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Overview

Jonathan Hopkin is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the Social Sciences, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, as well as Finance, Accounting, and Sociology and Political Science as subfields.

Their work covers several main topics, including Social Policy and Reform Studies, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Corporate Finance and Governance, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, European Union Policy and Governance, Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism, and Electoral Systems and Political Participation.

Hopkin has authored several recent papers, notably:

  • How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach (2023) published in the Journal of European Public Policy
  • Exporting inequality: US investors and the Americanization of executive pay in the United Kingdom (2021) published in the Review of International Political Economy
  • Exporting the winner-take-all economy: micro-level evidence on the impact of US investors on executive pay in the United Kingdom (2025) published in the London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online
  • Brexit e il capitalismo britannico (2021) published in il Mulino
  • The Politics of Tax Justice in Democracies: Redistribution Beyond the Median Voter Theorem (2022) published in the LSE Public Policy Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hopkin include Lukas Linsi, Pascal Jaupart, Philip Rathgeb, and Stuart Wilks-Heeg.

Key venues where Hopkin's research has appeared include:

  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Review of International Political Economy
  • London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online
  • il Mulino
  • LSE Public Policy Review

Best Publications

  • Clientelism, interests, and democratic representation : the European experience in historical and comparative perspective

    Simona Piattoni

  • The Business Firm Model of Party Organisation: Cases From Spain and Italy

    Jonathan Hopkin;Caterina Paolucci

  • Bringing the Members Back in? Democratizing Candidate Selection in Britain and Spain

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • Political Decentralization, Electoral Change and Party Organizational Adaptation A Framework for Analysis

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • The Problem with Party Finance: Theoretical Perspectives on the Funding of Party Politics

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • Anti-System Politics

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  • Party Matters Devolution and Party Politics in Britain and Spain

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • British Statewide Parties and Multilevel Politics

    Jonathan Hopkin;Jonathan Bradbury

  • Post-truth Politics, Bullshit and Bad Ideas: ‘Deficit Fetishism’ in the UK

    Jonathan Hopkin;Ben Rosamond

  • Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • Party Formation and Democratic Transition in Spain: The Creation and Collapse of the Union of the Democratic Centre

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • When Polanyi met Farage: Market fundamentalism, economic nationalism, and Britain’s exit from the European Union

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • “Grabbing Hand” or “Helping Hand”?: Corruption and the Economic Role of the State

    Jonathan Hopkin;Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

  • A ‘southern model’ of electoral mobilisation? Clientelism and electoral politics in Spain

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • Clientelism and party politics

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • The Global Economics of European Populism: Growth Regimes and Party System Change in Europe (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2017)

    Jonathan Hopkin;Mark Blyth

  • FROM PATRONAGE TO CLIENTELISM: COMPARING THE ITALIAN AND SPANISH EXPERIENCES

    Jonathan Hopkin;Alfio Mastropaolo

  • The Presidentialization of Spanish democracy: sources of Prime Ministerial power in Post-Franco Spain

    Ingrid van Biezen;Jonathan Hopkin

  • Decentralization and State-Wide Parties: Introduction:

    Jonathan Hopkin;Pieter van Houten

  • States, markets and corruption: a review of some recent literature

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • Organized Combat or Structural Advantage? The Politics of Inequality and the Winner-Take-All Economy in the United Kingdom*:

    Jonathan Hopkin;Kate Alexander Shaw

  • Winner-Take-All Politics in Europe? European Inequality in Comparative Perspective*:

    Jonathan Hopkin;Julia Lynch

  • Spain: Proportional Representation with majoritarian outcomes

    Jonathan Hopkin

  • Party organization in multi-level contexts

    Ingrid van Biezen;Jonathan Hopkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth Brown University
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose London School of Economics and Political Science
Ingrid van Biezen
Ingrid van Biezen Leiden University
Daniel Wincott
Daniel Wincott Cardiff University
Piero Ignazi
Piero Ignazi University of Bologna
Ben Rosamond
Ben Rosamond University of Edinburgh
Alexander Cooley
Alexander Cooley Barnard College

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