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Semester 1

Week 1, Wed 26 Sept 2018

‘Property Rights, Investment, and Land Grabs: An Institutional Natural Experiment in Liberia’ - Alex Hartman (UCL) 

Week 2, Wed 3 October 2018

Title: TBC - Dominik Hangartner (LSE) 

Week 3, Wed 10 October 2018

'Political Activists as Free-Riders: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment’ - Anselm Rink (Konstanz)

Week 4, Wed 17 October 2018

‘Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means’ - Moynihan (Georgetown)

Week 4 (Extra), Thur 18 October 2018 5pm, Room BH(SE) 2.09

‘Do Moral Facts, and not just Moral Beliefs, make a difference to what happens in the world?’ - Geoff Sayre McCord (UNC)

Week 5, Wed 24 October 2018

‘All Keynesians Now? Survey Evidence From the UK and Europe’ - Tim Hicks (UCL)

Week 6, Wed 31 October 2018 (RW)

Title TBC - Sergei Guriev (EBRD)

Week 7, Wed 7 November 2018

‘What is the Epistemic Value of Democratic Deliberation?’ - Jonathan Benson (Manchester)

Week 8, Wed 14 November 2018

‘Intergenerational Mobility in Africa’ (with Alberto Alesina, Sebastian Hohmann and Stelios Michalopoulos) - Elias Papaioannou (LBS)

Week 9, Wed 21 November 2018

‘Productivity takes leave? The effect of maternity benefits on career progression of female academics’ - Vera Troeger (Warwick)

Week 10, Wed 28 November 2018

‘Okin, Rawls and the politics of political philosophy’ - Sophie Smith (Oxford)    

Week 11, Wed 5 December 2018

'Winning Hearts and Minds: The Role of Economic, Cultural and Security Factors on the Successful Integration of Syrian Refugees in Turkey' - Dr. Tolga Sinmazdemir (LSE) with Anna Getmansky (LSE) and Kostas Matakos (KCL) 

Week 12, Mon 10 December 2018

‘Don’t think it is a good idea! A critical analysis of the ideas school’ (with Jonathan C. Kamkhaji) - Claudio Radaelli (UCL)

Semester 2

Week 1, Wednesday 16 January 2019

'Maternity leaves and women's productivity: individual evidence from academia’ - Dr Mariaelisa Epifanio (Liverpool)

Week 2, Wednesday 23 January 2019

'Justice for small earlobes: a social salience based account of discrimination' - Dr Diana Popescu (KCL)

Week 3, Wednesday 30 January 2019 

‘Democracy and the Limits of a Technocratic Autopilot’ - Dr Michael Bennett (Utrecht)

Week 4, Wednesday 6 February 2019

Title TBC - Dr Stephen Machin (LSE)

Week 5, Wednesday 13 February 2019 (Additonal seminar)

Trade and Political Fragmentation on the Silk Roads: The Economics and Cultural Effects of Historical Exchange between China and the Muslim East - Prof. Lisa Blaydes (Standford)

Week 5, Wednesday 13 February 2019 

'Wealth Inequality in Political Perspective' - Dr Ben Ansell (Oxford)

Reading week, Wednesday 20 February 2019 

Title TBC - Dr Peter Boekke (George Mason)

Week 7, Wednesday 27 February 2019 

‘Schrödinger’s Constitution? Brexit, Territory and Constitutional Law’ - Dr Dan Wincott (Cardiff)

Week 7, Thursday 28 February 2019 (Additional seminar)

'Varieties of Neoliberalism in the US and Europe' - Craig Parsons (Oregon)

Week 8, Wednesday 6 March 2019 

‘Preferences for Policies Addressing Technological Change’ - Dr Alex Kuo (Oxford)

Week 9, Wednesday 13 March 2019

'A Gendered Imperative: Does Sexual Violence Attract UN Attention in Civil Wars?' (with Michelle Benson) - Dr Ismene Gizelis (Essex)

Week 10, Wednesday 20 March 2019

Title TBC - Dr Moses Shayo (Hebrew University)

Week 1, Wed 27 September 2017

PT -  Sam DeCanio (King's College London) - "Voter Ignorance, Populism, and the Paranoid Style of American Politics."

