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Published: May 1, 2013 12:58:00 PM
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Published: Apr 18, 2013 5:05:00 PM
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Professor Lord O’Donnell - Inaugural Lecture
Building a Better Government: the Political and Constitutional Reforms necessary to build Better Government.
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Published: May 1, 2013 3:38:34 PM
Lord Gus O'Donnell on Policy Impact
Robert Hazell talks to Lord Gus O'Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary and Visiting Professor in the School about Research and Public Policy. More...
Published: May 1, 2013 9:49:55 AM
UCL and NYU Wagner Announce Pioneering Joint Global Executive MPA
UCL’s School of Public Policy and NYU Wagner have announced today an innovative new one-year Executive Master of Public Administration in Global Public Policy and Management (Global EMPA) that will equip tomorrow’s leaders with the skills to deal with complex global issues and policy decisions. Applications open later this year and the program will start in the autumn of 2014. The joint degree program marks a partnership of two leading schools of public service in the UK and US, giving students access to organisations, leaders and experts in Europe, America and beyond. The integrated degree program is unique in that it focuses on both policy development and implementation and includes a global comparative perspective. More...
Published: Apr 29, 2013 11:37:17 AM
Gus O'Donnell is as political as the politicians
Article from www.guardian.co.uk. © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited. More...
Published: Apr 29, 2013 11:20:59 AM
Video: Highlights of Open day 2013
On 13th March 2013. we held an Open Day. It was an opportunity for prospective students to visit the School, find out more about our programmes and meet our staff. More...
Published: Mar 21, 2013 9:51:31 AM
Dr Jan-Emmanuel De Neve - Looking for the leader gene
Dr Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (click image to view high resolution version). More...
Published: Mar 18, 2013 11:16:51 AM
Video: Jack Straw - Dilemmas of a Foreign Secretary
Filmed at Archaeology Lecture Theatre G6, UCL on 7th March, 2013. More...
Published: Mar 12, 2013 1:30:22 PM
Video: Vernon Bogdanor - What Place for the Referendum in the UK?
The referendum is an instrument of popular sovereignty, an institutional expression of the doctrine that political sovereignty derives from the people. In Britain, it has been used on a small range of issues, primarily to secure legitimacy. More...
Published: Mar 1, 2013 10:57:18 AM
Ronald Dworkin - An Obitury
It is with great sadness that the Department received the news of the death of Ronald Dworkin. More...
Published: Feb 28, 2013 4:47:03 PM
Dignity in Adversity - a Workshop with Seyla Benhabib (UCL-Yale Collaboration)
22 March 2013, 9.30-6.00pm More...
Published: Feb 27, 2013 12:03:00 PM
Video: Elisa Elschner (European Public Policy) speaks to Hillary Clinton about America’s foreign policy
Watch from 31:24 to see Elisa. More...
Published: Feb 2, 2013 10:31:00 PM
Video: Dr. Christine Reh Comments on David Cameron’s EU Speech
On 23rd January, 2013 the UK Prime Minster, David Cameron, gave a speech in London outlining his pledge for an in/out referendum on the UK's membership of the EU to be held before 2018. More...
Published: Feb 1, 2013 2:00:31 PM
Conference: Liberalism and Republicanism: Public Policy Implications
School of Public Policy, Department of Political Science,
29/30 Tavistock Square
University College London
13 February, 2013
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Published: Jan 22, 2013 4:03:52 PM
Born to lead? Leadership can be an inherited trait, study finds
Dr Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (click image to view high resolution version).
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Published: Jan 16, 2013 3:37:19 PM
Mr Max Brunner Presentation
Mr Max Brunner, Deputy Head of International Department at the “Ecole Nationale d’administration”, ENA, visited UCL to give a talk on challenges of training senior civil servants in a changing world and present the programs offered by ENA. More...
Published: Dec 19, 2012 9:38:47 AM
'The Politics of Coalition' by Robert Hazell & Ben Yong is shortlisted for Political Book of the Year
Congratulations to Professor Robert Hazell and Dr Ben Yong. Their book ‘The Politics of Coalition’ (Hart Publishing) has been shortlisted for Political Book of the Year in The Paddy Power and Total Politics Political Book Awards, which has been set up to celebrate and reward excellence across all areas of political publishing. The awards ceremony will take place at the BFI IMAX cinema on the 6th February 2013. More...
