How did Britain come to this? The accidental logics of Britain’s neoliberal settlement

Gwyn Bevan is Emeritus Professor of Policy Analysis in, and former Head of, the Department of Management, LSE. He is also an affiliate professor in at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa and an adviser to the Inspectorate of police and fire services in England and Wales. He has served on advisory committees to governments in England on allocating resources for health care and public health, the reform of publicly-financed legal services, and funding research into overseas aid.

Abby Innes (@innes_abby) is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at the LSE. She is the author of Czechoslovakia: the short goodbye and has published widely on issues of party-state development and state capture in central Europe, and, more recently, on the political economy of the neoliberal state in the UK.

Ros Taylor (@rosamundmtaylor) is a presenter and contributing editor at Podmasters, and a former editor at LSE. Her book The Future of Trust will be published by Melville House in 2023.

Patrick Dunleavy (@PJDunleavy) is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at LSE. He was Professor in the Department of Government at LSE from 1989-2020, having previously moved to the School from Nuffield College and the Open University in 1979. He is now Emeritus Professor, and Editor-in-Chief for LSE Press since autumn 2020. Patrick is a (founding) fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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