This year billions of people around the world have been to the polls. What have been the surprises and takeaways from election results?
Our panel will explore some of the issues that have come to the fore in this bumper year for politics as well as the implications of key outcomes.
Meet our speakers and chair
Mukulika Banerjee (@MukulikaB) is Professor in Social Anthropology at LSE and was inaugural director of the LSE South Asia Centre. Her books include Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India, Why India Votes?, The Pathan Unarmed and The Sari (with Daniel Miller); and the series Exploring the Political in South Asia. She created the BBC R4 documentary Sacred Election: Lessons from the biggest democracy in the world on the 2009 Indian National Elections.
Sara Hobolt (@sarahobolt) is the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor in the Department of Government at LSE. Previously, she has held posts at the University of Oxford and the University of Michigan. She is the Chair of the European Election Studies (EES), an EU-wide project studying voters, parties, candidates and the media in European Parliamentary elections.
Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House.
Neil Lee (@ndrlee) is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment, and leads the Cities, Jobs and Economic Change research programme at the International Inequalities Institute, at LSE. Neil's research considers cities, economic change and the social dimensions of innovation.
More about this event
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