Dr Scott Lavery

  • Lecturer (Political & International Studies)

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow in 2023 as a Lecturer in Political Economy.

My research is underpinned by one central question: how has the global economy changed since the 2008 financial crisis?

My current book project, Rebuilding the Fortress? Europe in a changing world economy, explores the return of industrial strategy and protectionist trade policy within the European Union over the past decade.

My first book, British Capitalism after the Crisis (Palgrave, 2019) provides an account of economic policymaking in the post-2008 period, arguing that this consolidated a series of weaknesses within British capitalism, including low productivity, regional imbalance, and over-dependence on finance-led growth.

My research encompasses a wide range of themes, including monetary policy, EU industrial strategy and trade policy, uneven development, state theory, European integration, welfare state restructuring, business power and Brexit.

I have published on these topics in numerous international peer-reviewed journals, including Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, New Political Economy, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Geoforum, British Journal of Politics and International Relations and Geoforum.

My research is informed by the tradition of classical political economy, which adopts a holistic and historicised perspective on continuity and change within global capitalism. My work is therefore inherently inter-disciplinary, drawing upon numerous fields including politics, international relations, geography, economic and social history, philosophy, and sociology.

Prior to joining Glasgow, I was a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield (2018 -2023), where I also undertook a post-doctoral Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2018 – 2021), and a PhD (2012 – 2016).  Before Sheffield, I completed an MA in International Political Economy at the University of York (2011 – 2012), and an honours degree (MA) in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Glasgow (2005 – 2009).

 

Research interests

  • Political economy
  • British politics
  • European Union
  • Globalisation
  • Industrial strategy
  • Critical theory

Research groups

  • International Political Economy & Development

Publications

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Number of items: 39.

2023

Lavery, S. (2023) Rebuilding the Fortress? Europe in a changing world economy. Review of International Political Economy, (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2211281) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Lavery, S., McDaniel, S. and Schmid, D. (2022) European strategic autonomy: new agenda, old constraints. In: Babić, M., Dixon, A. D. and Liu, I. T. (eds.) The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World. Series: International political economy series. Springer, pp. 57-80. ISBN 9783031019685 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-01968-5_3)

Berry, C., Froud, J., Konzelmann, S. J. and Lavery, S. (2022) An industrial strategy for the twenty-first century. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 30(3), pp. 8-18.

Lavery, S. (2022) Tooze’s Marx. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 30(3), pp. 19-29.

2021

Lavery, S. and Schmid, D. (2021) European integration and the new global disorder*. Journal of Common Market Studies, 59(5), pp. 1322-1338. (doi: 10.1111/jcms.13184)

2020

Lavery, S. (2020) European Integration and Global Disorder. SASE 32nd Annual Meeting Development Today: Accumulation, Surveillance, Redistribution, Online, 18-21 Jul 2020.

2019

Lavery, S., McDaniel, S. and Schmid, D. (2019) Finance fragmented? Frankfurt and Paris as European financial centres after Brexit. Journal of European Public Policy, 26(10), pp. 1502-1520. (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2018.1534876)

Lavery, S. (2019) German Power and FDI in Central and Eastern Europe. SASE 30th Anniversary Conference Fathomless Futures: Algorithmic and Imagined, New York, USA, 27-29 Jun 2019.

Dannreuther, C., Lavery, S. and Quaglia, L. (2019) The political economy of Brexit and the future of British capitalism second symposium. New Political Economy, 24(3), pp. 404-407. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2018.1484720)

Lavery, S., Quaglia, L. and Dannreuther, C. (2019) The political economy of Brexit and the future of British capitalism first symposium. New Political Economy, 24(2), pp. 252-257. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2018.1484716)

Lavery, S. (2019) British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer. ISBN 9783030040451 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8)

Lavery, S. (2019) British capitalism before the crisis. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 15-49. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_2)

Lavery, S. (2019) The Coalition’s ‘two nations’ hegemonic project. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 153-181. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_6)

