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Jonathan Hopkin Department of Government Positions: Reader in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, London School of Economics Associate Fellow, Johns Hopkins Bologna Center, Italy Research Interests: Political Parties and Elections; Redistribution and Inequality; Corruption; Decentralisation; Politics of Britain, Italy and Spain. Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6535 Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6532 Email: J.R.Hopkin@lse.ac.uk Room number: CON.5.18 (Connaught House) Forthcoming Book: Gianfranco Baldini and Jonathan Hopkin (eds.), Coalition Britain. The UK Election of 2010. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Recent Papers: Paper presented to Center for European Studies, Harvard University ‘Equity and Efficiency in Advanced Democracies: Revisiting the Leaky Bucket Hypothesis’ (with Mark Blyth and Seth Werfel) Paper presented at 2012 Conference of Europeanists, ‘Cartel Parties and the Crisis: Political Change and Ideological Stasis in the Advanced Democracies’. Paper with Mark Blyth 'What Can Okun Teach Polanyi? Efficiency, Regulation and Equality in the OECD',Review of International Political Economy 19(1): 1-33. Chapter with Christa van Wijnbergen, 'Europeanization and Welfare State Change in Britain: Another Case of "Fog Over the channel"?, in Paolo Graziano, Sophie Jacquot and Bruno Palier (eds.), The EU and the Domestic Politics of Welfare State Reforms’. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp.254-79. Paper with Elisabetta Gualmini, 'Plus ca change? The Political Economy of Labour Market Reforms in Italy and the UK' Paper with Mark Blyth and Riccardo Pelizzo 'Liberalization and Cartel Politics in Europe: Why Do Centre-Left Parties Adopt Liberal Market Reforms?' 'Class Mobilization, Decentralization and Redistribution'.