Alan Hamlin

Additional Information

Supervision areas:

Since becoming Emeritus I can no longer take on new PhD students.

Before coming to Manchester as Professor of Political Theory I was Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton, where I was also Dean of the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences. I have held visiting posts at The Centre for Study of Public Choice, Virginia, USA; All Souls College, Oxford; and the Australian National University. From 2001-2010 I was a Member of the UK Competition Commission.

I am currently a member of the Editorial Boards of a number of journals including: Politics, Philosophy and Economics; Constitutional Political Economy: and The Journal of Theoretical Politics.

From November 2013 I am Emeritus, but srill actively involved in research.

 Profile:.

• I am a member of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT).
• I am a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

My Academia.edu web page is here

Specific research interests:

My research interests lie in both positive and normative political theory. I am interested in areas such as:

• Rational Actor Political Theory and Political Economy - whether from a methodological or a substantive perspective.
• Democratic theory - including positive and normative debates.
• Issues relating to the motivation of political agents and, in particular, expressive political behaviour.
• Conservatism as a political philosophy.
• Institutional and constitutional design.

Current research projects:

I am currently working on:

• Ideal and non-ideal theory and political feasibility
• Expressive political behaviour
• Constitutional political economy
• Analytic conservatism