The workshop, hosted by the Department of Political Economy, is an annual event that was established to foster collaboration among public policy and regulation scholars at King’s College London, in the UK, and internationally.

This year, the workshop takes place on 16 June, from 10.00-18.00, in the Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31) at King's, and will be followed by a reception. 

The aim of the event is to support cross-fertilisation between disciplines, such as public policy, political economy, and comparative politics. The workshop is also central in highlighting the Department of Political Economy’s profile in high quality research in public policy and regulation.

Dr Adam Chalmers, co-ordinator of King’s Public Policy and Regulation Research Group, said: “This year, we are proud to host the Ken Young Annual Keynote Lecture in Public Policy and I’m delighted to announce that Professor Helen Margetts, from the University of Oxford, will be giving this year’s keynote.”

You can find out more about the Public Policy and Regulation Research Group here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/public-policy-and-regulation-research-group

Programme

10:00 – 10:20: Welcome

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC POLICY

10:20 – 11:10: Risk and Health Policy Preferences: Evidence from the UK Covid-19 Crisis.

(Raluca Pahontu, London School of Economics)

11:10 – 12:00: How technological change affects regional electorates

(Thomas Kurer University of Konstanz)

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch

REGULATION

13:00 – 13:50: Co-ordination and hierarchy across transnational financial networks

(Stefano Pagliari City University London)

13:50 – 14:40: Policy Tools for Covid-19 Vaccines: Strategies across the G7

(Manu Savani Brunel University London)

14:40 – 15:00: Break

KEN YOUNG ANNUAL LECTURE IN PUBLIC POLICY

15:00 – 16:10: Keynote speech by Helen Margetts University of Oxford (Artificial Intelligence and Government: Moving fast and breaking things or the path to better public policy-making?)

16:10 – 16:20: Break

ENVIRONMENT

16:20 – 17:10: Climate Policy Costs and Backlash against International Co-operation

(Federica Genovese University of Essex)

17:10 – 18:00: Environmental policy after Brexit: trajectories of conflict, competition, and co-operation

(Viviane Gravey Queen‘s University Belfast)

18:00: Drinks reception