Ben W. Ansell

I am Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College and the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy. Here’s my CV.

I am the Director of the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods.

I am Course Director of the MSc in Law, Governance and AI.

I am the host of BBC Radio 4’s Rethink, and I was the BBC’s 2023 Reith Lecturer, giving a series of lectures titled ‘Our Democratic Future’.

I was the host of ‘What’s Wrong with Democracy?’ produced by Tortoise Media.

I’m the author of Why Politics Fails (Viking / PublicAffairs).

I am UK Politics Columnist for Prospect.

I write the Substack Political Calculus.

I’m co-editor (with David Samuels and Dawn Teele) of Comparative Political Studies.

I was Principal Investigator of the ERC funded WEALTHPOL project on the politics of wealth inequality.