Pepper Culpepper is Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. His research explores the intersection between capitalism and democracy.
His book Quiet Politics and Business Power was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. He is the author or editor of three other books on European politics and political economy and has published more than twenty peer-reviewed articles. His public commentary has appeared in the Conversation, the International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, the New Republic, Times Higher Education, and the Washington Post.
Pepper was born in the southern United States. He obtained a PhD in political science from Harvard University, a BA from Duke University, where he graduated summa cum laude, and an MLitt from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has previously taught at the Harvard Kennedy School and the European University Institute in Italy. He was an Abe Fellow at the University of Tokyo and has held long-term visiting appointments in France and Germany.
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