Marc Stears

Biographical Information

"Marc Stears is currently on leave as Chief Speechwriter to the Leader of the Opposition, Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP. Before his leave, his major research interest was in British and American political thought.

"His second single-authored book Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics was published by Princeton University Press in 2010. It examines radical American political movements across the twentieth century. Details of the book and direct access to the Introduction at: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9197.html

"Marc's continuing academic research analyzes the various ways in which British, West European, and American thinkers sought to celebrate the victory of free societies over authoritarian ones in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, through such events as the Festival of Britain and the American Freedom Train. He has a contract with Harvard University Press for a book on this subject entitled 'Till St Paul's Falls Down.

"Marc also works in contemporary normative political theory where he has particular interests in research methods. He has recently edited a volume for OUP, Political Theory: Methods and Approaches, with David Leopold, on this subject and one for CUP, Political Philosophy verus History? with Jonathan Floyd. Most recently, he is also the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, with Michael Freeden and Lyman Tower Sergeant, for OUP, and of Liberalism as Ideology: Essays in Honour of Michael Freeden with Ben Jackson also for OUP.

"In addition to these projects in political theory, Marc also works in American politics, where he is especially concerned with the nature of the American state, and in British politics, where he largely concentrates on the evolution of the British Labour Party.

"Marc has been a Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research (www.ippr.org) where he researched the ideological and organizational development of left political parties in Britain and published Everyday Democracy: Taking the Left Beyond State and Market.

"Directly before coming to Oxford, Marc was Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and University Assistant Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge. Previously, he was University Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol, and Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford.""

Affiliations

• Blue Labour