Who supports administrative burdens? New paper with Paolo Belardinelli as part of @carr-lse.bsky.social ReConnect project. www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/a...
Who supports administrative burdens? New paper with Paolo Belardinelli as part of @carr-lse.bsky.social ReConnect project. www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/a...
In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
#UCAS application still not done? Why not consider studying Politics at university? Read this 🤩new guide from @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social to tell you more 👀👇
This lede makes no sense: "Congress learned some hard lessons about the limits of its power during the first year of the second Trump administration..." They did not in fact learn any lessons about how powers they entirely declined to exercise might have worked.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/u...
England. 2025
Sack Transport for London. Every day service failure.
Looking forward to discussion on liberalism with Frank Vibert and @pjthinker.bsky.social later today. Whether I will make it given public transport failure is another question but might explain why we need to debate this issue. www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/c...
Respectfully would argue that the Brexit referendum itself was a symptom of a political class that had withdrawn from governing and instead entertained itself with spectacle politics. (Wrote this in 2018 with @martinlodge.bsky.social). www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/c... Regulating apprenticeships workshop on 28 November @carr-lse.bsky.social with Baroness Wolff (KCL), Baroness Spielman (LSE), Tim Leunig (LSE), Ricardo Espinoza (OECD) and Montse Gomendio (Nebrija University)
Call for papers for the European Network for Public Administration (ENPA) inaugural conference in Bucharest 🇷🇴 22-25 April 2026. Come join our group on Public Sector Organisations - or one of 19 other research groups or 13 thematic panels. Abstract submission until 5 January 2026 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/c... Regulating apprenticeships workshop on 28 November @carr-lse.bsky.social with Baroness Wolff (KCL), Baroness Spielman (LSE), Tim Leunig (LSE), Ricardo Espinoza (OECD) and Montse Gomendio (Nebrija University)
We've been told for decades that 16 year olds are super prepared for the vote - overflowing with knowledge, enthusiasm, and electoral vim.
Now they're about to get it, it'll all be about training, citizenship classes, outreach programmes and the rest...
Post-liberalism has distinctive British and US sources but increasingly the US elements are driving changes in British politics - see my new book Against Post Liberalism to find out why and to see why that might be a problem… @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social #Postliberalism
Still better than any ice cream I had in 32 years in London:
In Traditions-Eiscafé geht nach 65 Jahren eine Ära zu Ende – „Es ist alles sehr komisch“
www.come-on.de/volmetal/mei...
“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”
This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.
The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!
🚨 I am looking for a new colleague @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social at HAPP is looking to hire a permanent 🙂 lecturer in International Public Policy.
Apply here: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJob...
@ecpr.bsky.social @ecprinterestgroups.bsky.social @psaireland.bsky.social
Transforming Government - new @carr-lse.bsky.social discussion paper on contemporary public sector reform. With @leightonandrews.bsky.social, Roland Koch, Daniel Werfel and Richard Mottram
www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/a...
New piece on risk, regulation and resilience revista.clad.org/ryd/article/...
The University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in governance and policy of energy systems and security in the transport sector (road, rail, maritime, air, intermodal, pipeline, space).
It’s been an honour to put this collection together.
Transforming Government - new @carr-lse.bsky.social discussion paper on contemporary public sector reform. With @leightonandrews.bsky.social, Roland Koch, Daniel Werfel and Richard Mottram
www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/a...
The headline here should say:
"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".
(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
Sir Jon Cunliffe's Water Commission Report will not help ministers resolve the industry's fundamental trade-off:- water bills v. environmental improvements.
ukcivilservant.substack.com/p/unexploded...
This is a great piece. But as a ‘European’ I am puzzled how the Anglo Saxons always talk about continental Europe as the land of abundant modern infrastructure. Somehow the German news look very different.
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