Thank you to LSE’s Accounting Department for the past 16 years. Excited for @carr-lse.bsky.social to have an exciting future with LSE’s Government Department. New website address: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation

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We're recruiting for an open-rank position in Political Theory to strengthen and complement our existing expertise in the field. We welcome applications at Assistant, Associate and (Full) Professor level. Check out the job details below for full information! 👇 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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Citizens’ support for behavioural public policy and trust in government: evidence from two online experiments

We explore citizens’ support for behavioral interventions by distinguishing interventions that exploit citizens’ bounded rationality through choice architecture (Nudge) from those that challenge bo...

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cps.ceu.edu/article/2016... Back in 2016, Nick Sitter and I forecast a central place for Clacton in British politics.

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New @carr-lse.bsky.social discussion paper on the Brussels innovation effect - by Slobodan Tomic & Ognjen Dragicevic. www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/a...

‘Making tax digital’ already now qualifies as case study of terrible public policy. Forcing people into costly apps, punitive communications. For no clear purpose.

Start to Year 32 at the Proms; a magnificent Prog Rock night. Great to see Carl Palmer again.

Headteachers in London are being told to keep their schools open in the heat. Many are concluding they can’t. But they’re also worried about Ofsted attendance stats and whether they’re just sending kids home to cook in even hotter flats. www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-sc...

London's schools can't cope with the heat

Plus: Boris Johnson's mystery plan for a second cable car • TfL hackers plead guilty • Brixton Market community bid submitted • It's really, really hot

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The withdrawal of public infrastructures (and I am an alumni) Kita in Meinerzhagen Nach 59 Jahren: Evangelische Kita am Inselweg www.come-on.de/volmetal/mei...

Nach 59 Jahren: Evangelische Kita am Inselweg schließt

Die evangelische Kita am Inselweg in Meinerzhagen macht zum Sommer dicht. Für 38 Kinder mussten neue Plätze gefunden werden.

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www.bbc.com/mediacentre/... @whisperingbob.bsky.social has done more to my music education than anyone else. Thank you for all those late night shows in particular

BBC Radio 2 updates - Bob Harris to step down from hosting

The legendary broadcaster has made the decision to step down due to ill health

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Buen camino, profe Raúl Pacheco Vega. Fuiste y serás siempre el investigador más chido.

Just re-reading 'Brexit, the tides and Canute: the fracturing politics of the British state' written by @martinlodge.bsky.social and me in 2018, and maybe we were not entirely wrong...

Brexit, the tides and Canute: the fracturing politics of the British state

The result and aftermath of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union has generated considerable attention, not just among observers of British politics. Even if some of wider con...

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ENPA has with one conference established itself as the premier conference for European public administration. Great event.

J. Ignacio Criado@jicriado.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 Call for abstracts Inaugural European Network for Public Administration (ENPA) Conference, Bucharest, 23-25th April, 2026. 📌 Consider our Research Group on e-Government 📅 Submissions due before January 5th 2026: lnkd.in/d8Uuu5gj 👉 Information about conference groups: lnkd.in/dK4Udip5

Special Issue Article: When the Regulatory State Meets Populism: Regulatory Agencies in Mexico From: Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna, @martinlodge.bsky.social, and Daniel Daza-Vázquez onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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When the Regulatory State Meets Populism: Regulatory Agencies in Mexico

This paper focuses on two questions: what kind of strategies of de-institutionalization of the regulatory state have been chosen, and to what extent can they be linked to an explicit ‘populist’ agend...

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Let the celebrations begin for Michael Skubala & Lincoln City 🎊 🎥 @eduardotansley.bsky.social

Habermas und die Gretchenfrage I: Friedrich Wilhelm Grafs Predigt am Sarge. www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

Predigt am Sarge von Jürgen Habermas

Vernünftige Religion gibt es nur insoweit, als sich in den Vorstellungswelten der Religionen rationale Gehalte finden lassen, welche die Humanisierung des Menschen befördern. Auch die Idee vom göttlic...

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Who supports administrative burdens? New paper with Paolo Belardinelli as part of @carr-lse.bsky.social ReConnect project. www.lse.ac.uk/accounting/a...

If only there was research on this, eh @martinlodge.bsky.social?

Politics in the Boardroom: Corporate Pay, Networks and Recruitment of Former Parliamentarians, Ministers and Civil Servants in Britain

This article explores an important aspect of post-career earnings in public life in Britain: membership of corporate boards by former parliamentarians, ministers and civil servants. It attempts to de...

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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...

UK drops target for international student recruitment

Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration

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#UCAS application still not done? Why not consider studying Politics at university? Read this 🤩new guide from @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social to tell you more 👀👇

Political Studies Association@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

*PSA Resource* Read and share our NEW 'Guide to Studying #Politics & #InternationalRelations at University' ➡️ Studying #PIR helps develop sought-after critical thinking, analytical and communication skills. ➡️ Discover what a Politics degree can offer, and where it can take you. buff.ly/T1BCZ8a

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...

A Diminished Congress Weighs Whether to Reassert Its Power

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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)

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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)

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