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Political and Economic history of UK and US

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ilias Alami
Maastricht University
2
Lyndsey Karr
University of California System
3
Ingolfur Blühdorn
Vienna University of Economics and Business
4
Laura Roth
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
5
Chara K. Van Horn
University of Tennessee at Martin
6
Gareth Fearn
University of Manchester
7
Francesca Melhuish
University of Southampton
8
Lorenzo Feltrin
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
9
Jamie Redman
Sheffield Hallam University
10
Oddný Helgadóttir
Copenhagen Business School

Rising Stars Papers

1
A partial conversion: how the ‘unholy trinity’ of global economic governance adapts to state capitalism
European Journal of International Relations|2024
35 cit.
2
Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post)globalization
Dialogues in Human Geography|2024
35 cit.
3
<i>Quo vadis</i> neoliberalism in an age of resurgent state capitalism?
Finance and Space|2024
20 cit.
4
Ecological Ungovernability and the Transition to Postliberal Modernity: On the Dialectic of the Eco-Emancipatory Project
European Journal of Social Theory|2025
12 cit.
5
Planning incapacitated: Environmental planning and the political ecology of austerity
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space|2024
11 cit.
6
Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy
Global Policy|2025
10 cit.
7
State property, venture capital and the urbanisation of state capitalism
Dialogues in Human Geography|2024
9 cit.
8
Indie economics: social purpose, lay expertise and the unusual rise of modern monetary theory
New Political Economy|2024
6 cit.
9
Revisiting the promise of eco-political experimentation: an introduction to the Special Issue
Sustainability Science Practice and Policy|2024
5 cit.
10
Housing the historical bloc: Civil society contestation of authoritarian neoliberalism in England
Urban Studies|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Cemal Burak Tansel
Newcastle University
2
Tom Moore
University of Liverpool
3
Sean McDaniel
University of Leeds
4
Alison Gardner
University of Nottingham
5
Iolanda Bianchi
Universitat de Barcelona
6
Natalie Thomlinson
University of Reading
7
Daniela Tepe-Belfrage
University of Liverpool
8
Johannes Karremans
University of Salzburg
9
Richard Saull
Queen Mary University of London
10
Daniel Förste
Institut für Stadtforschung und Strukturpolitik

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The commonification of <i>the public</i> under new municipalism: Commons–state institutions in Naples and Barcelona
Urban Studies|2022
56 cit.
2
Pedagogy, Podcasts, and Politics: What Role Does Podcasting Have in Planning Education?
Journal of Planning Education and Research|2022
39 cit.
3
The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right
Globalizations|2022
38 cit.
4
Urban commons and the local state: co-production between enhancement and co-optation
Territory Politics Governance|2022
25 cit.
5
The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public–common partnerships
Policy & Politics|2024
18 cit.
6
Empowering policies for grassroots welfare initiatives: Blending social innovation and commons theory
European Urban and Regional Studies|2022
14 cit.
7
Crisis and paradigm change in the European semester: from austerity to investment-oriented policy ideas
Journal of European Integration|2023
13 cit.
8
The Continental Social Investment Turn: Sequencing Corrective and Transformative Welfare State Change in the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy
Politics & Society|2024
10 cit.
9
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below: Towards a planetary political economy of the global majority
Review of International Studies|2024
9 cit.
10
The local state’s repertoires of governance strategies for the urban commons: Nuancing current perspectives
Environment and Planning C Politics and Space|2022
8 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Nik Theodore
University of Illinois Chicago
2
Brian Wynne
Lancaster University Ghana
3
John Gelissen
Tilburg University
4
David Harvey
University of York
5
Graham Haughton
University of Manchester
6
Arantxa Rodríguez
University of the Basque Country
7
Gerry Stoker
University of Southampton
8
Allan Cochrane
The Open University of Japan
9
R. A. W. Rhodes
Newcastle University
10
Oliver Heath
Royal Holloway University of London

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Risk Society, Towards a New Modernity
The Canadian Journal of Sociology|1994
12.6k cit.
2
The Condition of Postmodernity
Economic Geography|1991
8.7k cit.
3
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
Journal of Architectural Education|1991
5k cit.
4
Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference
Geographical Review|1997
4.7k cit.
5
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism
Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography|1989
4.6k cit.
6
The New Governance: Governing without Government
Political Studies|1996
4.2k cit.
7
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Antipode|2002
2.8k cit.
8
Governance as theory: five propositions
International Social Science Journal|1998
2.7k cit.
9
Social Justice and the City
Geographical Review|1975
2k cit.
10
Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways
Global Networks|2009
1.8k cit.

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