Dr Hridesh Gajurel

Hridesh Gajurel is an ARC Laureate Research Fellow at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at ANU. He was previously a Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland. He is a political economy and public policy scholar who specialises in comparative capitalism, financialisation, corporate short-termism, institutional memory, institutional theory, economic policy paradigms, and (pathways to) policy paradigm shifts.

His book, Governing Economic Short-Termism: Why Shareholder Power Varies Across Economies, is being published by Oxford University Press in October 2026. The book shows and explains divergence in corporate financialisation and short-termism across the US, the UK, Germany, and Japan using a new actor-centred 'bounded discretion' framework that combines structural, institutional, and ideational constraints on decision-makers. It examines the evolution of Anglo-American, German, and Japanese capitalism through the lens of the stock market and normative ideas about who deserves what from the publicly listed corporation.

His co-authored monograph, Memory and Institutional Amnesia in Government (Oxford University Press), delves into the problems of institutional amnesia in government through comparative mixed-method research in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. It presents new evidence of the causes and impacts of institutional amnesia on policymaking processes and outlines new socio-cultural and relational ways of understading institutional memory.

His current research interests include the role of ideas in shaping governance institutions and practices, cross-national diversity of corporate governance paradigms, pathways to policy paradigm shifts, the uneven erosion of the ideational pillars of neoliberalism, and (pathways to) post-growth economic paradigms.

• Corporate short-termism and financialisation
• Varieties of capitalism
• Policy paradigm shifts
• Economic policy paradigms
• The evolution of neoliberalism
• Pathways to post-growth economic policy
• Historical institutionalism
• Constructivist institutionalism

PhD in Political Economy, The University of Queensland, Australia

Master of Research, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Master of Commerce (Advanced), Griffith University, Australia

Bachelor of Arts (Liberal Arts), Knox College, USA