Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar Series

General information

General information
Date and time 

Tuesdays in term time at 14:00-15:30 

Location

SAL.1.04, 1st Floor, 32 Lincoln Inn Fields or online where indicated

Organisers

Aliz Toth, Carl Muller and Nirvikar Jassal

Mailing list

Please contact gov.msc@lse.ac.uk

 Past listings

Political Science and Political Economy Research Seminar Series

Seminars 2025-2026

Information about upcoming events will be shared in due course.

The Aerial History Project: Development across the British Empire seen through 1.7 million aerial photographs
Date: Tuesday 05 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Solomon Hsiang (Stanford)
Location: MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Decoupling Taste-Based versus Statistical Discrimination in Elections
Date: Tuesday 12 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Francesco Trebbi (Columbia), joint with Amanda de Albuquerque, Frederico Finan, Anubhav Jha, and Laura Karpuska
Location: MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Does Progressivity Raise Tax Capacity? Experimental Evidence from the D.R. Congo
Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Joana Naritomi (Institute for Fiscal Studies and LSE), joint with Gabriel Tourek, Arthur Laroche, Augustin Bergeron, Jonathan L. Weigel and Marina M. Ngoma
Location: MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

CANCELLED
Date: Tuesday 26 May 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Paul Pierson (Berkeley)
Location: MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

TBC
Date: Tuesday 02 June 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Fred Finan (University of California, Berkeley)
Location: MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

TBC
Date: Tuesday 09 June 2026 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Jean-Paul Carvalho (Oxford )
Location: MAR 6.33, 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY