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The state of democracy after a year of elections

Hosted by the London School of Economics and Political Science

In-person and online public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)

Speakers

Dr Victor Agboga

Dr Victor Agboga

Professor Mukulika Banerjee

Professor Mukulika Banerjee

Professor Sara Hobolt

Professor Sara Hobolt

Professor Peter Trubowitz

Professor Peter Trubowitz

Chair

Professor Neil Lee

Professor Neil Lee

This year billions of people around the world have been to the polls. What have been the surprises and takeaways from these election results?

Our panel of LSE researchers explore some of the issues that have come to the fore in this bumper year for international politics, along with the key outcomes and implications for the world in 2025. 

Understanding global politics is the LSE research initiative designed to help make sense of what's happening in politics today.

Meet our speakers and chair

Victor Agboga (@AgbogaVictor) is an LSE Fellow in the Department of Government. His current research delves into political behaviour and party politics in Africa around key issues such as climate change and gender.

Mukulika Banerjee (@MukulikaB) is Professor in Social Anthropology at LSE and was inaugural director of the LSE South Asia Centre. Her books include Cultivating Democracy: politics and citizenship in agrarian India, Why India Votes?, The Pathan Unarmed and The Sari (with Daniel Miller); and the series Exploring the Political in South Asia. She created the BBC Radio 4 documentary Sacred Election: Lessons from the biggest democracy in the world on the 2009 Indian National Elections.

Sara Hobolt (@sarahobolt) is the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor in the Department of Government at LSE. Previously, she has held posts at the University of Oxford and the University of Michigan. She is the Chair of the European Election Studies (EES), an EU-wide project studying voters, parties, candidates and the media in European Parliamentary elections.

Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz) is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan United States Centre at LSE and Associate Fellow at Chatham House.

Neil Lee (@ndrlee) is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment, and leads the Cities, Jobs and Economic Change research programme at the International Inequalities Institute, at LSE. Neil's research considers cities, economic change and the social dimensions of innovation.

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