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Meet the team...
Steven Klein
Steven Klein is the principal investigator of Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy. He is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. His research focuses on democratic theory, theories of political economy and the welfare state, and critical theories of finance. He is the author of The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge 2020). His articles have appeared in a number of leading journals in political science, sociology, philosophy and law, including the American Political Science Review, Sociological Theory, and Political Theory.
Dougie Booth
Dougie is a research assistant for Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy and a PhD student working in the fields of political economy, energy politics and political theory. His dissertation undertakes a comparative analysis of energy transition governance in China and the USA from 2003-2020. Separate from his doctoral research project, Dougie has published work concerning socialist and democratic theories of governance and models for a democratic planned economy. At the intersection of these areas, he is interested in how different modes of economic and political organisation structure the development of the green transition.
Steven Klein
Steven Klein is the principal investigator of Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy. He is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. His research focuses on democratic theory, theories of political economy and the welfare state, and critical theories of finance. He is the author of The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge 2020). His articles have appeared in a number of leading journals in political science, sociology, philosophy and law, including the American Political Science Review, Sociological Theory, and Political Theory.
Dougie Booth
Dougie is a research assistant for Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy and a PhD student working in the fields of political economy, energy politics and political theory. His dissertation undertakes a comparative analysis of energy transition governance in China and the USA from 2003-2020. Separate from his doctoral research project, Dougie has published work concerning socialist and democratic theories of governance and models for a democratic planned economy. At the intersection of these areas, he is interested in how different modes of economic and political organisation structure the development of the green transition.
Virginia De Biasio
Virginia is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy. She received her PhD in Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of York with a dissertation on natural resource justice and the capabilities approach. Her main research interests include topics in global justice, climate change and migration, natural resource justice and territorial rights, questions of self-determination and environmental justice. She has published work on natural resource justice, territorial rights, climate change and adaptation in journals such as the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy and Political Studies (forthcoming).
Robert Reamer
Robert Reamer is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. He joined the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London in August of 2022. Before coming to KCL, he spent two years as a Social Sciences Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago and two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago in 2018.
