Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe: Hope Versus Reality

About Emily St DennyMichael KeatingPaul CairneySean Kippin

Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy University of Stirling UK (@Cairneypaul). His research spans comparisons of policy theories (Understanding Public Policy 2020) and co-authored accounts of methods associated with key theories (Handbook of Complexity and Public Policy 2015) international policy processes (Global Tobacco Control 2012) and comparisons of UK and devolved policymaking (Why Isn't Government More Preventive? 2020). He uses these insights to explain the use of evidence in policy and policymaking in books (The Politics of Policy Analysis 2021; The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making 2016) articles and blog posts: Michael Keating is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh British Academy Academy of Social Sciences and European Academy. He graduated MA from the University of Oxford and PhD from what is now Glasgow Caledonian University. He has taught at universities in the United Kingdom and Canada and the European University Institute. Recent books include Rescaling the European State (OUP 2013) and State and Nation in the United Kingdom (OUP 2021). Sean Kippin is Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of a number of publications covering British political and policymaking institutions the UK Labour Party and policy areas such as education and inequalities. He has a PhD in Politics and Public Policy from the University of the West of Scotland where he also held a succession of teaching roles. Prior to this he worked for the London School of Economics on the Democratic Audit UK and LSE Politics and Policy Blog projects. Emily St.Denny is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. She has previously worked as a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling and as a Research Assistant at the Public Policy Institute for Wales (Cardiff University) and at the Center on Constitutional Change (University of Stirling). She specialises in health policy and gender and in the politics of policymaking in France and the devolved United Kingdom.