Abby Innes is an Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the LSE. Her recent publications include ‘The new crisis of ungovernability’, in Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe, Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger (eds) UCL Press, 2018; Draining the swamp: understanding the crisis in mainstream politics as a crisis of the state Slavic Review, 2017; and Corporate state capture in open societies: the emergence of corporate brokerage party systems East European Politics and Societies, 2015. She is finishing a book on the political economy of the neoliberal state and its philosophical and practical affinities with the political economy of Leninism.