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Comparative Politics and Political Economy


The Comparative Politics group brings together a wide range of expertise on the politics of all major world regions, with a particular focus on the developing world.

Research Pillar(s): Comparative Politics and Area Studies

About: The Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy Research Group brings together a wide range of expertise on the politics of all major world regions, with a particular focus on the developing world.

Members: Dr Sarah Brierley, Prof Catherine Boone, Prof John Chalcraft, Dr Daniel Berliner, Prof Steffen Hertog, Prof Jonathan Hopkin, Dr Ryan Jablonski, Dr Mathias Poertner

Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy Seminar Series

The Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy seminar provides a platform for research students and faculty to discuss the on-going work of local and international researchers. Its focus is comparative politics, development and comparative political economy. It is supported by the Departments of Government and International Development and involves PhD students and faculty from these and many other departments. 

This seminar will not be taking place during the 2024-25 academic year.

To join the mailing list please contact gov.comms@lse.ac.uk

Seminar Convener(s): Prof Catherine Boone, Dr Steffen Herthog

Past Seminars

Autumn Term

Thursday 5 October 2023Diminishing Returns? A Debate on the Growth Model Theory of Political Economy
Lucio Baccaro (Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies), Mark Blyth (Brown University), Jonas Pontusson (Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Geneva), Natalya Naqvi (Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), Pavithra Suryanarayan (Assistant Professor, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), Victoria Paniagua (Assistant Professor in International Political Economy, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Postponed: Welfare preferences of labour market insiders and outsiders in the Global South: evidence from Egypt
Thoraya El-Rayyes (Visiting Fellow, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Thursday 9 November 2023How does market power affect political contestation in advanced democracies?
Tommaso Crescioli (PhD Candidate, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) and Toon van Overbeek ( Assistant Professor in Europe, Climate and Digital Society, Maastricht University and Visiting Fellow, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Thursday 23 November 2023Legibility as Commitment: Land Record Digitization and Conflict Over Infrastructure in India
Aliz Toth (Assistant Professor of Political Science, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Thursday 13 October 2022Charismatic Leaders and Nation-building
Lydia Assouad (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Thursday 20 October 2022Electoral Change, Occupational Coalitions, and the Prospects for Mainstream and Challenger Parties in Western Democracies
Peter Hall (Harvard)

Thursday 17 November 2022Members of the Same Club?: Subnational Variations in Electoral Returns to Public Goods
Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)

Thursday 1 December 2022Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality and Resistance in Myanmar
Gerard McCarthy (National University of Singapore): 

Winter Term

Thursday 25 January 2024Being Seen by the State: Programmatic Cash Transfers and Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan
Rehan Jamil (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Fellow in Public Policy and Administration, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Thursday 1 February 2024Populism and Bond Markets (topic tbc) 
Alison Johnston (Associate Professor in Political Science, Oregan State University)

Thursday 15 February 2024Border Economies and Political Sovereignty
Victoria Hattam (Professor of Politics, The New York School for Social Research)

Thursday 7 March 2024Defending parliament: responses of mainstream parties to parliamentary erosion
Isabela Mares (Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the European Union Center, Yale)

Tuesday 26 March 2024Reimagining Property Rights
Margaret Levi (Professor of Political Science, Stanford), co-hosted with Political Science and Political Economy2.00pm to 3.30pm, SAL.3.05

Thursday 19 January 2023With a Whimper or with a Bang? Dynamic Intensity in Civil Wars
Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford)

Thursday 2 February 2023Patchwork States: Historical Roots of Subnational Conflict and Competition in South Asia
Dann Naseemullah (KCL)

Thursday 9 March 2023Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy
Ana Catalano Weeks (University of Bath) 

Thursday 23 March 2023Indentured Migration, Caste and Electoral Competition in Colonial India
Pavi Suryanarayan (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)