Colin Leys

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Colin Leys is affiliated with the following schools: University of Leicester, Goldsmiths, University of London, Queen's University Belfast, University of Sussex, Queen's University at Kingston

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According to Wikipedia, Colin Temple Leys is a British political economist who is emeritus professor of political studies at Queen's University, Canada, and an honorary research professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. From 1956 to 1960 he taught at Balliol College, Oxford and then became the first Principal of Kivukoni College in Dar es Salaam, before holding chairs at Makerere University, Uganda, and the universities of Sussex, Nairobi, Sheffield, and Queen's. Until his retirement from Queen's in 1996 his research focussed mainly on African development. He has since worked mainly on the political economy of Britain, but from 1997 to 2010 he was co-editor with Leo Panitch of the Socialist Register. From 2000 onwards he became involved in the defence of the British National Health Service against successive government attempts to marketise and privatise it. With Stewart Player he co-authored two books on the NHS and was one of the founders of a respected think tank, the Centre for Health and the Public Interest.

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What is The Problem About Corruption? (1965) (565)
The Rise and Fall of Development Theory (1996) (534)
Underdevelopment in Kenya: The Political Economy of Neo-Colonialism, 1964-1971 (1975) (441)
Market-Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest (2001) (348)
Underdevelopment in Kenya (1975) (170)
The rise & fall of development theory (1996) (139)
Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa (1995) (119)
Elections and Politics in Single-party Systems: the Case of Kenya and Tanzania (1972) (117)
Models, Theories, and the Theory of Political Parties (1959) (112)
The ‘overdeveloped’ post colonial state: a re‐evaluation (1976) (109)
The Plot Against the NHS (2011) (92)
Underdevelopment and dependency: Critical notes (1977) (89)
Capital Accumulation, Class Formation and Dependency-The Significance of the Kenyan Case (1978) (87)
European politics in Southern Rhodesia (1959) (83)
Namibia's Liberation Struggle: The Two-Edged Sword Colin Leys and John S. Saul Et al (1995) (72)
Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana (2023) (66)
Politics in Kenya: The Development of Peasant Society (1971) (62)
The End of Parliamentary Socialism: From New Left to New Labour (2001) (62)
Interpreting African Underdevelopment: Reflections on the ILO Report on Employment, Incomes and Equality in Kenya (1973) (61)
Sub-Saharan Africa in Global Capitalism (1999) (58)
Debating development discourse : institutional and popular perspectives (1995) (54)
Politicians and policies : an essay on politics in Acholi, Uganda, 1962-65 (1967) (51)
African Capitalists in African Development (1993) (44)
Socialist Register 2007: coming to terms with nature. (2006) (42)
Liberation Without Democracy? The SWAPO Crisis of 1976 (1994) (41)
The new imperial challenge (2004) (37)
The crisis in ‘development theory’ (1996) (34)
Intellectual Mercenaries and the Public Interest: Management consultancies and the NHS (1999) (32)
Preface to the Revised Edition (1989) (31)
Federation in East Africa : opportunities and problems (1965) (29)
Lubango and After: 'Forgotten History' as Politics in Contemporary Namibia* (2003) (29)
Petitioning in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1955) (29)
The Constitutional History and Law of Southern Rhodesia, 1888–1965 (1967) (28)
Fighting identities : race, religion and ethno-nationalism (2003) (28)
A New Deal in Central Africa (1960) (28)
Kenya: what does ‘dependency’ explain? (1980) (26)
The Globalization Decade; A Critical Reader (2006) (25)
The cynical state (2006) (23)
Crises and reconstruction - African perspectives. Development theory and Africa's future. From justice to reconciliation : making sense of the African experience (1997) (23)
The End of Parliamentary Socialism (1997) (23)
Samuel Huntington and the End of Classical Modernization Theory (1982) (20)
Politics in Britain: From Labourism to Thatcherism (1989) (20)
Tanganyika. The Development of its Laws and Constitution (1965) (19)
Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism (2009) (19)