Week 2, Wed 4 October 2017

Alexandra Cirone (London School of Economics) - "Dual Mandates, Patronage and Partisanship: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in France."

Week 3, Wed 11 October 2017

Giuseppe de Feo (Strathclyde) - “Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia.”

Week 4, Wed 18 October 2017

Nicky Tynan (Dickinson College) - “London’s Mortality Decline.”

Week 5, Wed 25 October 2017

Rob Sauer (Royal Holloway) - "The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match."

Week 7, Wed 8 November 2017

Roger Congleton (West Virginia University) - “The Microeconomics of Ethics”

Week 8, Wed 15 November 2017

Greg Clark (UC Davis) - "The Big Sort: Selective Migration and the Decline of Northern England, 1800-2017"

Week 9, Wed 22 November 2017

Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford) - “Forensics, Elasticities and Benford’s Law: Detecting Tax Fraud in International Trade.” 

Week 10, Wed 29 November 2017

Andrew Hindmoor (Sheffield) - "Are the Major Global Banks Now Safer? The Challenge of Structural, Market Continuities in Banking and Finance".

Week 11, Wed 6 December 2017

Saladin Meckled-Garcia (UCL) - title TBC 

Week 0, Wed 10 January 2018

Ruben Durante (Sciences Po & UPF) – title TBC

Week 1, Wed 17 January 2018

Ben Lockwood (Warwick) - "Negative Voters? Electoral Competition with Loss-Aversion"

Week 2, Wed 24 January 2018

Maria Waldinger (LSE) - "The Economic Effects of Long-Term Climate Change: Evidence from the Little Ice Age"

Week 3, Wed 31 January 2018

Lanny Martin (Rice and Bocconi) - "Coalition Bargaining Before an Audience" - *Please note that this seminar will take place in 9.03 (Bush House NE Wing) from 12.00 - 13.30.

Week 4, Wed 7 February 2018

Cecilia Testa (University of Nottingham) - "Race, Representation and Local Governments in the US South: the Effect of the Voting Rights Act (joint with Andrea Bernini and Giovanni Facchini)

Week 5, Wed 14 February 2018

Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Cambridge) - "An Economic Analysis of European Guilds"

Week 6, Wed 21 February 2018

Chris Kam (University of British Columbia) - "Partisanship, Enfranchisement, and the Political Economy of Electioneering in the United Kingdom". *Please note that this seminar will run from 15.30 - 17.00.

Week 7, Wed 28 February 2018

*There is no departmental research seminar this week 

Week 8, Wed 7 March 2018

*There is no departmental research seminar this week 

Week 9, Wed 14 March 2018

*There is no departmental research seminar this week 

Week 10, Wed 21 March 2018

Donald Searing (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - "The Political Values of Politicians: Endurance, Change and Impact Over Four Decades"

Week 11, Wed 28 March 2018

Brian Salter (King's College London) - "Brexit and the British State"

Week 1, Wed 2 May 2018

Alun Evans (The British Academy and Queen Mary University of London) - "Reflections on the Blair Government: 21 Years On"

Week 2, Wed 9 May 2018

Matt Bishop (University of Sheffield) - "Pioneers Take Arrows, Settlers Take Land: The Cannabis "Green Rush" in the Modern American West."

Week 3, Wed 16 May 2018

Tolga Sinmazdemir (LSE and Bogazici U) - “Displaced Loyalties: The Effects of Indiscriminate Violence on Attitudes Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey.”

