Professor Dr. Jose Labarca

Biography

Jose Tomas Labarca is an interdisciplinary academic whose educational background includes degrees in History and Sociology. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh, where his dissertation was awarded the Political Studies Association’s Walter Bagehot Prize. His current research focuses on the intersections of state, government elites, expert knowledge, and economic policymaking in the UK. He is particularly engaged in a book project that reconstructs key transformations in British budget politics and macroeconomic institutions from the 1960s to the 1980s, providing nuanced insights into the prevailing political-economic changes marked by neoliberalism and austerity politics. Currently, Dr. Labarca serves as an Academic Career Development Fellow at the Isaac Newton Trust in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, building on his previous experience as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at King's College London.

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