Items where type is Online resource and year is 2011

Number of items: 1284.
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  • Abdelnour, Samer (2011). Building Juba: on bricks, markets and inclusive development.
  • Abelson, Donald (2011). Think tanks must think more about issues of national interest, not self-interest.
  • Ackermann, Casey (2011). Civic resilience: a new response to the riots (guest blog).
  • Adams, Jon (2011). Generation Think: the role that precise criteria plays injudging the allocation of research funding and in choosingour ‘bright young things’.
  • Adams, Jon (2011). Measuring thoughts and thinkers: why the ongoing conflict about measuring the value of science and humanities may be ultimately fruitless.
  • Adams, Jon (2011). Opposition to impact criteria stems from disciplines wanting to retain their own systems of quality control and their distinctive identities.
  • Adamson, Paul (2011). Recent events in Europe and the Middle East have challenged the coalition government to revisit its engagement with Europe.
  • Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. (2011). Putting a price on starchitecture.
  • Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. (2011). Shout if you don't want to go faster.
  • Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. (2011). Stadium 1, Neighbourhood 0?
  • Al-Lami, Mina (2011). Today we are all Osama: jihadists’ reaction to Bin Laden’s death (guest blog).
  • Al-Rasheed, Madawi (2011). Saudi dilemmas and the Arab peace initiative.
  • Alderman, Geoffrey (2011). Impact from beyond the grave: how to ensure impact growsgreater with the demise of the author.
  • Allen, Graham (2011). The Government must be held to its promise to “enshrine in law for the future the necessity of consulting Parliament on military action”.
  • Allen, Rebecca, Burgess, Simon (2011). Free Schools may not act as a spur to higher standards, but could become incubators for radical new teaching ideas.
  • Almeida, Manuel (2011). Book review: the rise and fall of Al-Qaeda.
  • Amoah, Michael (2011). Political change in Uganda: can citizens go all the way?
  • Annesley, Claire, Bennett, Fran (2011). Universal Credit may reinforce the traditional ‘male breadwinner’ model and affect many women’s access to an income.
  • Anstead, Nick (2011). We should beware the rhetoric of ‘tough talking’ politicians – they almost certainly have an agenda.
  • Anstead, Nick (2011). The relationship between politics and the media has changed significantly since our last coalition government: we now need to ask more from politicians and their manifestoes.
  • Anstead, Nick, O’Loughlin, Ben (2011). In the 2010 election, the online space was seen as a battleground to be fought over. In future elections it could be used as a method for better understanding the public.
  • Anthony, Martin (2011). The beauty of maths.
  • Anyangwe, Eliza (2011). Why don't Africans use social media to revolt like Arabs? (guest-blog).
  • Archer, Robin (2011). The legitimacy of capitalism is again in doubt: Labour could use this opportunity to achieve real social and economic change by drawing on strength from outside of parliament as well as from within.
  • Assi, Nima Khorrami (2011). Keeping 16,000 police on the streets of London is an unsustainable strategy. Government should give serious consideration to turning ‘good gangs’ into voluntary neighborhood officers under police supervision.
  • Assi, Nima Khorrami (2011). Rather than pursuing a programme of direct involvement, Britain should seek a low profile in Yemen and encourage other Arab states to use their ‘soft power’ to encourage political and economic reforms.
  • Audette, Trish (2011). Multi-media and multi-lingual: the future of BBC & international journalism.
  • Audette, Trish (2011). Murdoch, protest and localism: Jeremy Hunt at the LSE (guest blog).
  • Audette, Trish (2011). Phone hacking: is it time to get tough on the press? (guest blog on POLIS debate).
  • Goodhart, Charles, Ashworth, Jonathan (2011). The Bank of England’s second round of quantitative easing may do little to improve economic confidence or to encourage bank lending, and may even lead to more upward pressures on inflation.
  • Goodhart, Charles, Ashworth, Jonathan (2011). George Osborne’s proposed ‘credit easing’ measures must incentivise banks to increase their lending to small businesses: they are vital to the recovery of employment and the wider economy.
  • Schomerus, Mareike, Allen, Tim, Vlassenroot, Koen (2011). Obama takes on the LRA: why Washington sent troops to Central Africa.
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  • Baines, Linda (2011). Knowledge Transfer professionals lead on realising the social and economic benefits of UK research, but their roles are suffering under the creaking economy.
  • Baker, John (2011). The House of Lords is an effective safeguard against absolutism and improper legislation. The government should not force through reforms that would reduce the independence of its members.
  • Bale, Tim (2011). The Conservative party’s devotion to Thatcher’s legacy may be blinding it to new and innovative solutions to current problems.
  • Bale, Tim (2011). Nick Clegg’s proposed reforms to the House of Lords is a solution seeking a problem.
  • Ball, Michael, Barker, Kate, Cheshire, Paul, Evans, Alan, Fernández Arrigoitia, Melissa, Gordon, Ian R., Holman, Nancy, Leunig, Tim, Mace, Alan & Meen, Geoff et al (2011). The government’s planned National Planning Policy Framework is a step in the right direction, but policy makers must ensure they get the incentives right, and that decisions are made locally.
  • Barker, Rodney (2011). The summer’s riots and the Occupy movement are both protests against, and a rejection of, an economy that is no longer working for most ordinary citizens.
  • Barr, Nicholas (2011). The recommendations of the Hutton Report will protect workers and pensioners, but we must come to terms with retiring later.
  • Barrios, Cristina (2011). Ivory Coast: one country, three armies?
  • Bartlett, Jamie (2011). The cocktail of factors which promote violent radicalization presents an opportunity to build sensible policy-making.
  • Barton, Guy (2011). Crisis in Libya and the Latin American Left: the reaction from Cuba and Venezuela.
  • Barton, Guy (2011). Reflections on violence and non violence in the Arab uprisings.
  • Barton, Guy (2011). A fork in the road? Chilean foreign policy under Piñera, one year on.
  • Basha i Novosejt, Aurélie (2011). Lessons for Afghanistan from Vietnam: We had the experience but missed the meaning. picture_as_pdf
  • Basta, Karlo (2011). Cascading normalization in the ‘Western Balkans’.
  • Baston, Lewis (2011). Despite Labour’s convincing victory in the Feltham and Heston by-election, there is no strong trend in the party’s favour.
  • Baston, Lewis (2011). The Inverclyde by-election is business as usual for Scottish voters.
  • Baston, Lewis (2011). What say will voters have in redrawing of the electoral map?
  • Baston, Lewis (2011). The boundary commission for England has been unnecessarily radical in its proposals, often ignoring local government boundaries. New constituencies may lack community cohesion and local loyalty.
  • Baston, Lewis (2011). The proposed constituency boundary changes will hurt the Liberal Democrats and not help the Tories much either.
  • Bastow, Simon (2011). Revelations of dysfunctional governance in Wandsworth Prison are a reflection of the precariousness of bureaucratic arrangements throughout the public sector and their potential to unravel.
  • Baumann, Hannes (2011). What Tunisia tells us about Western conceptions of “corruption”.
  • Baumberg, Ben (2011). The big picture of inequality in Britain: tackling inequality requires us to see both specific injustices and wider underlying forces.
  • Bax, Alex (2011). The London Pathway provides an integrated health service response for the homeless and reinserts a sense of compassion into the treatment of some of the most excluded people in our society.
  • Bear, Daniel (2011). The Home Office’s new online Crime Map is a step forward in providing the public with information, but it ignores the role of the police, oversimplifies vastly different types of offences and belies crime’s downward trend in recent years.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). After years of false debate from Eurosceptics and Europhiles alike, today’s ‘VE Day’ moment may mean that a real discussion about the UK’s role in Europe can now begin.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Al Jazeera: leading the citizen media revolution.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Another election where (most) politicians failed to lead or connect.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Ban the banned list? (That’s a #QTWTAIN of course).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Blogs are dead, long live blogging.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Can social media create a better society?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Could a trust for Sky News actually reduce diversity?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Data visualisation in Davos: it’s beautiful but what’s it for?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Digital dominos?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Don’t blame the media if your demo doesn’t work.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Embracing uncertainty: diplomacy and disruption.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Facebook: why shouldn’t you trust them?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). #Fail: how not to learn from mistakes or why I will always hate Winnebagos.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Governing in the new media age: Prime Ministers meet the web pundits (WEF at Davos).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). How to get sustainable social media for social change.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). How weak ties can lead to real revolutions (Tunisia and social media).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Hunt, Murdoch, Newscorp and BSkyB: a ‘brave’ decision?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Intrinsic plurality: how to increase your sources without trying (hard).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s media literacy! [Carnival of Journalism].
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). James and Rupert Murdoch: humbled but not defeated (so far).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Julian Assange: the unauthorised autobiography.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Learning to love web science – a Davos debate.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Life’s not fair: the public’s perception of cuts is what matters in the end.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). ‘Like ticket touts at Stamford Bridge’ LSE’s Howard Davies on journalists.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Media citizenship – a new charter for an informed society (world economic forum).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Media influence in the networked age.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). News overload: an abundance of events or of coverage?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). A Newscorp takeover of BSkyB will not significantly shift media power: blocking the deal could set a poor precedent.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The NoTW closure marks a massive moment in the balance between news media and authority. In a world where power is mediated so intensively, it is vital that the citizen has the right information and proper forums for open and fair debate.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Nokia and Microsoft: creativity is still cultural.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). PERPETUAL ENGAGEMENT: the potential and pitfalls of using social media for political campaigning (a new POLIS paper).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). ‘Performance protests’ get the most attention but they are neither radical nor innovative. They may even focus attention away from more important campaigns.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Phonehacking and press reforms: beware dangerous dogs.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Privacy: Google's #bigtentuk debate [live blog].
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Profiting from the web: the ethics of the new media environment.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Rethinking democracy and development: what role for media and technology? (FPC panel at Lib Dem conference).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Ritual, spectacle, protest and the media.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Salvation.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Saturday’s demonstrations showed the media’s difficulties in reporting the issues and the actions of a small group of protesters at the same time.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Scandal! An 18th century drama of micro-blogging and super injunctions.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Secrecy is the problem, not leakers: Wikileaks on the global stage.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Should we teach journalism students to be more like Julian Assange?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Sky News saved: but what about the bigger picture?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). ‘Social Mobility’ is now nonsense – especially in a time of cuts and income reduction.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Social media & revolution: the Heineken class effect.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Social media and democratic governance: the next decade (Wilton Park paper).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Social media – why it’s useless for democratic politics.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Social media: good or bad? Wellesley College talk about social media and WikiLeaks.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). ‘Social mobility’ is now nonsense.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Taming the feral beasts of the media requires greater transparency from government, but can Downing Street ever be honest?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Time to reflect (and you really do need it).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). UK media myths no 474 we organise events brilliantly.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). VE day: now the real debate begins?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Wael Ghonim: the accidental revolutionary (Google #bigtentuk debate).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Who are we fighting the information war with?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Why is HuffPo coming here?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Why the media is right to focus on Osama Bin Laden the man.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). Why we need networked journalism in an age of complexity & uncertainty.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). WikiLeaks and the threat of the new news.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). WikiLeaks as journalism.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). WikiLeaks: news in the networked era – the book and the lecture video and audio podcasts.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The boldest PR move of modern times? Murdoch closes News of the World.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The end of (TV) natural history? Frozen Planet review.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The greatest media politician ever?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The leaderless revolution: Carne Ross (now with podcast link).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The line of verification: a guide to social media & objectivity.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). A list of words: LSE media department research data visualisation.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). A massive moment for media and politics in Britain.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The message from Number 10: can downing street ever be honest?
