Professor Emeritus Sebastian Balfour
Department of Government, European Institute
Experience keywords: Contemporary Spanish politics, Fidel Castro and Cuba, colonial war in Morocco, fascism, history of 20th century Spain, identity, nationalism, regionalism, and the state in Spain, nationalism, the use of chemical weapons in colonial wars, transition and consolidation of democracy in Spain
Professor Emeritus Rodney Barker
Department of Government
Experience keywords: enemies, enmity, identity, ideology, legitimacy, legitimation, propaganda, rhetoric
Professor Michael Barzelay
Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), Department of Government, Department of Management, LSE Public Policy Group
Experience keywords: administrative reform, customer service, executive leadership, governmental oversight, new public management, performance management, public management, strategic planning
Dr Mayling Birney
Department of Government, Department of International Development
Experience keywords: anti-corruption reforms, governance, politics and political economy of China, rule of law, survey research, village elections and local-national relations in China
Professor Catherine Boone
Department of Government, Department of International Development
Experience keywords: Africa, Comparative politics, Political Science, economic development, institutions, property rights
Professor Sumantra Bose
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Bosnia, India, Israeli Palestinian conflict, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, conflict resolution, democratisation, ethnic conflict, former Yugoslavia, peace processes
Professor John Breuilly
Department of Government
Experience keywords: European history, German history, cultural history, global history, liberalism, modern history, modernity/modernisation, nationalism, urban history
Dr Michael Bruter
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Europe polling/voting behaviour, European Union, elections, extreme right, institutions, public opinion, western Europe
Dr John Chalcraft
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Egypt, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, guilds, hegemony, history from below, history, labour, migration, postcolonialism, social movements, transnationalism
Professor Emeritus Janet Coleman
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Roman, ancient Greek and Roman political philosophy, ancient Greek, citizenship, genesis of the modern European state, history of philosophy, history of political thought, medieval and renaissance intellectual history, medieval, property, renaissance, rights theories, the history of western political thought, theories of property, theories of the state
Professor Torun Dewan
Department of Government
Experience keywords: executives, leadership, legislatures, ministerial resignations and turnover, political economy, political parties
Dr Vesselin Dimitrov
Department of Government, European Institute
Experience keywords: EMU, European Union, NATO, central Europe, cold war, communism, eastern Europe, economic policy making, economic transition, nationalism, political transition
Dr Joseph Downing
Department of Government, Department of Social Policy, European Institute, LSE100 - The LSE Course
Experience keywords: France, French politics, Islam, Lyon, Marseille, Muslims in Europe, Paris, cities, identity, integration, migrants, migration, minorities, policy, sociology
Professor Patrick Dunleavy
Department of Government, Global Policy, LSE Public Policy Group, MPA Programme
Experience keywords: British constitution, British policy making, British politics, UK budget, US federal budget, comparative public administration, electoral reform, electoral systems, party competition, public choice, public policy
Dr Tasha Fairfield
Department of Government, Department of International Development
Experience keywords: Latin America, business politics, comparative politics, democracy and inequality, inequality, qualitative methods, tax reform
Dr Katrin Flikschuh
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Immanuel Kant, cosmopolitanism, freedom, global justice, justice, liberal political morality, philosophy of right, political responsibility
Dr Dominik Hangartner
Department of Government
Experience keywords: applied causal inference, citizenship, immigration, program evaluation
Dr Sarah Harrison
Department of Government
Experience keywords: elections, electoral psychology, european identity, extreme right politics, political parties, public opinion and electoral behaviour, research methodology, youth participation
Dr Steffen Hertog
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Gulf politics, Middle East politics, comparative politics of the developing world, political economy, terrorism
Professor Simon Hix
Department of Government
Experience keywords: EMU, European parliament, European policy, European political parties, European politics, legislative procedures, public opinion
Dr Jonathan Hopkin
Department of Government
Experience keywords: British politics, Southern European politics, inequality, political parties, redistribution, welfare states
Dr Rafael Hortala-Vallve
Department of Government
Experience keywords: coalition formation, collective decision-making, experimental social sciences, political economy, public economics, voting and elections
Professor James Hughes
Department of Government
Experience keywords: conflict management, democratisation and state-building, genocide, insurgency and counterinsurgency, national and ethnic conflict and civil war, peace processes, political violence and terrorism, transitional justice reconciliation and reconstruction
Dr John Hutchinson
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Irish nationalism, cultural nationalism, theories of nationalism, warfare and national identity
Dr Ryan Jablonski
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Africa, East Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, clientelism, corruption, election violence, elections, experiments, foreign aid, international development, maritime piracy, program evaluation, statistics, survey design
Dr Leigh Jenco
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Asian values, Chinese political thought, Confucianism, intercultural studies, interpretive methods
Professor George Jones
