The Political Economy of Knowledge-Based Growth (24-month project, awarded £287,299):
Project team. Principal Investigator: David Hope (KCL). Co-Investigators: Sebastian Diessner (Leiden), Niccolo Durazzi (Modena & Reggio Emilia) & Hanna Kleider (KCL)
Overview. The transition to the knowledge economy has seen high-skilled workers and ICT become increasingly central to firms’ production strategies in advanced democracies. It has also captured policymakers’ interest due to the promise of delivering both economic growth and “good jobs”. In this project, we seek to significantly develop the literature on the knowledge economy in three ways, by: (i) providing a new measurement of the knowledge economy that builds on a multi-dimensional theorisation of the knowledge economy; (ii) tracing the policy foundations of (different types of) knowledge economies; and (iii) unpacking the knowledge economy’s consequences for political and policy preferences.
More information. Short version of the research proposal.
Socio-Economic Review, 2025, with Sebastian Diessner (Leiden), Niccolo Durazzi (Modena & Reggio Emilia), Federico Filetti (LSE), Hanna Kleider (KCL) and Simone Tonelli (Bologna)
Embedding Skill Bias: Technology, Institutions, and Inequality in Wages and Benefits
Comparative Politics, 2025, with Sebastian Diessner (Leiden) and Niccolo Durazzi (Modena & Reggio Emilia)
Taxes on Top Incomes and Financialisation
Review of International Political Economy, 2025, with Lukas Haffert (Geneva) and Julian Limberg (KCL)
The ICT Revolution and Preferences for Taxing Top Earners
Journal of European Public Policy, 2024, with Julian Limberg (KCL) and Nina Weber (KCL)
European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 78, with Julian Limberg (KCL) and Nina Weber (KCL)
The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich
Socio-Economic Review, 2022, 20(2), 539-559, with Julian Limberg (KCL)
The Knowledge Economy and Taxes on the Rich
Journal of European Public Policy, 2022, 29(5), 728-747, with Julian Limberg (KCL)
Skill-Biased Liberalization: Germany’s Transition to the Knowledge Economy
Politics & Society, 2022, 50(1), 117-155, with Sebastian Diessner (Leiden) and Niccolo Durazzi (Modena & Reggio Emilia)
Household Education Gaps and Gender Role Attitudes
Political Science Research and Methods, 2022, 10(4), 823-830, with Marco Giani (KCL) and Øyvind Skorge (Oslo Met)
World Politics, 2019, 71(2), 268-288, with Angelo Martelli (LSE)
Understanding the Determinants of Penal Policy: Crime, Culture, and Comparative Political Economy
Annual Review of Criminology, 2018, 1, 195-217, with Nicola Lacey (LSE) and David Soskice (LSE)
Estimating the Effect of the EMU on Current Account Balances: A Synthetic Control Approach
European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 44, 20-40
Growth Models, Varieties of Capitalism, and Macroeconomics
Politics & Society, 2016, 44(2), 209-226, with David Soskice (LSE)
The Eurozone and Political Economic Institutions
Annual Review of Political Science, 2016, 19, 163-185, with Torben Iversen (Harvard) and David Soskice (LSE)
Skill-Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden and Britain
with Sebastian Diessner (Leiden), Niccolo Durazzi (Modena & Reggio Emilia), Federico Filetti (LSE), Hanna Kleider (KCL) and Simone Tonelli (Bologna)
Under Review
Unequal Treatment, Fairness Perceptions, and Rural Opposition to Carbon Taxation
with Julian Limberg (KCL) and Yves Steinebach (Oslo)
Under Review