Helen Thompson moved to Cambridge in 1994 and works in the Department of Politics and International Studies . Her research has focused on political economy in relation to the interaction of domestic politics and international constraints, the politics of financial crises, and the politics of debt. She is currently working on a project about the democratic political fallout of the financial and euro zone crises.
https://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/Staff_and_Students/dr-helen-thompson
Research
International political economy: the state, democracy and the international economy; the financial crisis; sovereign debt; the euro-zone crisis; UK economic policy
Key publications:
- The British conservative government and the European exchange rate mechanism 1979-1994 (London: Pinter, 1996).
- The politics of central banks (London: Routledge, 1998) (with Robert Elgie).
- Might, right, prosperity and consent: representative democracy and the international economy 1919-2001 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008).
- China and the mortgaging of America: domestic politics and economic interdependence (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010).
- ‘The limits of blaming neo-liberalism: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the financial crisis’, New Political Economy, 2012 vol. 17 no. 4. pp. 319-419.
- ‘UK debt in comparative perspective: the pernicious legacy of financial sector debt’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol 15, no 3, pp 476-492.
- ‘Debt and power: the United States’ debt in historical perspective’ International Relations, 2007, vol 21 no 3, pp.305-323.
