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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

 

 

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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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Boris v Ken: fight to be mayor on knife edge
 |A survey on behalf of London Tonight, LBC and The Evening Standard has put Ken Livingstone two-points ahead of Boris Johnson in the campaign to be elected the next Mayor of London. Tony Travers of the London School of Economics commented: "This looks like a knife edge contest. Boris Johnson now needs to fight back".
 
Hotseat Daphne Halikiopoulou
The Crisis in Greece|
Released on: 16 November 2011
Contributor(s): Dr Daphne Halikiopoulou
Dr Daphne Halikiopoulou discusses the ongoing crisis in Greece.
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Dispatch Box 13|
DispatchBox Edition 13|

The Problems with 'Localism'. In the latest Dispatch Box, Tony Travers takes a look at the Big Society and related policy drivers such as 'localism' and 'community'. Also read the head of departments report and an interview with Daphne Halikopoulou.

 
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Hotseat Daphne Halikiopoulou

The Crisis in Greece|
Released on: 16 November 2011
Contributor(s): Dr Daphne Halikiopoulou
Dr Daphne Halikiopoulou discusses the ongoing crisis in Greece.
Play| | Download: Audio|, Video|

 
John Chalcraft Hotseat
Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the Arab Spring|
Released on: 12 October 2011
Contributor(s): Dr John Chalcraft
Dr John Chalcraft discussing the impact of the Wave of Arab revolutions and civil uprisings on Egypt, Syria, and...
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Tont Travers Hotseat

The London riots and their impact on the upcoming Olympics|
Released on: 9 September 2011
Contributor(s): Tony Travers
Professor Tony Travers discusses the recent London riots and their impact on the upcoming Olympics.
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Hotseat

The Greek bailout and the future of the European Union|
Released on: 7 July 2011
Contributor(s): Professor Simon Hix
Professor Simon Hix discusses the recent bailout of Greece and the future of the European Union.
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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
By presenting a broad range of views by prominent scholars, this offers an in-depth analysis of one of the key challenges of our century: globalizing democracy and democratizing globalization.
 
Global Democracy
Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives
 |Editors: Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi|, and Raffaele Marchetti
By presenting a broad range of views by prominent scholars, it offers an in-depth analysis of one of the key challenges of our century: globalizing democracy and democratizing globalization.
 
The Triumph of Politics
The Triumph of Politics : The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador|

Author George Philip and Francisco Panizza
The Triumph of Politics offers a comparative and historical interpretation of Venezuela's Chavez, Bolivia's Morales and Ecuador's Correa - South America's most prominent '21st century socialists'

 

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Event

The Future of Egalitarian Capitalism, in Light of its Past|

LSE Comparative Politics lecture series

Date: Wednesday 7 March 2012
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Kathleen Thelen
Chair:  Dr Steffen Hertog

 
CRG
Can there be a Political Science of the Holocaust?
|CRG Public lecture
Date: Wednesday 7 March 2012
Time:  6.15-8pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Speaker: Charles King, Professor of international affairs and government Georgetown University
 

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