Current research

Research from LSE

LSE Research Online| is a collection of research produced by LSE staff. It often contains content which is full text and freely available. It is constantly updated and displayed below are examples of some of the most recently added items.

• Burden-sharing
  Thielemann, Eiko R. (2012) Burden-sharing. In: Jones, E. and Menon, A. and Weatherill, S., (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the European Union. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199546282 (In Press)
• Book review: managing modernity: beyond bureaucracy? edited by Stewart Clegg et al
  Dunleavy, Patrick (2012) Book review: managing modernity: beyond bureaucracy? edited by Stewart Clegg et al. British Politics and Policy at LSE (29 Apr 2012) Blog Entry.
• The Joint Committee report on reform of the House of Lords is mostly headed for the dustbin of history – because this mess of arcane proposals cannot be sold to voters
  Dunleavy, Patrick (2012) The Joint Committee report on reform of the House of Lords is mostly headed for the dustbin of history – because this mess of arcane proposals cannot be sold to voters. British Politics and Policy at LSE (24 Apr 2012) Blog Entry.
• Elected mayors cannot deliver a localist revival
  Jones, George W. (2012) Elected mayors cannot deliver a localist revival. British Politics and Policy at LSE (20 Apr 2012) Blog Entry.
• The UK should embrace the public financing of political parties
  Larcinese, Valentino (2012) The UK should embrace the public financing of political parties. British Politics and Policy at LSE (18 Apr 2012) Blog Entry.

A full list of Government| items is also available. If you are interested in including your own research please contact staff at: Lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk|.

Conference papers

Conference papers can be a useful source of information on current research. A few resources can help you with this:

• ZETOC - Index to conference papers 1992- . No full-text, simply tells you where to find the paper concerned eg: in a book or journal.
• ISI Proceedings on Web of Knowledge - science and technology, 1990 onwards.
• Index to social sciences and humanities proceedings shelved at Z5051 in the Reference Collection.
• Proceedings in print (1967-87) at the same classmark in Reserve Periodicals.

Recent items in the Library

Items added to the Library in the last month on government and politics:

• Partiti e Stato in Italia : le nomine pubbliche tra clientelismo e spoils system /
  
• The Nakba : why Israel's birth was Palestine's catastrophe and what's the solution? / by Anne Alexander and John Rose.
  
• Cameron and the Conservatives : the transition to coalition government /
  
• The founding fathers v. the people : paradoxes of American democracy /
  
• Traditions of international ethics [electronic resource]. /
  

Blogs

The British politics and policy at LSE blog |provides regular commentary and discussion relating to events within British politics.  Contributors to the blog are drawn from across the school.