Department of Government Field Seminars
Course for the Department of Government research students to submit field seminar assessed essays...
LSE Government Undergraduate Programmes
GV3L1 Analytical Approaches to British Politics
GV3L2 - The Politics and Policy of Climate Change and Sustainability
This course introduces students to the political dynamics underlying environmental governance and...
Department of Government - GV4-RDAP
This Moodle page serves as a resource hub and submission portal for all Department of Government ...
GV4A5 International Migration and Immigration Management
The aim of the course is to provide a critical understanding of the phenomenon of international ...
GV4A8 - Political Violence and Terrorism
How can we distinguish legitimate resistance and political violence from terrorism? What is the ...
GV4B6 - Kant's Political Philosophy
GV4B7 - The Idea of Freedom
The concept of freedom is often invoked in political life. Many policies and broader political ...
GV4B8 - Civil Wars: Concepts and Cases
The course examines social science explanations of the origins, intractability and outcomes of ...
GV4B9 - The Second Europe
The course explores the problems of delayed modernisation, problematic democratisation, ...
GV4C8 - Game Theory for Political Science
GV4C9 - Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia
GV4C9 focuses on the five most important countries in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Myanmar, the ...
GV4D3 - Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization and Decentralization
This course focuses on the conditions and processes enabling the entrenchment of diverse forms of...
GV4D7 - Dilemmas of Equality
The course starts with the general question of why (or if) equality matters. It then introduces ...
GV4E1 - Comparative Democratisation in a Global Age
To introduce students to the fundamental political science debates about the phenomenon of ...
GV4E2 - Capitalism and Democracy
Compatibility and incompatibility of capitalism and democracy; Constitutional restraints on ...
GV4E3 - Statebuilding and Self-Determination in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
This course provides a theoretically informed assessment and critique of the debates on the ...
GV4E8 - Power-Sharing and Institutional Design in Divided Societies
The internal resolution of serious ethnic and national conflicts almost inevitably involves some ...
GV4E9 - Approaches and Issues in Public Policy and Administration
This core course introduces a range of themes and academic debates on the organization and ...
GV4F2 - Popular Politics in the Middle East
This course aims to evaluate the meaning and importance of popular politics in the making of the ...
GV4F4 - Policy Advice in Theory and Practice
Many masters graduates in public policy and administration go on to work in organizations that ...
GV4F5 - Study of Key Political Thinkers
GV4F8 - Institutions in the Global Economy
This course examines the role institutions play in global trade. Theories from economics and ...
GV4G1 - Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science
This course provides an introduction to current empirical research in political science with a ...
GV4G4 - Comparative Conflict Analysis
What is intra-state conflict? How should we investigate and measure political violence? What ...
GV4G7 - Marx and Marxism
This course will provide a detailed assessment of Karl Marx’s political philosophy. It is divided...
GV4H1 - Chinese Political Thought
This course will introduce students to recurring debates and concepts within Chinese political ...
GV4H3 - Feminist Political Theory
This course covers some of the central debates in contemporary feminist political theory, with a ...
GV4H4 - Foundations of Political Theory
This course provides an introduction to the philosophical and methodological foundations of ...
GV4H5 - The Political Philosophy of Environmental Change
This course analyses political and philosophical questions arising in the context of ...
GV4H6 - Behavioural Political Economy
In this course we will introduce behavioural concepts and use them at explaining decisions of ...
GV4J7 - Introductory Mathematics for Political Science
The aim of this pre-sessional course is to provide students with the essential mathematical ...
GV4J8 - Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective
This course offers an advanced introduction to the politics of the Middle East and North Africa ...
GV4K1 - Opening Government: Transparency, Accountability, and Participation
This course will familiarise students with the theory and practice of transparency, ...
GV4K2 - Postcolonial and Comparative Political Theory
GV4K4 - The Politics of Globalization
This is the core course of the MSc Global Politics. It examines the nature, the causes and the ...
GV4K7 - Conflict and Cooperation: Key Debates
GV4K8 - Global Public Policy
The course examines the process and outcomes of policy-making at the global level. Students can ...
GV4L1 Analytical Approaches to British Politics