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Comparative Politics and Political Economy


The Comparative Politics group brings together a wide range of expertise on the politics of all major world regions, with a particular focus on the developing world.

Research Pillar(s): Comparative Politics and Area Studies

About: The Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy Research Group brings together a wide range of expertise on the politics of all major world regions, with a particular focus on the developing world.

Members: Dr Sarah Brierley, Prof Catherine Boone, Prof John Chalcraft, Dr Daniel Berliner, Prof Steffen Hertog, Prof Jonathan Hopkin, Dr Ryan Jablonski, Dr Mathias Poertner

Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy Seminar Series

The Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy seminar provides a platform for research students and faculty to discuss the on-going work of local and international researchers. Its focus is comparative politics, development and comparative political economy. It is supported by the Departments of Government and International Development and involves PhD students and faculty from these and many other departments. 

The seminar takes place in Michaelmas and Lent Term on Thursdays from 5.00pm to 6.30pm.

The 2022/23 Seminars will take place online and in-person.

To join the mailing list please contact gov.comms@lse.ac.uk

Seminar Convener(s): Prof Catherine Boone, Dr Steffen Herthog

Upcoming Seminars

Michaelmas Term

Thursday 13 October
Lydia Assouad (LSE): Charismatic Leaders and Nation-building

Thursday 20 October
Peter Hall (Harvard): Electoral Change, Occupational Coalitions, and the Prospects for Mainstream and Challenger Parties in Western Democracies

Thursday 17 November
Tugba Bozcaga (KCL): Members of the Same Club?: Subnational Variations in Electoral Returns to Public Goods

Thursday 24 November | Postponed
Dann Naseemullah (KCL): Patchwork States: Historical Roots of Subnational Conflict and Competition in South Asia

Thursday 1 December
Gerard McCarthy (National University of Singapore): Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality and Resistance in Myanmar

Lent Term

Thursday 19 January
Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford): With a Whimper or with a Bang? Dynamic Intensity in Civil Wars
CBG.4.17

Thursday 2 February
Dann Naseemullah (KCL): Patchwork States: Historical Roots of Subnational Conflict and Competition in South Asia
CBG.4.17

Thursday 2 March
Details TBC

Thursday 9 March
Ana Catalano Weeks (University of Bath): Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy
CBG.1.06

Thursday 16 March | Postponed
Tommaso Crescioli (LSE) and Toon van Overbeek (Maastricht): The Rise of Superstar Firms and its Political Implications: how small entrepreneurs turned antisystem.
CBG.4.17

Thursday 23 March
Pavi Suryanarayan (LSE): Indentured Migration, Caste and Electoral Competition in Colonial India
CBG.4.17