Must Government Fund Science?
Blog: Reason.com
AEI's Tony Mills and British biochemist Terence Kealey debate whether science needs government funding.
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Blog: Reason.com
AEI's Tony Mills and British biochemist Terence Kealey debate whether science needs government funding.
Blog: UCL Political Science Events
Last summer, Lord Nick Herbert launched the Commission for Smart Government to tackle the systemic problems of government in the UK.
Blog: UCL Political Science Events
Prof Christian Schuster's Inaugural Lecture.
Good governance is essential, but governance reforms in the global south often fail. This lecture asks why. One increasingly popular view is that the strategy adopted by international development organisations – which focuses on advancing 'global best practice' laws – is fundamentally flawed and that solutions need to be home-grown. This lecture challenges that perspective.
Blog: BYU Political Science Blog
Eitan Hersh, author of Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change, and Assistant Professor of Civic Studies from the Department of Political Science at Tufts' Tisch College spoke on Thursday, October 15, at 11am via Zoom. The Office of Civic Engagement hosted the event and the […]
Blog: UCL Political Science Events
2022 will see the launch of the long awaited Covid inquiry. One key set of issues will involve the role of scientific advice: how it is gathered, and co-ordinated; how it is fed in to ministers; how uncertain or conflicting advice is handled; how transparent and accountable the whole process is; and how to improve the handling of scientific advice in future.
Blog: BYU Political Science Blog
Sven Wilson portrait Photography by Alyssa Lyman/BYU How does military service affect male veterans' civic participation? BYU professor & chair of the Department of Political Science, Sven Wilson recently published a paper in the journal Armed Forces & Society showing that military service has historically predicted greater civic involvement later in life. Wilson and coauthor William Ruger […]
Blog: UCL Uncovering Politics
Our first episode of season 5 looks at relationships between governments and private sector suppliers. Why do they exist? What forms do they take? And how well do they work?
Blog: UCL Uncovering Politics
This episode explores the powers of political executives. What can ministers and presidents do without the consent of the legislature? And what place should such powers have in a democracy?
Blog: BYU Political Science Blog
On Thursday September 12, 2019, Shannon Manning spoke to our Political Careers Lecture Series. She spoke about her 20 years' experience in grassroots advocacy and communications. Shannon Manning serves as Senior Vice President of Advocate Engagement at DDC Public Affairs, a public relations organization which handles public and private sector PR. Shannon has played a […]
Blog: UCL Political Science Events
Government interventions in response to Covid-19 make clear that the state can act as an extremely powerful guarantor of economic and health security. But has the crisis, and the subsequent governmental response, shifted voters' attitudes about the role that the government should play in society more generally? In a recent study, Tim Hicks, Tom O'Grady, and Jack Blumenau (UCL) examine whether the pandemic has led to a reversal of 'small state' ideology. To discuss the implications of their findings they are joined by Lord (Stewart) Wood, special adviser to Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, and by Ailbhe Rea, political correspondent at the New Statesman.
Blog: UCL Political Science Events
Brexit has shaken British politics and raised important questions about how our democracy functions.
Philip Rycroft, who was the lead civil servant on constitutional issues within the UK Government from 2012 to 2019, will examine how much Brexit has stressed the democratic process. He will look at trust in the institutions of the state and the state of democratic representation across the UK. He will ask what this means for the future of our democratic institutions and for the future of the United Kingdom itself.
About the speaker
Philip Rycroft worked in the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) between March 2017 and March 2019, from October 2017 as Permanent Secretary. He was responsible for leading the department in all its work on the Government's preparations for Brexit. From June 2015 to March 2019 he was head of the UK Governance Group in the Cabinet Office, with responsibility for advising ministers on all aspects of the constitution and devolution. From May 2012 to May 2015, he was the Director General in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.
Through his career, Philip worked in a variety roles, in the civil service in Scotland and London, in the European Commission and in business.
He is now an academic and independent consultant.
Blog: UCL Uncovering Politics
This week we ask: What explains successes and setbacks in the promotion of LGBT+ rights? And is political science as welcoming as it should be towards LGBT+ research?
Blog: BYU Political Science Blog
August 26, 2021 Today is my favorite day on the BYU campus. It is the first day of new student orientation. I love the buzz in the air, and I love to see these kids bursting with excitement (and nervousness) about what lies ahead. Most of these students are very faithful Latter-Day Saints. But some […]
Blog: UCL Political Science Events
John Micklethwait is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, and Adrian Wooldridge is political editor of the Economist, and author of their Bagehot column. In their latest book they analyse the disastrous failure of many western countries to control the Coronavirus, and what it exposes about the weaknesses of their systems of government. It is a wake up call to learn from the more successful responses of countries like Singapore or South Korea. What are the lessons in better government the west can now learn from the east? To discuss the UK's capacity to learn such lessons, and the likelihood of its doing so, they are joined by Philip Rycroft CB, former Head of the UK Governance Group in the Cabinet Office, Permanent Secretary in DExEU, and now Visiting Professor at Edinburgh University.