Ben W. Ansell (born 1977) is Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at

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and, with David Samuels, editor of '' Comparative Political Studies''.

Education

Ansell graduated with a first-class degree in History from the University of Manchester in 1998, followed by an M.A. in Cultural Studies at the same institution in 1999. He left the UK for the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, receiving an M.A. in Political Science. He finished his Ph.D. in Government at

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in 2006.

Career

Ansell's first academic appointment was as an assistant professor at the

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. A year after being promoted to associate professor in 2012, he took up his current position as Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at the University of Oxford. In July 2018 Ansell was elected

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(FBA). His book ''From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Politics of Education'' (2010) won the William H. Riker prize for best book in

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Selected publications

*''From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Politics of Education'', Cambridge,

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, 2010.

References

External links

Personal website
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