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The messy reality of law, privacy and media freedom.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The net delusion: Evgeny Morozov.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The power of information: new technologies for philanthropy and development (conference notes).
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The rhythm of opposition: Ed Miliband’s strategy.
  • Beckett, Charlie (2011). The social media pleasure of a riot.
  • Beckett, Charlie, Cammaerts, Bart, Carrera, Leandro N., Leunig, Tim (2011). All change in the UK’s welfare state?: first thoughts on what policy commitments should go, and which should not.
  • Beetham, David (2011). News International and corporate power in Britain’s democracy: just the tip of the ‘unelected oligarchies’ iceberg.
  • Beetham, David (2011). The News International scandal is just the tip of the iceberg of unelected oligarchies and corporate power in Britain’s democracy.
  • Beetham, David (2011). The Werritty affair shows that now, more than ever, we need a statutory register for lobbyists.
  • Beisbart, Claus, Bovens, Luc (2011). Equalising constituency sizes is likely to reduce the electoral bias in favour of Labour but only minimally so: much of the bias is likely to remain because it is due to other factors such as turnout and vote distribution.
  • Bell, Brian (2011). Exorbitant CEO pay is linked to firm performance: but CEOs are rewarded more for good performance than they are punished for failure.
  • Bell, Kate, Smerdon, Matthew (2011). Targets and tight budgets put pressure on the public’s relationship with public services. Government must take advantage of the ‘Deep Value’ of effective human relationships in service delivery.
  • Bell, Kate, Strelitz, Jason (2011). Government focus on ‘the poor’ has failed to recognize that those above and below the poverty line have similar problems of low pay and inequality: tackling poverty means improving working conditions and job security for all.
  • Benneworth, Paul (2011). The AHRC funding debate must now focus on what is really important: ensuring that academics retain the freedom to research for the good of society, and acknowledging the vast improvement that research councils have made in the last few years.
  • Benneworth, Paul (2011). Across Europe there is a fundamental failure to agree on the value of research. Classifying academic and government perspectives on impact is a step towards settling the debate.
  • Benneworth, Paul (2011). Public arguments between academics must not discourage early career researchers from valuing impact.
  • Berenskoetter, Felix (2011). Caught between Kosovo and Iraq: Understanding Germany’s abstention on Libya.
  • Berenskoetter, Felix (2011). An Emperor without clothes: Wikileaks and the limits of American power.
  • Beresford, Peter (2011). User-led service providers need more support from the Government if its commitment to ‘independent living’ for disabled people is to be achieved.
  • Berry, Craig (2011). As UK society ages, ‘nudging’ older people to self-regulate the way they drive may improve road safety and improve their wellbeing.
  • Berry, Craig, Sinclair, David (2011). Council Tax Benefit reforms will pitch young against old, as well as poor against poor.
  • Besley, Timothy (2011). Plan B is the wrong rhetoric, but the Treasury must spell out a strategic vision for the UK’s economic growth.
  • Best, Antony (2011). Igirisu kara mita taiheiyo senso no kigen: senso o kaihi denakatta (dai ei teikoku no shin nichi ha).
  • Best, Katie (2011). Education is the real deal.
  • Bichard, Michael (2011). In austere Britain, design has the potential to inspire innovation, improve quality, and encourage collaboration in public service provision.
  • Blakeley, Sean (2011). A succession with a difference? picture_as_pdf
  • Blanes, Ruy Llera (2011). Political and religious lines redrawn in post-war Angola.
  • Blick, Andrew (2011). Fox could have made Werrity a Special Adviser but he chose not to, thereby keeping his role informal and less constrained.
  • Blick, Andrew (2011). It does matter who provides public services, especially when things go wrong.
  • Blick, Andrew (2011). Police reform: why democracy is not just about elections.
  • Blick, Andrew (2011). Police, politics and the media – the risks of elected police commissioners.
  • Blick, Andrew (2011). Reforming the constitution: process matters.
  • Blick, Andrew (2011). Special advisers and the ‘phone-hacking’ scandal.
  • Blick, Andrew (2011). What is the UK constitution made of? Exposing the ‘hidden wiring’.
  • Blick, Andrew, Jones, George W. (2011). Sir Gus O’Donnell’s coming departure as cabinet secretary and head of the civil service marks a reconfiguration at the centre of Whitehall that will enhance collective responsibility at the heart of government.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Academic tweeting: building up your followers.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Academic tweeting: finding the appropriate tweeting style for your project.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Academic tweeting: using Twitter for research projects.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Academic tweeting: your suggestions and tips collected.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Another cutting for our Impact Box…THE mention for LSEImpact Conference and Professor Stephen Curry.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Available now: a guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Chosen academics to broadcast their research on BBC Radio 3.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Google Scholar citations: a way for academics to compute citation metrics and track them over time.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Have your say: who are your favourite academic tweeters?
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). How to use Harzing’s ‘Publish or Perish’ software to assesscitations: a step-by-step guide.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Peer review should not be such a dominant process in determining research funding allocation, RAND argues.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Podcasts of over 1,000 LSE lectures available to download through iTunes U, including lectures from the LSE Impact Conference.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Task force to investigate how to ensure research produces ‘maximum economic impact’.
  • Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Your favourite academic tweeters: lists available to browse by subject area.
  • Bloom, Nick, Sadun, Raffaella, Van Reenen, John (2011). Keeping family-owned firms family-run from one generation to the next can be bad for business.
  • Boardman, Faith (2011). A year into the coalition, the new policy landscape means that local authorities and public services face greater risks and uncertainty, and will have to learn new skills in order to drive practical solutions.
  • Bouçek, Francoise (2011). Alex Salmond would be wise to study Quebec’s travels down the road to independence. So far, that road has led nowhere.
  • Bowen, Alex, Fankhauser, Samuel (2011). ‘Green Growth’ is an attractive concept for analysts and policy makers alike, but to be effective it must be backed up by effective collective action, not spin.
  • Boyle, Sean (2011). The NHS is a shining example of what can be achieved under a publicly tax-funded service. The pause in the review should become permanent.
  • Boyle, Sean (2011). PFI in the NHS did not deliver value for money under Labour. It is unlikely to do so in the future under the Conservatives.
  • Bracke, Philippe (2011). UK house prices are likely to continue to decline for some time. However, planning regulations should not impede the urgent expansion of housing supply.
  • Bradford, Ben, Jackson, Jonathan (2011). Pourquoi les Britanniques ont confiance en leur police.
  • Bradley, Laura (2011). Legal aid reforms may leave welfare, employment and health disputes unresolved and actually increase the demand for court and tribunal hearings.
  • Brahimi, Alia (2011). Al Qaeda’s renewed focus on inflicting terrorist atrocities on British soil reflects a pervasive weakness in their strategy as their legitimating logic threatens to unravel.
  • Bratton, William J. (2011). The riots and phone hacking saga remind us how fragile public confidence in government and corporations has become. Greater leadership, transparency and accountability are the first steps towards regaining this trust.
  • Brembs, Björn (2011). High impact factors are meant to represent strong citation rates, but these journal impact factors are more effective at predicting a paper’s retraction rate.
  • Brembs, Björn (2011). There is a pathetic lack of functionality in scholarly publishing. We must end for-profit publishing and allow libraries to make available the works of their scholars for all.
  • Brienza, Casey (2011). Communication or credentialing? On the value of academic publishing.
  • Brockington, Dan (2011). Are celebrities good for charities? Some new research (guest blog).
  • Brockington, Dan (2011). Charities and celebrities: a media myth?
  • Brooks, Thom (2011). The academic community agree that political campaign slogans such as the Big Society have no place in research council delivery plans: the AHRC must act now.
  • Broughton Micova, Sally (2011). Government is investing in digital TV for local stations, but this will become quickly obsolete: internet TV offers a way for local stations to deliver content in a cheaper, non-linear, and interactive way.
  • Broughton Micova, Sally (2011). New proposals for local TV may mean that new stations will be ill-equipped to protect their own independence, and to play a positive democratic role.
  • Broughton Micova, Sally (2011). The US experience suggests that the government’s plans for local TV are unsustainable and will not lead to a new wave of locally based broadcasters.
  • Broughton Micova, Sally (2011). The government’s plans for local TV puts too much of an onus on these stations to provide content for the national networks: local TV should focus on local issues.
  • Brown, AD (2011). Cyber terrorism and war, the looming threat to the industrialised state.
  • Brown, Adam (2011). End of the ‘War on Terror’?
  • Brown, Adam (2011). Freedom of speech: extremism & terrorism.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). In its delivery of new aircraft carriers, the MoD has sacrificed short term affordability for long term value for money, a decision that may also leave the UK with a reduced defence capability.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). Liberal interventionism and the case of Libya.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). Recent actions in Libya show that ‘liberal interventionism’ to support the human rights of civilians is not exempt from politics.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). The Strategic Defence Review is an incoherent mess of stalled (but unresolved) decision making: it creates future problems that will not go away.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). While the UK and Europe can be proud of their role in Libya, there was a dependence on US support and this cannot be relied upon in future conflicts.
  • Brown, Chris (2011). The Wikileaks saga has revealed a souring of the US/UK ‘special relationship’, and this foreign policy distance looks set to stay.
  • Brown, Kerry (2011). China’s CCP 90 years old, faces hard road ahead. picture_as_pdf
  • Bucalina, Kat (2011). Power in the pantry: Mumsnet at Polis summer school (guest-blog).
  • Bucyana, Olivier (2011). The West’s intervention in Libya could have a destabilisingeffect on the whole region.
  • Bunker, Kenneth (2011). Book review: how to tell your SMP from your PR in the debate on electoral reform.
  • Burchardt, Tania (2011). The coalition says its spending cuts will lead to a ‘fairer Britain’, but the evidence points to a widening inequality gap in coming years.
  • Burton, Guy (2011). Achieving Palestinian statehood in September.
  • Burton, Guy (2011). Brazil’s international rise: an overview of limitations and constraints.
  • Burton, Guy (2011). Egypt: The protests in historical context.
  • Burton, Guy (2011). Reflections on contemporary social protests and governance.
  • Burton, Guy (2011). Should the government decide to abstain from the UN vote on Palestinian statehood, it will serve to perpetuate a moribund peace process and further marginalise the UK in Middle Eastern affairs.
  • Evans, Mary, Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Five minutes with Mary Evans: “Gender equality is often overlooked, and with it women’s part in public debates”.
  • Frakt, Austin, Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Five minutes with The Incidental Economist Austin Frakt: “Only 0.04% of published papers in health are reported on by the media, so blogs and other social media can help”.
  • Lemann, Nicholas, Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Five Minutes with Nicholas Lemann: “Incorporating academic research adds value to the social mission of journalism”.
  • Lloyd, John, Beckett, Charlie (2011). Journalism and power: the importance of the institution.
  • Miller, Andrew, Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Five minutes with Andrew Miller MP: “It’s important that people handle information in an intelligent way, and social science has a huge role in this”.
  • Redford, Pete, Beech, Matt (2011). David Cameron’s pragmatic ‘liberal interventionism’ approach to foreign policy differs from that of his Conservative predecessors.
  • Shergold, Peter, Blog Admin, Impact of Social Sciences (2011). Five minutes with Peter Shergold: “There needs to be a much greater negotiated understanding between academics and policy-makers about what the expectations of research are”.
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  • Cake, Carey, Cooper, Kirstin (2011). Restorative approaches can make a difference in the relationship between local government bodies and the communities they serve.
  • Callamard, Agnes (2011). An amazing year for freedom of expression (guest blog).
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). Both right and left-wing media gave a platform to the more militant voices in the recent student protests.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). Cameron’s self-imposed isolation is of little surprise given the history of the UK’s troubled relationship with Europe.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). Coulson had to go: now the ethical dimension of political communication must be restored.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). De nationalistische agenda achter politieke metaforen [the nationalistic agenda behind political metaphors].
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). European Court of Justice positions the right to privacy above the rights of copyright holders.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). Index interneticus prohibitorum: internet censorship European style.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). Net-neutrality: the first amendment of the internet.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). Performing resistance, very real problems and the 99% (guest blog).
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). Rubber bullets, moralisation and the ‘full force of the law’ will not quell the high degree of civil unrest in this country. The causes of these tensions must be tackled head on.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). There is a thin line between privacy and secrecy, and increasingly only the famous and wealthy can afford to have their privacy protected when it suits them: the UK needs a proper privacy law.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). Wapping-gate exposes serious questions about the ethics of UK journalism and the collusion of media, politics and security forces.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). Young people are being short-changed by political elites and the economic system: it is no wonder they are so angry.
  • Cammaerts, Bart (2011). The royal wedding reminds us that hereditary principle is alive and well in the UK: property rights and control over land remain firmly with royals and the aristocracy.
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Meng, Bingchun (2011). The DEA and our online privacy.
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Meng, Bingchun (2011). Media Policy Project Policy Brief 1: Creative Destruction and Copyright Protection.
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Meng, Bingchun (2011). The government’s new Digital Economy Act will do little to prevent file sharing – the music industry must continue to innovate online if it is to survive.
  • Campbell-Savours, Dale (2011). By so far refusing to negotiate meaningfully on reorganizing Westminster constituencies, the government is threatening its own AV referendum.
  • Campbell-Savours, Dale (2011). The House of Lords amendment requiring that 40 per cent of people take part in the AV referendum is just the latest blow to the government's strategy of enacting constitutional change with no consensus and no evidence-base.
  • Carolan, Liz (2011). Government’s changing priorities will require evidence-based results of cutting-edge academic theory and practice.
  • Carolan, Liz (2011). Improving your capacity to influence government policy: networking, presentation, and integrity.
  • Carrera, Leandro N. (2011). The CSR and its impact on pensions: will we have to work longer for less?
  • Carrera, Leandro N. (2011). Unpacking the Hutton report recommendations: what the future holds for public sector pensions.
  • Casamitjana i Marcet, Elisabet (2011). Platon: curing society’s amnesia (Polis summer school – guest blog).
  • Casey, Bernard (2011). The French connection.
  • Chalari, Athanasia (2011). Social change in modern Greek society: the contribution of the young generation.
  • Chang, Phoebe (2011). The Continuation of a ‘Deep-Seated Ancestral Relationship’: China and the passing of Kim Jong-il. picture_as_pdf
  • Chant, Sylvia (2011). The links between gender and poverty are over-simplified and under-problematised: a time of economic crisis is an opportune moment to re-think the ‘feminisation of poverty’ and address the ‘feminisation of responsibility’.
  • Cheshire, Paul (2011). Productivity: every little helps?
  • Cheshire, Paul (2011). You've been Trumped.
  • Cheshire, Paul, Hilber, Christian A. L., Kaplanis, Ioannis (2011). Our system of land use planning can often have damaging impacts on retail productivity.
  • Childs, Sarah, Malley, Rosa (2011). Reforming when MPs work is not about making their lives easier, but ensuring the most effective balance between constituency and Parliamentary time.
  • Childs, Sarah, Webb, Paul (2011). The Prime Minister’s snubs to female MPs are a symptom of the Conservative party’s failure to ‘feminise’ politics.
  • Choi, Lyong (2011). A New Regime In Pyongyang. picture_as_pdf
  • Choi, Lyong (2011). South Korea’s Northern policy in the post- Kim Jong-il era. picture_as_pdf
  • Cholette, Emily (2011). Investigative journalism and human rights: a Polis seminar report.
  • Choudhury, Barnie (2011). No matter the outcome of the phone hacking scandal, there will always be a deep seated relationship between politicians and the press, which will be very difficult to change.
  • Choudhury, Barnie (2011). Oliver Letwin’s dumping of personal documents reminds us that the Data Protection Act is there to protect all of us.
  • Choudhury, Barnie (2011). Rather than simply reading the rioters the Riot Act, we must ensure that lessons are learned from this week’s violence. A credible enquiry is essential.
  • Choudhury, Barnie (2011). Super-injunctions about the sex lives of celebrities are not in the public interest: the law should not be used to argue privacy in these cases.
  • Choudhury, Barnie (2011). While the BBC is bloated in some parts, the desire by some to gut it may make us all poorer.
  • Chui, Rebecca (2011). Transparency and civic journalism: ‘Will journalism be done by you or for you?’ (guest blog report on Heather Brooke lecture).
  • Clark, Alistair (2011). STV in Scotland shows us that voters can adapt to preferential voting systems – but political parties may take longer to fully grasp the new system.
  • Clements, Ben (2011). There is a gender gap in public opinion towards UK military intervention, with women less supportive of British action in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.
  • Clifton, Jonathan (2011). Gove’s insistence on good degrees won’t be enough to drive up teaching standards.
  • Colantonio, Andrea, Dixon, Tim (2011). By making ‘local’ and ‘more inclusive’ the focal point of our policies, we can achieve lasting social sustainability in our communities.
  • Cole, Matt (2011). Nick Clegg’s performance at the Liberal Democrat party conference proves that he has won the match for now, but for this ‘government of two halves’, the season is a long one.
  • Cole, Matthew R. (2011). Today’s action is the largest since the General Strike: but unlike previous strikes, the public are ambivalent about the unions’ actions and negative about the government’s handling.
  • Coles, Peter (2011). Academic journals remain unnecessary and unhealthy whilst open access archives such as arXiv continue to grow.
  • Collignon, Stefan (2011). Despite past criticisms, the European Central Bank has prevented a meltdown of EU banks and helped to stave off a global depression.
  • Collins, John (2011). Exporting “People Power”? The Philippine revolution 25 years later. picture_as_pdf
  • Collins, John (2011). IDEAS’ Written evidence submission to the Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee – “The Role of the FCO in UK Government”.
  • Collins, John (2011). Is America’s role as the world’s leading power now coming to an end? Part II: America as world leader.
  • Collins, John (2011). Liberal interventionism after Libya: Re-establishing credibility and deterrence.
  • Collins, John (2011). The future of transatlantic relations.
  • Collins, John (2011). A shake-up at defense.
  • Collins, Murray (2011). Book review: nuclear energy: what everyone needs to know.
  • Conroy, Amanda (2011). If the government is serious about protecting women and girls, it should replace toothless internet parental control policies with the expansion of meaningful sex-education.
  • Conroy, Amanda (2011). Public/woman and the fatal fetus.
  • Cook, Mariam (2011). An angry or informed society? (guest blog) #polis11.
  • Copson, Andrew (2011). Bishops are symbols of religious privilege and discrimination. There is no place for them in a reformed House of Lords.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2011). We can prevent the ‘crowding out’ of long term care insurance by family financing if government offers a level of provision that can then be topped up.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina, McGuire, Alistair (2011). While health inequalities may have declined under Labour, specific interventions have not had a significant impact.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline (2011). A move to presumed consent would increase the number of organ donors and their willingness to donate.
  • Cotton, Elizabeth (2011). As the culture of aggressive ambition no longer looks like a successful strategy for survival, we must come to terms with the fact that being ‘ordinary’ does not equate to failure.
  • Cotton, Elizabeth (2011). Book Review: capitalism, for and against: a feminist debate.
  • Cotton, Elizabeth (2011). In uncertain times, the social capital of group relationships in workplaces may be the key to growth and resilience.
  • Cotton, Elizabeth (2011). Rising job insecurity, victimisation, and bullying mean we are getting angrier at work. And so we should be – anger often leads to change.
  • Cotton, Elizabeth (2011). We need to accept that work and society make a huge difference to our mental health: improvements to social policy and workplaces can make real and profound improvements to people’s external and internal lives.
  • Cotton, Elizabeth (2011). Workplace resilience initiatives are on the increase in the current recession, but do they offer us a real way forward?
  • Cotton, Elizabeth (2011). The ongoing privatization of healthcare and the changing nature of employment relations mean that good psychological therapy is now only available to those who can afford it.
  • Coulter, Steve (2011). Book review: everyday life in British government.
  • Coulter, Steve (2011). Book review: saving the ‘Celtic Tiger’ from extinction.
  • Coulter, Steve (2011). Book review: strikes and stagflation see a return to 1970s Britain... but no space hoppers this time around.
  • Coulter, Steve (2011). Book review: the Cameron Clegg Government: coalition politics in an age of austerity.
  • Coulter, Steve (2011). Book review: the Conservative party from Thatcher to Cameron.
  • Coulter, Steve (2011). Book review: the East, the West and the Rest: how and why emerging economies are changing the world.
  • Coulter, Steve (2011). Book review: the strange non-death of neoliberalism.
  • Coulter, Steve (2011). Deficit reduction is important, but it’s not the end of the story: if we are to achieve real long term growth, government must come up with creative solutions to overcome the institutional and productive constraints on the economy.
  • Coulter, Steve (2011). The more unions try to push Ed Miliband, the more he is likely to resist. The UK’s unions must become more adept at picking the battles they can actually win.
  • Cox, Ed (2011). BAE job losses highlight the weaknesses of the coalition’s growth strategy.
  • Cramme, Olaf (2011). Cameron’s pandering to euroscepticism and the illusionary ‘national interest’ is a failure of leadership and leaves Britain in a lose-lose situation.
  • Cramme, Olaf (2011). Deeper fiscal integration within the eurozone would significantly alter the concept of a two-speed Europe. George Osborne’s support signals an important U-turn in British policy on the EU.
  • Cramme, Olaf (2011). The EU’s war against credit rating agencies is symptomatic of a new struggle between politics and the market, but it also lays bare growing tensions in the European project and globalisation as a whole.
  • Cramme, Olaf (2011). It is no wonder that Cameron insisted on a 3-line whip: the alternatives proposed by the eurosceptics are unconvincing, unrealistic and fail to grasp just how the EU actually works.
  • Cramme, Olaf (2011). The current EU fatalism underestimates the resilience of the system, and a focus on personalities obscures the real imperative for organisational reform.
  • Cramme, Olaf (2011). The outcry over EU democratic legitimacy disguises a deeper crisis of capitalism in the liberal West.
  • Craufurd Smith, Rachel (2011). Media pluralism and regulatory independence.
  • Crawford, Charles (2011). Book review: blind spots: why we fail to do what’s right and what to do about it.
  • Crawford, Charles (2011). Book review: electronic elections: the perils and promises of digital democracy.
  • Crawford, Charles (2011). Book review: gangster’s paradise: dodgy deals and smuggling scandals in international politics.
  • Crawford, Charles (2011). Book review: the global grapevine: why rumours of terrorism, immigration and trade matter.
  • Crawford, Charles (2011). Book review: the secret history of democracy.
  • Crawford, Charles (2011). Book review: why I’m right… and everyone else is wrong, by Tom Harris MP.
  • Crone, Stephen (2011). Concerns about objectivity mean that there needs to be much more scrutiny of external appointments to government departmental boards.
  • Crone, Stephen (2011). Contrary to recent assertions, the British political class is not becoming more exclusive to public school and Oxbridge types, but there has still been a remarkable resilience in the presence of the privileged in the post-war period.
  • Crone, Stephen (2011). Party funding reform: Canadian experience suggests a negotiated settlement is essential.
  • Crone, Stephen (2011). Who monitors external appointments to government departmental boards?
  • Curry, Stephen (2011). There are no easy answers to the problem of determining impact but blogging is here to help.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick, Carrera, Leandro N. (2011). Government productivity in UK social security has not grown across two decades to 2008 – largely because DWP senior civil servants blocked any move to ‘digital era’ services.
  • Gibson, Rachel, Cantijoch, Marta (2011). 2010 may not have marked the first ‘internet election’, but digital platforms are of ever increasing importance in political campaigning.
  • Johns, Rob, Mitchell, James, Carman, Chris (2011). The Scottish National Party’s success in winning an outright majority at Holyrood in May 2011 was an extraordinary result in an ‘ordinary’ election. Research shows that Scots voters did not move further towards secession and independence.
  • Lockley, Pat, Carrigan, Mark (2011). Cite or Site? The current view of what constitutes ‘academic publishing’ is too limited. Our published work must become truly public.
  • Lockley, Pat, Carrigan, Mark (2011). Continual publishing across journals, blogs and social media maximises impact by increasing the size of the ‘academic footprint'.
  • Lockley, Pat, Carrigan, Mark (2011). The search for the academic arctic monkey: why we must maximise the exposure of research through a blend of traditional and new methods of publication.
  • Valero, Anna, Van Reenen, John, Corry, Dan (2011). The UK’s sustained growth between 1997 and 2008 was fuelled by the importance of skills and new technology: rather than just austerity, the government should focus on building human capital and innovation to support long-term growth.
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  • D'Souza, Frances (2011). Expertise in the House of Lords is vital and supplied by the cross benchers: there is no democratic deficit and so elections are not needed.
  • Dalacoura, Katerina (2011). Will changes in Tunisia sweep region?
  • Danilov, Dmitry (2011). The European security treaty: ‘The Moor has done his duty, let him go’?
  • Darlington, Roger (2011). Comms Review – so far, a Phoney War.
  • Das, Ranjana (2011). Parents trust, but kids not critical enough online.
  • Das, Ranjana (2011). Teenagers and the internet: new research on the reality of social media and youth.
  • Datu, Kerwin (2011). Book review: understanding terrorist finance.
  • Datu, Kerwin (2011). Book review: understanding the interpersonal dimension of gender and poverty.
  • Datzberger, Simone (2011). Sierra Leone: Voices to the youth – ‘We can see the light but we are not working’.
  • Datzberger, Simone (2011). A decade after the Sierra Leone civil war, Freetown’s youth are still living on hope.
  • Davey, Caroline (2011). Child maintenance charges risk pushing those who need financial support the most out of the system.
  • David-Barrett, Liz (2011). All too often the revolving door between business and government can lead to ethical conflicts. A new statutory body to rule on appointments is needed.
  • David-Barrett, Liz (2011). Fixing the revolving door.
  • Davies, Ben (2011). Book review: ages of reform: dawns and downfalls of the British Left.
  • Davies, Ben (2011). Book review: inside the IRA: dissident republicans and the war for legitimacy.
  • Davies, Simon, Whitley, Edgar A., Hosein, Gus (2011). How academic research makes impact, but not always in the way the Minister wanted… the story of the LSE Identity Project.
  • Dawson, Barnaby (2011). A new Facebook app lets you test-drive the Alternative Vote, and aims to show young voters that voting for change in the May referendum makes sense.
  • Dean, Hartley (2011). Wage top-up schemes are an attractive way for policy makers to address income inequalities, but they may well be corrosive to those they are aiming to help.
  • Dearlove, Rachel (2011). Book review: growing gaps: educational inequality around the world.
  • Dearlove, Rachel (2011). Book review: the price of freedom denied: religious persecution and conflict in the twenty-first century.
  • Dearlove, Rachel (2011). Book review: unlocking the gates: how and why leading universities are opening access to their courses.
  • Delcour, Laure (2011). The EU and Russia’s modernisation: one partnership, two views.
  • Derounian, James (2011). Parish, town and community councils are genuinely democratic vehicles for translating fine words about localism into reality.
  • Dewan, Torun (2011). Fox’s delayed decision to jump reflects his ‘first offence’ status – and perhaps Cameron’s anxiety not to deplete the Cabinet’s ‘talent pool’.
  • Doane, Deborah (2011). The huge success of Fairtrade products in the UK represents a grass-roots response to market failure, but the ethical label must not be afraid to ask for more policy changes that would benefit all.
  • Dolan, Paul (2011). We can use nudges to construct our ‘choice environment’ to improve wellbeing.
  • Dolan, Paul (2011). The behavioural insights team’s report on energy use is good first step, but there are still concerns about compensating behaviours, experimental design and the quality of evidence.
  • Dolphin, Tony (2011). The Bank of England has failed to achieve the 2% inflation rate and its forecasting has been ill-judged. However, its stance on interest rates is entirely justified given the parlous state of the UK’s domestic economy.
  • Dolphin, Tony (2011). Budget 2011: A budget lacking in ambition.
  • Dolphin, Tony (2011). If the economic outlook continues to worsen, George Osborne will have to relax the pace of deficit reduction and take measures to increase demand in the economy.
  • Dolphin, Tony (2011). With an easing of fiscal policy off the cards, George Osborne’s only hope for growth may lie with another round of quantitative easing.
  • Dolton, Peter, Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar (2011). If you pay peanuts, do you get monkeys? Paying teachers 10 per cent more results in 5-10 per cent higher pupil performance.
  • Donald, Athene (2011). Levelling the playing field: maternity leave, paternity leave and the REF.
  • Donovan, Claire (2011). Impact is a strong weapon for making an evidence-based case for enhanced research support but a state-of-the-art approach to measurement is needed.
  • Douglas, Gillian, Sandberg, Russell (2011). Religious courts provide a useful service for those whose faith they represent but they are in no way replacing civil law in the area of marriage and divorce.
  • Draca, Mirko (2011). Evidence from the 2005 London bombings and the recent riots shows that police patrols are one tool policy-makers can count on to reduce crime.
  • Draca, Mirko (2011). For a working lobbyist, a connection to a UK Cabinet Minister could be worth up to £112,000 a year.
  • Drouet, Sophie (2011). Nadine Dorries’ proposals for abstinence education are baffling, off-point and inimical to young women’s, as well as men’s, sexual health.
  • Duke, Andrew (2011). Book review: Disraeli and The Eastern Question.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). Academics must realise the value in working with think tanks and pressure groups that can re-package their research for a wider audience.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). Academics shouldn’t be afraid that their work may not be being cited as much as they would like: citation rates vary widely across disciplines.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). Book review: ready for the referendum?: an essential guide to electoral reform.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). David Cameron is running a ‘ring-donut’ government with a weak centre. His feeble grip on policy coordination suggests a failure of statecraft.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). Google Scholar Citations is now open to everyone. It shows great promise as a free, reliable way to track and compare academic impact over time.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). HEFCE are still missing a trick in not adopting citations analysis. But plans for the REF have at least become more realistic about what the external impacts of academic work are.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). The Research Excellence Framework is lumbering and expensive. For a fraction of the cost, a digital census of academic research would create unrivalled and genuine information about UK universities’ research performance.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). The Research Excellence Framework is lumbering and expensive: for a fraction of the cost, a digital census of academic research would create unrivalled and genuine information about UK universities’ research performance.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). The UK’s political climate remains volatile: but the Liberal Democrats’ immediate prospects look grim, whatever happens.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). The Westminster Model strikes back, both in Britain and in Canada … but pressures for multi-party politics are still increasing.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). Why AV does not necessarily produce more coalition governments: nor does it help small parties to win more seats.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). Why ‘Publish or Perish’ has the edge over Google Scholar and Scopus when it comes to finding out how your work is used by other academics.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). A beginner’s guide to the different types of impact: why the traditional ‘bean-counting’ approach is no longer useful in the digital era.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). The government’s approach to reforming the House of Lords is 80 per cent of the way there. Nick Clegg needs to take courage and to go the rest of the way to a more democratic and coherent, wholly elected Senate.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick (2011). The vulnerability of the British state – deeper lessons from the urban riots.
  • Dunleavy, Patrick, Gilson, Christopher (2011). The Barnsley by-election suggests that the collective health of the Coalition government is now in jeopardy. On current polls the Liberal Democrats will do badly in the May local elections.
  • Dunning, Alastair (2011). Innovative use of crowdsourcing technology presents novel prospects for research to interact with much larger audiences, and much more effectively than ever before.
  • Durand, Francisco (2011). A country polarised: Peru’s 2011 election.
  • Durose, Catherine (2011). Front-line workers in local government are no longer ‘street level bureaucrats’ but instead act as ‘civic entrepreneurs’ to make order out of chaos for their communities.
  • Dzerins, Natalie (2011). Book review: Britain at the polls 2010.
  • Dzerins, Natalie (2011). Book review: understanding British party politics.
  • Le Grand, Julian, Disney, Kate (2011). A small charge for a big result: The case of M&S shows that choice can encourage positive environmental behaviour.
  • de Heredia, Marta Iniguez (2011). Countdown for elections: A tightrope walk for the DRC?
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  • Easton, Susan (2011). The harsh sentences given to those convicted of riot offences are highly disproportionate, will do little to prevent reoffending, and will put even more stress on our near-capacity prison system.
  • Economides, Spyros (2011). Greece needs but does not have a foreign policy.
  • Economides, Spyros (2011). Viewpoint: the politics of Greece’s financial crisis.
  • Eisenstadt, Naomi (2011). Despite initial mistakes, the success of the Sure Start programme has been to prove that government does have a role to play in the development of young children.
  • El Issawi, Fatima (2011). Tunisia’s media spring?: new research project.
  • Elliott, Matthew (2011). Unfair, expensive and a politicians’ fix – why British voters should reject the Alternative Vote.
  • Elvidge, John (2011). The experiences of Scotland’s devolved authority can provide lessons in governance for Westminster and beyond.
  • English, Richard (2011). There is no neat template to determine responses to political violence and terrorism, but the experience of the Northern Ireland Troubles does suggest that certain core principles should underpin appropriate counter-terrorism policies.
  • Evans, Mary (2011). David Willetts’ blaming of feminism for male working class unemployment reveals the inner workings of the Tory mind: a hatred of the agency of women and the suspicion of progressive movements.
  • Evans, Mary (2011). Downplaying the public acknowledgement of the achievements of women in sport is rather like saying everyone should have a government but only men can vote for it.
  • Evans, Mary (2011). Ken Clarke chose to frame rape in terms of the ‘blaming the victim’ rhetoric which so many have challenged and resisted.
  • Evans, Mary (2011). ‘Social kettling’ and the closure of domestic violence shelters are amongst the new challenges for feminists in 2011: they are responding with a new activism, using social media and collective action.
  • Evans, Mary (2011). The crude moralism that characterises looters and rioters as ‘scum’ is evidence that space for political debate about the causes of things is becoming dangerously limited.
  • Exadaktylos, Theofanis (2011). Eureka? The entrepreneurial spirit in public debts.
  • Exadaktylos, Theofanis (2011). Of union and trust.
  • Exadaktylos, Theofanis (2011). Whither the Indignados of Athens?
  • Exley, Sonia (2011). People think parents should put their own children first when it comes to schooling decisions – but not without consideration for others.
  • Flinders, Matthew, Matthews, Felicity, Eason, Christina (2011). Public appointments are still 'male, pale and stale': new recruitment strategies and recognition of the value of a variety of backgrounds are needed to change this.
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  • Fankhauser, Samuel (2011). If implemented properly, the government’s planned reform of the UK energy sector should make it easier for carbon reduction targets to be met.
  • Fankhauser, Samuel (2011). The UK government should stick to a plan of aggressive de-carbonisation and avoid the temptation of a new dash for gas.
  • Featherstone, Kevin (2011). Recent political developments mean that Greece is no longer on the brink of economic collapse: but the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF will be keeping a close watch for some time to come.
  • Ferguson, Suki (2011). Book review: Brown at 10.
  • Ferguson, Suki (2011). Book review: the politics of happiness: what government can learn from the new research on well-being.
  • Figueroa-Clark, Victor (2011). The Nicaragua-Costa Rica border dispute – A symptom of ‘Tico’ decline?
  • Figueroa-Clark, Victor (2011). The meaning behind protests in Chile.
  • Firsing, Scott (2011). South Africa’s nuclear dismantlement continues to astonish.
  • Fisher, Justin (2011). A discussion on the financing of political parties is desperately needed: government is wasting more than money if it buries research on the difficult choices between public funding and capped donations.
  • Flinders, Matthew (2011). Democratic politics matters – it can and does shape our lives positively. Although it is imperfect, the alternatives are unthinkable.
  • Flynn, Rachel (2011). Clear demarcation of Southern Sudan’s borders essential forstability.
  • Foerster, Annette (2011). Book review: how the family will come to flourish personally and politically in all its many forms.
  • Forbess, Alice (2011). Government proposals to cut legal aid come at a time when the benefits system is being reconfigured from the ground up: vulnerable people will pay the price as legal aid funding and free expert advice disappears.
  • Fowler, John (2011). The initial enthusiasm for schools to convert to academy status has waned considerably. It may take decades for Michael Gove’s vision to be fully realised.
  • Frank, Robert (2011). A progressive consumption tax would curb positional arms races and free up finances that could plug the deficit hole. By following Darwin’s theories, we could introduce a more effective economic system.
  • Freedman, Des (2011). Murdoch: The End of the Affair?
  • Friday, Terrine (2011). In to the grey zone: Arab spring as information revolution? (guest blog).
  • Friday, Terrine (2011). New media, race and reporting the riots (guest blog).
  • Friday, Terrine (2011). The beast in me.
  • Friday, Terrine (2011). The power of the open net: J P Rangaswami.
  • Fullick, Melonie (2011). Should you enter the academic blogosphere? A discussion on whether scholars should take the time to write a blog about their work.
  • Furuta, Elisa (2011). Long-term refugee encampment in sub-Saharan Africa – leftuntouched by human rights law?
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  • Gainsborough, Martin (2011). Elite politics under the spotlight: Whither Thailand (again)? picture_as_pdf
  • Gallagher, Julia (2011). Book review: Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state.
  • Gaw, Aivory (2011). Clickable and swipe-able: the future of magazines.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). The Commission looking into the possibility of a British bill of rights is supposed to support diversity and inclusivity, but is fatally compromised by its narrow membership base.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). The Dale Farm case shows that legal authority must be made clear before potentially life-wrecking actions are taken.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). The Human Rights Act matters – any new “bill of rights” should build on it, not replace it.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). Human rights issues are high on the policy agenda in the UK today and the public are keener than ever to discuss these. A recognition that this discussion is moving online and involves a wide range of people is vital if we are to successfully thrash out the issues on rights.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T12 - Supping with Mammon - Responses.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T13 - Faith of our fathers.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T13 - Faith of our fathers - Responses.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T14 - Triumph through adversity.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T14 - Triumph through adversity - Responses.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T15 - Beware Speciesism.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T15 - Beware Speciesism - Responses.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T16 – Do trees have rights?
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T16 – Do trees have rights? - Responses.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T17 – Liberty – A dangerous ally of human rights.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T17 – Liberty – A dangerous ally of human rights - Responses.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T18 – People not peoples.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T18 – People not peoples - Responses.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T19 & T20 – Final Responses.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T19 – Leaping out of the box.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T19 – Leaping out of the box – Responses.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). T20 – Enforcement is nine-tenths of the law.
  • Gearty, Conor (2011). The Tories attacks on the human rights act are nothing more than political noise-making.
  • Gent, John (2011). Book review: paper promises: money, debt and the new world order by Philip Coggan.
  • Ghettas, Lakhdar (2011). Risky betting on a big gambler in Algeria.
  • Ghettas, Lakhdar (2011). Unrest in Algeria: The window is closing fast.
  • Ghose, Katie (2011). The Alternative Vote is a worthwhile reform that will make a big difference in improving the democracy and accountability of British politics.
  • Gibbons, Stephen (2011). NHS evidence: seriously flawed?
  • Gibbons, Stephen (2011). Street level crime maps may be an example of a nudge in the wrong direction if they lead to fewer crimes being reported.
  • Gibbs, Blair (2011). The unprecedented growth in police budgets and numbers in the last 10 years have not markedly improved police performance, and the public have not seen benefits comparable to the huge investment made.
  • Gibson, Bryan R. (2011). Poor Obama!
  • Gibson, Rachel (2011). We may see a real internet campaign in the lead up to the AV referendum, as long as both sides have a credible online presence and avoid cyber "window-dressing".
  • Gilson, Christopher (2011). Book review: makeshift metropolis: ideas about cities.
  • Gilson, Christopher (2011). Book review: tales from facebook.
  • Gilson, Christopher (2011). Punitive reactions by ministers or the judiciary seek to deter future riots. But if such measures undermine the perceived fairness and legitimacy of the criminal justice system and worsen police-community relations, they could prove counter-productive.
  • Gilson, Christopher (2011). The initial Metropolitan Police handling of the Tottenham riots shows a depressing failure to learn lessons from recent history.
  • Gjersø, Jonas Fossli (2011). Deciphering Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary.
  • Glasman, Maurice (2011). Labour’s answer to David Cameron’s Big Society is the Good Society. So what would it mean in practice?
  • Glasman, Maurice (2011). When the City of London’s bubble burst, it was the state and the real economy that had to take the hit.
  • Glees, Anthony (2011). 9/11: an intelligence failure and its consequences.
  • Glennie, Alex (2011). Pro-democracy protests across the Middle East and North Africa have exploded the myth of Arab ‘exceptionalism’.
  • Golberg, Adam (2011). In a fractured funding landscape, the ESRC are looking to invest in excellence with impact. A combination of academic merit and project management skills is essential.
  • Goodfellow, Tom (2011). Whatever happened to the ‘African spring’?
  • Goodwin, Matthew (2011). The British National Party’s modernization strategy didn’t appeal to voters, and its activist and membership base is shrinking by the day. But public hostility toward immigration means the prospects for the far right remain strong.
  • Gordon, Mike (2011). The EU Bill is flawed, but it could open up other options for democratic reform.
  • Gottlieb, Vanessa (2011). Should students do social media with teachers? (guest blog).
  • Gould, Bryan (2011). Recent poll results and the Oldham victory show that Labour has bounced back: Ed Miliband must continue his progressive campaign to ensure Labour is an ally of people-based politics.
  • Gould, Bryan (2011). The holy grail of liberal politics has crumbled in Nick Clegg’s hands, but the Liberal Democrat plight also means bad news for wider politics in the UK.
  • Goulden, Chris (2011). “We would never try to have impact for impact’s sake alone”: the inside view on think tanks and academic research.
  • Goulden, Chris (2011). The government’s benefits cuts mean that families are finding it even harder to make ends meet.
  • Graeber, David (2011). Can we still write big question sorts of books?
  • Graeber, David (2011). How debt has defined human history.
  • Graeber, David (2011). Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination.
  • Graeber, David (2011). Occupy and anarchism's gift of democracy.
  • Graeber, David (2011). On playing by the rules: the strange success of #OccupyWallStreet.
  • Graeber, David (2011). On the invention of money: notes on sex, adventure, monomaniacal sociopathy, and the true function of economics.
  • Graeber, David (2011). Taking a very long view on the debt crisis.
  • Graham, Allen (2011). The House of Lords reforms are an opening gambit that will inevitably lead the UK into greater democratic reforms.
  • Grant, Wyn (2011). The coalition plans to reinvigorate local political leadership in major cities with elected mayors: will local electorates say “Yes” this time?
  • Green, Anthony (2011). Australian state elections show that if British voters adopt the Alternative Vote in the forthcoming referendum, it will typically change party outcomes only a little, but will have positive effects for the standing of MPs. picture_as_pdf
  • Green, Antony (2011). Some Australian state elections using the Alternative Vote show that voters are casting fewer second preferences, or even none at all. Would the same happen in the UK? picture_as_pdf
  • Green, Elliott D. (2011). LSE Research looks at the factors that determine how Africanleaders dispense patronage.
  • Green, Elliott D. (2011). Tanzania at 50: does Nyerere deserve the blame and praise forthe country’s economic failure and political success.
  • Gregory, James (2011). Contrary to popular opinion, home ownership may actually make workers less economically mobile.
  • Guinane, Kay (2011). Moving on from the ‘War on Terror’.
  • Guinane, Kay (2011). U.S. Material Support Laws: The Next Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell?
  • Gumbs, Alexis Pauline (2011). “here to remind people of free”.
  • Gurung, Reena (2011). War reporting: it’s just journalism (summer school guest blog).
  • Mason, Robert, Gadelrab, Sherry Sayed (2011). Trust, representation and communication are key to increasing engagement between the British Muslim community and the government.
  • Moran, Danielle, Mollett, Amy, Gilson, Christopher (2011). What further options might work in boosting the police capacity to handle urban disorders and riot emergencies? The pros and cons of a bigger police reserve, curfews, and army deployments.
  • Overman, Henry G., Gibbons, Stephen (2011). In unequal Britain who you are is much more important than where you live in determining earnings.
  • Pilkington, Philip, Graeber, David (2011). What is debt? An interview with economic anthropologist David Graeber.
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  • Hakim, Catherine (2011). Boardroom gender quotas: the magic medicine fails.
  • Hakim, Catherine (2011). Calls for more legislation to equalize women’s and men’s pay are flawed. Policies already in place have successfully narrowed the pay gap.
  • Hakim, Catherine (2011). Davies report: the reaction: Catherine Hakim.
  • Hakim, Catherine (2011). The relationship between gender (in)equality and women’s choices.
