Professor Jonathan White

Jonathan White is Professor of Politics and Deputy Head of the European Institute, where he researches and teaches on democracy, political thought and political theory. He joined LSE as Lecturer in September 2008, after completing his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Stanford, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Humboldt University, Hertie School, Sciences Po in Paris and the Australian National University. Before his PhD he was a research fellow at the Czech Institute of International Relations in Prague, and a lecturer at universities in the Czech Republic and Albania. Books include In the Long Run: the Future as a Political Idea (Profile, 2024), Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2019), The Meaning of Partisanship (with Lea Ypi, Oxford University Press, 2016) and Political Allegiance after European Integration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He was the recipient of the 2017 British Academy Brian Barry Prize for excellence in political science, and has received best-article prizes from the European Journal of International Relations (2023) and Political Studies (2015). He has also written for The Guardian, New Statesman and Boston Review.

Teaching

Democracy, Ideology and the European State (EU447)

The Future: Political Responses to a Challenge (EU481)

Research Interests

Jonathan White's research interests lie in the fields of political sociology and political theory, with a focus on European democracy. Areas of interest include political engagement, partisanship, ideology, ideas of the future, the politics of emergency, and the relation between social and political ties. His work draws on democratic theory, social theory, and qualitative research methods.

Please see LSE Research Online for a comprehensive list of research papers and articles.

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Expertise

Democracy; Emergency Politics; Technocracy; Populism; Politics of Left and Right; Political Theory