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.

Institutionalization and Selective Repression: Evidence from Francoist Courts after the Spanish Civil War
Date: Tuesday 30 September 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Siyun Jiang (IE University)
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Repression and Autocratic Consolidation
Date: Tuesday 07 October 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Livio di Lonardo (Bocconi)
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Political Commitment Bonds
Date: Thursday 16 October 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Bard Harstad (Stanford GSB)
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Henry Ford and Antisemitism
Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Katia Zhuravskaya (PSE), joint with Johannes Buggle, Seyhun Sakalli, and Alexandre Verlet
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

The Cold War and the U.S. Labor Market
Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University), joint with Suresh Naidu and Danny Onorato
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Mobsters Beyond Rationality
Date: Thursday 06 November 2025 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Diego Gambetta (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Trade-Offs in Designing Social Media Algorithms
Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Mateusz Stalinski (Warwick)
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Misperceptions About Out-Groups’ Economic Status and Support for Redistribution: Experimental Evidence from Lebanon
Date: Tuesday 18 November 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Lydia Assouad (LSE), joint with Augustin Bergeron (Harvard University), Giulia Buccione (CEMFI) and Salma Mousa (UCLA)
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Laboratories of Autocracy: Landscape of Central–Local Dynamics in China's Policy Universe
Date: Tuesday 25 November 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: David Yang (Harvard University)
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Straw into Gold Innovation
Date: Tuesday 02 December 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Noam Yuchtman (LSE), joint with Martin Beraja (UC-Berkeley)
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Power and Resilience: On the Theory and Implications of the National Security Externality
Date: Tuesday 09 December 2025 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Olivier Kooi (Chicago)
Location: , 6th floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY