Dr Tim Hicks

Associate Professor in Public Policy
Room: 3.06, 36-38 Gordon Square
Tel: 020 3108 9582 (ext. 59582)
Email: t.hicks@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

I am an Associate Professor in Public Policy and currently serve as Director of Education for the Department of Political Science.

I study a range of issues falling within comparative politics, public policy, and comparative political economy, where my focus is on industrialised democracies.

Research

I am currently conducting research in three overlapping areas of study: 1) the politics of austerity and of fiscal policy more generally; 2) the politics of economic inequality; and 3) political economy and the media.

Publications

Journal articles

• Blumenau, J., Hicks, T. and Pahontu, R. (Forthcoming) ‘Risk and Health Policy Preferences: Evidence from the UK COVID-19 Crisis’, British Journal of Political Science.
• Barnes, L. and Hicks, T. (2022) ‘Are Policy Analogies Persuasive? The Household Budget Analogy and Public Support for Austerity’, British Journal of Political Science, 52(3), pp. 1296–1314.
• Barnes, L. and Hicks, T. (2021) ‘All Keynesians Now? Public Support for Countercyclical Government Borrowing’, Political Science Research and Methods, 9(1), pp. 180–188.
• Jacobs, A. M, Matthews, J. S., Hicks, T. and Merkley, E. (2021) ‘Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the USA’, American Political Science Review, 115(3), pp. 1016–1033.
• Barnes, L. and Hicks, T. (2018) ‘Making Austerity Popular: The Media and Mass Attitudes toward Fiscal Policy’, American Journal of Political Science, 62(2), pp. 340–354.
• Hicks, T. Jacobs, A. M. and Matthews, J. S. (2016) ‘Inequality and Electoral Accountability: Class-Biased Economic Voting in Comparative Perspective’, Journal of Politics, 78(4), pp.1076–1093.
• Hicks, T. (2016) ‘Acting Right? Privatization, Encompassing Interests, and the Left’, Political Science Research & Methods’, 4(2), pp. 427–448.
• Hicks, T. (2015) ‘Inequality, Marketisation, and the Left: Schools Policy in England and Sweden’, European Journal of Political Research, 54(2), pp.326–342.
• Hicks, T. (2014) ‘Partisan Governance and Policy Implementation: The Politics of Academy Conversion Amongst English Schools’, Public Administration, 92(4), pp. 995–1016.
• Hicks, Timothy (2013) ‘Partisan Strategy and Path Dependence: The Post-War Emergence of Health Systems in the UK and Sweden’, Comparative Politics, 45(2), pp. 207–226.

Book chapters

• Chapman, B. and Hicks, T. (2018) ‘The Political Economy of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme’, in H. Coates, B. Cantwell and R. King (eds.) Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 248–264.

Teaching

I currently co-teach the core ‘Introduction to Politics’ module for first-year Philosophy, Politics and Economics students.

If you are thinking of applying for a PhD in Political Science at UCL, then please do contact me if you plan to work in areas that overlap with my own research interests (noted above). Most broadly, I would be willing to supervise projects focused on comparative political economy in advanced industrialised democracies.