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Jonathan White

@jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social

Professor of Politics, LSE https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/people/white-jonathan

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Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 4w ago

Excited to share a new paper on transformative statecraft. We start from a critique of the compensation consensus in climate politics/political science. Compensating losers works – plenty of evidence for that. But when the goal is transformation (not reform), we need to think about mobilization. 🧵

Title: Beyond compensation: Climate politics, mobilization, and transformative statecraft Authors: Benjamin Braun & Leah Downey July 8, 2026 Abstract: Governments have pursued decarbonization through a combination of subsidies for capital and compensation for people. Political scientists have identified the compensation of those who incur losses from climate policies as the the central challenge in building green coalitions and achieving a just transition. However, a decarbonization path aimed at limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius en- tails transformative change for virtually everyone. We argue that, under such con- ditions, a compensation-based approach reduces green backlash to pocketbook concerns; citizens to bundles of fixed preferences; and evaluation to policy-by- policy assessment. Proposing to move beyond compensating existing preferences, we contend that transformative statecraft reshapes preferences through political mobilization. From this perspective, a technocratic approach—focused on calcu- lation and compensation—constitutes a binding constraint on green statecraft. We defend this mobilization-based approach against the objections of manipulation and deprivation of freedom and suggest that a democratic version of transforma- tive statecraft is possible.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2mo ago

‘Fees that don’t meet ever rising costs; significant falls in the number of international students; sudden drops or worrying fluctuations in the size of the intake in some subjects: these are the stuff of nightmares.’ Stefan Collini on what’s wrong with UK universities www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For anyone who ever claimed that the Gaza Health Ministry death toll in Gaza could not be trusted - today the IDF acknowledged it agrees with their numbers. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war

Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

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Lea Ypi@leaypi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

To celebrate my appointment as the Ralph Miliband Professor of Politics & Philosophy at LSE Law School & the School of Public Policy, I'll give an inaugural lecture entitled “Are Revolutions Justified?”. Registration required - look forward to seeing many of you! ❤️ lselaw.events/event/are-re...

Lea Ypi Inaugural Lecture | Are revolutions justified? - LSE Law School Events

Moralists think that if the ends of revolution are right, revolution cannot be wrong. Legalists think that since the means of revolution are wrong, revolution cannot be right. In this lecture Lea Ypi ...

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Lea Ypi@leaypi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Merry Christmas from Rosa, @ppfideas.bsky.social team & me 😍! In the latest episode of the podcast, David & I discuss von Trotta's film "Rosa Luxemburg" & the life and politics of “the most brilliant intellect of all the scientific heirs of Marx and Engels Marx and Engels", as Franz Mehring put it.

Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Keir Milburn@kmilb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#ACFM examines the Future. @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I ask, did young people always worry so much about their futures? Has the currency of emergency been devalued? Does conservatism have an idea of the future? With music from LTJ Bukem and FKA twigs. novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/w...

What Happened to Our Dreams of the Future? | Novara Media

A weird-left explanation of how the future lost its shine, with ideas from Max Weber, Kate Raworth and Jonathan White.

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo ago

More than a quarter of a million people displaced from Gaza City in past month, UN figures show

More than a quarter of a million people displaced from Gaza City in past month, UN figures show

Tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in face of new Israeli offensive More than a quarter of a million people have been displaced from Gaza City in the last month, new figures from the UN reveal, with tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in the face of a new Israeli offensive. Multiple strikes by Israeli artillery, tanks and warplanes hit Gaza City again on Thursday, prompting what a UN official called “new waves of mass displacement” after about 60,000 fled the new assault in 72 hours earlier this week. Continue reading...

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Lea Ypi@leaypi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Dear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left! www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...

Lea Ypi: In conversation with Hannah Dawson at Hoxton Hall | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Lea Ypi: In conversation with Hannah Dawson at Hoxton Hall today.

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Lea Ypi@leaypi.bsky.social · last yr.

The content of my thoughts is now an object in the world!!! Thank you, thank you to everyone who supported the research or supported the writing or supported me & the research & the writing - I am so grateful and happy and can’t wait to celebrate with you all when it’s released on 4th September 😍😍🐥!

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David Wearing@davidwearing.bsky.social · last yr.

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

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Elena Polivtseva@elenapolivtseva.bsky.social · last yr.

As Jonathan White argues, politics obsessed with numbers has shrunk our sense of the future. Art can spark collective imagination and a deeper purpose beyond economic metrics. Read my conversation with @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social here: www.culturepolicyroom.eu/insights/tod...

‘The shrinking political imagination is a threat to democracy’ — Culture Policy Room

As the European Union grapples with long-term budgets and shifting political priorities, I spoke with Jonathan White about how Europe, as a shared democratic project, can endure in an age when collect...

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