  • Halikiopoulou, Daphne (2011). Book review: how Ireland voted 2011: the full story of Ireland’s earthquake election.
  • Hall, Martin (2011). Open access repositories are beginning to push academic publishers off their previously unreachable perch.
  • Hall-Matthews, David (2011). The Liberal Democrats need to build a narrative of better governance, democratise their policy-making and must not be afraid to disagree with the Conservatives in public.
  • Halliday, Fred (2011). Iran and Afghanistan: the limits of power.
  • Halliday, Fred (2011). Scenarios of security and insecurity in the Middle East.
  • Hancock, Avery (2011). Cuts to the Department of Work and Pensions’ overhead costs threaten the promised benefits of welfare reform.
  • Hancock, Avery (2011). Public engagement and virtual learning: top 5 Open Course Ware sites.
  • Hancock, Avery (2011). Questionable proposals for legal aid reform in the UK mean that government’s promises of justice for all ring hollow.
  • Hancock, Avery (2011). The people in Sudan have spoken: now the UK should back the new nation with both trade and aid.
  • Hancock, Avery (2011). The threats to public libraries look overwhelming: yet both defensive mobilizations to resist cutbacks and pressures for innovations offer hope for radical improvements.
  • Hancock, Avery, Rainford, Paul (2011). Slumps, riots and springs: how we covered 2011.
  • Hand, Michael (2011). As the case for patriotism has not been decisively made, we have no business promoting it in schools.
  • Haour, Anne (2011). Unclear REF provisions stand to punish academics who take brief maternity leaves. Researchers should be allowed to submit a reduced number of outputs in line for each period of leave taken.
  • Harkin, James (2011). Book review: niche: why the market no longer favours the mainstream.
  • Harries, Richard (2011). The Draft Bill and the Report of the Royal Commission on the reform of the House of Lords.
  • Harrison, James, Stephenson, Mary-Ann (2011). Spending cuts will increase inequalities between women and men and may seriously harm the human rights of some women.
  • Hayhoe, Simon (2011). Classifying impairment in western societies.
  • Hayhoe, Simon (2011). Subjective and objective aspects of deafness and blindness.
  • Hayhoe, Simon (2011). When Gucci make hearing aids, I'll be deaf.
  • Hazell, Robert (2011). According to new research, the coalition is working well, but the Liberal Democrats could do better.
  • Helsper, Ellen (2011). Britain needs a digital inclusion policy with concrete targets for both availability and take-up to counter the emergence of a digital underclass.
  • Helsper, Ellen (2011). What has happened to the Universal Service Commitment?
  • Helsper, Ellen (2011). The first day of the National Digital Conference (ND11): A summary.
  • Helsper, Ellen (2011). The second day at the National Digital Conference (ND11).
  • Hensengerth, Oliver (2011). Election 2011: The more Turkey changes, the more its political parties stay the same.
  • Hensengerth, Oliver (2011). The role of water in re-structuring China’s security relations with Cambodia and Laos. What effects on the environment? picture_as_pdf
  • Hensengerth, Oliver (2011). A special relationship with issues to address.
  • Hepburn, Eve, McLoughlin, P. J. (2011). Evidence from nationalist movements in Scotland and Northern Ireland shows that pragmatism and the ability to adapt are key to electoral success, and that nationalism is still a potent political force.
  • Hermida, Alfred (2011). Social media is inherently a system of peer evaluation and is changing the way scholars disseminate their research, raising questions about the way we evaluate academic authority.
  • Hertog, Steffen (2011). The costs of counter-revolution in the GCC.
  • Heydecker, Benjamin (2011). Britain suffered fewer road accident fatalities during 2010 than ever before on record: without more capacity, raising the speed limit will do little to alleviate congestion, and is likely to lead to more motorway deaths.
  • Hickel, Jason (2011). Fallacy of ‘freedom’: USAid and neoliberal policy in Egypt.
  • Hickel, Jason (2011). How to occupy the world.
  • Hickel, Jason (2011). Rethinking sweatshop economics.
  • Hickel, Jason (2011). Rich, white and crazy.
  • Hickel, Jason (2011). Saving Uganda from its oil.
  • Hickel, Jason (2011). Sweatshop sugar: labour exploitation in South Africa’s cane fields.
  • Hickel, Jason (2011). Trading with the enemy.
  • Hilber, Christian A. L. (2011). The beginnings of the US housing boom.
  • Hilber, Christian A. L. (2011). The law of unintended consequences: business rate retention and house prices.
  • Hileman, Garrick (2011). Book review: grand pursuit: the story of economic genius.
  • Hill, Alastair (2011). Book review: the new politics: liberal conservatism or same old Tories?
  • Hill, Alastair (2011). Book review: who cares?: public ambivalence & government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age.
  • Hix, Simon (2011). David Cameron’s EU treaty veto is a disaster for Britain.
  • Hix, Simon (2011). The rights and wrongs of AV.
  • Homkes, Rebecca (2011). Good hospital management can save lives and increase much needed productivity at a time of budget constraints.
  • Hood, Christopher, Lodge, Martin (2011). Appearing in front of a Select Committee: does this prove that we had an impact or were we a convenient political cover for positions already taken?
  • Horrocks, Peter (2011). Maintaining the relevance of international journalism – BBC’s Peter Horrocks POLIS Perugia Speech.
  • Howell, Jude (2011). Now Osama bin Laden is no more, is it time to reflect on the delinking of aid?
  • Hugh, Jennifer (2011). Book review: equality and the British Left.
  • Hugh, Jennifer (2011). Book review: the labour market in winter: the state of working Britain.
  • Hunter, Alice (2011). Book review: unmasking age: the significance of age for social research by Bill Bytheway.
  • Hussein, Shereen (2011). As our population ages, demand for social care is growing. But the government’s immigration policies may well restrict the quality and quantity of social care professionals.
  • Hyman, Richard (2011). Budget 2011: A footnote to the existing agenda, but the public is waking up to the attack on the welfare state.
  • Hyman, Richard (2011). Economic democracy: an idea whose time has come, again?
  • Hyman, Richard (2011). Wirtschaftsdemokratie: Eine erneut aktuelle Idee?
  • Hänska, Max (2011). Media pluralism: how Rawls can help us think about Newscorp’s BskyB bid (guest blog).
  • Hänska, Max (2011). News of the World executives – how did they ‘not know?’ (guest blog).
  • Hänska, Max (2011). News of the World executives – how did they ‘not know?’ Guest blog.
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  • IIzetzki, Ethan (2011). According to new research, low interest rates and expansionist monetary policy may temper the government’s programme of austerity.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Australia’s research strength lays in science, according to first national assesment.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Brunel University appoints “entrepreneur in residence” to help academics further their impact.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Designing scholarly communication for the digital age.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). EU research and innovation funding consultation open.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Government’s attitude to scientific advice is that it is something to reach for only after an emergency, finds Commons report.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Impact in the news.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). ‘Maximizing The Impacts Of Your Research: A Handbook For Social Scientists’ now available to download as a PDF.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Mixed response following HEFCE announcement on reduction in REF impact weighting.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). ‘Payback’ approach has scope to continue evolving, concludes research impact workshop.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Research and impact in the Middle East: strengths lay in science and technology.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). UK Research Councils’ Funding Settlement.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). US publisher moves to make catalogue of over 4,000 academic texts available free online.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to choosing article titles.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to choosing book titles.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to using Google Books.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to using ISI Web of Knowledge.
  • Impact of Social Sciences Blog, at LSE (2011). Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts.
  • Iosifidis, Petros (2011). Petros Iosifidis on competition policy and media plurality.
  • Iskander, Elizabeth (2011). Political social media in Egypt is now a joke (guest-blog).
  • Iskander, Elizabeth (2011). Religious violence plagues post-Mubarak Egypt.
  • Islam, Asiya (2011). Book review: blogistan: the internet and politics in Iran.
  • Izzudin, Mustafa (2011). What can we expect in the 2011-2012 Singapore general elections? picture_as_pdf
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  • Jackson, Dan (2011). Making impact with history: how policy makers have much to learn from historians and social scientists and why academic writing must strive for clarity.
  • Jackson, Emily (2011). UK citizens can access assisted suicide, but they must travel to Zurich in order to do so: this is illogical, but more importantly, it imposes an unfair burden on terminally ill individuals.
  • Jackson, Emily (2011). A new amendment on abortion guidance will instead institute delays for women seeking medical help.
  • James, Toby (2011). UK electoral registration levels are already low by international standards, but new plans to change registration may make things even worse.
  • Jeffreys, Sheila (2011). Handing more public services such as schools and welfare to religious groups harms women’s equality.
  • Jenco, Leigh K. (2011). Book review: the intellectual foundations of Chinese modernity.
  • Jenkin, Bernard (2011). Government has still a great deal to learn about how to use IT effectively – a new select committee inquiry aims to discover ways to improve the Government’s poor track record.
  • Jenkins, Gareth (2011). 1.6 million children in the UK live in severe poverty: the government must do more to target areas of high deprivation, poverty and worklessness.
  • Jenkins, Gareth (2011). Budget 2011: Little action for children in poverty.
  • Jenkins, Kate (2011). New government agencies should be set up with caution: they are not a substitute for weak departments.
  • Jesperson, Sasha (2011). Book review: building global democracy?: civil society and accountable global governance.
  • Jesperson, Sasha (2011). Book review: lost in transformation: violent peace and peaceful conflict in Northern Ireland.
  • Jesperson, Sasha (2011). Book review: the media at war: communication and conflict in the twentieth century.
  • Jesperson, Sasha (2011). Book review: understanding the War on Terror, from bin Laden to Bush and back again.
  • Johns, James (2011). Academic-business relationships built on quality research and strong relationships can boast illustrated impact and great results for both sides.
  • Johnston, Ron (2011). Why are Labour Lords keeping their peers up late?: opposition to the coalition’s plans for fewer MPs and more equal constituencies.
  • Johnston, Ron, Pattie, Charles, Rossiter, David (2011). The re-vamped public inquiries currently changing Westminster constituency boundaries in record time (across the whole of the UK) keep power firmly in the hands of the biggest political parties, and not the general public.
  • Jolly, Debbie (2011). As the government moves to cut the number of disabled people on benefits, the tabloid media are increasingly portraying them as ‘undeserving fraudsters’.
  • Jolly, Debbie (2011). Disabled people are subject to false accusations from the media, a false economy and a duplicitous morality from a government that claims to support those in greatest need.
  • Jolly, Debbie (2011). The government’s Work Capability Assessment for disabled people is one of the toughest in the world – it is not fit for purpose.
  • Jones, Erik (2011). From American exceptionalism to overstretch.
  • Jones, George W. (2011). Budget 2011: Government’s ‘pothole priority’ proves its lack of commitment to localism.
  • Jones, George W., Stewart, John (2011). Government plans to impose mayoral referendums have not been thought out properly and should be abandoned.
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  • Kaczuba, Dorota, Murray, Ben, O'Neill, Liam, Vaagen, Nate (2011). File Sharing and DEA Dossier: Relevant Resources and Information.
  • Kamminga, Jorrit (2011). Addressing the elephant in the room: filling the policy vacuum of the international counter-narcotics strategy in Afghanistan.
  • Kamminga, Jorrit (2011). Towards shared responsibility? The United States, Latin America and the drug trade.
