"Many Americans are done with what they perceive as an unacceptable status quo." 🗽 Our PhD student @janwasserziehr.bsky.social argues that whilst #Mamdani’s victory surprised the Democratic establishment, it tallies with an increasingly #polarised #US #electorate. 👇🏽 blogs.lse.ac.uk/government/2...

#psjminfo: 2 x 3-year PostDoc positions, deadline Jan 4. We'll study the effects of border change, in ways that overlap with many subfields in CompPol and IR: e.g., HPE, PE of development, state formation, pol. geography, identity, ethnic politics. Also lots of (new) methods (ML, GIS, CausalInf...)!

I spent time over last Christmas reading the MS for review. I liked it and here it is. Congratulations to @mattsleat.bsky.social - a fine book. Also for those paying attention this and Ed Hall’s book mark out Politics @polshef.bsky.social as perhaps the top UK theory dept this year…

🚨We're #hiring! We're looking for a #Research #Fellow to join our team. The successful candidate will be part of the research project "Political #Finance in #Africa" led by Associate Professor @sarahbrierley.bsky.social for 2 years. 🗓️Apply by Monday 12 January 👇🏽 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

📢 Public Event Announcement Join us for Professor Hertog's inaugural lecture: "How oil rents fuel populist foreign policy" on 21 January 2026 at 6.30pm In-person and online tickets available 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/events/21-ja... #LSEEvents @lseevents.bsky.social @shertog.bsky.social

💬Come join our Professional Services Staff #team! We're #hiring for the position of #Student #Advice and #Support #Manager, a central role in enhancing the pastoral and welfare support we offer to around 500 undergraduate and 300 master’s students. 📆Apply by 4 Jan jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🚨 📖 “Nationalism and the Transformation of the State” is out with CUP! I’m so happy to conclude 6 years of research with Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Yannick Pengl and many others like that! It’s open access @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org here: tinyurl.com/nastac What’s the book all about? A 🧵

🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Of interest to @lsegovernment.bsky.social and @lsepoltheory.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2qfs...

🔺 We're #hiring for two #Research #Officer positions! The posts will be part of the research project 'Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond' (BORDERS) led by Dr Carl Müller-Crepon for a period of 3 years. 🗓️ Apply before Sunday 4 January 2026. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The recordings of our virtual graduate open day are now available. For all MSc programmes in @lsegovernment.bsky.social and for the MSc Political Theory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=My__...

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🚨 We're hiring! The LSE Department of Government is searching for a new #Assistant #Professor in #Political #Science. Could it be you? 👀 🗓️ Closing date: 4 January 2026 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🚨 New article alert! Congratulations to our LSE Fellow, Dr @bogatyrev.bsky.social and his co-authors for the publication of their latest article, 'The Electoral Effects of State-Sponsored Anti-LGBTQ Measures' in @thejop.bsky.social. Read the article 👇🏽 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨 New article alert! Congratulations to Jan H Wasserziehr on the publication of his new article, 'Don't blame AI for its mistakes' for the Institute of Arts and Ideas. The piece discusses the trend to anthropomorphise artificial systems. Read the article 👇🏽 iai.tv/articles/don...

NEW✨ For UK Disability History Month 2025 (20 November to 20 December), staff at LSE recommend eight powerful books about disability and neurodiversity and books sharing the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people #UKDHM #DisabilityHistoryMonth 👇📚

Congratulations to Moses Siregar who received the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia (SEAC) Postgraduate Dissertation Prize for exceptional postgraduate research on Southeast Asia and the MSc Political Science (Political Behaviour) Dissertation Prize for the highest mark.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

📢 Upcoming event | “The politics of hunger in Sudan” with @nisrinelamin.bsky.social. We'll look at how war, foreign investment & extractivism are deepening famine in a country rich in resources. 🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm 📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online #LSEEvents #Sudan

Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com, whose book #Citizen #Marx has been awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize which is given "for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition". www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/

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...