Political Economy Research

Overview
RAE score: Politics and International Studies at King’s College London, including DPE, was ranked joint 15th in the country in the 2014 REF.
Research income: £850,000
Current number of research students: 29
Recent staff publications:
Rod Dacombe -Beyond abstract democracy: Rethinking civic participation in theory and practice’ Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan
Anna Gwiazda - Democracy in Poland', Routledge
Robin Douglas - Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions (Oxford: Oxford University Press
Adrian Blau - Methods in Analytical Political Theory Cambridge University Press.
Richard Roberts - Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 (OUP,
Samuel DeCanio. Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State (New Haven: Yale University Press).
Current staff research projects: Research in the Department of Political Economy focusses on fundamental questions about the human condition at the local, national and international scale. We recognise that understanding and evaluating the ability of states, markets and communities to address social problems requires a pluralistic approach, open to insights from different disciplines, theories and research methods. Our faculty publish in top ranking journals across the nexus of politics, philosophy and economics. In doing so, they draw on insights from game theory, rational choice theory, neo-classical economics, new institutionalism, historical institutionalism, behavioural economics and heterodox approaches to political economy. They also employ a range of methodologies including econometrics, case studies, historical and textual analysis, normative theory and policy evaluation.
Our research is organised into six groups which reflect the diversity of interests and approaches in the department: Public Policy and Regulation; Quantitative Political Economy; Political Theory; International Politics; Philosophy and Economics; Political Economy of Peace and Security; Self-Governance.