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Biography

Dan Bailey is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research focuses on the evolving and complex interactions between the global economy, ecological degradation, and political institutions, objectives and strategies. He has published research in New Political Economy, Competition and Change, Environmental Politics, Local Government Studies, British Politics, Renewal and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society amongst other academic journals, and collaborated with Prof. Colin Hay on Diverging Capitalisms: Britain, the City of London, and Europe.

In terms of public engagement, his research has been documented in numerous media outlets (including The Guardian and The National Observer), he has co-authored reports for the New Economics Foundation, IPPR Progressive Review, Policy Network and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, and he was a principle organiser of the first ever joint conference between the degrowth research network and the International Society for Ecological Economics which sought to bring together policy-makers, civil society actors and academics.

He has previously worked at the University of Manchester, the University of Sheffield and the University of York.

Teaching

Module

Role

University

Academic Year

Global Political Economy (BA)

Module Leader

Manchester Metropolitan University

2019-2023

Development Finance (MSc)

Module Leader

Manchester Metropolitan University

2020-2022

Fiscal and Economic Governance (MSc)

Module Co-Leader

Manchester Metropolitan University

2019/20

Global Economic Governance (MSc)

Module Co-Leader

Manchester Metropolitan University

2019/20

Political Economy Methods Summer School

Course Leader

University of Manchester

2019

Public Management and Delivery (MA)

Module Leader

University of York

2015/16

The Governance of Security (BA)

Module Leader

University of York

2015/16

Global Political Economy (BA)

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Sheffield

2014/2015

Consensus, crisis and coalition: An introduction to British Politics (BA)

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Sheffield

2013/2014

British Politics: (BA)

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Sheffield

2012/2013

Supervision

Supervisor for the PhD research of Liam O’Reilly at MMU from July 2022.

Research outputs

Books:

Hay, C. and Bailey, D., 2019. Diverging Capitalisms: Britain, the City of London, and Europe. London: Palgrave.

Articles:

Bailey, D., 2023. ‘‘Building Back Better’ or Sustaining the Unsustainable? The climate impacts of Bank of England QE in the Covid-19 pandemic’. British Politics. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-022-00223-w

Berry, C., Bailey, D., Beel, D. and O’Donovan, N., 2022. ‘Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid COVID-19’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. rsac024, https://doi.org/10.1093

Turner, J. and Bailey, D, 2021. “‘Ecobordering’: Casting Immigration Control as Environmental Protection”, Environmental Politics, 31(3), 110-131.

Berry, C., Bailey, D. and Jones, K. 2020. “A Beta Bailout”. Soundings. July 2020.

Bailey, D., 2020. “Shaping the new normal”, Renewal, guest editorial, 28(2), https://renewal.org.uk/articles/shaping-the-new-normal

Bailey, D., 2020. “Re-thinking the fiscal and monetary political economy of the Green State”, New Political Economy, 25(1), 5-17.

Bailey, D. and Craig, M., 2018. “Greening the UK’s economic strategy”, Renewal, 26(2), 33-46.

Bailey, D., 2017. “Economic renewal through devolution? Tax reform and the uneven geographies of the economic dividend”. Competition and Change, 21(1), 10-26.

Bailey, D. and Wood, M., 2017. “The metagovernance of English devolution”. Local Government Studies, 43(6), 966-991.

Bailey, D., 2016. “The environmental paradox of the welfare state: The dynamics of sustainability”. New Political Economy, 20(6), 793-811.

Bailey, D., 2015. “Situating consumption in a sustainable economic recovery: Bringing the environment back in”. British Politics, 11, 119-140.

Book chapters:

Bailey, D. and Hofferberth, E. 2022. “The Evolution of the UK’s Green New Deal: ‘Green Industrial Revolution, ‘Building Back Better’ and Beyond”. In: Routledge Handbook on the Green New Deal, K. Tienhaara and Joanna L. Robinson (eds.), London: Routledge.

Bailey, D. 2021. “The Bank of England’s Evolution & the Looming Threat of Climate Change”. In: Perspectives on UK Economic Policy Institutions, Craig Berry (ed.). Manchester: Rethinking Economics. https://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2021-11/Perspectives%20on%20U…

Bailey, D., 2021. “Industrial Policy in the context of Climate Emergency: the urgent need for a Green New Deal”. In: The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK: From Productivity Problems to Development Dilemmas, C. Berry., J. Froud and T. Barker (eds.), Newcastle: Agenda. 267-276.

Hay, C. and Bailey, D., 2019. “Introduction: Brexit and European capitalism: a parting of the waves?”. In: Diverging Capitalisms: Britain, the City of London, and Europe, C. Hay and D. Bailey (eds.), London: Palgrave.

Bailey, D., 2017. “The recomposition of the tax system: exacerbating uneven development through the Northern Powerhouse agenda”. In: Developing England’s North, C. Berry and A. Giovannini (eds.), Palgrave.

Reports and Policy Briefs:

Bailey, D., 2020. “Greening the ‘Green Shoots’ of Recovery: The Dangers of Crisis Myopia and the Need to ‘Build Back Better’”, Future Economies Research and Policy Paper #11, May 2020. https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/media/mmuacuk/content/documents/business-school/…

Berry, C., O’Donovan, N., Bailey, D., Barber, A., Beel, D., Jones, K., McDaniel, S. and Weicht, R., 2020. “The Covidist Manifesto: Assessing the UK State’s Emergency Enlargement”, Future Economies Research and Policy Paper #9, April 2020, https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/media/mmuacuk/content/documents/business-school/…

Bailey, D., 2019. “Industrial Policy in the context of Climate Emergency: the case for a Green New Deal”, Future Economies Research and Policy Paper #7, December 2019. https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/media/mmuacuk/content/documents/business-school/…

Gamble, A., Lavery, S., Hay, C., Bailey, D., Kastner, L. and Cadywould, C., 2017. “Brexit Britain: where does the UK growth model go from here?”, Policy Network, SPERI and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies Policy Brief: http://www.policy-network.net/publications/6212/Brexit-Britain

Bailey, D., 2017. “The political economy of the Green State”, SPERI Paper: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2017/01/18/new-speri-paper-rethinking-the-… 

Schelkle, W., Quaglia, L., Hay, C., Thillaye, R., Bailey, D., 2016. “EU economic governance after Brexit”, Policy Network, SPERI and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies Policy Brief: http://www.policy-network.net/publications/6159/EU-economic-governance-…

Lyall, S., Wood, M. and Bailey, D., 2015. “Democracy: the missing link in the devolution debate”, New Economics Foundation report: http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/democracy-the-missing-li…

Berry, C. and Bailey, D., 2015. “The evolution of the UK tax base”. SPERI Policy Briefhttp://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SPERI-policy-br…