Question: On 23 July 2004, the Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, in England, which British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel, was nominated as the United Kingdom's new European Commissioner?
Context: The term post-democracy was coined by Warwick University political scientist Colin Crouch in 2000 in his book "Coping with Post-Democracy".  It designates states that are conducted by fully operating democratic systems (elections are being held, governments fall and there is freedom of speech), but whose application is progressively limited.  A small elite is taking the tough decisions and co-opts the democratic institutions.  Crouch further developed the idea in an article called "Is there a liberalism beyond social democracy?"  for the think tank Policy Network and in his subsequent book "The Strange Non-Death of Neo-Liberalism". Stanley Clinton Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis, PC (born 6 December 1928), born Stanley Clinton Davis, is a British Labour politician, former European Commissioner, former minister and solicitor.  He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney Central (1970–1983), and was a minister in the Labour governments of Prime Ministers Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair.  He was European Commissioner in the Delors Commission (1985–1989).  In 1990, he became a Life Peer as Baron Clinton-Davis of Hackney, in the London Borough of Hackney, sitting on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, and changed his name to Stanley Clinton-Davis by deed poll. Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 21 October 1953) is a British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel. Dr.Wang, Huiyao (Henry) (; born July 2, 1958) is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG),the largest independent global think tank in China which has over 100 full-time researchers and working staff.  According to the "2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index" by the University of Pennsylvania Think Tank and Civil Society Program (TTCSP), the most prestigious think tank ranking in the world, CCG ranked 111th of the top world think tanks and was one of the world's top 40 independent think tanks.  TTCSP ranked CCG as the 7th top think tank in China and No. 1 independent think tank among the top Chinese think tanks.  Dr. Wang is also a top adviser to the Chinese government.  He was appointed as Counselor for China State Council by the Chinese Premier in 2015.  Dr. Wang is a well-known thought leader on China and globalization, China going global, Chinese global migration and talent flows, Chinese students studying abroad and returnees, and on global think tanks.  He is also a top adviser to international organizations such as World Bank, IOM and ILO as well as to global MNCs.  Dr. Wang has an impressive work career span over both Chinese and foreign governments, multinational executive, social entrepreneurial and academic fields. The '"IMANI Center for Policy and Education"' is an African think tank based in Accra, Ghana.  As a member of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the think tank applies free market solutions to intricate domestic social problems.  It was founded in 2004 by Franklin Cudjoe, who currently serves as the president and chief executive officer.  The think tank's operations center on these four thematic areas: rule of law, market growth and development, individual rights, and human security and institutional development.  IMANI uses the Africanliberty.org platform as a springboard to reach out to the larger African audience in five international languages, including Swahili.IMANI exerts influence in the Ghanaian public education and policy sphere through media appearances, publications, research, and seminars.  The think tank is ranked by the Global Go To Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, organized annually by the University of Pennsylvania.  According to the 2009 Index Report, IMANI was ranked fifth most influential in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the only African think tank to make the list of top 25 "Most Innovative" across the world. Policy Network is an international self-styled "progressive" think tank based in London with strong associations to the former "New Labour" UK administration led by Tony Blair.  The President of Policy Network is former UK First Secretary of State and EU Trade Commissioner Lord Mandelson; Lord Liddle, former Special Adviser to President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, is Chairperson. Roger John Liddle, Baron Liddle (born 14 June 1947) is a British political adviser and consultant who is principally known for being Special Adviser on European matters to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso.  He also worked together with Peter Mandelson on books outlining the political philosophy of the Labour Party under Blair's leadership.  He is chairperson of the international think tank Policy Network and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster. Pre-distribution (also written as Predistribution) is a neologism coined by Yale University Professor Jacob Hacker in a paper called "The Institutional Foundations of Middle Class Democracy" published by the think tank Policy Network.  Pre-distribution is the idea that the state should try to prevent inequalities occurring in the first place rather than ameliorating inequalities through the tax and benefits system once they have occurred as occurs under redistribution. On 23 July 2004, the Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, in England, Peter Mandelson (Labour), was nominated as the United Kingdom's new European Commissioner.  On 8 September, he accepted the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, thereby disqualifying himself from Parliament, and causing a by election.  Polling took place on 30 September. Stephen Nathan Kinnock (born 1 January 1970) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberavon at the United Kingdom general election, 2015.  His wife is the former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and his father, Neil Kinnock, served as the (Labour) Leader of the Opposition of the United Kingdom (1983–1992) and is a former European Commissioner and Vice President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004.
Answer: Peter Benjamin Mandelson