Lavery, S. (2019) The Coalition’s accumulation strategy. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 109-152. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_5)

Lavery, S. (2019) New Labour’s ‘hybrid’ political economy. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 79-108. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_4)

Lavery, S. (2019) Theorising capitalist stability. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 51-77. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_3)

Lavery, S. (2019) The UK’s growth model, business strategy and Brexit. In: Hay, C. and Bailey, D. (eds.) Diverging Capitalisms: Britain, the City of London and Europe. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 149-170. ISBN 9783030034153 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03415-3_7)

2018

Lavery, S. (2018) After the coalition: towards a transformation or consolidation of British capitalism? In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 183-215. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_7)

Lavery, S., McDaniel, S. and Schmid, D. (2018) New geographies of European financial competition? Frankfurt, Paris and the political economy of Brexit. Geoforum, 94, pp. 72-81. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.021)

Baker, A. and Lavery, S. (2018) Brexit and the future model of British capitalism. In: Diamond, P., Nedergaard, P. and Rosamond, B. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Brexit. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: London, pp. 66-79. ISBN 9781315169613 (doi: 10.4324/9781315169613-6)

Green, J. and Lavery, S. (2018) After neoliberalisation? Monetary indiscipline, crisis and the state. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(1), pp. 79-94. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12204)

Lavery, S. (2018) The legitimation of post-crisis capitalism in the United Kingdom: real wage decline, finance-led growth and the state. New Political Economy, 23(1), pp. 27-45. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2017.1321627)

2017

Lavery, S. (2017) Enduring imbalances in the eurozone. In: Hay, C. and Hunt, T. (eds.) The Coming Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 77-85. ISBN 9783319638140 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-63814-0_10)

Lavery, S. (2017) ‘Defend and extend’: British business strategy, EU employment policy and the emerging politics of Brexit. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19(4), pp. 696-714. (doi: 10.1177/1369148117722713)

Berry, C. and Lavery, S. (2017) Towards a political economy of depoliticization strategies: Help to Buy, the Office for Budget Responsibility, and the UK Growth Model. In: Fawcett, P., Flinders, M., Hay, C. and Wood, M. (eds.) Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance. Oxford University Press, pp. 245-265. ISBN 9780191811616 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198748977.003.0011)

Lavery, S. (2017) Will Brexit Deepen the UK’s ‘North-South’ Divide? [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S., Quaglia, L. and Dannreuther, C. (2017) The Political Economy of Brexit and the UK’s National Business Model. [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S., Barber, A. and McDaniel, S. (2017) Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin: Post-Brexit Rivals to the City of London? [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S. (2017) British Business Strategy, EU Social and Employment Policy and the Emerging Politics of Brexit. [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S. (2017) David Baker and Pauline Schnapper, Britain and the Crisis of the European Union. Political Studies Review, 15(1), pp. 137-138. (doi: 10.1177/1478929916666764)[Book Review]

2016

Berry, C., Hunt, T., Lavery, S. and Vittery, W. (2016) UK Regions and European Structural and Investment Funds. [Research Reports or Papers]

Berry, C., Kirkland, C., Lavery, S. and Hunt, T. (2016) UK Regions, the European Union and Manufacturing Exports. [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S., Paulusma, P., Venhaus, M., Warner, N. and Wilhelm, B. (2016) Capital and Labour in the Post-Crisis European Context: Distributional, Institutional and Political Considerations. [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S. (2016) Institutional Crisis in 21st-Century Britain. Political Studies Review, 14(1), pp. 116-117. (doi: 10.1177/1478929915609471i)[Book Review]

2015

Green, J. and Lavery, S. (2015) The regressive recovery: distribution, inequality and state power in Britain's post-crisis political economy. New Political Economy, 20(6), pp. 894-923. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2015.1041478)

Lavery, S. and Green, J. (2015) Quantitative easing and labour market restructuring underline the ‘regressive recovery’. [Website]

Lavery, S. (2015) Public and Private Sector Employment Across the UK Since the Financial Crisis. [Research Reports or Papers]

2014

Cardoso, P. M., Erdinc, I., Horemans, J. and Lavery, S. (2014) Precarious Employment in Europe. [Research Reports or Papers]

Green, J. and Lavery, S. (2014) Britain’s Post Crisis Political Economy: A ‘Recovery’ through Regressive Redistribution. [Research Reports or Papers]

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Number of items: 39.

