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title: "About the author"
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**Colin Crouch** is a professor emeritus of the University of Warwick and external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies at Cologne. He has published within the fields of comparative European sociology and industrial relations, economic sociology and contemporary issues in British and European politics.

His most recent books include _The Globalization Backlash_ (Polity, 2018), _Will the Gig Economy Prevail?_ (Polity, 2019) and _Post-democracy after the Crises_ (Polity 2020).