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Department of Government
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

 

Head of Department
Professor Simon Hix| FBA

 

Departmental Manager:
Email: Nicole Boyce|
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7955 7204   

 

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Email: Declan Mullan|
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7955 7909

 

Postgraduate Enquiries
Email: Sue Sharkey|
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7955 7748

 

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Email: Josephine Burchell|
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Email: Martin Rogers|
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Welcome to the Department of Government, one of the largest political science departments in the UK. Our activities cover a comprehensive range of approaches to the study of politics.
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Tony Travers

Raising the Capital - London Finance Commission Report|

Professor Tony Travers launches the report of the London Finance Commission.

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Tony Travers

Tony Travers on UK Local Elections 2013|

Released on: 3 May 2013

Contributor(s): Professor Tony Travers

Tony Travers on the UK Local Elections 2013 including the performance of UKIP.

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LSE ranked second in QS world rankings|

Politics and International Studies at the LSE has been ranked 2nd in the world in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject.

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Dispatch Box 16

Dispatch Box Vol. 16|

Download the latest edition of the Department of Government Alumni Newsletter.

 
  Business Politics in the Middle East

Business Politics in the Middle East|

Edited by: Steffen Hertog, Giacomo Luciani and Marc Valeri

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Dr Joachim Wehner

Analysis of the UK’s recent economic data|

Released on: 26 April 2013

Contributor(s): Dr Joachim Wehner

Dr Joachim Wehner on the economic data released in the week 22nd- 26th April 2013

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Tony Travers Hot Seat

Tony Travers on Baroness Thatcher|

Released on: 8 April 2013

Contributor(s): Professor Tony Travers

Professor Tony Travers on Baroness Thatcher’s life and legacy following her death.

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Tony Travers

Analysis of the 2013 Budget|

Released on: 23 March 2013

Contributor(s): Professor Tony Travers

Professor Tony Travers discusses the UK Government’s 2013 Budget and its implications for future public spending.

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John Sidel

Analysis of the current situation in Algeria and Mali|

Released on: 31 January 2013 

Contributor(s): Professor John Sidel

Professor John Sidel discusses the current military intervention in North Africa.

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David Cameron’s EU Speech|

Released on: 30 January 2013

Contributor(s): Professor Simon Hix

Professor Simon Hix discusses David Cameron’s recent speech on Britain’s place in the EU which included the possibility...

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Maja Rasmussen

Britain and the EU|

Released on: 19 December 2012

Contributor(s): Dr Maja Kluger Rasmussen

Dr Maja Rasmussen of the LSE discusses the current feeling in Britain towards the EU and possibilities for the future...

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Tony Travers

The 2012 Autumn Statement|

Released on: 19 December 2012

Contributor(s): Professor Tony Travers

Professor Tony Travers discusses the UK Government’s 2012 Autumn Statement and the prospects for the future of public...

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 Hot Seat - Kate Jenkins

Analysis of the current situation of the EU budget and Britain’s relations with the EU|
Released on:
31 October 2012

Contributor(s): Professor Kate Jenkins

Professor Kate Jenkins discusses the EU budget debate and Britain’s relations with the EU.

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Hotseat - Greece

The political situation in Greece in light of the 17 June 2012 elections|

Released on: 27 June 2012

Contributor(s): Dr Daphne Halikiopoulou, Dr Nikitas Konstantinidis

Dr Daphne Halikiopoulou and Dr Nikitas Konstantinidis discuss the political situation in Greece.

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Tony Travers speaking in Analysis of the September 2012 UK Government reshuffle

Analysis of the September 2012 UK Government reshuffle|

Released on: 6 September 2012

Contributor(s): Professor Tony Travers

Professor Tony Travers discusses the September 2012 UK Government reshuffle.

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Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans

Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans |

Edited by: Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, James Ker-Lindsay and Denisa Kostovicova|

This book examines the ambiguous role played by civil society in state-building, democratisation and post-conflict reconstruction in the Western Balkans.

 
Growing The Productivity Of Government Services

Growing The Productivity Of Government Services
|Authors: Patrick Dunleavy| and Leandro Carrera

Growing the Productivity of Government Services offers essential analysis and guidance on how to improve organizational productivity consistently over time, providing the first in-depth empirical treatment of the organizational productivity of unique national government agencies.

 
Public Administration

Public Administration
|Edited By: Arjen Boin
Introduction to the Virtual Issue|: Martin Lodge
The contemporary setting of public administration, war, public debt, social fragmentation, economic and financial challenges threatening national welfare states, and doubts about international problem-solving capacity, offers a degree of uncertainty that, to some extent, might be seen as unprecedented. However, looking across the debates in Public Administration over the past nine decades points to recurring themes and concerns.

 
Global Justice and Avant Garde Political Agency

Global justice and avant-garde political agency
|Author: Ypi, Lea
|Ypi grounds egalitarian principles on claims arising from conflicts over the distribution of global positional goods, and illustrates the role of avant-garde agents in shaping these conflicts and promoting democratic political transformations in response to them.

 
Bottom-Up Politics
Bottom-Up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization|
Edited by:  Denisa Kostovicova| and Marlies Glasius 
The book explores complex, counterintuitive and unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics as the state loses its dominance as a political actor in the global era.
 

Tuesday 30 April 2013

Brian Barry public lecture: Rough Justice|

Speaker: Professor Robert Goodin, University of Essex and ANU
Chair: Dr Lea Ypi
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building

Thursday 23 May 2013

Book launch: Austerity - The History of a Dangerous Idea|

Speaker: Prof. Mark Blyth, Brown University
Chair: Jonathan Hopkin, Department of Government
Time: 6.30-8 pm
Location: New Theatre, East Building

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