Articles

Lavery, S. (2023) Rebuilding the Fortress? Europe in a changing world economy. Review of International Political Economy, (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2211281) (Early Online Publication)

Berry, C., Froud, J., Konzelmann, S. J. and Lavery, S. (2022) An industrial strategy for the twenty-first century. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 30(3), pp. 8-18.

Lavery, S. (2022) Tooze’s Marx. Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 30(3), pp. 19-29.

Lavery, S. and Schmid, D. (2021) European integration and the new global disorder*. Journal of Common Market Studies, 59(5), pp. 1322-1338. (doi: 10.1111/jcms.13184)

Lavery, S., McDaniel, S. and Schmid, D. (2019) Finance fragmented? Frankfurt and Paris as European financial centres after Brexit. Journal of European Public Policy, 26(10), pp. 1502-1520. (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2018.1534876)

Dannreuther, C., Lavery, S. and Quaglia, L. (2019) The political economy of Brexit and the future of British capitalism second symposium. New Political Economy, 24(3), pp. 404-407. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2018.1484720)

Lavery, S., Quaglia, L. and Dannreuther, C. (2019) The political economy of Brexit and the future of British capitalism first symposium. New Political Economy, 24(2), pp. 252-257. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2018.1484716)

Lavery, S., McDaniel, S. and Schmid, D. (2018) New geographies of European financial competition? Frankfurt, Paris and the political economy of Brexit. Geoforum, 94, pp. 72-81. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.021)

Green, J. and Lavery, S. (2018) After neoliberalisation? Monetary indiscipline, crisis and the state. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(1), pp. 79-94. (doi: 10.1111/tran.12204)

Lavery, S. (2018) The legitimation of post-crisis capitalism in the United Kingdom: real wage decline, finance-led growth and the state. New Political Economy, 23(1), pp. 27-45. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2017.1321627)

Lavery, S. (2017) ‘Defend and extend’: British business strategy, EU employment policy and the emerging politics of Brexit. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19(4), pp. 696-714. (doi: 10.1177/1369148117722713)

Green, J. and Lavery, S. (2015) The regressive recovery: distribution, inequality and state power in Britain's post-crisis political economy. New Political Economy, 20(6), pp. 894-923. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2015.1041478)

Books

Lavery, S. (2019) British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer. ISBN 9783030040451 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8)

Book Sections

Lavery, S., McDaniel, S. and Schmid, D. (2022) European strategic autonomy: new agenda, old constraints. In: Babić, M., Dixon, A. D. and Liu, I. T. (eds.) The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World. Series: International political economy series. Springer, pp. 57-80. ISBN 9783031019685 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-01968-5_3)

Lavery, S. (2019) British capitalism before the crisis. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 15-49. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_2)

Lavery, S. (2019) The Coalition’s ‘two nations’ hegemonic project. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 153-181. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_6)

Lavery, S. (2019) The Coalition’s accumulation strategy. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 109-152. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_5)

Lavery, S. (2019) New Labour’s ‘hybrid’ political economy. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 79-108. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_4)

Lavery, S. (2019) Theorising capitalist stability. In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 51-77. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_3)

Lavery, S. (2019) The UK’s growth model, business strategy and Brexit. In: Hay, C. and Bailey, D. (eds.) Diverging Capitalisms: Britain, the City of London and Europe. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 149-170. ISBN 9783030034153 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03415-3_7)

Lavery, S. (2018) After the coalition: towards a transformation or consolidation of British capitalism? In: British Capitalism After the Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 183-215. ISBN 9783030040468 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04046-8_7)

