Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
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Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024).
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Trying to find the human in the everyday, and write about it. Mission Driven Bureaucrats are all around us - and can be on you shelf (DanHonig.info/missiondrivenbureaucrats). Work London & DC.
Programme Director at the Institute for Government - interested in how government works and how it can work better
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Broadcaster. Slow eater, fast reader.
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Parliaments | Human rights | Writing | Trapeze.
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