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Colin Hay

Colin Hay

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Political Science
France
2026

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Political Science

D-Index
59
Citations
19746
World Ranking
119
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in France Leader Award

Overview

Colin Hay is affiliated with Sciences Po in France and specializes in the social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations. Their research spans various subfields, including sociology and political science, finance, general health professions, and social psychology.

Their main topics of work cover the political and economic history of the UK and US, social policy and reform studies, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, political economy and Marxism, water governance and infrastructure, economic theory and policy, and employment and welfare studies.

Hay has published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • British Politics
  • Review of International Political Economy
  • New Political Economy
  • Comparative European Politics
  • Journal of European Integration

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hay include:

  • Inclusive growth: the challenges of multidimensionality and multilateralism (2020), Cambridge Review of International Affairs
  • Blind spots in IPE: marginalized perspectives and neglected trends in contemporary capitalism (2020), Review of International Political Economy
  • Seeing and Not-seeing Like a Political Economist: The Historicity of Contemporary Political Economy and its Blind Spots (2020), New Political Economy
  • Introduction: the politicisation of permanent crisis in Europe (2020), Journal of European Integration
  • The antinomies of sovereigntism, statism and liberalism in European democratic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: a comparison of Britain and France (2022), Comparative European Politics

Hay collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors who contribute to their research, including:

  • Cyril Benoît
  • Genevieve LeBaron
  • Daniel Mügge
  • Jacqueline Best
  • Stephen Farrall

In addition to articles, Hay has published books, such as What is Politics? The definitive guide to politics in our polarized times, forthcoming in 2025 from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

  • Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction

    Colin Hay

  • Why We Hate Politics

    Colin Hay

  • Structure, Agency and Historical Institutionalism

    Colin Hay;Daniel Wincott

  • Globalization, European integration and the discursive construction of economic imperatives

    Colin Hay;Ben Rosamond

  • The political economy of new labour : labouring under false pretences?

    Colin Hay

  • Introduction: Demystifying Globalization

    Colin Hay;David Marsh

  • Re-stating social and political change

    Colin Hay

  • Narrating Crisis: The Discursive Construction of the `Winter of Discontent'

    Colin Hay

  • Crisis and the structural transformation of the state: interrogating the process of change

    Colin Hay

  • Structure and Agency

    Colin Hay

  • Ideas and the Construction of Interests

    Colin Hay

  • The normalizing role of rationalist assumptions in the institutional embedding of neoliberalism

    Colin Hay

  • The discourse of globalisation and the logic of no alternative : rendering the contingent necessary in the political economy of New Labour

    Matthew Watson;Colin Hay

  • The State: Theories and Issues

    Colin Hay;Michael Lister;David Marsh

  • Common trajectories, variable paces, divergent outcomes? Models of European capitalism under conditions of complex economic interdependence

    Colin Hay

  • INTERPRETING INTERPRETIVISM INTERPRETING INTERPRETATIONS: THE NEW HERMENEUTICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

    Colin Hay

  • The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism

    Colin Hay;Daniel Wincott

  • The tangled webs of Westminster and Whitehall : the discourse, strategy and practice of networking within the British core executive

    Colin Hay;David Richards

  • Thatcher’s Children, Blair’s Babies, Political Socialization and Trickle-down Value Change: An Age, Period and Cohort Analysis

    Maria Teresa Grasso;Stephen Farrall;Emily Gray;Colin Hay

  • Ideas, interests and institutions in the comparative political economy of great transformations

    Colin Hay

  • Pathology Without Crisis? The Strange Demise of the Anglo‐Liberal Growth Model

    Colin Hay

  • REVITALISING POLITICS: HAVE WE LOST THE PLOT?

    Colin Hay;Gerry Stoker

  • Good in a crisis: the ontological institutionalism of social constructivism

    Colin Hay

  • Anti-Politics, Depoliticisation and Governance in Late-Modernity

    Paul Fawcett;Matthew Flinders;Colin Hay;Matthew Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Farrall
Stephen Farrall University of Sheffield
Will Jennings
Will Jennings University of Southampton
Daniel Wincott
Daniel Wincott Cardiff University
Gerry Stoker
Gerry Stoker University of Southampton
Peter Taylor-Gooby
Peter Taylor-Gooby University of Kent
David Marsh
David Marsh University of Canberra
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders University of Sheffield
Maria T. Grasso
Maria T. Grasso Queen Mary University of London
Martin J. Smith
Martin J. Smith University of York
Ben Rosamond
Ben Rosamond University of Edinburgh

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