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Overview

David Bailey is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and specializes in the social sciences, with a particular focus on political science, sociology, economics, law, and finance. Their research spans multiple subfields including Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Law, and Finance.

The main topics of Bailey's research work cover European and International Law Studies, Social Policy and Reform Studies, the Political and Economic History of the UK and US, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Political Economy and Marxism, as well as Literature, Culture, and Criticism.

Bailey has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Capital & Class
  • Global Political Economy
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • Environmental Politics
  • Globalizations

Among recent papers authored by Bailey are:

  • "Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries" (2022) - Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • "Contesting neoliberalism: Mapping the terrain of social conflict" (2021) - Capital & Class
  • "Variegated Anti-Austerity: Exploring the Demise and Rise of Class Struggle during the Crisis of Neoliberalism" (2020) - Social Policy and Society

Bailey is also co-author on works addressing varied social and political themes. Collaborative relationships include frequent co-authors:

  • Richard Whish (16 publications)
  • Saori Shibata (3 publications)
  • Nikolai Huke (2 publications)
  • Mònica Clua-Losada (2 publications)
  • Paul Lewis (2 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Bailey has contributed to book publications. Titles include:

  • "Competition Law," published by Oxford University Press in 2021
  • "Naturalism Against Nature," published by Modern Humanities Research Association in 2020

Best Publications

  • Molecular and physical mechanisms of first-pass extraction.

    Stephen D. Hall;Stephen D. Hall;Kenneth E. Thummel;Paul B. Watkins;Kenneth S. Lown

  • Manufacturing reshoring and its limits: the UK automotive case

    David Bailey;Lisa De Propris

  • Assessing the transition towards Battery Electric Vehicles: A Multi-Level Perspective on drivers of, and barriers to, take up

    Nigel Berkeley;David Bailey;Andrew Jones;David Jarvis

  • Regions in a time of pandemic

    David Bailey;Jennifer Clark;Alessandra Colombelli;Carlo Corradini

  • A Bridge Too Phare? EU Pre-Accession Aid and Capacity-Building in the Candidate Countries

    David Bailey;Lisa De Propris

  • From RDAs to LEPs: A New Localism? Case Examples of West Midlands and Yorkshire

    Gill Bentley;David Bailey;John Shutt

  • The 1988 reform of the European Structural Funds: entitlement or empowerment?

    David Bailey;Lisa De Propris

  • Place-renewing leadership: trajectories of change for mature manufacturing regions in Europe

    David Bailey;Marco Bellandi;Annalisa Caloffi;Lisa de Propis

  • A place-based developmental regional industrial strategy for sustainable capture of co-created value

    David Bailey;Christos N. Pitelis;Philip R. Tomlinson

  • Disrupting the European Crisis: A Critical Political Economy of Contestation, Subversion and Escape

    Nikolai Huke;Mònica Clua-Losada;David J. Bailey

  • EU Structural Funds, Regional Capabilities and Enlargement: Towards Multi-Level Governance?

    David Bailey;Lisa De Propris

  • Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy Of) Neoliberal Europe

    David J. Bailey;Mònica Clua-Losada;Nikolai Huke;Olatz Ribera-Almandoz

  • The economics behind the move to 'localism' in England

    Paul Hildreth;Paul Hildreth;David Bailey

  • The Political Economy of European Social Democracy: A Critical Realist Approach

    David J. Bailey

  • Industry 4.0 and Regional Transformations

    Lisa De Propris;David Bailey

  • Industrial Policy, FDI and Employment: Still ‘Missing a Strategy’

    David Bailey;Nigel Driffield

  • Corporate disclosure and the deregulation of international investment

    David Bailey;George Harte;Roger Sugden

  • Characterization of oligosaccharides from an antigenic mannan of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Mia Young;Michael J Davies;David Bailey;Michael J Gradwell

  • Governance or the crisis of governmentality? Applying critical state theory at the European level

    David J. Bailey

  • Making Transnationals Accountable: A Significant Step for Britain

    David Bailey;George Harte;Roger Sugden

  • Regional responses to recession:the role of the West Midlands regional taskforce

    David Bailey;Nigel Berkeley

  • Place-based economic development strategy in England: filling the missing space

    Paul Hildreth;David Bailey

  • European social democracy during the global economic crisis: Renovation or resignation?

    David J. Bailey;Jean-Michel De Waele;Fabien Escalona;Mathieu Vieira

  • The Transition to ‘New’ Social Democracy: The Role of Capitalism, Representation and (Hampered) Contestation:

    David J. Bailey

  • Employment outcomes and plant closure in a post-industrial city:an analysis of the labour market studies of MG Rover workers three years on

    David Bailey;Caroline Chapain;Alex de Ruyter

  • New perspectives on industrial policy for a modern Britain

    David Bailey;Keith Cowling;Philip Tomlinson

  • Global restructuring and the auto industry

    David Bailey;Alex de Ruyter;Jonathan Michie;Peter Tyler

  • Globalisation, regions and cluster policies: the case of the Rover Task Force

    David Bailey

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel Driffield
Nigel Driffield University of Warwick
Ajit Singh
Ajit Singh University of Birmingham
Ben Derudder
Ben Derudder KU Leuven
Michael Fritsch
Michael Fritsch Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ivan Turok
Ivan Turok University of the Free State
Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh Autonomous University of Barcelona
Christos N. Pitelis
Christos N. Pitelis University of Leeds
Peter Tyler
Peter Tyler University of Cambridge
Steven A. Wrighton
Steven A. Wrighton Eli Lilly (United States)
Don A. Cowan
Don A. Cowan University of Pretoria

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