  • Kamminga, Jorrit (2011). The death of Osama bin Laden and what it means for the Afghan people.
  • Kaufmann, Eric (2011). What do the social sciences have in common with baseball? The story of Moneyball, academic impact, and quantitative methods.
  • Kelly, Gavin (2011). The Liberal Democrats’ intended tax changes are about to cause trouble for the Treasury.
  • Kelly, Gavin (2011). Social mobility has increased in past decades, but there has been no ‘revolution’ in opportunity.
  • Kelly, Gavin (2011). Those on low-to-middle incomes now face staggering reductions in real wages and cuts to tax credits – the recent Budget offers them very little relief.
  • Kelly, Gavin (2011). Want to earn your way up? Fine – just don’t be a woman, live outside of London, or work part-time.
  • Kelly, Gavin, Whittaker, Matthew (2011). Household consumption will be pivotal in the resumption of growth, but consumer concerns about rising household debt may but the brakes on spending.
  • Kelly, Paul (2011). Book review: the development of a discipline: the history of the political studies association.
  • Kelly, Paul (2011). Book review: the merits of ‘Big Society’ and where it will take us.
  • Kelly, Paul (2011). Multiculturalism is not a coherent policy that can be abandoned; David Cameron’s speech reveals more continuity with Labour’s ‘British national identity’ project than a radical departure from his ‘liberal conservatism’.
  • Kelly, Yvonne (2011). Failing before school: the gap between children in high and low income families has led to a dangerous disadvantage with those in poorer families more likely to suffer from serious social and emotional problems.
  • Kerr, Michael (2011). The demise of Northern Ireland’s first power-sharing administration offers valuable insights for conflict resolution and policy worldwide.
  • Kersten, Mark (2011). Peace, justice and libya – the Gaddafi who threatens it all?
  • Ketchley, Neil (2011). An Arabia without Sultans? Reflections from Bahrain.
  • Khorrami Assl, Nima (2011). Egypt needs Mubarak for the sake of democracy.
  • Khorrami Assl, Nima (2011). Soft power may be the UK government’s best option to promote trade and civil liberties in the Gulf states.
  • King, Peter (2011). Cameron’s pragmatic responses to the politics of the last year shows that despite his progressive agenda, he is well within the mainstream of Conservative traditions.
  • King, Roger (2011). The government’s plans for risk-based regulation for the higher education sector will encourage more risky and competitive behaviour among institutions, with potentially dire consequences.
  • Kingman, David (2011). Britain’s housing shortage disenfranchises the young. We should use the tax system to encourage people to free up larger homes.
  • Kissane, Bill (2011). Book review: the destructors: the story of Northern Ireland’s lost Peace Process.
  • Kissane, Bill (2011). The debate in the UK about codifying our constitution is now less fractious: but looking overseas can help us to understand why this discussion should continue.
  • Kissane, Bill (2011). The violence on London’s streets is less political and less structured than has been the case in Northern Ireland. It is the result of decades of social and economic deprivation and inequality.
  • Kitchen, Nicholas (2011). Strategic Flexibility: the Obama administration after Egypt.
  • Kitchen, Nicholas (2011). The ‘essential’ UK-US relationship pivots on those areas where strategic goals are shared, but disagreements over means remain: the global economy, foreign intervention, and Islamic radicalisation.
  • Kleibrink, Alexander (2011). How partitocracy puts limits to the EU’s transformative power.
  • Kochan, Ben (2011). In these austere times, and with time at a premium, briefing papers can take the policy implications of research to practitioners and policy makers.
  • Korris, Matt (2011). The select committee system is more effective than ever before. Now, a thorough review of their core tasks and resources is needed, to avoid them being bogged down under the weight of increasing workload and expectations.
  • Kumar, Karuna (2011). Kevin Marsh: ethical journalism (Polis summer school – guest blog).
  • Wildbore, Helen, Klug, Francesca (2011). Replacing the Human Rights Act with a weaker British Bill of Rights would send a sign to the international community that we are no longer serious about human rights.
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  • LSE East Asia (2011). Breaking News – Death of Kim Jong Il. picture_as_pdf
  • LSE Ideas, Team (2011). Africa’s quiet revolution.
  • LSE Media Policy Team (2011). Leveson Round-Up: The Legitimacy Challenge.
  • Labaqui, Ignacio (2011). Argentina: Explaining Cristina’s victory.
  • Laibuta, Mugambi (2011). It is time for the African Union to deal with the negative impact of corporate activity.
  • Lane, Julia (2011). Follow the electronic footprints: how to track impact without asking scientists to lift a pen.
  • Lastra, R. M. (2011). Who guards the guardians of monetary stability and financial stability? That is the key question behind the debate about the accountability of the Bank of England.
  • Lawrence, Martyn (2011). Impact zones and the role of publishers: changing the way academic research makes wider impact.
  • Layard, Richard (2011). Government’s role should be to increase happiness and reduce misery. Policy analysis must be recast to reflect outcomes in terms of changes to happiness.
  • Lazarus Frankel, Laura (2011). ‘Where my girls at?’: When pop goes political.
  • Le Grand, Julian (2011). To ease the pain of devaluation countries should quit the euro – then instantly re-join at a weaker rate.
  • Le Grand, Julian (2011). A much maligned reform of hospitals is working.
  • Leach, Elizabeth Eva (2011). Restricting online access: what evidence do publishers have to support their claims that open access negatively affects sales?
  • Leach, Mark (2011). Research funding must be allocated on the basis of quality to ensure the long term sustainability of the UK’s research base.
  • Lee, Neil (2011). The number of young people not in employment, education and training is rising, and the problem is getting worse, especially in the North.
  • Leone, Tiziana (2011). 2010 population census round: a missed opportunity?
  • Leontitsis, Vasilis (2011). Facing Greece’s lost generation.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Abolishing quotas for students with high A level grades will not drive down university fees.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Budget 2011: Fiscally neutral, and some ‘radical’ planning changes, but the devil is definitely in the detail.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Budget 2011: The new flat rate pension will reduce poverty among the retired, but employers who offer good pensions may be penalised financially as a result.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Conditional discharges for looters that come forward would be a first step towards community reconciliation in the wake of the recent riots.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). George Osborne's Comprehensive Spending Review has yielded few surprises.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Growth figures show that Britain is essentially going backwards. Bringing forward the £10,000 tax allowance is the best option to encourage growth.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). The Higher Education White Paper is a good start at introducing real competition between universities for academic places.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). History tells us that we can get out of the current economic slump if government guarantees low interest rates, rising prices, and provides a more sensible planning system.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Housing is expensive in Britain. This is because we have built too few houses for the number of new households – land auctions will help give us the homes we need.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Labour’s proposed tuition fees cap does not change the fact that most graduates will never earn enough to repay their loans.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Location matters: putting people first in planning.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). National Insurance is complex and pointless and should be merged with income tax.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). The News International phone-hacking saga threatens to retoxify the Tory brand. Cameron needs to be ruthless to save his reputation.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). The Office of Fair Access has failed: university fees have been allowed to rise too high and are disproportionate to graduate incomes.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Only competitive tension will keep student fees down – it is time to quit the quotas.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Poor pupil performance is more about poverty than school quality. We must ensure our schools work for poor children in all places.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Unlocking growth in cities.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). We need hundreds of thousands of new homes in Britain. But in its present form, the government’s proposed new planning framework is not likely to deliver them.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). We need to invest much more in our schools. A better educated Britain is better for employers and for improving social mobility.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). What "FOREVER 21" means to spatial economists.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). When planning for new housing developments, we must make sure they are built where people actually want to live.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). While Cameron’s vision is seriously constrained by the economy, his government’s advantage is that the alternative is still tainted by the past.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). Without a greater focus on education, the government’s strategy of transferring more power to cities may struggle to deliver growth.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). The government’s proposed cap on benefits is based upon a questionable grasp of how the benefits system actually works, and would exacerbate difficulties for poor, out of work families.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). The right to strike is an important one, but the public and private sectors should be treated equally: government should ensure that when unions ballot members simultaneously, ballots are counted separately by employers.
  • Leunig, Tim (2011). The rise in global gas prices is being passed on disproportionately to the poor by utility companies.
  • Levy, Charles (2011). Coordinated action for innovation is needed to create the networks and ecosystems required to prevent a lost decade of stagnation in both private and public spheres.
  • Levy, Charles (2011). Making the most of our public services will demand a new way of thinking about support for innovation.
  • Lewis, David (2011). There is no crisis of civic participation: The Big Society risks undermining the integrity of both state and civil society.
  • Lewis, David (2011). The voluntary sector is at the centre of the government’s Big Society plans: this may offer the possibility of better services, but not necessarily cheaper ones.
  • Liddle, Roger (2011). The Brussels deal to save the Euro confounded its Anglo-Saxon doubters. The British press once again underestimated how integrated Europe really is.
  • Lindemann, Stefan (2011). LSE Research: increased territorial power-sharing inMuseveni’s Uganda has led to the decline of civil wa.
  • Lindley, Dominic (2011). Consumers deserve a better deal from financial regulation: the Financial Services Bill provides a golden opportunity to ensure consumers receive the protection they deserve.
  • Lindley, Joanne, Machin, Stephen (2011). Technological changes in the workplace have seen a rise in the demand for, and the wages of, postgraduates. But this has led to widening wage inequalities between postgraduates and undergraduate-only workers.
  • Linehan, Tim (2011). Calls to cut bureaucracy in benefit provision may actually work to prevent access to benefits for those that need them the most.
  • Linehan, Tim (2011). Child sexual exploitation in the UK is all too common: but notions of gangs and grooming are a distraction and hinder our efforts to combat the problem.
  • Linehan, Tim (2011). Early childhood intervention offers value for money and can improve children’s quality of life, but government should consider how far it can intervene before it starts to interfere with individual liberty.
  • Linehan, Tim (2011). Shifting demographics mean that the NHS must change. To cope with these new demands we must radically reassess how we design services and use technology to provide care.
  • Lipsey, David (2011). Nick Clegg’s proposals for reform of the House of Lords just don’t work.
  • Livingstone, Sonia (2011). Media literacy, the coalition government, and Jeremy Hunt.
  • Livingstone, Sonia, Wang, Yinhan, Li, Chang (2011). Dossier: media literacy and the UK’s Communication Act 2003.
  • Lloyd, James (2011). Employer contributions have a significant impact on encouraging pension savings. Policy-makers seeking ways to increase contribution rates and take-up should focus on this lever.
  • Lloyd, James (2011). The care system for older people is a mess: political scientists needs to make a larger contribution to solving the care conundrum with more focused, evidence-based research.
  • Lock, Debbie (2011). Adopting new knowledge transfer architectures: we need to show off our wares and keep all the plates spinning.
  • Lockley, Pat (2011). Open educational resources such as MIT’s OpenCourseWare are changing the way universities make impact and engage with the world.
  • Lodge, Guy (2011). Unlike the Scots and the Welsh, Londoners seem content with limited devolution and weak mayoral powers- at least, for now.
  • Long, Katy (2011). Kenya, Jubaland and Somalia’s refugees: no quick fixes.
  • Lovell, Eleanor (2011). Sharing knowledge and learning through the digital gateway.
  • Lowell, Beth (2011). Are we ignoring the dark side of the internet? Evgeny Morozov at LSE (guest blog).
  • Lowell, Beth (2011). Egypt: a case for net neutrality? (guest blog).