Department of Government, Greater London Group, LSE Public Policy Group
Experience keywords: British parliament, British politics, cabinets, central-local government relations, civil service, prime ministers' aides, prime ministers
Professor Paul Kelly
Department of Government, Director's Management Team
Experience keywords: British policy making, British politics, egalitarian political systems, multiculturalism, social justice
Dr Bill Kissane
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Comparative Constitutionalism, civil wars, democratization, reconstruction
Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Department of Government, Department of International Relations
Experience keywords: global governance, global health governance, international labour standards, international organisations, transnational democracy
Dr Denisa Kostovicova
Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of Government
Experience keywords: European integration of Western Balkans, civil society, war crimes and transitional justice, democratisation and ethnic conflict, human security, international administrations, nationalism and globalisation, post-conflict reconstruction
Dr Tomila Lankina
Department of Government, Department of International Relations
Experience keywords: Russia and Eurasia domestic politics and foreign policy, democratization, regionalism, federalism, sub-national governance in Russia, India, and China, the legacies of colonialism and empire, transnational influences on sub-national democracy and development
Dr Valentino Larcinese
Department of Government, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)
Experience keywords: British politics, MPs' expenses, economics of higher education, elections and party competition, mass media influence in elections, participation and electoral turnout, social spending in western democracies, taxation and redistribution, voting behaviour
Dr Chun Lin
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Marxism, historical communism, history and theory, ideology, political economy
Professor Christian List
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), Department of Government, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Experience keywords: formal epistemology, group agency, philosophy of social science, rational choice theory, social choice theory, theories of democracy and deliberation
Professor Martin Lodge
Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), Department of Government
Experience keywords: European policy, Germany: government, administrative reform, public administration, public administration, regulation and development, regulation
Dr Konstantinos Matakos
Department of Government
Experience keywords: political economy, public economics, public policy, formal (positive) political theory, comparative politics, electoral and voting behaviour, elections and party-systems, clientelism, institutional design
Dr Omar McDoom
Department of Government
Experience keywords: African politics, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Great Lakes, Rwanda, Uganda, civil wars, ethnic conflict, genocide, insurgency, international development, political violence, terrorism
Professor Edward Page
Department of Government
Experience keywords: civil service, public policy and comparative public policy
Professor Francisco Panizza
Department of Government, LSE IDEAS
Experience keywords: Latin American Politics, democracy, human rights, left of centre governments, politics and economic change, politics and economy of the countries of Mercosur, populism
Professor George Philip
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Mexican economy and political system, Venezuelan political system
Professor Anne Phillips
Department of Government
Experience keywords: democracy and representation, equality, feminism, human rights, multiculturalism
Dr Stephanie Rickard
Department of Government
Experience keywords: International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization (WTO), globalisation, government procurement, government spending, industrial policy, international organizations, political economy, trade policy
Professor Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Department of Government
Experience keywords: 19th Century British trade policy, US legislative politics, automated textual analysis, political economy of monetary policy
Professor John Sidel
Department of Government, Department of International Relations
Experience keywords: Indonesia, Islam, Philippines, Southeast Asia, democratization, development, local politics, nationalism, religion, revolutions, terrorism, violence
Dr Kai Spiekermann
Department of Government
Experience keywords: climate change, cooperation, game theory, political philosophy, social epistemology, social norms
Dr Jill Stuart
Department of Government
Experience keywords: constructivism, gender and international relations, international political theory, regime theory, the global commons, the politics, law and theory of outer space
Professor Mark Thatcher
Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), Department of Government, LSE Public Policy Group
Experience keywords: British, French, Italian and EU policy making and regulation, heritage policy, independent regulatory agencies, network industries, political economy, public policy, regulation, sovereign wealth funds
Dr Eiko Thielemann
Department of Government, European Institute, Migration Studies Unit (Department of Government)
Experience keywords: European Union, asylum, comparative politics and policy, immigration, international co-operation (burden sharing), migration
Professor Tony Travers
Department of Government, LSE London
Experience keywords: London, city government, local government, public finance, schools' finance
Dr Joachim Wehner
Department of Government
Experience keywords: South Africa: government and politics, budgeting and public finance, decentralisation, legislatures, political economy
Dr David Woodruff
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Eurozone, Russia, exchange rates, financial crisis, monetary policy, monetary systems, political economy, post-socialism, property rights
Dr Lea Ypi
Department of Government
Experience keywords: Enlightenment, colonialism, cosmopolitanism, democratic theory, globalization, justice, migration, nationalism