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Course information

You can find a full list of the undergraduate courses running in the Department of Government in 2022/23 in the LSE Calendar. Please note that as of 19 July 2022, the Calendar currently displays the 2021/22 information and will be updated by the School in August for the next academic session. 

Some of our undergraduate courses may be capped to a limited number of student places, or may not be running in a given academic year. You can find the full list of available, capped or suspended courses below.

Capped Courses

The following undergraduate courses offered within the Department of Government are capped to a limited number of student places as follows (last updated 19/07/22).

Please note that there may be changes until the start of the academic year.

A full list of the undergraduate courses running in the Department of Government is in the LSE Calendar.

Course Code

Title

Cap Number

GV225

Public Choice and Politics

85

GV248

Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives

102

GV251

Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union

85

GV262

Contemporary Political Theory

102

GV263

Public Policy Analysis

85

GV264

Politics & Institutions in Europe

85

GV267

Global Political Thought

45

GV302

Key Themes in the History of Political Thought

15

GV307

Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates

30

GV311

British Government

30

GV313

Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective

30

GV315

Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies

30

GV316

Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory

30

GV318

Building Democracies from Conflict: Violence, Power-sharing and Institutional Design

 30

GV321

Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory

30

GV325

Topics in Political Economy

15

GV326

Conflict, War and Revolution - Approaches to Political Theory

15

GV327

Governance and Corruption

15

GV328

Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective

15

GV329

Making Democracy Work

15

GV330

Data Science Applications to Politics Research

30

GV332

Data Science Application in Political Science

15

GV334

Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and Politics: Global North, Global South

15

GV3L1

Analytical Approaches to British Politics

15

GV336

Latin America: Democracy and Development

15

GV338

Politics and Political Economy of India

15

GV3L2

The Comparative Politics of Climate Change and Sustainability

15

GV337

Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective

15

Suspended Courses

Some of the courses offered by the Department of Government are not available in a year. The courses below are not running for the 2022/23 academic year (updated 13/07/2022). Please note that there may be changes until the start of the new academic year. 

If a course you had planned to take is not running in your prospective year of study, you are encouraged to consider taking a course which is similar in content in another LSE department or, where there is no similar course available you may be permitted to take an intercollegiate option at another University of London college.

The list of outside options for undergraduate students can be found in the LSE Calendar.

The list of colleges from which an intercollegiate course could be considered can be found on the University of London website. If you would like to apply to take an intercollegiate option, please follow the process set out in the Taking a Course Outside LSE webpage.

Please note that all requests for taking outside or intercollegiate options would need to be approved by both the course convenor/receiving institution, your academic mentor and the Assistant Department Tutor Dr Vesselin Dimitrov. 

Please note that undergraduate requests will also require the approval of the Undergraduate Studies Sub-Committee. This approval is obtained on your behalf after the form is submitted to Student Services.

GV245

Democracy and Democratisation

Suspended

GV249

Research Design in Political Science

Suspended

GV306

Global Public Policy

Suspended

GV309

Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective

Suspended

GV312

Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics

Suspended

GV314

Empirical Research in Government

Suspended 

GV319

Experimental Politics

Suspended

GV320

Populism

Suspended

GV323

Transparency and Accountability in Government

Suspended

GV331

Capstone Data Science and Civic Engagement

Suspended

GV335

African Political Economy

Suspended

GV366

Political Economy of the Developing World

Suspended

GV398

Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology

Suspended