Abby Innes is an Assistant Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute, at the London School of Economics.

Before joining the European Institute in 1997 she was a Visiting Scholar at MIT and was a Jean Monet Fellow at the European University Institute, (2001-2). Before her PhD Abby worked as a political analyst in the Office of the Government, Czechoslovakia; as Assistant to the General Secretary of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry and as a researcher for the Policy Studies Institute.

A serious illness meant taking a break from LSE from 2005-2009. Since returning to research her interests turned towards exploring the ongoing patterns of party-state ties in Central Europe but also the affinities between Neoliberalism and Marxism-Leninism as materialist utopias. She joined the Editorial Board of East European Politics in 2011.

She was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2017-2018 to study neoliberal reforms to the state with particular reference to the UK.

She has taught Varieties of Capitalism; the political economy of Europe, the comparative political economy of Central Europe, and a course on the political economy of post-communist transition and emerging markets. She was awarded an LSE Teaching Prize in 2002; the European Institute Departmental Teaching Prize 2011, 2013 and 2015. In the LSE Student Union Student-Led Teaching Excellence Awards she was a Nominee in 2014, a Commended Nominee in 2015 and a Highly Commended Nominee, 2016. She is currently the Teaching Chair of the European Institute

Research Interests

The political economy of Central Europe; models of development in emerging markets; the development of party state ties in Central Europe; comparative materialist utopias; the political economy of Marxism Leninism and Neoliberalism; varieties of capitalism; the political economy of supply-side reforms of the state in advanced capitalist systems.

Expertise Details
Czechoslovak Politics; Political Economy of Central Europe; Varieties of Capitalism; Supply-side reforms in advanced capitalist states; Political economy of Marxism Leninism and of Neoliberalism; Neoclassical Economics