I'm a political sociologist interested in socialism, social democracy, social and green alternatives, and global politics.

My book Alternative Societies: For a Pluralist Socialism, 2023, covers: alternative economies; social alternatives; utopianism and change; socialism and its critics; the democratic economy; and alternative globalisation. 

The Sociology of Globalization, 2010 (second edition 2017) covered: concepts and perspectives on globalisation; the history of globalisation; globalised media and culture; global migration; the global economy and global inequality; the nation-state and social democracy under globalisation; global politics and cosmopolitan democracy; anti-globalisation and global justice movements; and American power and the rise of China.

I wrote New Labour, 1998, and Blair's Britain, 2002, with Stephen Driver. I co-edited Social Democracy: global and national perspectives, 2001, which looks at changes and national differences in social democracy, its relationship to Europe and globalisation, and criticisms and alternatives. The Third Way and Beyond: criticisms, futures, alternatives, co-edited, 2004, is about critical perspectives on the third way on issues like equality, the state, and community.

Ecology and Society, 1994, looked at political and sociological dimensions of environmentalism. Topics covered include: ecology and industrialism; the sustainable society; green philosophy; the green movement; ecology and political theory; theories of society and nature; and the future of environmentalism.

My PhD thesis in the late 1980s was on socialism and associational democracy.

Publications can be read or downloaded at my Sussex publications page or at academia.edu.