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Ben W. Ansell FBA (born 1977) is Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford and, with David Samuels, editor of Comparative Political Studies.[1]

Education

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Ansell graduated with a first-class degree in history from the University of Manchester in 1998, followed by an MA in Cultural Studies at the same institution in 1999. He left the UK for the University of California, Berkeley, receiving an MA in political science. He finished his PhD in government at Harvard University in 2006.[2]

Career

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Ansell's first academic appointment was as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. A year after being promoted to associate professor in 2012, he took up his current position as Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at the University of Oxford.[2]

In July 2018 Ansell was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[3]

His book From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Politics of Education (2010) won the William H. Riker prize for best book in political economy.[4]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Comparative Political Studies description". SAGE Publications Australia. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Ben Ansell - Academic Staff Profiles". Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Ben Ansell". Nuffield College Oxford University. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  5. ^ Ansell, David Adler, Ben (2021), "Open Access: Housing and populism", Bricks in the Wall, Routledge, pp. 70–91, doi:10.4324/9781003157182-3, ISBN 978-1-003-15718-2, retrieved 5 May 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Brexit and the Politics of Housing in Britain". wealthpol.web.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
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