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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 2d

Great opportunity if you’re interested in pursuing a PhD in political science at @lsegovernment.bsky.social - with a particular interest in elections and campaigning ⬇️

Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 1d

Very cool field experiment on political conformity by one of last year's @lsegovernment.bsky.social MSc Political Science Political Behaviour Stream students, Moses Siregar: blogs.lse.ac.uk/seac/2025/10...

When Cybertroopers Shape the Crowd: Online Conformity in Indonesia - LSE Southeast Asia Blog

Cyber troop operations in Indonesia don’t persuade citizens with facts — they manufacture consensus through visibility, secrecy, and conformity. Drawing on a field experiment with over 900 Instagram u...

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 20h

With the budget fast approaching, join us for a public #event with Office for Budget Responsibility speakers to talk about UK fiscal pressures.

👛 A Sustainable Leviathan? UK Finances in a Changing World
📅 Friday 17 October, 5.30pm to 7pm
📍 LSE
📩 Register now 👇🏾

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-sustaina...

A Sustainable Leviathan? UK Finances in a Changing World

Join us for a special event closing the workshop "A Sustainable Leviathan?" where we bring the debate from theory to practice.

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 2d

📢 #Public #event annoucement!
📕 On liberalism: in defence of freedom
🗣️ #Book launch and discussion with Professor @casssunstein.bsky.social (Harvard) and Professor @pjthinker.bsky.social (LSE)
🗓️ Friday 17 October
⏰ 11.30am to 12.30pm
📍 In person only, sign up required

www.lse.ac.uk/events/on-li...

On liberalism: in defence of freedom

11.30am Fri 17 Oct | Cass Sunstein | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Konstantin Bogatyrev @bogatyrev.bsky.social · 6d

Today we kick off this year’s Political Behaviour Seminar series at @lsegovernment.bsky.social with @alicirone.bsky.social on gender dynamics in online deliberation. Glad to co-host the seminars with @florianfoos.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social! Details below 👇

Gender Dynamics in Online Deliberation: Evidence from the 2023 Meta Community Forum on AI Chatbots

Deliberative mini-publics are currently being employed throughout the world, and it has been well documented that women are less likely to exercise their voice in deliberation. Yet the advent of digital platforms that host discussions online could mitigate this gender gap, and make it easier to test theories about the design of deliberative institutions. Increasing descriptive representation — the number of women in a discussion group — could potentially improve women's frequency of participation and quality of experience; however, we know less about how these dynamics play out in deliberative settings that take place entirely online. Here, we leverage unique data from the 2023 Meta Community Forum on AI Chatbots, which brought together 1,541 people in a Deliberative Polling exercise that took place on a digital platform. Thanks to random assignment, the gender composition of each discussion room varies. We exploit the group composition to estimate how the number of female members in each group affects participation (as measured by speaking frequency and activity during the session), as well as self-reported measures of efficacy and satisfaction with deliberative processes. We find some descriptive evidence of a gender gap, but little to no effects of room composition on participation or evaluation; this has surprising implications for the design of digital deliberation.

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 8d

Read Professor Tony Traver's commentary in 'Why is the UK introducing digital IDs – and why are they so controversial?' (29 September, 2025). @aljazeera.com

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Why is the UK introducing digital IDs – and why are they so controversial?

Keir Starmer’s digital ID proposal has been criticised by rivals and civil liberties groups over privacy concerns.

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 8d

📣 Dr Douglas de Toledo Piza, Lafayette College, is joining us for this year's first Seminar Series

📚 "Overseas Chinese Engagement in Brazil and Paraguay: Migrants’ Associations, Diaspora Agencies, and Extraterritorial Policies"
📆 Friday 10 Oct, 2 - 3pm

Sign up➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/department...

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Luqman Abu El Foul | لقمان أبو الفول @luqmanabuelfoul.bsky.social · 12d

The lineup for this term's @lsegovernment.bsky.social Contentious Politics Workshop has been finalised! Join us in-person or via Zoom on Wednesdays to discuss mobilisation, repression, protest framing, memory and more. DM for Zoom links and our mailing list!

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 13d

"Joining the project delivery track of the (civil service) Fast Stream has provided me with the opportunity to integrate #policy #insight with hands-on delivery experience."

💡 This month's #alumni #spotlight is Zeinab Drabu (MSc Global Politics, 2019): www.lse.ac.uk/government/a...

Zeinab Drabu

Zeinab Drabu talks about her journey since graduation.

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 19d

Read Professor Tony Travers' commentary in The future of Oxford Street: Power, politics and pedestrians @bbcnews.bsky.social.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The future of Oxford Street: Power, politics and pedestrians

Many think the future of Oxford Street is pedestrianisation - but there are hurdles to overcome.

www.bbc.co.uk

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 19d

Read @gofosu.bsky.social's commentary in Why is democracy succeeding in Ghana? @brookings.edu

👉🏽 www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

Why is democracy succeeding in Ghana? | Brookings

Host Landry Signé and George Ofosu, assistant professor in comparative politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, discuss Ghana’s democratic trajectory, highlighting factors tha...