The Empire Reloaded (2004) (16)
Rational choice or Hobson's Choice? The "new political economy" as development theory (1996) (14)
Health, health care and capitalism. (2009) (14)
The Public Sphere and the Media: Market Supremacy versus Democracy (1999) (12)
Total Capitalism: Market Politics, Market State (2007) (12)
Politics and Change in Developing Countries: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Development (1971) (11)
Working classes global realities (2001) (11)
Socialist Register 2010. Morbid symptoms: health under capitalism. (2009) (11)
Politics in Britain: An introduction (1983) (11)
Necessary and unnecessary utopias (2000) (11)
The Political Legacy of the Manifesto (1998) (10)
development strategy in kenya since 1971 (1979) (9)
Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias: Socialist Register 2000 (2000) (9)
Healthcare Fraud in the new NHS market – a threat to patient care (2013) (9)
State Capital in Kenya: A Research Note (1980) (9)
African Economic Development in Theory and Practice (2016) (8)
Water, Money, and Power (2006) (8)
The British Labour Party's Transition from Socialism to Capitalism (1996) (8)
Tanganyika: The Realities of Independence (1962) (8)
Underdevelopment in Kenya: the political economy of neocolonialism, (2008) (7)
Underdevelopment in Kenya: the political economy of neocolonialism, (2008) (7)
Culture and Social Change: Social Movements in Quebec and Ontario (1992) (6)
The NHS after devolution (1999) (6)
The communist manifesto now (1998) (6)
The English NHS: from market failure to trust, professionalism and democracy (2017) (6)
Histories of Namibia : living through the liberation struggle (2001) (6)
The Politics of Redistribution with Growth (2009) (5)
Reflections on violence today (2008) (5)
Global Flashpoints - Reactions to imperialism and neoliberalism (2007) (5)
Global capitalism versus democracy (1999) (5)
Underdevelopment in Kenya: The Political Economy of Neo-Colonialism 1964- 71.@@@Administrative Training and Development: A Comparative Study of East Africa Zambia, Pakistan and India. (1976) (5)
The British ruling class (2014) (4)
ROAPE & the radical Africanist: what next? (1998) (4)
Socialist Register, 2001: Working Classes and Global Realities (2002) (4)
NGO DILEMMAS : TROJAN HORSES FOR GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM ? (2008) (3)
Relations of Production and Technology (1984) (3)
Recent Relations between the States of East Africa (1965) (3)
An Election in Nyasaland (1957) (3)
Social science, natural science, and history (1971) (3)
The Politics of Redistribution with Growth; The ‘target group’ approach (2009) (3)
The Political Climate for Economic Development (1966) (3)
Socialist Register 2000 Preface (2000) (3)
A world of contradictions (2002) (3)
Violence today : actually-existing barbarism (2008) (3)
The State and the Crisis of Simple Commodity Production in Africa (1987) (3)
Beyond the soundbites-The general election in Britain (1997) (2)
Crises and reconstruction- African perspectives : two lectures (1997) (2)
Neo-Conservatism and the Organic Crisis in Britain (1980) (2)
Elections and Politics in Single-Party Systems: Kenya and Tanzania (1972) (2)
Commodifying health care: the UK's National Health Service and the Independent Sector Treatment Centre Programme (2008) (2)
Inter Alia-or Tanzaphilia and All that (1967) (2)
Kenya's Second Development Plan: Political and Administrative Aspects (1970) (2)
Violence in Africa (1965) (2)
Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System (2005) (1)
The State of the Nations: constraints on development in independent Arica edited by Michael F. Lofchie Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971. Pp. x + 305. $10.00. (1973) (1)
Telling the truth (2005) (1)
Socialist Register 2010 Preface (2010) (1)
The Bureaucracy and Accumulation (1982) (1)
Nuclear medicine in the transition to private clinical care. (2007) (1)
The constitution of Tanganyika (1963) (1)
Electoral Systems and Party Systems: The Duverger Doctrine (1969) (1)
Evolution in British Africa (1961) (1)
Report to IDRC on the state of social science research at Makerere University (1989) (0)
We do think the NHS needs to be reformed, but in the right way. (2011) (0)
Tanganyika and the Mandate (1963) (0)
13. The British State (1989) (0)
4. Labour and the New Political Order (1989) (0)
The security situation and the transfer of power in Namibia (1989) (0)
