The LSE lecture series in comparative politics
Organized by the Government Department
Sven Steinmo, European University Institute
Thursday 15 March 2012, 6-8pm
Clement House, Room 202 (sixth floor), LSE
Chair: Steffen Hertog, Government Department
Sven Steinmo will argue that one of the fundamental sources of the current fiscal crises today is a latent conflict between the interests of younger and older generations. He explores how this came about and why it is so difficult for politicians to address…if they want to be re-elected.
Speaker biography: Sven Steinmo is widely known for his contributions in the fields of comparative politics, public policy and institutional theory. He has been awarded multiple international honors over his career including the Riker Prize for the best book in Political Economy (APSA), the Gabriel Almond Prize for the best dissertation in Comparative Politics (APSA) as well as the German Marshall Fellowship, the Abe Fellowship and the STINT Advanced Researcher Grant. Steinmo's most recent book, The Evolution of the Modern State: Sweden, Japan and the United States was recently awarded the Gunnar Myrdal Prize (2011),by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. In 2012 he was also awarded a European Research Council "Advanced Researcher" Grant in support of his project "Willing to Pay? Testing Historical Arguments with Experiments."
Professor Steinmo currently holds the Chair in Political Economy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.
- Further speakers planned this term include John Sidel (LSE), Steven Wilkinson (Yale) and Kathleen Thelen (MIT) -