School of Politics and International Relations

Viva Success for Benjamin Thomas

We are delighted to announce that School of Politics and International Relations doctoral researcher Benjamin Thomas has recently passed his PhD viva with minor corrections. 

Benjamin’s thesis, ‘Conceptualising Ideological Transition: Centre-Right Neoliberalisation in the UK and post-war West Germany’ contributes an account for how ideologies change a through conceptual analysis of two cases of historical ideological change, the rise of ordoliberalism in the West German CDU 1945-1949 and the rise of ‘Thatcherism’ in the Conservative Party in the 1970s.

His thesis was examined by Dr Dean Blackburn and Professor Ben Jackson (University of Oxford).

Congratulations Benjamin!

Posted on Thursday 9th February 2023

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