Guy Lodge
Associate Director for Politics and Power
Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6163Email: g.lodge@ippr.org
Areas of expertise:
- Political and constitutional reform in the UK
- Political participation and democratic change
- Contemporary British political history
- Central and local government
- Devolution and UK territorial politics
- British elections and voting systems
- National identity
Guy also leads IPPR’s partnership with the Institute of Policy and Analysis, Rwanda (IPAR).
Guy regularly comments on British politics and public policy issues in the national and international media. Recent appearances include the BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Channel 4 News, The Daily Politics, BBC Breakfast, Five Live and The Week in Westminster. His work has been extensively covered in the print media with recent coverage in The Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail, Sun, New York Times, Economist, International Herald Tribune, Prospect magazine and the Australian.
His book Brown at Ten (co-authored with Anthony Seldon) was named as one of the Independent’s political books of 2010 and was described by the Guardian as a ‘must read for anyone who wants to know what really happened in the final three years of the Labour government’.
Before joining IPPR, Guy worked at the Constitution Unit, in the School of Public Policy, University College London. He has also worked in the House of Commons and at the Fabian Society.
He is a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, also at Oxford University. He was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Publications
The dog that finally barked: England as an emerging political community
Author(s) : Guy Lodge, Richard Wyn Jones
23 Jan 2012
The Right Alternative? Assessing the case for the Alternative Vote
Author(s) : Glenn Gottfried, Guy Lodge
18 Apr 2011
Worst of Both Worlds: Why First Past the Post no longer works
Author(s) : Glenn Gottfried, Guy Lodge
04 Jan 2011
28 May 2010
28 May 2010
Public Policy Research volume 16 issue 1
Author(s) : Andrew Pendleton, Georgina Kyriacou, Guy Lodge
01 May 2009
Public Policy Research Volume 15 issue 4
Author(s) : Andrew Pendleton, Georgina Kyriacou, Guy Lodge
01 Dec 2008
Public Policy Research Journal Vol 15 issue 3
Author(s) : Andrew Pendleton, Georgina Kyriacou, Guy Lodge
01 Sep 2008
Fair Shares? Barnett and the politics of public expenditure
Author(s) : Iain McLean, Katie Schmuecker, Guy Lodge
10 Jul 2008
Public Services at the Crossroads
24 Sep 2007
Innovations in Government:International perspectives on civil service reform
Author(s) : Susanna Kalitowski, Guy Lodge
06 Apr 2007
Is Whitehall Fit For Purpose? An Analysis of the Capability Reviews
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
29 Dec 2006
Whitehall's Black Box: Accountability and performance in the senior civil service
Author(s) : Ben Rogers, Guy Lodge
07 Aug 2006
Articles
Labour must watch out for pitfalls - 17 May 2012
Author(s) : Will Paxton, Guy Lodge
Politics at a juncture - 16 May 2012
Author(s) : Will Paxton, Guy Lodge
State of the Left: a global overview - 16 May 2012
Author(s) : Will Paxton, Guy Lodge
Europe hasn't swung to the left - or the right - 07 May 2012
Author(s) : Will Paxton, Guy Lodge
How do you get people to vote? Force them to when they're young - 04 May 2012
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
The case for compulsory voting - 28 Apr 2012
Author(s) : Guy Lodge, Sarah Birch
Mayors for all major English cities? A democratic argument - 11 Apr 2012
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
Called to account: why Hodge is right on civil service scrutiny - 15 Mar 2012
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
The UK’s last chance saloon - 12 Jan 2012
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
London limited? - 08 Dec 2011
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
What if ... Gordon Brown was leading the eurozone crisis? - 17 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
AV is suited to the modern British voter - 20 Apr 2011
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
First Past the Post is no longer fit for purpose - 10 Jan 2011
Author(s) : Glenn Gottfried, Guy Lodge
Why has no one noticed that a hung parliament would trigger a constitutional crisis in England? - 30 Apr 2010
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
MyPolice impersonation - 31 Mar 2010
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
Society and the State: Does Size Matter? - 18 Mar 2010
Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton, Guy Lodge
England, England - 04 Feb 2010
Author(s) : Michael Kenny, Guy Lodge
English question would haunt David Cameron's government - 01 Feb 2010
Author(s) : Michael Kenny, Guy Lodge
Back in line? - 21 Jul 2009
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
Running on empty - 05 Mar 2009
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, Guy Lodge
Bin the Barnett formula - 15 Jul 2008
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
UK should make elected mayors focus of local government reform - 29 Jun 2008
Author(s) : Chris Leslie, Guy Lodge
Response to Sir Jeremy Beecham - 17 Jun 2008
Author(s) : Michael Kenny, Guy Lodge
More Mayors for England - 24 Apr 2008
Author(s) : Guy Lodge, Mike Kenny
Jury's out - 01 Dec 2007
Author(s) : Michael Kenny, Guy Lodge
Union Blues - 22 Jul 2007
Author(s) : Katie Schmuecker, Guy Lodge
Going global - 31 May 2007
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
Link reform to outcomes. - 05 Apr 2007
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
Red letter day on a radical alliance - 16 Mar 2007
Author(s) : Iain McLean, Guy Lodge
Civil Service Reform – the missing piece in the public service reform jigsaw - 12 Feb 2007
Author(s) : Guy Lodge
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