Rob Manwaring - WHY THE LEFT LOSES

The decline of the centre-left in comparative perspective

Edited by Rob Manwaring and Paul Kennedy

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Rob Manwaring is Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. His research interests include social democratic and labour politics, as well as wider democratic politics. In 2014, his book, The search for democratic renewal, was published with Manchester University Press.

Paul Kennedy is Lecturer in Spanish and European Studies at the University of Bath. He is author of The Spanish Socialist Party and the modernisation of Spain (Manchester University Press, 2013). His forthcoming publications include Podemos and the art of the possible (Manchester University Press, 2018), which he is co-authoring with David Cutts.

Matt Beech is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull, UK. In 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA, where he is researching his latest book, The triumph of liberalism: British politics 1990-2016.

Claes Belfrage is Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK. He researches the transformative processes of 'financialisation' through select European and emerging market economy case studies. He is also interested in critical research methodology.

Sheri Berman is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, USA. She has written extensively on political development, democracy and democratisation; European politics; and fascism, populism and the history of the left. Her most recent book, Democracy and dictatorship in Europe: From the ancient regime to the present day, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Ren Cuperus is Director for International Relations at the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, a think-tank for Dutch social democracy, Research Fellow at the Germany Institute of the University of Amsterdam, and political columnist for the Dutch daily de Volkskrant. In September 2017 he started working as Scholar in Residence at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.

Sophie Di Francesco-Mayot is Lecturer in European Politics at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include European integration, EU institutions, political parties and party systems, culture, religion and identity. She previously worked in the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels, Belgium.

Grant Duncan is Associate Professor in Politics at Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland, New Zealand. He teaches New Zealand politics and public policy as well as political theory. His recent publications in public policy have dealt with constitutional conventions and the Cabinet Manual, and with the new public management in New Zealand. He is currently working on the nature of trust as a factor in political life.

Carol Johnson is Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Her main teaching and research interests are in Australian politics, the politics of gender and sexuality, the politics of emotion and analyses of ideology and discourse. She was elected to be a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2005.

Uwe Jun is Professor of Political Science at the University of Trier, Germany. Uwe has published extensively on a range of topics, including social democracy and political parties.

Mikko Kuisma is Research Fellow at the University of Tbingen, Germany. His current research interests lie in the politics of Nordic welfare reform, and in European populist parties, especially their programmatic discourses relating to welfare nationalism and welfare chauvinism. His book, The social construction of welfare: Citizenship and Nordic welfare capitalism in an age of globalization, is forthcoming from Edward Elgar.

David McGrane is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at St Thomas More College and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. His research interests include Canadian political theory, political marketing and voter behaviour. He is the author of Remaining loyal: Social democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014), and is currently writing a book about the New Democratic Party of Canada.