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Dr Gerda Hooijer
Room: 3.07, 36-38 Gordon Square
Email: g.hooijer@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Comparative Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at UCL. Before joining, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. I hold a DPhil (PhD) in Politics from the University of Oxford.
Research
My research interests include comparative political economy, comparative social policy, and immigration. I have a long-held interest in the effects of immigration on voters’ support for the welfare state. In my recent work, I also examine the role of racial-ethnic legacies in the politics of immigration.
Publications
- Journal articles
- Hooijer, G. and King, D. (2022) ‘The Racialized Pandemic: Wave One of COVID-19 and the Reproduction of Global North Inequalities’, Perspectives on Politics, 20(2), pp. 507–527.
- Boucher, A., Hooijer, G., King, D., Napier, I. and Stears, M. (2021) ‘COVID-19: A Crisis of Borders’, Political Science & Politics, 54(4), pp. 617–622.
- Hooijer, G. (2021) ‘“They Take Our Houses”: Benefit Competition and the Erosion of Support for Immigrants’ Social Rights’, British Journal of Political Science, 51(4), pp. 1381–1401.
- Hooijer, G. and Picot, G. (2015) ‘European Welfare States and Migrant Poverty: The Institutional Determinants of Disadvantage’, Comparative Political Studies, 48(14), pp. 1879–1904.
- Book chapters
Hooijer, G. and King, D. (2021) ‘The Critics of Welfare: From Neoliberalism to Populism’, in D. Béland, S. Leibfried, K. J. Morgan, H. Obinger and C. Pierson (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Welfare States (second edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 53–70.
Teaching
I am interested in teaching courses on comparative political economy, the politics of redistribution, the politics of immigration, and research design.