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Dr Lucy Barnes

Lucy Barnes
Professor in Comparative Politics
Room: 3.01, 36-38 Gordon Square
Email: l.barnes@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

I am a Professor in Comparative Politics. I joined the Department in 2016 from the University Kent, where I worked as Lecturer in Quantitative Politics. I studied Political Economy and Government (AM, PhD) at Harvard University, and Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA) at Oxford. I have also held research fellowships at Trinity College, Dublin, and was Prize Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, where I remain an Associate Member.

Research

My research focuses on the politics of economic policymaking in rich, western democracies (including the UK). I am currently working on the UKRI-funded Mental Models in Political Economy project, which seeks to understand how various types of people understand the economy. In other projects, I am interested in examining the interface between political science and political philosophy, the politics of inequality and redistribution, of fiscal policy and government budgets, and the politics of taxation.

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Podcast: UCL Uncovering Politics


Hear Dr Barnes speak about her research on the following podcast episodes:
S1 Ep2 | Is Risk Good for Us?
S4 Ep10 | Public Preferences on Taxes and Spending

Publications

Journal articles

2022

2021

2020

2018

2016

2015

Book chapters

Teaching

I am interested in supervising PhD students proposing to study the political preferences or institutions shaping, and shaped by, economic policy and economic outcomes, and especially any projects that may complement the Mental Models in Political Economy project.