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  1. Wicked politics and trashy economics: Gender and scandalous expertise

    Article • Economy and Society, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  2. Global economic governance and environmental crisis: the widening repertoire of IMF economic ideas and limits of its climate policy advocacy

    Article • Climate Policy, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  3. How “baked in” ideas hinder ideational robustness: the International Monetary Fund and “fiscal space”

    Article • Policy and Society, June 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  4. A Thousand Cuts: Social Protection in an Age of Austerity by AlexanderKentikelenis and ThomasStubbs (Oxford University Press, New York, 2023), pp. 263

    Article • Economic Record, June 2024, Wiley

    Professor Ben M Clift

  5. Technocratic reason in hard times: the mobilisation of economic knowledge and the discursive politics of Brexit

    Article • New Political Economy, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  6. The social construction of sustainable futures: how models and scenarios limit climate mitigation possibilities

    Article • New Political Economy, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  7. The OBR and the March 2023 Budget: The Travails of UK Economic Growth and the Politics of Technocratic Fiscal Governance

    Article • The Political Quarterly, April 2023, Wiley

    Professor Ben M Clift

  8. The OBR and the Politics of Technocratic Fiscal Governance

    Article • February 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  9. UK Fiscal Politics and Macroeconomic Policy Rules Since the 1990s

    Article • February 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  10. The OBR, Fiscal Forecasting, and the Politics of Economic Method

    Article • February 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  11. Technocratic economic governance and the politics of UK fiscal rules

    Article • British Politics, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  12. The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective

    Article • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ben M Clift

  13. Remembering and forgetting IPE: disciplinary history as boundary work

    Article • Review of International Political Economy, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  14. The IMF, tackling inequality, and post-neoliberal ‘reglobalization’: the paradoxes of political legitimation within economistic parameters

    Article • Globalizations, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  15. Capitalist Convergence? European (dis?)Integration and the Post-crash Restructuring of French and European Capitalisms

    Article • New Political Economy, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  16. Contingent Keynesianism: the IMF’s model answer to the post-crash fiscal policy efficacy question in advanced economies

    Article • Review of International Political Economy, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  17. The hollowing out of monetarism: the rise of rules-based monetary policy-making in the UK and USA and problems with the paradigm change framework

    Article • Comparative European Politics, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  18. Economic Patriotism, the Politics of Market-Making, and the Role of the State in Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  19. Unusual Bedfellows? The IMF, Tackling Inequality and Social Democratic Policy Renewal

    Article • December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  20. Ben Clift. 2018. The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

    Article • The Review of International Organizations, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  21. The IMF, the eurozone and global financial crises, and the politics of economic ideas

    Article • Comparative European Politics, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  22. PS intra-party politics and party system change

    Article • July 2018, Manchester University Press

    Professor Ben M Clift

  23. The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

    Article • April 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  24. The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

    Article • April 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  25. The IMF and French Fiscal Rectitude amidst the Eurozone Crisis

    Article • April 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  26. The Fund’s Fiscal Policy Views and the Politics of Austerity

    Article • April 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  27. Is this crisis of French socialism different? Hollande, the rise of Macron, and the reconfiguration of the left in the 2017 presidential and parliamentary elections

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  28. French Economic Policy

    Article • January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  29. Book Review: Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism by Ben CliftCliftBenComparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014; 392 pp: 9780230555174, £28.99 (pbk)

    Article • Capital & Class, February 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ben M Clift

  30. The Hollande Presidency, 2012–14

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  31. Mister Unpopular: François Hollande and the Exercise of Presidential Leadership, 2012–14

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  32. Introduction

    Article • French Politics, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  33. Joined at the hip, but pulling apart? Franco-German relations, the Eurozone crisis and the politics of austerity

    Article • French Politics, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  34. Economic Patriotism in Open Economies, Ben Clift and Cornelia Woll (Eds.), London: Routledge, 2012

    Article • Accounting Economics and Law - A Convivium, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor Ben M Clift

  35. States, Markets and Global Capitalism - an Introduction to Comparative Political Economy

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  36. Comparative Political Economy: Lineages from Classical Political Economy, Linkages to International Political Economy

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  37. Conclusion

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  38. Capitalism and Classical Political Economy

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  39. Comparative Capitalisms

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  40. Disciplinary Politics and the Genealogy of Comparative Political Economy

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  41. The Comparative Political Economy of Finance and Corporate Governance

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  42. The Comparative Political Economy of the State

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  43. The Comparative Political Economy of Welfare

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  44. Ideational Analysis and Comparative Political Economy

