Professor Pepper Culpepper

About

Professor Pepper Culpepper is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and the Blavatnik Chair in Government and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

His research focuses on the intersection between capitalism and democracy, both in politics and in public policy. Prior to coming to the Blavatnik School, he taught at the European University Institute and at the Harvard Kennedy School. His most recent book, co-authored with Taeku Lee, is Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2026). His book Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was awarded the 2012 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. He is also author of Creating Cooperation (Cornell University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Changing France (with Peter Hall and Bruno Palier, Palgrave, 2006) and of The German Skills Machine (with David Finegold, Berghahn Books, 1999).

His work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, Politics & Society, Socio-Economic Review, World Politics, Revue Française de Science Politique, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, West European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Public Policy, Business and Politics and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, among others. He has published commentary on public policy issues in the Washington Post, Le Monde, International Herald Tribune and the New Republic. A former Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, he has also held long-term visiting appointments in France, Germany and Japan.