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Michael Moran, 1946–2018: An Intellectual Memoir

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2021

Andrew Gamble
Andrew Gamble*
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Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Michael Moran's intellectual journey is a remarkable one. Starting from quite a narrow focus on industrial relations in the 1970s, he switched his main research interest to the politics of banking and to changes in financial regulation during the 1980s. In the 1990s he extended this interest in regulation to write about the emergence of the British regulatory state, which culminated in his major publication, The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper-Innovation (Moran 2003). After 2008 he turned his attention to the nature of contemporary capitalism and how it might be reformed. A subsidiary but important second theme was his broad interest in British politics, which led through various publications to a major single-authored textbook, Politics and Governance in the UK (Moran 2011), as well as the very successful co-authored text Politics UK (Jones et al. 1990) and what turned out to be his valedictory work, The End of British Politics? (Moran 2017).

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Government and Opposition , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 365 - 382
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Government and Opposition Limited

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