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  45. Introduction: The Focus and Rationale of the Book

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  46. Interest-based Analysis and Comparative Political Economy

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  47. The Comparative Method and Comparative Political Economy

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  48. Institutional Analysis and Comparative Political Economy

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  49. Economic Patriotism in Open Economies

    Article • September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  50. Le Changement? French Socialism, the 2012 Presidential Election and the Politics of Economic Credibility amidst the Eurozone Crisis

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, March 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  51. Le Changement? French Socialism, the 2012 Presidential Election and the Politics of Economic Credibility amidst the Eurozone Crisis

    Article • Parliamentary Affairs, December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  52. Economic Patriotism, the Clash of Capitalisms, and State Aid in the European Union

    Article • Journal of Industry Competition and Trade, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  53. French Responses to the Global Economic Crisis: The Political Economy of “Post-Dirigisme” and New State Activism

    Article • May 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  54. The Revival of Economic Patriotism

    Article • April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  55. Economic patriotism: reinventing control over open markets

    Article • Journal of European Public Policy, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  56. Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-DirigisteResponses to the Global Financial Crisis

    Article • New Political Economy, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  57. When rules started to rule: the IMF, neo-liberal economic ideas and economic policy change in Britain

    Article • Review of International Political Economy, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  58. European Economy

    Article • July 2009

    Professor Ben M Clift

  59. The Second Time as Farce? The EU Takeover Directive, the Clash of Capitalisms and the Hamstrung Harmonization of European (and French) Corporate Governance*

    Article • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, December 2008, Wiley

    Professor Ben M Clift

  60. Negotiating Credibility: Britain and the International Monetary Fund, 1956–1976

    Article • Contemporary European History, November 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ben M Clift

  61. Whatever Happened to the Balance of Payments ‘Problem’? The Contingent (Re)Construction of British Economic Performance Assessment

    Article • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, November 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ben M Clift

  62. The Fifth Republic at Fifty: The Changing Face of French Politics and Political Economy

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, November 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  63. French Corporate Governance in the New Global Economy: Mechanisms of Change and Hybridisation within Models of Capitalism

    Article • Political Studies, October 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ben M Clift

  64. Europeanizing Social Models?

    Article • Journal of European Integration, May 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  65. The Ségolène Royal Phenomenon: Political Renewal in France?

    Article • The Political Quarterly, April 2007, Wiley

    Professor Ben M Clift

  66. Complexity, Constraint and New Labour's Putative Neo-liberalism: A Reply to Colin Hay

    Article • British Journal of Political Science, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ben M Clift

  67. Credible Keynesianism? New Labour Macroeconomic Policy and the Political Economy of Coarse Tuning

    Article • British Journal of Political Science, December 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ben M Clift

  68. The New Political Economy of Dirigisme: French Macroeconomic Policy, Unrepentant Sinning and the Stability and Growth Pact

    Article • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, August 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ben M Clift

  69. Book Review: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Jonathan Perraton & Ben Clift (eds.), Where are National Capitalisms Now? (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004, 296 pp., £55.00 hbk.)

    Article • Millennium Journal of International Studies, August 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ben M Clift

  70. Party Finance Reform as Constitutional Engineering? The effectiveness and unintended consequences of Party Finance Reform in France and Britain

    Article • French Politics, November 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  71. Dyarchic Presidentialization in a Presidentialized Polity: The French Fifth Republic

    Article • March 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ben M Clift

  72. Debating the Restructuring of French Capitalism and Anglo-Saxon Institutional Investors: Trojan Horses or Sleeping Partners?

    Article • French Politics, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  73. Fiscal policy and capital mobility: the construction of economic policy rectitude in Britain and France

    Article • New Political Economy, December 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  74. Comparative Party Finance Reform

    Article • Party Politics, November 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Justin T Fisher, Professor Ben M Clift

  75. New Labour’s Second Term and European Social Democracy

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift

  76. Tawney and the third way

    Article • Journal of Political Ideologies, October 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  77. Social Democracy and Globalization: The Cases of France and the UK

    Article • Government and Opposition, October 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ben M Clift

  78. The political economy of the Jospin government

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, August 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  79. Social democracy in the 21st century: Still a class act? The place of class in Jospinism and Blairism

    Article • Journal of European Area Studies, November 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ben M Clift

  80. The Jospin Way

    Article • The Political Quarterly, April 2001, Wiley

    Professor Ben M Clift

  81. The UK Macroeconomic Policy Debate and the British Growth Crisis

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ben M Clift