Power and principle in Central Africa (1957) (0)
Christianity and Independence@@@African Independence and Christian Freedom (1965) (0)
Book Reviews : The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa: The Making of Malawi and Zambia, 1873-1964. By ROBERT I. ROTBERG (London, Oxford University Press, 1966). 327 pp. 48s (1967) (0)
Book Review: Africa, Tanganyika (1965) (0)
Back Matter (1995) (0)
3. The First Crisis (1989) (0)
Review: International: The Ruler's Imperative (1972) (0)
Kenya and African Development Patterns (1975) (0)
Capitalist Democracy in Britain (1986) (0)
Response to Professor Chris Ham's review of NHS plc (2005) (0)
Chapter 17: ‘Public Knowledge’ and Health Policy (2019) (0)
Socialist Register 1998 Preface (1998) (0)
9. Social Classes and British Politics (1989) (0)
Challenging Development Concepts (2009) (0)
11. The Labour Party and the Left (1989) (0)
14. The State and the Economy (1989) (0)
Britain Against Itself: The Political Contradictions of Collectivism Samuel Beer New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982, pp. xvi, 231. (1984) (0)
Kenya Politics (1963) (0)
Socialist Register 2005 Preface (2005) (0)
African Elite: The Big Men of a Small Town. By Vincent Joan. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. Pp. 309. $11.00.) (1973) (0)
Bush and Blair: Iraq and the UK's American Viceroy (2005) (0)
Political economy and crime policy (2007) (0)
Socialist Register 1999 Preface (1999) (0)
Tribal Cohesion in a Money Economy . By William Watson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1959. 30s. (1960) (0)
Social Democracy and Industrial Militancy: The Labour Party, the Trade Unions and Incomes Policy 1945–1974 , Leo Panitch, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [Toronto: MacMillan of Canada], 1976, pp. x, 318 (1977) (0)
15. Consent and Social Control (1989) (0)
Socialist Register 2001 Preface (2001) (0)
Incentive and Development (1966) (0)
Socialist Register 2009 Preface (2009) (0)
The British Election: A Commentary (1997) (0)
5. The Paralysis of Social Democracy (1989) (0)
Local Government and Politics in Uganda . By Fred G. Burke (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1964. Pp. xii, 274. $7.50.) (1964) (0)
2. Britain in Crisis (1989) (0)
6. Into the New Crisis (1989) (0)
Sakkunnigutlåtanden rörande SAREC-professurerna i statskunskap (1990) (0)
1. British Politics and Political Science (1989) (0)
Socialist Register 2007 Preface (2007) (0)
The Professional Study of New Nations (1965) (0)
10. The Conservative Party (1989) (0)
Book Reviews : Christian Missionaries and the Creation of Northern Rhodesia, 1880-1924. By ROBERT I. ROTBERG (Princeton University Press: London, Oxford University Press, 1965). 240 pp. 52s (1966) (0)
University of East Africa Conferences on Public Policy: I. The Machinery of Planning (1963) (0)
Political Roles in a New State: Tanzania's first decade by Raymond F. Hopkins New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971. Pp. xi + 293. $12.50. £6.00. (1973) (0)
Socialist Register Preface 2002 (2002) (0)
Socialist Register 2006 Preface (2006) (0)
A Tribute to Andre Gunder Frank (2006) (0)
Joel S. Migdal, Peasants, Politics, and Revolution: Pressures Toward Political and Social Change in the Third World . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974, pp. 300 (1976) (0)
The private provision of NHS clinical services: how is the NHS handling the contracts? (2015) (0)
8. Capital and Labour (1989) (0)
Britain in Crisis: Deindustrialization and How to Fight It (1984) (0)
7. The New Conservative Project of Margaret Thatcher (1989) (0)
Socialist Register 2008 Preface (2008) (0)
Recommended Books (2005) (0)
Coming to Terms with Nature: The Politics of the Ecological Challenge (2006) (0)
Socialist Register 2003 Preface (2003) (0)
Review: Segmented Worlds and Self: A Study of Group Life and Individual Consciousness, Theories of Development, Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography 3. Historical Understanding in Geography: An Idealist Approach (1984) (0)
12. Beyond the Two-party System (1989) (0)
Responses to Africa (1964) (0)
Socialist Register 2004 Preface (2004) (0)
The twilight of liberal democracy in Britain (2014) (0)
Book Reviews : Oginga Odinga, Not Yet Uhuru : An Autobiography. New York, Hill and Wang, 1967, 323 pp. $ 7.50 (1971) (0)

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