Professor Colin Hay - Publications

Books

• European Welfare Capitalism in Hard Times (with Dan Wincott) (Palgrave, 2012)
• Developments in British Politics 9 (co-edited, Palgrave, 2011)
• New Directions in Political Science (edited, Palgrave, 2010)
• The Role of Ideas in Political Analysis (co-edited, Routledge, 2010)
• Why We Hate Politics (Polity, 2007)
• European Politics (co-edited Oxford University Press, 2006)
• The State: Theories and Issues (co-edited, Palgrave, 2006)
• Developments in British Politics 8 (co-edited, Palgrave, 2006)
• Political Analysis (Palgrave, 2002 - Chinese language edition in progress)
• British Politics Today (edited, Polity, 2002).
• Demystifying Globalisation (edited, Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 2000/1).
• The Political Economy of New Labour (Manchester University Press, 1999).
• Postwar British Politics in Perspective (co-authored, Polity, 1999.
• Theorizing Modernity (co-edited, Longman, 1999).
• Re-Stating Social and Political Change (1996, Open University Press, winner of the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize).

Other Selected Publications Since 2001

• (2011) ‘The 2010 Leonard Schapiro Lecture: Pathology without Crisis? The Strange Demise of the Anglo-Liberal Growth Model’, Government & Opposition, 46: 1, 1-31
• (2011) ‘The “Dangerous Obsession” of Cost Competitiveness … And the Not So Dangerous Obsession of Competitiveness’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, already published on iFirst.
• (2011) (with S. Farrall) ‘Establishing the Ontological Status of Thatcherism by Gauging its Periodisability: Towards a Cascade Theory of Public Policy Radicalism’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, already published on iFirst.
• (2011) ‘Interpreting Interpretivism Interpreting Interpretations: The New Hermeutics of Public Administration’, Public Administration, 89 (1), 167-82.
• (2011) ‘The Changing Nature of European Political Science’, European Political Science, special double issue to mark the 40th anniversary of the European Political Science, 10 (1).
• (2010) (with N. Smith) ‘How do Policy-Makers Really Understand Globalisation? The Internal Architecture of Anglophone Globalisation Discourse in Europe’, Public Administration, 88 (4), 903-27.
• (2010) ‘Afterword: Rationality and Rationalisability’, Public Administration, special issue to mark the 25th anniversary of the journal, includes a full reprint of my 2004 article with this afterward, forthcoming.
• (2010) ‘The Political Economy of Price Formation in the Bordeaux En Primeur Market: The Role of Wine Critics as Ratings Agencies’, Socio-Economic Review, 8 (4), 685-707.
• (2010) ‘Chronicles of a Death Foretold: The Winter of Discontent and Construction of the Crisis of British Keynesianism’, Parliamentary Affairs, 63 (3), 446-70 (based on lecture delivered at the British Academy to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Winter of Discontent).
• (2010) (with S. Farrall) ‘Not So Tough on Crime? Why Weren’t the Thatcher Governments More Radical In Reforming the Criminal Justice System?’, British Journal of Criminology, 50 (3), 550-69.
• (2009) ‘The Winter of Discontent After Thirty Years’, Political Quarterly, 80 (4), 545-61, 2009 (with responses by Lords Baker, Lea and Lispey and the edited transcript of the ensuing discussion at the British Academy).
• 'Your ontology, my ontic speculations … On the importance of showing one’s (ontological) working', Political Studies, 57 (4), 892-99, 2009.
• (with G. Stoker) ‘Revitalising Politics: Have We Lost the Plot?’, Representation: The Journal of Representative Democracy, 45 (3), 223-36, 2009.
• 'On politics, constructivism and the current “crisis”: Responses to Marsh', British Politics, 4 (2), 82-88, 2009.
• 'King Canute and the Problem of Structure and Agency: On Time, Tides and Heresthetics', Political Studies, 57 (2), 260-79, 2009.
• 'Good Inflation, Bad Inflation: The Housing Boom, Economic Growth and the Disaggregation of Inflationary Preferences in the UK and Ireland', British Journal of Politics and International Studies, 11 (3), 461-78, 2009.
