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Teaching Fellow in Governing Divided Societies
The Department wishes to appoint a Teaching Fellow to provide teaching on the course “Governing Divided Societies” during a period of sabbatical leave. The course is offered in term two to postgraduate students on a range of Masters programmes delivered by the Department, particularly the MSc Democracy and Comparative Politics. More...
Published: May 24, 2012 12:30:00 PM
School Receptionist/Administration Assistant
Department of Political Science/School of Public Policy More...
Published: May 11, 2012 10:09:00 AM
Teaching Fellow in Political Theory Methods
University College London (UCL) is a multi-faculty college of the University of London with a population of over 17,000 students, from more than 130 different countries. Degree programmes are provided in Arts and Humanities, Social and Historical Sciences, Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and Planning, Laws, Life Sciences and Clinical Sciences (including Medicine), Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Engineering Sciences. More...
Published: May 10, 2012 4:48:00 PM
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Video: Jan-Emmanuel De Neve on Genoeconomics
Genoeconomics: the promise and pitfalls of a new research frontier in economics. More...
Published: May 24, 2012 4:23:39 PM
Dr Sherrill Stroschein: Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe
Problems of democracy are magnified in societies divided on ethnic religious lines, particularly where groups are mobilized into parties. Due to majority rule, minorities should be less willing to endorse democratic institutions where they persistently lose elections. These problems should hamper democratization, but Eastern Europe contains several states that navigated these problems during the 1990s. In Romania and Slovakia, sustained protest and contention by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought concessions on policies that they could not achieve through the ballot box. Ethnic protest in these states made each group accustomed to each other’s claims, and aware of the degree to which each could push its own. Ethnic contention became a de facto deliberative process that fostered a moderation of group claims, allowing democratic consolidation to slowly and organically take root. Such moderation took place even after a violent riot between Hungarians and Romanians in 1990, showing promise for other democratizing states. More...
Published: May 22, 2012 12:00:35 PM
Award for 'Freedom, Security and Justice after Lisbon and Stockholm’ book, co-edited by Sarah Wolff
The LISBOAN Erasmus Academic Network has awarded on 11th May its 2012 award for Outstanding Research to the book co-edited by Sarah Wolff, Flora Goudappel and Jaap de Zwaan on ‘Freedom, Security and Justice after Lisbon and Stockholm’. This award praises the collaborative efforts of the contributors, practitioners and academics, whose hard work have turned this project in a reality. The award distinguished the book for its contribution to the state of the art of research on the Treaty of Lisbon and its implementation. More...
Published: May 21, 2012 5:27:03 PM
Workshop: From Ideal Principles to Real Politics
This workshop brings together political theorists and political scientists to debate the relationship between normative political principles and real-world politics. In recent years, political theorists have started to voice concerns about their discipline’s apparent inability to help guide political action. Political theory, many have complained, is too detached or idealized. In order to be practically relevant, critics have pointed out, political theories need to be more sensitive to real-world factual constraints, and must focus on the question of ‘how to make the world more just’, rather than on that of ‘what a perfectly just society looks like’. These and similar considerations have given rise to a number of related debates, including the debate between ideal vs. non-ideal theory, the debate between ‘realism’ and ‘idealism’ in political theory, and the debate between what Amartya Sen calls ‘transcendental’ (categorical) vs. ‘comparative’ approaches to justice. More...
Published: May 11, 2012 12:44:46 PM
Workshop: Justice, Democracy and Non-domination
Much contemporary political philosophy, especially within liberal egalitarian quarters, is preoccupied with defending the idea of distributive justice. From this broadly Rawls-inspired perspective, distributive justice - especially of an egalitarian kind - is the most important virtue of social institutions. A separate, but related tradition in political philosophy, republicanism, holds that the primary virtue of social institution is a different one: freedom understood as non-domination. From a republican perspective, morally justified social arrangements are not those that implement distributive equality, but those that honour the freedom of their members and secure them against arbitrary power, typically via democratic decision-making procedures. More...
Published: May 11, 2012 12:35:45 PM
Public Engagement with Global Poverty: Explaining Support for Development
To what extent do UK citizens support action on global poverty, such as giving international development aid, and why? Dr David Hudson (UCL) has recently been awarded a prestigious British Academy Fellowship to carry out a programme of research answering this question. More...
Published: May 3, 2012 1:32:16 PM
New York convention of the ASN
Dr. Sherrill Stroschein’s research hat included co-chairing the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) in New York. More...