Week 4, Wed 23 May 2018

Volha Charnysh (Princeton & MIT) - TBC

Week 5, Wed 30 May 2018

Simon Hix (LSE) - "The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918 - 2017"

Week 6, Wed 6 June 2018

N/A

Week 7, Wed 13 June 2018

Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield) - TBC

Week 8, Wed 27 June 2018

Emily Skarbek, Brown University

Week 0, Wed 11 January 2017
Sarah Wilford (King’s College London PhD Student) - “The Ostrom’s Use of Tocqueville”

Week 1, Wed 18 January 2017
QPE - Ken Benoit (London School of Economics)

Week 2, Wed 25 January 2017
IPPE - Ben Zissimos (University of Exeter) - "Contesting an International Trade Agreement"

Week 3, Wed 1 February 2017
QPE - Catherine de Vries (University of Oxford/University of Essex [from January]) - (experimental study on voters’ responses to political corruption)

Week 4, Wed 8 February 2017
PPR - Peter John (University College of London)

Week 5, Wed 15 February 2017
SG  - Christopher Coyne (George Mason University)

Week 6, Wed 22 February 2017
Reading week

Week 7, Wed 1 March 2017
Department staff

Week 8, Wed 8 March 2017
PT - Margaret Moore (Queens)

Week 9, Wed 15 March 2017
SG - Timur Kuran (Duke University)

Week 10, Wed 22 March 2017
P&S - Marta Reynal-Querol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) 

*please note that this seminar will be held from 2:00 - 3:30 in room S-3.19

Week 11, Wed 29 March 2017

SG - Anja Shortland (King's College London) and Andrew Shortland (Cranfield University) - "Governing the Trade in High Value Art and Antiquities"

(Summer Period) Wed 3 May 2017

Professor Pepper Culpepper (University of Oxford) - "Public Anger, Business Power, and the Regulation of Finance in the US and the UK"     

(Summer Period) Wed 7 June 2017

P&S  - Anna Getmansky (Essex) - “Border Fortification and the Economics of Crime”  

Week 0, Wed 13 Jan 2016: Mary Morgan (LSE), "Poverty measurement?: Aggregating up to get back down again.”

Week 1, Wed 20 Jan: Joachim Voth (University of Zurich), Highway to Hitler.

Week 2, Wed 27 Jan: Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary), paper TBC

Week 3, Wed 3 Feb: Simon Griffiths (Goldsmiths), ‘Engaging Enemies: the British left and Friedrich Hayek’

Week 4, Wed 10 Feb: Anthony McGann (Strathclyde), 'Gerrymandering in America'

Week 5, Wed 17 Feb: Elias Dinas (Brasenose College, Oxford), ‘The Ideological Shadow of Authoritarianism’

Week 6, Wed 24 Feb: Reading week – no seminar

Week 7, Wed 2 March: Peter Boettke (George Mason University),  'Price Theory as Prophylactic Against Popular Fallacies'

Week 8, Wed 9 March: Uwe Sunde (Munich),

Malaria Risk and Civil Violence: A Disaggregated Analysis for Africa

Week 9, Wed 16 March: Anton Howes, ‘The Ideology of Innovation: Why innovation accelerated in Britain 1651-1851’ cancelled

Week 11, Wed 30 March: Graham Smith (Westminster), 'Designing Democracy for the Long-Term?

• Week 1, Wed 23 Sept 2015: Toke Aidt (Cambridge), ’Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?’

• Week 2, Wed 30 Sept: Neil Cummins,'The Child Quality-Quantity Tradeoff, England, 1770-1880: A Fundamental Component of the Economic Theory of Growth is Missing'

• Week 3, Wed 7 October: Daniel Zizzo (Newcastle), Competence versus Honesty: What Do Voters Care About?

• Week 4, Wed 14 October: Andrea Mattozzi (EUI), Public versus Secret Voting in Committees (with  Marcos Y. Nakaguma).

• Week 4, Wed 14 October: Andrea Mattozzi (EUI), Public versus Secret Voting in Committees (with  Marcos Y. Nakaguma).

• Week 5, Wed 21 October: Amrita Dhillon, ‘The Natural Resource Curse Revisited: Theory and Evidence from India’.

• Week 7, Wed 4 November  Fernanda Brolla (Warwick), ‘The Political Economy of Enforcing Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil’.