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to Dr Elisa Wirsching for the receipt of this award!

APSA Urban and Local Politics Section @apsaurban.bsky.social · 23d

🏆 The Best Dissertation Award goes to Elisa Maria Wirsching (now at LSE), for her 2024 dissertation “Essays on the Politics of Local Bureaucracy.”

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 20d

📣 #Public #event announcement!
💡 Thinking Popular Mobilization with Gramsci
📅 Wednesday 15 October, 5.30pm to 7pm, #LSE
📖 Book launch and discussion of Professor John Chalcraft's book
📧 Sign up required

👉🏽https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/events/2025/Thinking-Popular-Mobilization-with-Gramsci

This event launches Professor John Chalcraft's new book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization.

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Brierley who was awarded a
@ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship for her project, #Political #Finance in #Africa.

The fellowship provides long-term support which enables fellows to tackle ambitious multidisciplinary questions.

www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

The scheme aims to develop the next wave of world-class research.

Under this fellowship, Dr Brierley will launch a project on the financing of politics within democracies in Sub-Saharan Africa, investigating pressures for legislative reform

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 22d

We are honoured to be hosting LSE's annual Black History Month event!

40 years on from the Broadwater Farm riots, our speakers will examine methods of resistance that continue to address present-day questions of race, racism and social inequality.

Registration required ⬇️
bit.ly/4glHaze

Racism and racial justice | Broadwater Farm uprising

6.30pm Weds 1 Oct | Sharon Grant, Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Roxana Willis | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 22d

📢 #Event announcement!
💻 Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation
🗓️ Thursday 2 October, 4pm to 6pm
📍📍 LSE
📩 Sign up required

Join the @lsepoltheory.bsky.social seminar for the launch and discussion of #Tom #Parr's latest book.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1558920666...

Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation book launch

Join the Political Theory seminar at LSE for the launch and discussion of Tom Parr's latest book

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 27d

📣Upcoming event!
🎬A special screening of From Where We Stand — a film on race, belonging & post-Brexit Northern England.

Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Lucy Kaye, Professor Adrian Favell, and Professor Mike Savage.

📅 Thurs 2 Oct, 5pm
📍LSE

More info➡️ buff.ly/f7Ycglm

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 24d

#APSA25 - classic gin martini and Cass Sunstein’s new book @lsegovernment.bsky.social - will be chairing his lecture at LSE later in October

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 26d

I am so excited that this excellent line-up of speakers are presenting in the LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour seminar series this term! 👇

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 26d

🎉 Huge congratulations to our brilliant LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social colleague, Mathias Poertner @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social for winning APSA’s Leon Epstein book award for his excellent book Creating Partisans!
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 28d

#Student #research highlight! ⚡️

"The Summit reinforced the importance of adaptive, ethical leadership in today’s interconnected world."

Read Alexandre Garrido Perrier's (MSc Public Policy and Administration) blog about the Leaders’ Summit in New York City. 🗽
blogs.lse.ac.uk/government/2...

My Experience at the Leaders’ Summit in New York - LSE Government Blog

MSc student Alexandre Garrido Perrier shares his experience at the 2025 ISLD Leaders Summit in New York In July 2025, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Leaders' Summit in New York...

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations, Carl! We look forward to seeing how this project progresses over the coming years in the department.

Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉 I am so very happy that I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project BORDERS: Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond. My (future) team and I will investigate the mechanisms underlying the effects of border change on development in historical Europe and worldwide. #ERCStG 🎉

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're so proud of our Assistant Professor, Dr Carl Müller-Crepon, who was one of three #LSE academics to be awarded a coveted #European #Research Council Starting #Grant for his project, Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond. 🥳
@erc.europa.eu

www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

ERC Starting Grants | Academic Grant Awards

Three LSE academics win prestigious ERC Starting Grants for research on growth externalities, multinational linkages and border change, joining 478 early-career grantees across Europe.

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations to our brilliant colleague in the LSE Government Department @lsegovernment.bsky.social Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on being awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project "Border Change and Local Development in Europe and Beyond"! 🎉🎉 www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...

ERC Starting Grants | Academic Grant Awards

Three LSE academics win prestigious ERC Starting Grants for research on growth externalities, multinational linkages and border change, joining 478 early-career grantees across Europe.

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com who was awarded the 2025 #Political #Theory #Prize for the best first book in political theory in English. Bruno received the award for his book, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought.
ecpr.eu/News/News/De...

The 2025 Political Theory Prize is awarded to Bruno Leipold

European Consortium for Political Research

ecpr.eu

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