Published: May 3, 2012 12:52:44 PM
Richard Bellamy awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2012-2014
Richard Bellamy has been awarded the Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2012-2014 for project on A Republic of European States: Cosmopolitanism, Republicanism and the EU. More...
Published: Apr 27, 2012 12:00:02 PM
Neil Mitchell: Democracy's Blameless Leaders
From the American and British counter-insurgency in Iraq to the bombing of Dresden and the Amristar Massacre in India, civilians are often abused and killed when they are caught in the cross-fire of wars and other conflicts. In Democracy’s Blameless Leaders, Neil Mitchell examines how leaders in democracies manage the blame for the abuse and the killing of civilians, arguing that politicians are likely to react in a self-interested and opportunistic way and seek to deny and evade accountability. More...
Published: Apr 25, 2012 3:24:21 PM
Climate Change Litigation, Policy and Mobilization
2.00pm - 5.30pm, Friday, 27 April 2012 More...
Published: Apr 12, 2012 10:02:47 AM
Open Day Videos 2012
Held on 14th March 2012, this was an opportunity for prospective students to visit the School to learn more about our programmes, meet staff and students and explore UCL. More...
Published: Mar 28, 2012 12:11:02 PM
Happy adolescents 'likely to have higher income' as adults - Dr Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Professor Andrew Oswald
The following article appeared in The Observer More...
Published: Mar 26, 2012 11:03:22 AM
SPP Career Networking Event 2012
The School of Public Policy held a careers evening for current students. The event was chaired by Dr Lisa Vanhala and UCL Careers Advisor, Patrice Ware. More...
Published: Mar 26, 2012 10:44:01 AM
Don Levett, author of How to Find a Graduate Job
Don Levett, author of How to Find a Graduate Job, spoke to the School of Public Policy MSc students on February 29, on “What Next? Penetrating Policy or Taking a Tangent: How to Tailor Your Job Hunt Accordingly.” More...
Published: Mar 20, 2012 5:26:13 PM
Video: Referendum on Scottish Independence: The Law and the Politics - Professor Robert Hazell
A referendum on Scottish Independence is now firmly on
the constitutional agenda. Following David Cameron's announcement that
he intends to give the Scottish Parliament power to hold a referendum
and in the context of the launch of both Westminster and Scottish
consultations in January 2012, numerous questions remain to be resolved
over the process and timing of the vote.
Constitution Unit Honorary Research Fellow and author of the Devolution
Matters blog Alan Trench discussed the political issues around holding a
referendum; Constitution Unit Director Robert Hazell presented the
legal concerns, drawing on the Unit's 2002 publication, Scottish
Independence: a Practical Guide.
More...
Published: Mar 16, 2012 10:27:12 AM
Video: Referendum on Scottish Independence: The Law and the Politics - Alan Trench
A referendum on Scottish Independence is now firmly on the
constitutional agenda. Following David Cameron's announcement that he
intends to give the Scottish Parliament power to hold a referendum and
in the context of the launch of both Westminster and Scottish
consultations in January 2012, numerous questions remain to be resolved
over the process and timing of the vote.
Constitution Unit Honorary Research Fellow and author of the Devolution
Matters blog Alan Trench discussed the political issues around holding a
referendum; Constitution Unit Director Robert Hazell presented the
legal concerns, drawing on the Unit's 2002 publication, Scottish
Independence: a Practical Guide.
More...
Published: Mar 16, 2012 10:16:45 AM
The UCL European Institute Careers Event
The UCL European Institute organised an EU Careers Event for undergraduate and graduate students, in cooperation with the UCLU European Society. It formed part of the International Careers Week organised by the UCL Careers Service. More...
Published: Mar 12, 2012 3:37:29 PM
Video: Dr. Michael Shackleton
On Wednesday, February 1, 2012 IPAS Academic Events hosted a lecture on "Britain and the European Union" by Dr. Michael Shackleton, former head of the European Parliament Information Office in the UK. More...
Published: Feb 9, 2012 11:29:40 PM
IPAS fundraising for the Jaago Foundation
The official Video Launch of the Jaago Foundation Campaign by IPAS. More...
Published: Jan 17, 2012 1:27:20 PM
Video: Public Policy Economics and Analysis Lecture
Dr Jan-Emmanuel De Neve gives a lecture for the Public Policy Economics and Analysis course, titled, Behavioural Economics and Wellbeing. More...
Published: Dec 22, 2011 1:59:41 PM