• (with N. Smith) ‘Mapping the Political Discourse of Globalisation and European Integration in the UK and Ireland Empirically’, European Journal of Political Research, 47 (3), 359-382, 2008.
• ‘What Doesn’t Kill You Can Only Make You Stronger: The Doha Development Round, the Services Directive and the EU’s Conception of Competitiveness’, Journal of Common Market Studies, lead article, annual review, Journal of Common Market Studies, 2007, 25-44.
• ‘Globalisation and the Institutional Re-Embedding of Markets: The Political Economy of Price-Formation in the Bordeaux En Primeur Market’, New Political Economy, 12 (2), 185-210, 2007.
• ‘Whatever Happened to Thatcherism?’, Political Studies Review, 5 (2), 183-201, 2007.
• ‘What’s in a Name? New Labour’s Putative Keynesianism’, British Journal of Political Science, 37, 187-93, 2007.
• ‘Does Ontology Trump Epistemology? Notes on the Directional Dependence of Ontology and Epistemology in Political Analysis’, Politics, 27 (2), 115-9, 2007
• ‘Globalisation and Public Policy’ in R. E Goodin, M. Rein and M. Moran (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Refereed.
• ‘Constructivist Institutionalism’, in R. A. W. Rhodes, Sarah Binder, and Bert Rockman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Refereed.
• ‘Political Ontology’, in R. E. Goodin and C. Tilly (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Refereed.
• ‘Understanding Regime Change in British Industrial Relations’, Labor History, 47 (2), 227-35, 2006.
• (with N. Smith and M. Watson) ‘Beyond Prospective Accountancy: Reassessing the Case for British Membership of Single European Currency Comparatively’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 8 (1), 101-21, 2006.
• ‘What’s Globalisation Got To Do With It? Economic Interdependence and the Future of European Welfare States’, Government and Opposition, 41 (1), 1-23, 2006.
• (with N. Smith) ‘Horses for Courses? The Political Discourse of Globalisation and European Integration in the UK and Ireland’, West European Politics, 28 (1), 124-58, 2005.
• ‘Globalisation’s Impact on States’, in John Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• ‘Common Trajectories, Variable Paces, Divergent Outcomes? Models of European Capitalism Under Conditions of Complex Economic Interdependence’, Review of International Political Economy, 11 (2), 2004.
• ‘Theory, Stylised Heuristic or Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? The Status of Rational Choice Theory in Public Administration’, Public Administration, 82, 2004.
• ‘Ideas, Interests and Institutions in the Comparative Political Economy of Great Transformations’, Review of International Political Economy, 11 (1), 2004.
• ‘Credibility, Competitiveness and The Business Cycle in New Labour’s Political Economy: A Critical Evaluation’, New Political Economy, 2004.
• ‘Taking Ideas Seriously in Explanatory Political Analysis’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6, 2004.
• ‘Macroeconomic Policy Coordination and Membership of the Single European Currency: Another Case of British Exceptionalism?’, Political Quarterly, March 2003.
• (with Matthew Watson) ‘The Discourse of Globalisation and the Logic of No Alternative: Rendering the Contingent Necessary in the Political Economy of New Labour’, Policy and Politics, March 2003.
• ‘Globalisation, EU-isation and the Space for Social Democratic Alternatives’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 5 (3), 2002.
• ‘Globalisation as a Problem of Political Analysis: Restoring Agency to a Process Without a Subject and Politics to a Logic of Economic Compulsion’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 15 (3), 379-99, 2002.
• (with Ben Rosamond) ‘Globalisation, European Integration and the Discursive Construction of Economic Imperatives’, Journal of European Public Policy, 9 (2), 147-67, 2002.
• ‘Negotiating International Constraints: The Antinomies of Credibility and Competitiveness in the Political Economy of New Labour’, Competition and Change, 5 (3), 2001, 269-89.
• (with David Coates) ‘The Internal and External Face of New Labour’s Political Economy’, Government and Opposition, 36 (4), 447-71, 2001.

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