New research from Felipe Carozzi & Andres Gago sheds light on why there is a growing ideological gap between young men and women across the world blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…

'Rather than interpreting disability as an aberration for which compensations need to be made, Gissen calls for the creation of an architecture which coexists with disability.'

The Architecture of Disability U of MN Press reviewed by Amy Batley ➡ wp.me/p2MwSQ-hgt

'If society and social demands might be seen as an enabler of corruption (something that is not, the author reminds us, a uniquely African problem), the necessary flip side is that it can also represent a constraint on the actions of those in power.'

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We are proud to welcome three #NobelPrize winners to LSE in Spring Term!

Register to attend online:

🗓️ 30 April - Joseph E. Stiglitz: lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/04…

🗓️ 2 May - Claudia Goldin: lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

🗓️ 2 May - Esther Duflo: lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

New ✨ The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access by David Gissen U of MN Press, reviewed by Amy Batley. wp.me/p2MwSQ-hgt

Data shows that the British public trusts its own government less than in America.

Ros Taylor argues that for the sake of a functioning democracy, politicians must help rebuild trust in institutions, rather than undermine it for their own benefit.
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Drawing on extensive qualitative data, Marcus Mietzner's The Coalitions Presidents Make Cornell University Press both sheds light on #Indonesia 's particular case and reflects more broadly on #CoalitionPolitics in emerging democracies, writes yennie yong.

Review 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hf2

Can we know what drives human behaviours?🧔🥕

A post on LSE Business Review proposes a framework to capture four key categories of behavioural drivers (society, thoughts, emotions and motivation) to enable better understanding of behavioural biases.

'[Hodgson] celebrates the productive power of finance capital and industrial investment, but eschews a critical analysis of capitalism’s social consequences.'

The Wealth of a Nation reviewed by SM Amadae.

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In a review of Good Governance in Nigeria by Portia Roelofs, Stephanie Wanga finds the book a grounded and nuanced argument for models of #Governance that, unlike the conventional western models, are locally shaped and socially embedded.

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What caused #Capitalism to take root in 17th-century England?

Geoffrey M Hodgson #FBPA 🔶's The Wealth of a Nation Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s explores how the enshrined alienability of property (including slaves) ushered in capitalism and the #IndustrialRevolution . SM Amadae 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hgh

'The central institution enabling the rise of modern political economy in England was finance: the ability to alienate the ownership of land and other property to serve as collateral for investment loans.

Geoffrey M Hodgson #FBPA 🔶's The Wealth of a Nation reviewed 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hgh

'Economic growth is mainly driven by high-tech industries that private and state-owned capital foster, both of which must be under the control of the government, with the unified aim of rejuvenating the Chinese nation.'

The Gilded Cage review ➡ wp.me/p2MwSQ-hdH

New ✨ The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism Geoffrey M Hodgson #FBPA 🔶 Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s. #Review by SM Amadae.

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'How have Indonesia’s presidents post-2004 managed to survive the perils of presidentialism, and what is the price for it?'

Marcus Mietzner's The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and its Limits in Democratic Indonesia. Review yennie yong ➡ wp.me/p2MwSQ-hf2

#WeekendReading : Good Governance in Nigeria 🇳🇬: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century by Portia Roelofs Dr Portia Roelofs Cambridge University Press.

Review Stephanie Wanga 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-heJ

.yennie yong reviews The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia Marcus Mietzner Cornell University Press

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LSE Southeast Asia #Indonesia 🇮🇩 #Politics #Elections

Good Governance in Nigeria by Portia Roelofs Dr Portia Roelofs Cambridge University Press critiques conventional Western ideas of good #Governance imposed in #Africa , and specifically #Nigeria 🇳🇬, through fieldwork and historical analysis. 

Review Stephanie Wanga wp.me/p2MwSQ-heJ

Tactical Publishing The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social is an inspiring resource for scholars and practitioners interested in the critical potential of experimenting with the technologies, forms and socio-material spaces that emerge around books, writes Rebekka Kiesewetter.

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In Reclaiming Participatory Governance Routledge Books, editors Adrian Bua Sonia Bussu also on @[email protected] bring together analyses of social movements from Germany to Brazil to Greenland that engage with democracy-driven governance.

#Review by Andrea Felicetti wp.me/p2MwSQ-hfL