Dr Ben Yong
Dr Ben Yong
- Position: Research Associate
- Room:B-12
- Telephone:0207 679 4948
- Email: b.yong@ucl.ac.uk
Ben joined the Constitution Unit in May
2010. He has a BA, LLB(Hons) and LLM from Victoria University of Wellington. After
spending two years in Nanjing, China, Ben then went on to do a PhD in law at
the LSE, successfully defending his thesis Becoming National: Contexturalising
the construction of the New Zealand Nation-State in November 2008.
Previously, Ben worked as a research assistant to Professor Andrew Ladley and
the late George Barton QC; and more recently as a researcher of the Constitution
Society. From February to July 2010, Ben was at the
Ministry of Justice working on the UK Cabinet Manual project. For the second half of 2010, he worked on the Ministers From Outside Parliament project.
He is currently leading the project on Coalition Government in the UK.
Publications
- “New Zealand’s Experience of Multiparty Government” in Robert Hazell and Akash Paun (eds) Making Minority Government Work (Constitution Unit and Institute for Government, London, 2010)
- Putting Goats amongst the Wolves - Appointing Ministers from outside Parliament Ben Yong and Robert Hazell (Constitution Unit, 2011)
- Ben Yong “Book Review: The Minister as a Hero of Our Time” (2012) 83(1) Political Quarterly 187-9
- Ben Yong “Muddling through the Constitution (Again)” (2012) 83(2) Political Quarterly 435-8
- The Politics of Coalition: How the Conservative-Lib Dem Government Works Robert Hazell & Ben Yong (forthcoming, Hart Publishing, 2012)