Baker, A. and Lavery, S. (2018) Brexit and the future model of British capitalism. In: Diamond, P., Nedergaard, P. and Rosamond, B. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Brexit. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: London, pp. 66-79. ISBN 9781315169613 (doi: 10.4324/9781315169613-6)

Lavery, S. (2017) Enduring imbalances in the eurozone. In: Hay, C. and Hunt, T. (eds.) The Coming Crisis. Series: Building a sustainable political economy: SPERI research & policy. Springer, pp. 77-85. ISBN 9783319638140 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-63814-0_10)

Berry, C. and Lavery, S. (2017) Towards a political economy of depoliticization strategies: Help to Buy, the Office for Budget Responsibility, and the UK Growth Model. In: Fawcett, P., Flinders, M., Hay, C. and Wood, M. (eds.) Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance. Oxford University Press, pp. 245-265. ISBN 9780191811616 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198748977.003.0011)

Book Reviews

Lavery, S. (2017) David Baker and Pauline Schnapper, Britain and the Crisis of the European Union. Political Studies Review, 15(1), pp. 137-138. (doi: 10.1177/1478929916666764)[Book Review]

Lavery, S. (2016) Institutional Crisis in 21st-Century Britain. Political Studies Review, 14(1), pp. 116-117. (doi: 10.1177/1478929915609471i)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Lavery, S. (2017) Will Brexit Deepen the UK’s ‘North-South’ Divide? [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S., Quaglia, L. and Dannreuther, C. (2017) The Political Economy of Brexit and the UK’s National Business Model. [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S., Barber, A. and McDaniel, S. (2017) Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin: Post-Brexit Rivals to the City of London? [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S. (2017) British Business Strategy, EU Social and Employment Policy and the Emerging Politics of Brexit. [Research Reports or Papers]

Berry, C., Hunt, T., Lavery, S. and Vittery, W. (2016) UK Regions and European Structural and Investment Funds. [Research Reports or Papers]

Berry, C., Kirkland, C., Lavery, S. and Hunt, T. (2016) UK Regions, the European Union and Manufacturing Exports. [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S., Paulusma, P., Venhaus, M., Warner, N. and Wilhelm, B. (2016) Capital and Labour in the Post-Crisis European Context: Distributional, Institutional and Political Considerations. [Research Reports or Papers]

Lavery, S. (2015) Public and Private Sector Employment Across the UK Since the Financial Crisis. [Research Reports or Papers]

Cardoso, P. M., Erdinc, I., Horemans, J. and Lavery, S. (2014) Precarious Employment in Europe. [Research Reports or Papers]

Green, J. and Lavery, S. (2014) Britain’s Post Crisis Political Economy: A ‘Recovery’ through Regressive Redistribution. [Research Reports or Papers]

Conference or Workshop Item

Lavery, S. (2020) European Integration and Global Disorder. SASE 32nd Annual Meeting Development Today: Accumulation, Surveillance, Redistribution, Online, 18-21 Jul 2020.

Lavery, S. (2019) German Power and FDI in Central and Eastern Europe. SASE 30th Anniversary Conference Fathomless Futures: Algorithmic and Imagined, New York, USA, 27-29 Jun 2019.

Website

Lavery, S. and Green, J. (2015) Quantitative easing and labour market restructuring underline the ‘regressive recovery’. [Website]

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Grants

2018 – 2021 The Leverhulme Trust, Early Career Fellowship. 'Capitalising on the European Crisis: New Geographies of Economic Power in the EU' [ECF-2017-281].

Supervision

I welcome applications from PhD students who wish to work on an area linked to my research interests 

Teaching

Globalized Economy (Economic and Social History)

Globalization and the Nation State (Economic and Social History)  

Globalization of International Banking and Finance (Economic and Social History)

Issues in British Politics (Politics and International Relations)

Politics 1A (Politics and International Relations)


Dr Scott Lavery