Autumn Term
Thursday 5 October: Diminishing Returns? A Debate on the Growth Model Theory of Political Economy
Lucio Baccaro (Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies), Mark Blyth (Brown University), Jonas Pontusson (Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Geneva), Natalya Naqvi (Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, LSE), Pavithra Suryanarayan (Assistant Professor, LSE), Victoria Paniagua (Assistant Professor in International Political Economy, LSE)
Postponed: Welfare preferences of labour market insiders and outsiders in the Global South: evidence from Egypt
Thoraya El-Rayyes (Visiting Fellow, LSE)
Thursday 9 November: How does market power affect political contestation in advanced democracies?
Tommaso Crescioli (PhD Candidate, LSE) and Toon van Overbeek ( Assistant Professor in Europe, Climate and Digital Society, Maastricht University and Visiting Fellow, LSE)
Thursday 23 November: Legibility as Commitment: Land Record Digitization and Conflict Over Infrastructure in India
Aliz Toth (Assistant Professor of Political Science, LSE)
Winter Term
Thursday 25 January: Being Seen by the State: Programmatic Cash Transfers and Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan
Rehan Jamil (LSE Fellow in Public Policy and Administration, LSE)
Thursday 1 February: Populism and Bond Markets (topic tbc)
Alison Johnston (Associate Professor in Political Science, Oregan State University)
Thursday 15 February: Border Economies and Political Sovereignty
Victoria Hattam (Professor of Politics, The New York School for Social Research)
Thursday 7 March: Defending parliament: responses of mainstream parties to parliamentary erosion
Isabela Mares (Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the European Union Center, Yale)
Tuesday 26 March: Reimagining Property Rights
Margaret Levi (Professor of Political Science, Stanford), co-hosted with Political Science and Political Economy, 2.00pm to 3.30pm, SAL.3.05