In November 2025, Udit Bhatia, Pierre-Etienne Vandamme, Yanina Welp and I were awarded a €9.2 million ERC Synergy Grant to study “POPGOV: Popular Government in Global Perspective”. The project will run from 2026-2032 and seeks to uncover the principles and institutions of popular government, by which we mean democratic alternatives to representative government that empower ordinary citizens rather than socio-economic elites.

For more information on the project please visit our temporary website.

I am currently recruiting 4 postdoctoral researchers in the history of popular government to be based at LSE. The deadline for applications is 24 April 2026.