Research Amidst Volatility:
LSEUPR Annual Conference 2022
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Keynote Speaker
Every year the LSEUPR Conference has a keynote speaker from the LSE. This year we are very proud to announce that Dr Florian Foos will be kicking off the conference!
Dr Foos is currently […]
This year the LSEUPR launched its fourth annual essay competition, aimed at year 12s and 13s (or equivalent), to give them a real experience in writing an academic essay.
The question for this year was
To what extent have emerging social movements caused politicians to respond with effective social change?
The essay question was superbly tackled by over 100 students all over […]
Written by: Stephanie Sheir
The proliferation of AI has streamlined decision-making in many industries, but has incurred unique costs, creating new opportunities and risks for businesses. The use of large datasets and algorithms to streamline decision-making in the job market is an exemplar of this phenomenon. These algorithms assist recruiters in sorting through candidate pools and purport to remove human […]
Written by: Aya Kamil
In the light of China’s continuing industrialization, economic development and structural change (Hirst 2009), the increasing attention paid to the liberalization and growth in other leading Asian economies such as South Korea and India consolidates the positive narrative of economic globalization. The ‘East Asian Miracle’ should not occult the blatant disparities in global growth and development […]
Introducing the new LSEUPR ExCo Book Club: twice a term our five executive committee members will recommend a book each for students and UPR followers to read. The books may be fiction or non-fiction, but will always have some value to those interested in politics.
“Doughnut Economics” by Kate Raworth
Recommended by Jintao Zhu, Editor-in-Chief
Although I am an Editor for a […]
Written by: Quido Haskovec
1 Introduction
In the context of the dramatic events of the Brexit vote of 2016 and of the ongoing democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe, many have questioned the future of the project of European integration. The future which might seem particularly unstable due to the disparity between the increase of the political powers of the European Union […]
Written by: Hanzhi Dai and Boshen Yan
Intensive research has been conducted on the education policy of China, with more scholars concentrating on the discourse of history and patriotism in the public education system. However, the Chinese “international schools”, which are relatively isolated and independent from the public secondary education system, remain unexplored in the academia. Most of these schools […]
Written by: Florian Sichart, Jacob Chapman, Brooklyn Han, Hasan Younis, Hallamund Meena
Over the past two decades, the U.S. has experienced a spike in overdose deaths involving opioids. Demographically, the communities that have been affected most severely by this crisis are non-Hispanic Whites from the rural working class – the same demographic that propelled Donald Trump’s 2016 bid for the White […]
Kimberley Chia, BSc. Politics and Economics ’21
Preference aggregation is a key tenet in the study of political economy. It determines how individual views and preferences are taken into account to derive the group choice, which is thereafter reflected in policy. This, in turn, is dependent on the structures of political institutions in a given country or community – for […]
Written by: Vernon Yian, Nicole Sekhon, Cheryl Lau, Nandita Modhubonti, Aalekh Dhaliwal
In Feb 2020, the Thai pro-reform and anti-military Future Forward Party (FFP) was dissolved in a constitutional court ruling. Widely criticised as a move by the military junta to stymie potential opposition, the interference was predictable given Thailand’s historical alternation between military juntas and civilian governments since the abolition […]
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