Christopher Pierson has been Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham since 1996. He has held visiting positions at the Australian National University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), the University of Auckland, and at the Hansewissenschaftskolleg in Lower Saxony. He has published extensively on the themes of the welfare state, the problems of social democracy and, over the last decade, on the politics
of property.