• Week 8, Wed 11 November: Federico Varese (Oxford), ‘The Study of Extra-Legal Governance: Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Challenges, and Some Tentative Solutions’.

• Week 9, Wed 18 November: Carmen Pavel (King's College London), 'Value Free Social Science and International Law'.

• Week 10, Wed 25 November: Alexander Douglas (Heythrop), ‘The Political Economy of Debt'.

• Week 11, Wed 2 December: Catherine Marshall (Cergy-Pontoise), ‘The papers of the Metaphysical Society’.

• Week 12, Wed 9 December: Humeira Iqtidar, ‘Tradition in Political Thought: Vibrancy, Revival and Transformation'.

• Wed 1st Oct 2014, 16:30, Santiago Sanchez-Pages (Edinburgh/ Barcelona), ‘Inequality of Conflict’

• Wed 8th Oct 2014, 16:45, Adrian Blau, 'Unethical and Unscholarly Behaviour in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Caricaturing and Sloppy Citations, Bullshit and Bias, Gendered Environments and Unethical Ethics'

• Wed 15th Oct 2014, 16:00, Nick Baigent (LSE), 'Total Violence: Theory and Measurement'

• Wed 22nd Oct 2014, 16:00, Iain McLean (Oxford), ‘The Scottish referendum: a post-mortem’ 

• Wed 29th Oct 2014, 16:00, Dick Roberts, (KCL - ICBH), on his book Saving the City: The financial crisis of 1914

• Wed 5th Nov 2014, 16:00, Edison Bicudo, on his book, Pharmaceutical Research, Democracy and Conspiracy

• Wed 12th Nov 2014, 16:00, Kyriaki Nanou (Nottingham), ‘The influence of Europeanisation on left-right policy congruence between parties and voters’

• Wed 19th Nov 2014, 16:00, Michael Wahman (LSE), ‘Electoral Rentierism- The Cross- and Sub-national Effect of Oil on Electoral Competitiveness in Multiparty Autocracies’ 

• Wed 26th Nov 2014, 16:00, John Latsis (Reading)

• Wed 3rd Dec 2014, 16:00, Alan Renwick (Reading) 

• Wed 10th Dec 2014, 16:00, Stephen Littlechild (Cambridge). (Energy speaker series)

• Wed 14th Jan 2015, 16:00-18:00 Jonathan Hopkin (LSE), ‘Crisis makes the right grow stronger? Austerity and Political Change in Advanced Democracies’ (CRR)

• Wed 28th Jan 2015, 16:00-18:00 Daniel Zizzo (Durham) (RCU)

• Wed 11th Feb 2015, 16:00-18:00 Iseult Honohan (University College Dublin) (BVI)

• Wed 4th March 2015, 16:00-18:00 Antonio Nicolo(DCA)

• Wed 11th March 2015, 16:00-18:00 Ferdinand Vieiner (WZB Berlin) (RCU)

• Wed 25th March 2015, 16:00-18:00 Richard Boyd (Georgetown) (BVI)

• Wed 13th May 2015, 16:00-18:00 Luca Zarri (Verona)

• Wed 20th May 2015, 16:00-18:00 Denis Baranger (Paris 2), on 18th Century sciences of legislation (BVI)

• Wed 10th June 2015, 16:00-18:00 Moti Michaeli (EUI)

• Wed 17th June 2015, 16:30-18:00 Fernando Casal Bertoa (UoN)

• Wed 24th June 2015, 16:00-18:00 Dr. James Ashley Morrison (LSE)

• Wed 1st July 2015. 16:00-18:00 Graham Denyer Willis (Cambridge)
  

• Wed 2nd Oct, 16:00-18:00 Rubén Ruiz-Rufino, ‘Electoral Observation Missions and political competition in developing countries’

• Wed 9th Oct, 16:00-18:00 Tom Birkland ‘Focusing Events, Risk and Regulation’ 

• Wed 16th Oct, 16:00-18:00 Michelle Baddeley (UCL) ‘Thinking Green: Energy, The Environment, and Behavioural Economics’

