Ian McManus
Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Ian McManus is a political scientist whose research examines the effects of macroeconomic changes on political competition, social well-being, democracy, and global governance. His work analyzes welfare state politics, social inequality, gender equality, democratic change and backsliding, labor markets, economic crises, European politics, and the political economy of technology.
He was an LSE Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon. He also served as a visiting fellow at the Free University of Berlin and received research support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the European Research Council.
Courses
- Behavioral Economics
- International Politics
- Contemporary World History
- Advanced Topics in Political Science
- Introduction to Global Studies
Academic Work
- 2025, “A path forward: social democratic strategies and responses to far-right populist challenges,” with Falkenbach, M., European Politics and Society, 26(3), 701-722
- 2024, “Workforce automation risks across race and gender in the United States,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 83(20), 463–492
- 2024, “The resurgence of partisanship in social policy making,” in Handbook of the Political Economy of Social Policy, B. Greve (Ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing
- 2023, “Socio-economic and socio-cultural foundations of voter support for far-left and far-right parties,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 31(1), 214–231
- 2022, The Repoliticization of the Welfare State. University of Michigan Press
- 2022, “A hollow victory: Understanding the anti-immigration shift of Denmark’s Social Democrats,” with Falkenbach, M., Journal of Contemporary European Research, 18(1), 4–30
- 2021, “Gender, austerity and the welfare state,” with Kushi, S., in Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State, B. Greve (Ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing
- 2021, “Populist radical right politics and health policy in the UK.” in Populist Radical Right and Health: National policies and global trends, M. Falkenbach & S. Greer (Eds.), Springer
- 2020, “The Eurocrisis between technocratic and democratic legitimacy,” with Costa Lobo, M., in The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy, E. Bertsou & D. Caramani (Eds.). Routledge
- 2019, “The reemergence of partisan effects on social spending after the global financial crisis,” Journal of Common Market Studies, 57(6), 1274–1291.