Published: Dec 7, 2012 4:09:18 PM
Video: Albert Weale gives evidence to House of Common Health Committee.
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Published: Dec 5, 2012 12:36:08 PM
Video: Professor Peter John Inaugural Lecture
UCL Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre on 20 November 2012 More...
Published: Nov 29, 2012 1:02:48 PM
Video: MPhil /PhD Forum 2012
A staff/student discussion on studying for a Research Degree. More...
Published: Nov 22, 2012 1:36:06 PM
New findings on the relationship between happiness and income
© 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited More...
Published: Nov 20, 2012 3:43:52 PM
A smarter Whitehall? Sir Humphrey agrees
Tonight I am giving a seminar entitled “In Defence of Bureaucracy”. So “Sir Humphrey defends Mandarins” — where is the news in that? More...
Published: Nov 1, 2012 12:49:32 PM
Chibundu Onuzo: The Spider King’s Daughter
One of our students, Imachibundu Oluwadara Onuzo short listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize for her novel The Spider King's Daughter.
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Published: Oct 30, 2012 8:44:36 AM
Professor Peter John Inaugural Lecture
Many of the greatest challenges in public policy can only be fully addressed by changing the behavior of citizens. Climate change, poor economic growth, obesity and crime are just some of the problems that need action on the part of the public as well as from governments. But governments do not know enough about how to influence behavior; in particular, the need to find out the most appropriate ways to engage citizens so they consent to—and participate in—decisions that are made about them. Greater use of experiments—randomized controlled trials (RCTs)—is one way to increase policy relevant knowledge on behavior change. Peter John will give examples of experiments he has undertaken, which illustrate how academics can lead the way in the creation of relevant knowledge. He will acknowledge both the strengths and weaknesses of the experimental method, and set out how governments and academics can design and use RCTs in better ways. More...
Published: Oct 26, 2012 2:52:55 PM
Political Analysis is the top-cited journal in political science
Political Analysis has been confirmed as the top-cited journal
in political science, according to the 2011 Journal Citation Reports®
(Thomson Reuters, 2012). The journal has been ranked 1/148 journals with
a 5-year impact factor of 5.402.
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Published: Sep 13, 2012 12:38:16 PM
Video: Kristin Bakke - When the Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend
TEDxUCL talk, June 2, 2012 More...
Published: Aug 14, 2012 10:17:33 AM
Video: Dr Meg Russell on Lords reform: what next
The Coalition’s Lords Reform Bill received its Second Reading in the House of Commons on Monday and Tuesday. With the Labour party and at least 70 Conservative MPs announcing their intention to vote against the “Programme Motion” for the Bill (which would have imposed a time limit of 10 days for debate of the Bill at Committee Stage), the Government made a last-minute climb-down and cancelled the timetable motion. Nonetheless, the general vote on whether to give the Bill a Second Reading saw the biggest rebellion of the Coalition to date, with 91 Tory rebels voting against. More...
Published: Jul 12, 2012 5:00:31 PM
100 SPP videos now online
Today marks the 100th video upload by The Department of Political Science. More...
Published: Jul 9, 2012 12:28:29 PM
Dr Başak Çali interviewed on TRT
Dr Başak Çali interviewed on Turkish public television TRT about the European Court of Human Rights judgement in the case of Buyan and Others vs. Greece. More...
Published: Jul 6, 2012 3:15:08 PM
Lisa Vanhala - Making Rights a Reality? wins two academic prizes
Lisa Vanhala’s book Making Rights a Reality? Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization was recently awarded two academic prizes. Earlier this year Lisa was awarded the Socio-Legal Studies Association/Hart Early Career Prize. The monograph was also recently recognized as the Best Book in Comparative Politics for 2010 & 2011 by the Canadian Political Science Association. More...
Published: Jun 21, 2012 12:18:42 PM
Professor Richard Bellamy awarded the Serena Medal
Professor Richard Bellamy has been awarded the Serena Medal by the British Academy. This is awarded annually `for eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art or economics'. Richard is believed to be the first political scientist to get it. More...
Published: Jun 20, 2012 11:49:06 AM
