Dr David Bailey

Dr David Bailey

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Associate Professor

Contact details

Address
POLSIS - School of Government
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

David Bailey is an Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Birmingham. His research is in the critical political economy of contemporary capitalism, with a particular focus on protest and resistance. He is on the editorial boards of Global Political Economy and Capital and Class.

Qualifications

  • PhD Political Science (London)
  • MA European Political and Economic Integration (Durham)

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • The Politics of Protest and Dissent

Postgraduate supervision

Areas of PhD Supervision

David is happy to supervise projects on social movements, protest movements, left parties, and the critical political economy of contemporary capitalism.

Research

Research and Academic Interests

David Bailey's research focuses on comparative and critical political economy, especially on how capitalism interacts with protest, dissent, social movements, collective action, and other forms of left-leaning agency, including left parties; and how these trends have an impact upon political institutions and trends more generally. 

This talk, given on 8 October 2019 at the Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London, provides an overview of some of these themes: Austerity, Populism, Protest: People Power in the Age of Dissent

Other activities

Other Professional Appointments

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Bailey, D, Clua-Losda, M, Huke, N & Ribera-Almandoz , O 2017, Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe. RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, Routledge. <https://www.routledge.com/Beyond-Defeat-and-Austerity-Disrupting-the-Critical-Political-Economy/Bailey-Clua-Losada-Huke-Ribera-Almandoz/p/book/9781138890541>

Article

Bailey, D 2024, 'Environmental protest outcomes in austerity-era neoliberalism: perseverance and politics', Social Movement Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2024.2407291

Shibata, S & Bailey, D 2024, 'Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia', Economy and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2387986

Bailey, D 2024, 'Weak progressive politics and resistance without guarantees in the post-pandemic global political economy: a broadly Marxist account', Global Political Economy, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 16–39. https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2024D000000015

Berglund, O & Bailey, D 2023, 'Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement', Environmental Politics, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1012-1032. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2156179

Bailey, DJ 2023, 'Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success', Work, Employment and Society, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231169675

Bailey, D, Lewis, P & Shibata, S 2022, 'Contesting neoliberalism: mapping the terrain of social conflict', Capital and Class, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 449-478. https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168211054802

Bailey, D, Huke, N, Lewis, P & Shibata, S 2021, 'Variegated anti-austerity: Exploring the demise and rise of class struggle during the crisis of neoliberalism', Social Policy and Society, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 158-171. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746420000366

Bailey, D, Clua Losada, M, Huke, N, Ribera Almandoz , O & Rogers, K 2018, 'Challenging the age of austerity: disruptive agency after the global economic crisis', Comparative European Politics, vol. 16, pp. 9-31. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-016-0072-8

Bailey, D & Shibata, S 2017, 'Austerity and anti-austerity: the political economy of refusal in ‘low resistance’ models of capitalism', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 683-709. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123416000624

Huke, N, Clua-losada, M & Bailey, DJ 2015, 'Disrupting the European Crisis: A Critical Political Economy of Contestation, Subversion and Escape', New Political Economy, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 725-751. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2014.999759

Bailey, DJ 2014, 'Contending the crisis: What role for extra-parliamentary British politics?', British Politics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 68-92. https://doi.org/10.1057/bp.2013.26

Bailey, DJ 2014, 'Resistance is futile? The impact of disruptive protest in the 'silver age of permanent austerity'', Socio-Economic Review, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 5-32. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwu027

Bailey, DJ & Shibata, S 2014, 'Varieties of contestation: The comparative and critical political economy of 'excessive' demand', Capital and Class, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 239-251. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816813514818

Editorial

Bailey, D, Clark, J, Colombelli, A, Corradini, C, De Propris, L, Derudder, B, Fratesi, U, Fritsch, M, Harrison, J, Hatfield, M, Kemeny, T, Kogler, DF, Lagendijk, A, Lawton, P, Ortega-Argilés, R, Otero, CI & Usai, S 2020, 'Regions in a time of pandemic', Regional Studies, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 1163-1174. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1798611

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