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

 

Head of Department
Professor Paul Kelly

 

General Enquiries

Email: Ariane Sparks|
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7955 7553
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7955 6352

 

Departmental Manager:

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

 
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. Read more about the department ...|
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 Is Alternative Vote a better voting system? It depends…
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Rafael Hortala-Vallve |argues that voters and politicians both need to take a long-term view of their decisions to back or oppose reform.

 
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This month's HOTSEAT |sees Dr Jonathan Hopkin discussing the reduction of the British state. Recorded 1/7/2010. 

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William Plowden

Dr William Plowden 1935 - 2010|

It is with great sadness that we report the death of William Plowden who died on Saturday, 26th of June. He had a very long association with the Government Department and the LSE; serving as a lecturer here between 1965 and 1971, a visiting professor between 1982 and 1988 and again from 2002 onwards.

 
 
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Dr Jonathan Hopkin

Dr Jonathan Hopkin discussing the reduction of the British state. Recorded 1/7/2010.

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Paul Kelly Hotseat 20-5-2010

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Professor Paul Kelly discussing the prospects for the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition, and the future of the Labour party, post the UK Elections. Recorded 20/5/2010.

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Professor Patrick Dunleavy

Professor Patrick Dunleavy discussing the possibility of a hung parliament in the forthcoming UK elections. Recorded 17/3/2010.

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Dr Nilima Gulrajani

Dr Nilima Gulrajani discussing the state of development in Haiti after the earthquake. 12/2/2010.

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Legislatures
Author: Joachim Wehner|
Based on in-depth accounts of fundamental reforms to the budget process in Sweden and South Africa, Legislatures and the Budget Process explores how the tension between legislative authority and fiscal discipline might be reconciled.
 
Gender and Culture
Author: Anne Phillips |
In this volume, Anne Phillips firmly rejects the notion that 'culture' might justify the oppression of women, but also queries the stereotypical binaries that have represented people from ethnocultural minorities as peculiarly resistant to gender equality. 
 
British Political Theory
Author: Paul Kelly |(Editor)
This volume contains a selection of writings from the seminal figures in British political theory from Bernard Bosanquet to Anne Phillips and Bhikhu Parekh, which trace the transformation of political theory and its relation to trends in British politics and the state.