STICERD Public Events and Lectures
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Political Science and Political Economy
13th Annual LSE and NYU Conference in Political Science and Political Economy: 'Social Conflict and Political Inequality'
Friday 07 June 2024 09:00 - Saturday 08 June 2024 17:40
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About this event
This is the annual LSE and NYU conference in political science and political economy. The conference will explore aspects of social conflict and political inequality.
Democratic institutions play an important role in channelling social conflict into collective decisions, facilitating mediation and peaceful coexistence. This role finds its legitimacy in the idea that, at least in principle, all people carry the same weight in the public decision-making process. In practice however, political influence can vary substantially, even in democracies for a variety of reasons, including personal and family networks, the control of mass media, lobbying and campaign finance, political participation, to name just a few examples. Political inequality may, in turn, affect both the selection of public officials and the incentives they face, leading public policy to respond disproportionally to the needs and preferences of specific groups in society, while neglecting others. This conference will present theoretical and empirical contributions addressing these issues, exploring the causes and consequences of political inequality and its multifaceted dimensions.
Organizer: Valentino Larcinese (LSE Department of Government)
The conference programme is available here.
If you would like to attend online please register here
For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe, by email: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.