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厂耻辫别谤惫颈蝉辞谤:听Professor Andrew Wilson and Dr Pete Duncan
贰尘补颈濒:听david.dalton.17@ucl.ac.uk听
Twitter:听@DaveDalton42
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Present status:听PhD candidate; post-graduate tutor on political sociology and transition economies modules.
Working title of thesis:听The wealth-defence politics of the Ukrainian oligarchy and its economic impact, 2014-17.
Research:听听My research is about the Ukrainian oligarchy, focusing on the post-Maidan period. It draws on the disciplines of political sociology, political economy and macroeconomics. My main interest is in identifying the links through which the political practices of the oligarchy鈥攁n institution of informal political influence that brings together the holders of great wealth with successful politicians and the state elite鈥攃an be shown to have affected Ukraine鈥檚 economic policy and performance. My empirical research topics are on the changing patterns of wealth of the Ukrainian super rich; the impact of financial political power on economic legislation in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament); continuity in oligarchs鈥� extractive financial schemes in the gas sector; and how the survival of the oligarchy post-Maidan, through the cost of the nationalisation of PrivatBank,听has undermined key claimed economic policy successes in public finances and banking.
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Research interests:听Informal politics and economics in eastern Europe, especially Ukraine and Russia; transition politics and economics; economic growth and living standards; wealth, inequality and class in eastern Europe; neo-classical economics; institutional economics; Marx and Weber; structuralism and post-structuralism; the sociology of elites and state breakdowns.
Research Centre Affiliation:听UCL Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies