Next LSE Political Theory research seminar is with Agnes Tam (Calgary & Frankfurt). The paper is called “The Social Normativity of Social Norms: A Pluralist Account”. All welcome. Thursday 4pm in OLD.4.10. @lsegovernment.bsky.social Please register if LSE-external: forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj

We're holding a Graduate Open Day for all MSc degrees in the @lsegovernment.bsky.social , including political theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social . Please join us to hear about the programme and ask any questions you might have. www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Tony Travers...said one lesson Mamdani might take from Khan is to pick "a limited number of fights that you can win." Read Professor Tony Travers' commentary about the similarities and differences between Zohran Mamdani and Sadiq Khan. www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/art...

Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com for securing a Synergy Grant from @erc.europa.eu! 👏🏽 Bruno will collaborate on a 6-year project titled the Popular Government in Global Perspective project, which seeks to challenge the way we think about #democracy. www.lse.ac.uk/news/lse-aca...

"The intellectual environment at #LSE encouraged me not only to question assumptions but also to develop pragmatic #solutions grounded in #justice." This month's #alumni in the spotlight is James Caspell (BSc Government/MSc Political Sociology). www.lse.ac.uk/government/a...

Have you ever wondered how the Earth’s #geopolitics are reflected in space, and whether those star-buying kits are value for money? Listen to @drjillstuart.bsky.social in conversation with Professor Brian Cox providing answers to the question, 'Who #Owns #Space?'. www.lnk.to/AQOSSpacePA

The Political Behaviour Stream of the MSc in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social is welcoming applications for entry in 2026/27: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse... Benefit from teaching and supervision from world-leading scholars, weekly research seminars & an active alumni network:

Join us for the launch of the highly anticipated new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social 📖 He reveals the seismic shifts that are shaping our world, with global neoliberalism on its last legs. As the status quo of the past fifty years crumbles, he asks what remains in its wake? 🎟️ buff.ly/ggNJ4pW

Congratulations to Amara Otero-Salgado (alumna, BSc Politics and Data Science) and her team who won the #JP #Morgan Chase Data for Good #Hackathon competition on Friday 17 October. www.jpmorganchase.com/careers/expl...

We are excited to begin @lsegovernment.bsky.social 2025/6 APEG seminar series with Jamie Hintson (Harvard University) on Thursday, 30th October (12:00-1:30 PM GMT). Please join us. @carlmc.bsky.social

Post-liberalism has distinctive British and US sources but increasingly the US elements are driving changes in British politics - see my new book Against Post Liberalism to find out why and to see why that might be a problem… @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social #Postliberalism

Very cool experiment on how different fact-checking labels on social media affect on-platform behaviours amongst a sample prone to encounter political misinformation, with important results by @lsegovernment.bsky.social PhD candidate @isoldehegemann.bsky.social 👇

🌳 Join us on 12 November for a conversation with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social! ➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice. ➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

We were delighted to host the launch of Professor John Chalcraft's book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization (University of California Press, 2025). 👂🏿 If you missed the event, you can now listen to the recording on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q816...

We were delighted to be joined by Professor @casssunstein.bsky.social on Friday 17 October to discuss his latest book: On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom. This event was chaired by Professor @pjthinker.bsky.social. 👂Missed the event? Listen to the podcast. 👇🏿 www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...

As today was a Liberalism day @lsegovernment.bsky.social it worth posting this as a reminder that the argument is never finished…

💡 Sign up for our next Seminar Series, with @lanabi.bsky.social 📚 "Authoritarian Communication at Scale: What Text-as-Data Reveals about Russia" 📆 Friday 24 Oct 🕐 2 - 3pm Sign up today➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/department...

Twenty years separates these books (12 years as HoD and PVC) both are very different but the need to defend a humane liberal egalitarianism and challenge it’s critics is a urgent as ever @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social - thanks Jon Cruddas and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social

📢Event announcement! 👻Spirit [Geist] Has Broken with the World... 🗓️ Friday 31 October ⏰4pm to 5.30pm 📍 LSE Join us for a fascinating conversation with Professor Buck-Morss, co-hosted with the London Political Theory Network. Sign-up required. 👇🏼 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spirit-gei...

Watch Professor John Chalcraft discuss his new book 'From #Subordination To #Revolution' which offers a new theory of #popular #mobilization based on the intellectual tradition begun by Antonio Gramsci and drawing on case studies from across the globe. 👇🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMG...

📣 Five days to go until our next event: “US-Iran Relations under #Trump 2.0: Prospects and Challenges” 🗓️ Wednesday, 15 October 2025 ⏰ 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 In-person and online 🔗 Register today: www.lse.ac.uk/events/us-ir... #AcademicSky #PoliSky

NEW✨ October is UK #BlackHistoryMonth @blackhistorymonth.org.uk To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of 19 exceptional books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by members of staff across LSE. Read it below! #BHM #BookRecommendations

Great opportunity if you’re interested in pursuing a PhD in political science at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - with a particular interest in elections and campaigning ⬇️

Very cool field experiment on political conformity by one of last year's @lsegovernment.bsky.social MSc Political Science Political Behaviour Stream students, Moses Siregar: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/10...

With the budget fast approaching, join us for a public #event with Office for Budget Responsibility speakers to talk about UK fiscal pressures. 👛 A Sustainable Leviathan? UK Finances in a Changing World 📅 Friday 17 October, 5.30pm to 7pm 📍 LSE 📩 Register now 👇🏾 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-sustaina...

📢 #Public #event annoucement! 📕 On liberalism: in defence of freedom 🗣️ #Book launch and discussion with Professor @casssunstein.bsky.social (Harvard) and Professor @pjthinker.bsky.social (LSE) 🗓️ Friday 17 October ⏰ 11.30am to 12.30pm 📍 In person only, sign up required www.lse.ac.uk/events/on-li...

Today we kick off this year’s Political Behaviour Seminar series at @lsegovernment.bsky.social with @alicirone.bsky.social on gender dynamics in online deliberation. Glad to co-host the seminars with @florianfoos.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social! Details below 👇

Read Professor Tony Traver's commentary in 'Why is the UK introducing digital IDs – and why are they so controversial?' (29 September, 2025). @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

📣 Dr Douglas de Toledo Piza, Lafayette College, is joining us for this year's first Seminar Series 📚 "Overseas Chinese Engagement in Brazil and Paraguay: Migrants’ Associations, Diaspora Agencies, and Extraterritorial Policies" 📆 Friday 10 Oct, 2 - 3pm Sign up➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

The lineup for this term's @lsegovernment.bsky.social Contentious Politics Workshop has been finalised! Join us in-person or via Zoom on Wednesdays to discuss mobilisation, repression, protest framing, memory and more. DM for Zoom links and our mailing list!

"Joining the project delivery track of the (civil service) Fast Stream has provided me with the opportunity to integrate #policy #insight with hands-on delivery experience." 💡 This month's #alumni #spotlight is Zeinab Drabu (MSc Global Politics, 2019): www.lse.ac.uk/government/a...

Read Professor Tony Travers' commentary in The future of Oxford Street: Power, politics and pedestrians @bbcnews.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Read @gofosu.bsky.social's commentary in Why is democracy succeeding in Ghana? @brookings.edu 👉🏽 www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

Congratulations to Dr Elisa Wirsching for the receipt of this award!

📣 #Public #event announcement! 💡 Thinking Popular Mobilization with Gramsci 📅 Wednesday 15 October, 5.30pm to 7pm, #LSE 📖 Book launch and discussion of Professor John Chalcraft's book 📧 Sign up required 👉🏽https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/events/2025/Thinking-Popular-Mobilization-with-Gramsci

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Brierley who was awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship for her project, #Political #Finance in #Africa. The fellowship provides long-term support which enables fellows to tackle ambitious multidisciplinary questions. www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

We are honoured to be hosting LSE's annual Black History Month event! 40 years on from the Broadwater Farm riots, our speakers will examine methods of resistance that continue to address present-day questions of race, racism and social inequality. Registration required ⬇️ bit.ly/4glHaze

📢 #Event announcement! 💻 Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation 🗓️ Thursday 2 October, 4pm to 6pm 📍📍 LSE 📩 Sign up required Join the @lsepoltheory.bsky.social seminar for the launch and discussion of #Tom #Parr's latest book. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1558920666...

📣Upcoming event! 🎬A special screening of From Where We Stand — a film on race, belonging & post-Brexit Northern England. Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Lucy Kaye, Professor Adrian Favell, and Professor Mike Savage. 📅 Thurs 2 Oct, 5pm 📍LSE More info➡️ buff.ly/f7Ycglm

#APSA25 - classic gin martini and Cass Sunstein’s new book @lsegovernment.bsky.social - will be chairing his lecture at LSE later in October

I am so excited that this excellent line-up of speakers are presenting in the LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour seminar series this term! 👇

🎉 Huge congratulations to our brilliant LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social colleague, Mathias Poertner @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social for winning APSA’s Leon Epstein book award for his excellent book Creating Partisans! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... 👇

#Student #research highlight! ⚡️ "The Summit reinforced the importance of adaptive, ethical leadership in today’s interconnected world." Read Alexandre Garrido Perrier's (MSc Public Policy and Administration) blog about the Leaders’ Summit in New York City. 🗽 blogs.lse.ac.uk/government/2...

Congratulations, Carl! We look forward to seeing how this project progresses over the coming years in the department.

We're so proud of our Assistant Professor, Dr Carl Müller-Crepon, who was one of three #LSE academics to be awarded a coveted #European #Research Council Starting #Grant for his project, Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond. 🥳 @erc.europa.eu www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

Congratulations to our brilliant colleague in the LSE Government Department @lsegovernment.bsky.social Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on being awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project "Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond"! 🎉🎉 www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com who was awarded the 2025 #Political #Theory #Prize for the best first book in political theory in English. Bruno received the award for his book, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought. ecpr.eu/News/News/De...

📢 Call for Papers – London Experimental Seminar Series (LESS) in Political Science @lsegovernment.bsky.social. We are launching a new forum for experimental political science research: First seminar: 19/11/2025. Deadline: 31/08/2025. Submit here: forms.gle/ZUJcBbZoDoaY...

Has #immigration caused #labour market protectionism in Europe? @patmcgovern.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social Eiko Thielemann @lse-ei.bsky.social & @omarhgallego.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social identify a new type of immigration control that impacts workplaces @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

We were thrilled to see Professor Stephane Wolton quoted in The Times article, 'If there's no escaping #AI, should #students event try?'. Stephane spoke about his pioneering assessment where students are requested to #critique their AI #prompts. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...