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About IPPR

Guy Lodge

Guy Lodge
Associate Director
+44 (0)207 470 6163
g.lodge@ippr.org

IPPR staff photograph

Teams
Citizens, Society and Economy

Areas of Expertise

  • Political and democratic reform in the UK
  • British political history and political ideas
  • The constitution and constitutional reform
  • Public service reform
  • Central-local relations and the civil service
  • Devolution and the politics of the UK
  • Britishness and the politics of identity

Guy is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations, at Oxford University. In 2007 he acted as an advisor to the Flanagan Review of Policing. He also leads a joint ippr and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP research programme on the ‘Smarter State’.

Guy co-edits Public Policy Research, ippr’s leading politics and policy journal.

Press experience

Guy is a regular commentator on public policy issues in the national and international press. Recent coverage includes The Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Independent, The Observer, The Scotsman, The Herald, Daily Mail, The Economist, The New York Times, Prospect Magazine, Sunday Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, New Statesman, and Business Week.

Broadcast: national and regional media. Recent coverage includes The Today Programme, BBC News and Channel 4 News.

Previous work

Before joining ippr in October 2004, Guy worked at The Constitution Unit, in The School of Public Policy, University College London. Previously he worked in Parliament and has also worked for the Fabian Society. He has a BSc (Government) and MSc (European Politics and Policy) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Other publications

2008

The Constitution (with Roger Gough) in (ed. Uberoi, Coutts, McLean and Halpern) Options for a New Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Social citizenship and intergovernmental finance in (ed. Scott Greer) Devolution and social citizenship in the UK (Bristol: The Policy Press, 2009)

Faith in the Nation: Religion, identity, and the public realm in Britain Today (with Zaki Cooper) (ippr, 2008)

Fair Shares? Barnett and the politics of public expenditure (with Iain McLean and Katie Schmuecker) (ippr, 2008)

Keys to the city: unlocking devolution through the elected mayoralty (with Chris Leslie) in (ed. Lucy Mott) Directly Elected, Direct Results: Reflections on the mayoral model in the UK (NLGN, 2008)

A New Beat: Options for more accountable policing (with Rick Muir) (ippr, 2008)

Mayors rule (with Michael Kenny) in Public Policy Research Volume 15 Issue 1 Page 12-21, March–May 2008

2007

Central-local relations: why it is so hard to let go in Public Service at the Crossroads (ed. Richard Brooks) (ippr 2007)

‘The missing piece of the puzzle: reform of central government’ in Public Service at the Crossroads (ed. Richard Brooks) (ippr 2007)

‘The End of the Union?’ (with Katie Schmuecker) in Public Policy Research Volume 14 issue 2 June- August 2007

Community Asset Transfers: Overcoming challenges of governance and accountability (with Rick Muir) (ACF 2007)

Innovations in Government: International Perspectives on Civil Service Reform (with Susanna Kalitowski) (ippr 2007)

‘The progressive consensus in perspective’ (with Iain McLean) in Beyond Liberty: Is the future of liberalism progressive? (ed J Margo) (ippr 2007)

2006

Is Whitehall Fit For Purpose? An Analysis of the Capability Reviews (ippr, 2006)

Whitehall’s Black Box: Accountability and performance in the senior civil service (with Ben Rogers) (ippr 2006)

‘Governing England: the view from Westminster’ (with Meg Russell) in ed. R. Hazell, The English Question (MUP, 2006).

‘The dog that didn't bark: The Government of England’ (with James Mitchell) in ed. R. Hazell, The English Question (MUP, 2006).

2005

Westminster and the English Question (with Meg Russell) (Constitution Unit, 2005)

Fabian Thinkers: A Century of Progressive Thought (co-editor) (Fabian Society, 2005)

'The Webbs' in Fabian Thinkers: A Century of Progressive Thought (ed.) (Fabian Society, 2005)

2004

'If Not Now When? The impact of devolution on Westminster' (with Meg Russell and Oonagh Gay) in ed. A. Trench, Has Devolution Made a Difference? The State of the Nations 2004 (Imprint Academic, 2004)

ESRC Devolution and the Centre Monitoring Reports 2003-04 (ESRC/Constitution Unit)

2001

'Anthony Giddens', in Dictionary of Labour Biography, in ed. G. Rosen, (Politicos, 2001)

2000

Radicals and Reformers: A Century of Fabian Thought (co-editor with Mark Thomas) (Fabian Society, 2000)