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