Date: Tuesday 9 November 2010
Time: 5.30-7pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Paul Pierson
Respondents: Professor Anton Hemerijck, Professor Julian le Grand
Chair: Professor Howard Glennerster

UPDATE Tuesday 9 November 11.40am: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Paul Pierson will not be delivering the lecture in person but by a live video link.

The lecture and panel discussion celebrate the T H Marshall Fellowship scheme, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, which has been running for seven years. The event also launches the Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State and will be followed by a reception.

Paul Pierson has been a professor of public policy and holder of the Avice Sarint Chair of Public Policy at Berkeley since 2004.

Anton Hemerijck is secretary of the Scientific Council for Government Policy in the Netherlands, and is Professor of Comparative Analysis of the European Welfare State at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Julian le Grand is Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at LSE

Howard Glennerster is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at LSE.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.

Slides

A copy of Professor Paul Pierson's powerpoint presentation is available to download. Download 'Welfare State Reform Over the (Very) Long-run' (pdf).

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