capitalisms Now?' (with Jonathon Perraton)

Where Are National Capitalisms Now?Link opens in a new window eds. Ben Clift & Jonathon Perraton

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p195-261
ISBN 9780333928943

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'The Labour Party and the Company' (with Andrew Gamble & Mike Harris)

The Political Economy of the CompanyLink opens in a new window eds. Andrew Gamble, Gavin Kelly & John Parkinson

Hart, 2000, p51-82
ISBN 1841131202

 

Selected Research Papers

Political Economy Research Centre Research Paper No. 1 (1999):