Biography
Dr David Hope is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy in the King’s College London Department of Political Economy. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) International Inequalities Institute (III). Prior to joining King’s, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the LSE International Inequalities Institute. David holds a PhD (2017) in Political Science from the LSE Department of Government and has previously studied Economics at both the LSE (MSc) and University College London (BSc). During his time as a PhD student, he was an Economics Editor for the CORE Project; an ambitious international collaboration to overhaul the undergraduate economics curriculum. In his professional life before beginning the PhD, he worked as an economist for PwC, Oxera and HM Treasury.
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MA Political Economy
Dr Hope is Programme Director for the MA Political Economy.
Research
David researches at the intersection of economics and political science. He specialises in comparative political economy and works predominantly on the advanced democracies of Western Europe and North America. His current areas of interest include: technological change and the knowledge economy; inequality and redistribution; taxing the rich; and varieties of capitalism and growth models. He uses a range of research methodologies in his work including both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
His recent work appears in World Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Politics & Society, and Journal of European Public Policy (among others). More details about David’s research, including his publications, can be found on his website. More details about his joint work with Dr Julian Limberg (also KCL DPE) on taxing the rich can be found at taxrich.uk.
Teaching
- Principles of Economics (1styear undergraduate module)
- The Political Economy of Inequality (3rd year undergraduate module)
PhD Supervisions
David is interested in supervising students researching on the advanced democracies (i.e. the OECD countries) in the following areas:
- Comparative political economy
- Varieties of capitalism and growth models
- Technological change and the knowledge economy
- Inequality and redistribution
- Taxing the rich
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Hope, D. & Limberg, J., 7 Jan 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hope, D. & Limberg, J., 11 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of European Public Policy. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hope, D., Limberg, J. & Weber, N., 17 Aug 2021, (KCL Department of Political Economy QPE Working Paper Series; no. 2021-36). Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper
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Hope, D., Giani, M. & Skorge, Ø., 20 Apr 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Political Science Research and Methods. p. 1-8 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.16
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Hope, D., Durazzi, N. & Diessner, S., 13 Apr 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Politics & Society. p. 1-39 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292211006563
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Hope, D., Durazzi, N. & Diessner, S., 2 Jul 2020, (Unpublished) In: EUI Working Papers. MWP 2020/07 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Hope, D. & Martelli, A., Apr 2019, In: WORLD POLITICS. 71, 2, p. 236-288 53 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887118000333
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Lacey, N., Soskice, D. & Hope, D., Jan 2018, In: Annual Review of Criminology. 1, p. 22.1 - 22.23 23 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-criminol-032317-091942
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Hope, D., Sep 2016, In: European Journal of Political Economy. p. 20-40 21 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2016.05.002
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Hope, D. & Soskice, D., 1 Jun 2016, In: Politics & Society. 44, 2, p. 209-226 28 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0032329216638054https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329216638054