I am a retired professor of Politics from the University of Warwick UK, now living and working in retirement in the elegant Romano-Georgian city of Bath.

I occupied a visiting professorship at the University of Cincinnati in the spring Quarter 2011, sponsored by the Taft Research Centre and this site was created an on-line teaching resource, schedule and information document for a Taft Seminar series I jointly hosted there with professor Joel Wolfe of the Political Science Department of the University*.

*Contact details:

Professor Joel D Wolfe,

Department of Political Science,

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,

OH 45211-0375,

Tel: 513-556-3307,

Email: wolfejd@ucmail.uc.edu

I delivered a Taft Lecture to the department and faculty on May 19th 2011, in the Taft research Centre entitled: "Markets Against Democracy - the Political Economy of the Tea party Movement". PDF here.

 

I have always incorporated a strong political economy and historical focus in my teaching, research and publications and since retirement  I have been researching the neglected area of the political economy of fascism, publishing a seminal article on the subject in 2006:  The ‘Political Economy' of Fascism: Myth or Reality: or Myth and Reality? New Political Economy  Volume 11, Number 2, June 2006. pp. 227-250.  A monograph on fascist political economy is planned for 2013 and I am  presently researching and writing a general text on the history of political economy for Routledge (UK) due for publication in 2012. Elected to a Jean Monet Research Fellowship of the European University Institute in Florence Italy, for the academic year 2000/01. Elected an Honorary  Fellow of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) at Sheffield University in 2005-6 and 2008-10.