Steven Klein is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory (Associate Professor) in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College, London. His writing focuses on democratic theory, theories of political economy and the welfare state, and the history of European social and political thought (especially of 19th- and 20th-century Germany). His first book, The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge 2020), examines the democratic potential of struggles over welfare institutions. He is currently writing a global history and philosophy of trade unions for Allen Lane/Oxford University Press. In the fall of 2023, he began a new four-year project, Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy (DERISK), funded by a UKRI Frontier Research Grant. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and several other journals. To learn more about his research and publications, please visit his website.