• Wed 23rd Oct, 16:00-18:00 Stefano Pagliari (City University London), 'The Interest Ecology of Finance: An Empirical Investigation'

• Wed 30th Oct, 16:00-18:00 Phil Parvin (Loughborough), ‘Should Democrats be Egalitarians? Participation, Markets, and Inequality in Liberal Democratic States’ 

•  Wed 6th Nov, 16:00-18:00 Martin Ruhs (Oxford), ‘The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration’ 

• Wed 13th Nov, 16:00-18:00 Stormy-Annika Mildner

• Week 9, Wed 20th Nov, 16:00-18:00 Adam Tebble, ‘Capitalism and the Claims of Society Reconsidered'

• Wed 27th Nov, 16:00-18:00 David Soskice, ‘Why are the Truly Disadvantaged American and not British (or Australian, Canadian or New Zealanders)? Comparative political economy of education, segregation, crime and punishment’ 

• Wed 4th Dec, 16:00-18:00 Rod Dacombe

• Wed 11th Dec, 16:00-18:00 James Dempsey (Warwick), ‘Banking Culture and Moral Responsibility for the Financial Crisis’ 

• Wed 15th Jan 2014, 16:30-18:30 Hilton Root, ‘Global networks and American Dominance’ 

• Wed 22nd Jan, 16:00-18:00 John Meadowcroft, ‘Big Government, High Tax Libertarianism’

• Wed 29th Jan, 16:00-18:00 Jochen Runde (Cambridge)

• Wed 5th Feb, 16:00-18:00 Ian Greer (University of Greenwich),  'Workfare regimes and the recommodification of labor: A comparison of Germany, Great Britain, and France' (co-authored with Graham Symon)

• Wed 12th Feb, 16:00-18:00 Cécile Laborde (UCL)

• Wed 26th Feb, 16:00-18:00 Lucia Quaglia (York), ‘Transatlantic regulatory cooperation in finance after the global financial crisis’

• Tues 4th March 16.30-18.30 (room STD/K-1.99) Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, 'Reasons for Voting'.

• Wednesday, 12th March 16.30-18.30 (room STD/S-3.19) Pramilla Krishnan (Cambridge). 

• Wed 19th March, 16:00-18:00 (room STD/S-3.19) Mark Pennington, ‘Elinor Ostrom and the robust political economy of common pool resources’  

• Wed 26th March, 16:00-18:00 (room STD/S-3.19) Jeremy Jennings  'Tocqueville and America'

• Wednesday, 30th April, 16:00-18:00 Alan Kahan (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, UVSQ) ‘Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls: Religion and Freedom in Democratic Societies’ (BVI) Room: STD/S-3.19

• Wed 7th May 2014, 16:00-18:00 Giacomo de Luca (York University)'Mafia in the ballot box' (RGO) Room: STD/S-3.19

• Wed 14th May, 16:30-18:30 Ross Emmett (Michigan State University) 'Malthus with Institutions: A Comparative Political Economy of Prudential Restraint'  (RCU) Room: STD/S-3.19

• Wed 21st May, 16:00-18:00 Karuna Mantena (Yale), 'Gandhi, Weber, and the Means-Ends Question in Politics' (BVI) Room: STD/S2.38

• Tuesday 27 May, 16.30 to 18.30 Nolan McCarty, (Head of the Department of Politics at Princeton University) ‘Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy.’ Room: STD/S-2.25

• Wed 28th May, 16:00-18:00 Mark Thatcher (LSE), 'Resilient Liberalism: The Persistence of Neo-Liberal Ideas in Europe's Political Economy.' (CRR) Room: STD/S2.38

• Wed 4th June, 16:00-18:00 Benjamin Powell (Texas), ‘Sweatshops: Improving Lives and Economic Growth’ (DCA) Room: STD/S2.38

• Wed 11th June, 16:00-18:00 Chris Hanretty (UEA) & Christel Koop, ‘Independence, accountability, and the quality of regulatory decision-making’ (RGO) Room: STD/S2.38