Colin Crouch

Colin Crouch

Colin Crouch (born 1944 in Isleworth) is an English sociologist and political scientist. He has coined the post-democracy concept in 2000 in his book Coping with Post-Democracy. Colin Crouch is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick.

Biography

Colin Crouch's academic career^[1] started as a lecturer in sociology at the London School of Economics in 1969. He then taught at University of Bath and Oxford University, where he was curator of the Bodleian Library from 1995 to 2000. He was Professor of Sociology and chaired the department of Political Science at the European University Institute of Florence from 1995 to 2004. From 2005 until 2011 he was Professor of Governance and Public Management at Warwick Business School.

Publications

• The Student Revolt, Bodley Head, London 1970
• Class Conflict and the Industrial Relations Crisis, Heineman, London 1977
• (Ed. with Alessandro Pizzorno) The Resourgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe Since 1968, 2 Volumes. Mamillan. London 1978
• The Politics of Industrial Relations, Fontana 1979
• Trade Unions: The Logic of Collective Action, Fontana 1982
• Industrial Relations and European State Traditions, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993
• (Ed. with Wolfgang Streeck) The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity, (1997)
• Post-democracy, Polity Press, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 0-7456-3314-5
• The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2011, ISBN 978-0-7456-5221-4
• Making Capitalism Fit for Society , Polity Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 9780745672229
• The Knowledge Corrupters. Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life, Polity Press, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 9780745669854

References

1. Prof. Colin Crouch's biography on Debrett's site.