Public Policy and Regulation Research Group

Public Policy and Regulation is the home for theoretically and empirically grounded research which analyses policy and regulatory responses to important political, social and economic issues, and (individual-level) responses to these policies.

Our current research areas include:

Comparative, European, and International Public Policy
Economic, Financial and Labour Market Regulation
Competition and Media Policy
Energy and Environmental Policy
Taxes and Redistribution
Social Policy
Bureaucracy and Public Choice
Philosophy and Public Policy
Migration and Public Policy
Democratic Institutions and Procedures
Policy evaluation in developed and developing economies, including RCTs
Behavioural public policy

Research sub-groups

Environment and Public Policy
Deliberative Democracy and Democratic Innovations
Social Equity and Social Welfare
Regulatory Policies
Covid-19 related research
Political Economy of Public Policy

The 2nd King's Policy and Regulation Workshop is taking place on 18 May. Find out more here.

Members

Daniel Alves

PhD candidate

Elisa Cavatorta

Reader in Economics

Adam Chalmers

Reader in Politics

Vanessa Cheng Matsuno

PhD Candidate

Rod Dacombe

Reader in Politics

Roberto Fumagalli

Senior Lecturer in Political Economy and Philosophy; MAPP Program Director; Research Associate - London School of Economics; Visiting Scholar - University of Pennsylvania

Anna Gwiazda

Reader in Comparative Politics

Shaun Hargreaves Heap

Professor of Political Economy

Peter John

Head of the School of Politics and Economics and Professor of Public Policy

Maia King

Lecturer in Economics

Hanna Kleider

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

Christel Koop

Reader in Political Economy

Lina Kramer

PhD candidate

Pavel Kuchař

Lecturer

Karlygash Kuralbayeva

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Julian Limberg

Lecturer in Public Policy

Ruyuan Liu

PhD candidate

Tomas Maltby

Reader in International Politics

John Meadowcroft

Reader in Public Policy

Shibeal O' Flaherty

PhD Candidate

Tochukwu Okoye

PhD Candidate

Mitya Pearson

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Barbara Piotrowska

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

James Scott

Senior Lecturer in International Politics

Matia Vannoni

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

Francesca Pia Vantaggiato

Lecturer in Public Policy

Marypaz Ventura-Arrieta

PhD candidate

Nina Weber

PhD Candidate

Public Policy and Regulation Research Group publishes widely across a range of leading international peer reviewed journals.

What now for the WTO?: Negotiating multilateral trade at MC12 in the wake of COVID-19
Scott, J. & Wilkinson, R., 28 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of World Trade. 57, 2 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Please Wear a Mask: A Systematic Case for Mask Wearing Mandates
Fumagalli, R., 15 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Medical Ethics. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Caregiver perceptions of England’s universal infant school meal provision during the COVID‑19 pandemic
Davies, E., Vannoni, M. & Steele, S., 13 Jan 2023, In: Journal of Public Health Policy. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-022-00387-1
Using citizen voice to evaluate experiments on politicians: a UK survey experiment
John, P., Kim, K. & Soto Tamayo, L., 13 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Experimental Political Science. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
On David Coen, Alexander Katsaitis and Matia Vannoni’s Business Lobbying in the European Union, Oxford University Press, 2021
Coen, D., Katsaitis, A. & Vannoni, M., 2023, In: SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwac043
Preferences versus Opportunities: On the Conceptual Foundations of Normative Welfare Economics
Fumagalli, R., 27 Dec 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267122000323
An item response approach to sea-level rise policy preferences in a nascent subsystem
Gmoser-Daskalakis, K., Scott, T., Lubell, M. & Vantaggiato, F. P., 21 Dec 2022, In: Review Of Policy Research. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12520
Do text messages increase voter registration? Evidence from RCTs with a local authority and an advocacy organisation in the UK  
Cheng Matsuno, V., Foos, F., John, P. & Unan, A., 14 Dec 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: ELECTORAL STUDIES. p. 1 17 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/adr9g
Semi-parliamentarism and the Challenges of Institutional Design
Birch, S., 8 Dec 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Why Do (Some) Ordinary Americans Support Tax Cuts for the Rich? Evidence From a Randomized Survey Experiment
Hope, D., Limberg, J. & Weber, N., 30 Nov 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Political Economy. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Public Policy and Regulation Workshop 2022

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.

Find out more here

The 2nd King's Policy and Regulation Workshop

The second workshop is due to take place on 18 May 2021 and will feature a programme of talks featuring leading scholars in the field. More information is available in the page description above.

King's Policy and Regulation Workshop 2019

We would like to thank everyone who came our first KPRW workshop, which showcased public policy research in King's, London. The event was a great success and we will be holding at it annually, this time with a Call for Papers in late autumn. We plan to have a similar format: a high profile key note speaker, followed by papers from internal and external faculty and research students. The presenters particularly appreciated the detailed comments from discussants, so that will continue to be a feature of workshops in future years.

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Contact us

Dr Adam Chalmers is the co-ordinator of the Public Policy and Regulation Research Group.

adam.chalmers@kcl.ac.uk

Public Policy and Regulation Research Group

Our current research areas include:

Research sub-groups

Members

Public Policy and Regulation Workshop 2022

The 2nd King's Policy and Regulation Workshop

King's Policy and Regulation Workshop 2019

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