Dr Huw Macartney

Dr Huw Macartney

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Senior Lecturer in Political Economy

Contact details

Email
h.macartney@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Department of Political Science and International Studies
School of Government
545 Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Huw Macartney is a political economist whose work is broadly concerned with the politics of banking and financial services.

Qualifications

PhD International Political Economy (Manchester)

MA Research Pathway (International Political Economy) (Manchester)

Biography

Huw received his ESRC-funded PhD on European financial market integration at the University of Manchester. Following this he held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Nottingham before being appointed as a Hallsworth Fellow in Political Economy, again at the University of Manchester. He then held Lectureships in International and Comparative Political Economy before joining the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer in IPE in September 2013.

Huw's current research focuses on two big themes: UK and European banking reform following the global financial crisis; and depoliticisation and its relationship to the Eurozone debt crisis. He is Undergraduate Lead for the Political Economy programme, and Exchange Tutor for POLSIS.

Teaching

POLS 205 International Political Economy (co-taught with Luis Cabrera)

POLS 314 Contemporary International Political Economy

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome applications from potential PhD students in the fields of International or Comparative Political Economy, banking and financial market governance, globalisation, and historical materialism.

Research

Research and academic interests:

  • International Political Economy
  • Banking and financial governance
  • Historical materialism

Publications

Books

Macartney, H. (2019) The Bank Culture Debate: ethics, values and financialization in Anglo-America, Oxford University Press.

Macartney, H. & D. Howarth eds. (2017) The Politics of Supranational Banking Supervision, Routledge.

Macartney, H. (2013) European Democratic Legitimacy and the Debt Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan.

Macartney, H. (2010)  Variegated Neoliberalism: Convergent Divergence in EU Varieties of Capitalism, London: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy. 

Shields, S., Bruff, I., and Macartney H. eds. (2011)  Critical International Political Economy: debates, dialogue and dissensus. Palgrave Macmillan IPE series.

Journal articles

Macartney, H & P. Calcagno (2019) All Bark and No Bite: the political economy of bank fines, Review of International Political Economy 

(2016) 'Too Big To Separate? EU ring-fencing and the defence of Too Big To Fail banks', co-authored with Iain Hardie, West European Politics (forthcoming).

(2015) 'Critical International Political Economy and the importance of dissensus', co-authored with Stuart Shields and Ian Bruff, Millennium 43(2): 735-737.

(2015) 'TTIP and the Finance Exception: venue-shopping and the breakdown of financial regulatory coordination, co-authored with Erik Jones, Journal of Banking Regulation (forthcoming).

(2014) ‘The Paradox of Integration? European democratic legitimacy and the debt crisis’ Cambridge Review of International Affairs 27(3): 401-423. 

(2013) From Merlin to Oz: the strange case of failed SME lending targets in the UK, Review of International Political Economy 21(4): 820-846.

(2011) ‘Crisis for the State, or Crisis of the State?’, The Political Quarterly 82(2) 

(2011) ‘Finance Unravelled: a historical materialist analysis of EU public policy’, special issue article with Competition & Change 15(1): 48-70. 

(2011)‘Demystifying the transnational: finding space in critical IPE’, (with Stuart Shields), special issue article with Journal of International Relations & Development 14: 375-383.

(2009) ‘Disagreeing to Agree: financial crisis management within the logic of no alternative’, in Politics 29(2): 111-120. 

(2009) Variegated Neo-liberalism: transnationally oriented fractions of capital in EU financial market integration, in Review of International Studies 35(2): 451–480

(2008) Articulating Particularistic Interests: the Organic Organisers of Hegemony, in British Journal of Politics and International Relations 10(3): 429-451 

Chapters

(2011) ‘Conclusion: IPE and the International Political Economy? IPE or the International Political Economy?’, Shields, Stuart, Ian Bruff & Huw Macartney, Critical International Political Economy: dialogue, debate, dissensus, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

(2011) ‘Critical IPE: dialogue, debate, dissensus’ (Introduction) Shields, Stuart, Ian Bruff & Huw Macartney, Critical International Political Economy: dialogue, debate, dissensus, Basingstoke: Palgrave. 

(2011) ‘Space, the latest frontier? A scalar-relational approach to critical IPE’, (with Stuart Shields), chapter for edited volume Critical International Political Economy: debates, dialogue and dissensus (forthcoming).

(2009) with Michael Moran, 'Central Banking Reform and International Financial Market Regulation' in Dyson, Kenneth and Martin Marcussen eds. Central Banks in the Age of the Euro: Europeanization, Convergence, and Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2008) with Michael Moran, 'Banking Supervision and Financial Market Regulation Under EMU' in Dyson, Kenneth ed. The Euro at Ten: Europeanization, Power and Convergence (2nd Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 325-340 

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