Sean McDaniel

Sean is a first year PhD candidate in the Politics and International Studies department at The University of Warwick. His PhD research involves a comparative study of the UK Labour Party and France’s Parti Socialiste. The project seeks to better understand the parties’ positions within the post-global financial crisis environment, and in particular is interested in the role of political and economic ideas in shaping the political economy of social democracy.

Research interests

Social democracy ; The Labour Party ; Le Parti Socialiste ; austerity ; global financial crisis ; comparative political economy

Publications

‘Post-crisis social democratic policy capacity in France and the United Kingdom: A lesson from the globalisation and social democracy debate’, French Politics 12 (4), 283–309.