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Dr Gerda Hooijer

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Lecturer  in Comparative Political Economy
Room: 3.07, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: g.hooijer@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Comparative Political Economy at the Department of Political Science at University College London (UCL). Before joining UCL, 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
  • ‘“They Take Our Houses”: Benefit Competition and the Erosion of Support for Immigrants’ Social Rights’. British Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123420000150
  • ‘The Critics of Welfare: From Neoliberalism to Populism’ (with Desmond King). In The Oxford Handbook of Welfare States (Second Edition). Forthcoming.
  • 2015. ‘European Welfare States and Migrant Poverty. The Institutional Determinants of Disadvantage’ (with Georg Picot). Comparative Political Studies, 48(14), 1879-1904. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414015597508
  • For more information, see: https://www.gerdahooijer.com/research/
Teaching

I am interested in teaching courses on Comparative Political Economy, the Politics of Redistribution, the Politics of Immigration, and Research Design.

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