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Consolidation of Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP)

Research centre focus: NICEP

NICEP has enjoyed a second successful year, with a new working paper series, and second major conference, and a major research fellowship award.

Founded in 2015, the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP) currently has around 25 members drawn from the School of Economics and School of Politics and International Relations, including one joint appointment, co-director Professor Cecilia Testa. Eight PhD students are affiliated to the centre, covering topics from differences between "elite" and "public" opinion on the EU to the effects of policy making process on the stability and resilience of tax revenues.

NICEP supports interdisciplinary research at the intersection between politics and economics, addressing some of the fundamental challenges that inherently diverse societies face in undertaking collective decisions. The centre aims to promote interdisciplinary work to advance our understanding of the role played by different institutional arrangements in shaping the behavior of citizens, the design of public policies and their implementation. By bringing together very distinct approaches to the study of political institutions and public decision making, the centre aims at promoting interdisciplinary work in four main thematic areas:

  • Representation
  • Political behavior
  • Political economy and public policy
  • Quality of government

NICEP is one of the founding members of a new UK-wide network of political economy. NICEP co-director Cecilia Testa is a member of thePOLECONUK executive board.

Last year, NICEP established its own working paper series, and 13 papers have now been published. A seminar series hosted seven external speakers from the UK, the US, and the Netherlands and co-sponsored a conference on Reproducible Research.

NICEP's own (second) annual conference was held in June and attracted 70 delegates for a two day event, with speakers from the UK, Canada, America, Spain, Hong Kong, Israel, Norway, Netherlands, and Sweden. The next NICEP conference is planned for 18-19 June 2018.

NICEP also achieved a significant research grant success, with David Gill receiving a prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship entitled Unpaid Debts: Rethinking the Causes and Consequences of Sovereign Default.

Posted on Tuesday 10th October 2017

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