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London WC2A 2AE

 

Head of Department
Professor Paul Kelly

 

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

 

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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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Travers Tony

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.

 
 
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'

 
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