Aidan Regan

Aidan Regan is a professor of political economy at the school of politics and international relations at University College Dublin (UCD). He is the principal investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant titled: Democracy Challenged - how corporate tax avoidance fuels the wealth inequalities that undermine democracy. The project is pursuing new foundational research on inequality and democracy.

Aidan has published ground-breaking international research on a variety of topics that include the impact of multinational corporate tax avoidance on inequality; the consequences of austerity; the diversity of modern capitalism(s) in Europe; the distribution of wealth and income in Ireland; the effect of unequal access to housing; the determinants of voting behaviour; the transformation of work and social class on social democracy; the politics of industrial relations and welfare reform; tax-avoiding wealth chains in the big tech sector; economic inequality, and the future of capitalist democracy.

Prior to UCD, Aidan was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Germany (MPIfG), and a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Italy. Aidan completed his PhD in Public Policy at the College of Social Science at UCD, whilst also working as a researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), at the University of Amsterdam.

Aidan's work has appeared in various international peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Journal European Public Policy, the Review of International Political Economy, Perspectives on Politics, Politics and Society, New Political Economy, the Journal for Common Market Studies, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Comparative European Politics, and Socio-Economic Review. In addition, he has published several book chapters in leading university presses. Aidan is a also an organiser for the Comparative Political Economy network at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).

He has taught and led various undergraduate and postgraduate modules at UCD, including capitalism and democracy, the politics of wealth and income inequality, introduction to political science, and the global political Economy of Europe.

Aidan is a public intellectual. He writes a monthly column with the Business Post, a weekly Sunday newspaper published in Ireland. He regularly appears in the international and Irish media to provide expert comment on a whole host of on topics related to political science and political economy.

You can follow him on Twitter at @aidan_regan