  • Lowell, Beth (2011). “Forward” thinking: Will Straw and the future of online political journalism (guest blog).
  • Lowell, Beth (2011). The specialist amateur: a new threat to the professional journalist (guest-blog).
  • Lyong, Choi (2011). The British dilemma of North Korean refugees. picture_as_pdf
  • Lyong, Choi (2011). The underground economic aid from refugees to their families in North Korea. picture_as_pdf
  • Lyytikainen, Teemu (2011). Extreme localism: local taxes and tax competition.
  • López Figueora, Sergio (2011). Cultural social responsibility and copyright.
  • Power, Anne, Lane, Laura (2011). Hungry and homeless in the ‘big society’: a climate of cuts to services for the homeless puts soup kitchens and welfare provision at risk.
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  • Maffeo, Lauren (2011). The gendering of spaces in Ciudad Juarez: a comment on Dr Wright’s lecture.
  • Majid, Munir (2011). Myanmar – Mixing hope with realism. picture_as_pdf
  • Majinge, Charles (2011). Southern Sudan faces several critical challenges asindependence approaches.
  • Malmer, Faith (2011). Exploring brand research in the social media sphere (guest blog).
  • Malmer, Faith (2011). Reporting the riots – Paul Lewis at Polis LSE.
  • Manby, Bronwen (2011). Citizenship and state succession in the Sudans.
  • Manibog, Claire (2011). Four steps to success in a humanitarian appeal.
  • Manibog, Claire (2011). How to judge sentiment in online marketing.
  • Manning, Alan (2011). Wage inequality and job polarization show that it is time to be pursuing redistribution from the highest-earners to those with middle and lower incomes.
  • Manning, Alan (2011). We need to be smart about regulating the labour market: individual rights rather than collective bargaining need to be the way forward.
  • Manning, Alan (2011). The evidence shows that multiculturalism in the UK has succeeded in fostering a sense of belonging among minorities, but it has paid too little attention to how to sustain support among parts of the white population.
  • Mansell, Robin, Winseck, Dwayne (2011). Should ISPs enforce copyright? Dwayne Winseck interviewsRobin Mansell.
  • Marchi, Ludovica (2011). Attractiveness of Italian foreign policy?
  • Marie, Olivier (2011). The displacement of police resources during football matches can result in a rise in local crime: it is crucial for police to balance the effects of a greater presence during matches and opportunistic offenders taking advantage of under protected areas.
  • Marsh, Michael (2011). In some elections, getting elected may be as simple as having a Brown next to a Blair on the same ballot sheet.
  • Mason, Robert (2011). Bridging the gap to a two-state solution.
  • Mason, Robert (2011). Deadlock and dialogue: The principles of the “Iran Model”.
  • Massey, Andrew (2011). Book review: the end of the West: the once and future Europe.
  • Matthews, Peter (2011). Academic blogging and collaboration make demonstrating pathways to impact an easier matter.
  • McDoom, Omar Shahabudin (2011). LSE Research: the psychology of security threats: evidence from Rwanda.
  • McGettigan, Andrew (2011). The transformation of university financing will not serve the public interest and will encourage financial takeover by for-profit companies.
  • McKenzie, David, Özler, Berk (2011). Academic blogs are proven to increase dissemination of economic research and improve impact.
  • McKenzie, David, Özler, Berk (2011). Economics blogs clearly impact positively on paper downloads, professional reputation and stand to exert an influence on policy.
  • McKenzie, David, Özler, Berk (2011). The impact of blogs part II: Blogging enhances the blogger’s reputation, but does it influence policy?
  • McLean, Iain (2011). The Salisbury convention that avoided complete Lords reforms for the last century is dead, but achieving any mandate for change that peers must accept remains very difficult.
  • McLean, Iain (2011). Talking to Honourable Members: advice for academics on giving evidence to Parliamentary committees.
  • McMunn, Anne (2011). The best outcome for children in their early years is to have two working parents.
  • McNally, Tom (2011). Transparency is the foundation of accountability. The government is committed to Freedom of Information and to opening up public authorities to greater scrutiny to allow the public to hold them to account.
  • McQuarrie, Michael (2011). Occupy UC Davis?
  • McQuarrie, Michael (2011). Who is responsible for police violence at UC Davis?
  • Mead, David (2011). Dropping the case against the Fortnum protesters is not as interesting as their charges of aggravated trespass. This is yet another threat to the freedom to protest.
  • Mead, David (2011). Swingeing public sector cuts are likely to generate an autumn and winter of discontent. We need a new public debate on the role of the police and legitimate forms of political protest and direct action.
  • Meckled-Garcia, Saladin (2011). The Conservatives cannot ‘wriggle’ their way out of the European Convention on Human Rights, even by introducing a British Bill of Rights.
  • Medina, Juanjo (2011). UK gang policy needs to avoid heavy handed suppression tactics. It should focus on preventing violence, tackling societal inequalities and offering exit opportunities to gang members through job creation.
  • Melissaris, Emmanuel (2011). We should be cautious about televising trials as they would do little to bolster public faith in the judicial system and provide for open justice: alternative solutions should be sought.
  • Mendizabal, Enrique (2011). he demands of proving ‘impact’ might tempt academics to work separately from think tanks, but a collaborative relationship between the two will yield the most productive results.
  • Menon, Anand (2011). Anglo-French defence cooperation is a useful supplement for broader multilateral European schemes, but is not a replacement for them: to exert real influence over international security affairs Europeans must act collectively.
  • Mewburn, Inger (2011). Running a successful academic blog can make you feel like a rock star: authenticity and narrative are essential for forging your own digital identity.
  • Meyer, Henning (2011). Europe, prepare for a riotous 2012.
  • Meyer, Henning (2011). Jahr der Entscheidung für Europa.
  • Meyer, Henning (2011). Primarily a political crisis.
  • Meyer, Henning (2011). Seid ehrlich zu Europas Bürgern!
  • Milas, Costas, Panagiotidis, Theodore (2011). How (un)justified are the decisions of credit rating agencies?
  • Milas, Costas, Panagiotidis, Theodore (2011). How big is the risk of contagion from Greece to the rest of the Eurozone?
  • Miles, Emily (2011). OCCUPY LSXual Harrassment.
  • Modood, Tariq (2011). Multiculturalism should be about bringing communities and individuals into relations of respect.
  • Mog, Ashley (2011). Book review: the life and times of Stella Browne: feminist and free spirit.
  • Mog, Ashley (2011). Book review: the politics of Twitter and how ‘going viral’ can spell the end for any politician.
  • Mog, Ashley (2011). Book review: the straight state: sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America.
  • Mohammed, Bala (2011). Nigeria – Ensuring [un] rule of law.
  • Moise, Alison (2011). Book review: rankings and the reshaping of higher education: the battle for excellence.
  • Moise, Andreea (2011). Book review: making sense of media and politics: five principles in political communication.
  • Mollett, Amy (2011). Academic knowledge in the digital era: top 5 podcasts.
  • Mollett, Amy (2011). Book review: the net delusion: how the internet causes problems for democracy and why we should all be cybersceptics.
  • Mollett, Amy (2011). David Cameron may finally have found community spirit amongst the riot clean up, but recent events spell the end for his Big Society fantasy.
  • Mollett, Amy (2011). Share your Twitter top tips for a new ‘how-to’ guide for academics on the merits of academic tweeting.
  • Mollett, Amy (2011). Taking a leaf out of Poliakoff’s book: embracing new online platforms is necessary for the positive survival of academic impact and debate.
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). Depressing wages.
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). Greece in focus: a GreeSE Papers special issue.
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). Here we are nowhere …yet.
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). I had a dream… …about taxi licensing!
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). Keeping Greece afloat and hoping for supply-side growth….
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). London burning, stock markets melting… time for structural change!
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). Survival of the weakest?
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). Ten frequently asked questions – with nine answers….
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). To default or not to default? That is NOT the question!
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). A giant leap for the eurozone – a small step for Greece….
  • Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2011). A very sombre proposition: finding the strength to kill ones’ self.
  • Moore, Alex (2011). Book review: why Britain must fight for a fairer society.
  • Moore, Candice (2011). South Africa’s about-turn on Libya: Is speaking with the AU/BRIC majority defending the indefensible?
  • Moran, Danielle (2011). Book review: humanitarian intervention and the UN.
  • Moran, Danielle (2011). The spectacular fall from grace of Ireland’s Fianna Fail should serve as a warning to the UK and other governments across Europe who are treating the financial crisis with ill-tasting austerity measures.
  • Moran, Danielle, Mollett, Amy (2011). Altmetrics, a guide to Twitter for academics, and increasing your academic footprint: our round-up of social media blogs in 2011.
  • Moran, Dominic (2011). Book review: climate policy after Copenhagen.
  • Moran, James (2011). Book review: campaign communication and political marketing.
  • Moran, James (2011). Book review: how to change the world: tales of Marx and Marxism.
  • Morisi, Dave (2011). Europe’s Digital Agenda: boosting access & breaking barriers.
  • Morisi, Davide (2011). EU’s Recognition of Open Data’s Economic Value is Good Start.
  • Morisi, Davide, Murray, Ben (2011). The challenge of measuring media plurality: Expert workshop at the LSE.
  • Mulheirn, Ian (2011). George Osborne’s council tax freeze is playing games with spending, and will damage growth.
  • Mulheirn, Ian (2011). The government’s plan of credit easing to small businesses shows they acknowledge that we need to grow our way out of debt, not just get a grip on spending.
  • Munro, Eileen (2011). Child protection must focus on the child, not on rules and targets.
  • Murkens, Jo Eric Khushal (2011). An independent Scotland would need to apply for EU membership and would be compelled to adopt the euro.
  • Murphy, Anthony (2011). Book review: policing at the top: the roles, values and attitudes of Chief Police Officers.
  • Muth, Karl T. (2011). A middle-income Uganda: aiming for mediocrity and failing.
  • Puplett, Dave, Madjarevic, Natalia (2011). By championing open access publishing, the academic community can bring us closer to making research available to all.
  • Tonge, Jon, McAuley, James (2011). Although political progress has been made in Northern Ireland, the polarisation of the communities still firmly exists.
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  • Narnie, Shaun (2011). How Should ASEAN respond to the Global Leadership vacuum? picture_as_pdf
  • Nathan, Max (2011). City deals: what next?
  • Nathan, Max (2011). On the origins of land use regulations.
  • Nathan, Max (2011). Outer London is ‘not proven’ – either as an economic space or a state of mind.
  • Nathan, Max (2011). Tall buildings have productivity benefits for workers and prestige for firms. No wonder firms are willing to pay a premium to work in them.
  • Nathan, Max (2011). The economics of skyscrapers.
  • Newburn, Tim (2011). Cuts to police numbers, proposals for directly elected Commissioners, and the wooing of US ‘supercop’ Bill Bratton are all evidence of a new and much more adversarial relationship between the Conservatives and the police.
  • Newburn, Tim (2011). There is a pressing need for credible research into the causes and the consequences of the recent riots. A new joint study between the LSE and the Guardian aims to address this.
  • Newburn, Tim (2011). The long standing tension between police and politicians needs to be dealt with now. We cannot keep politics out of the police, and we should not seek to.
  • Newburn, Tim (2011). The phone hacking scandal shows that our system of police governance is in urgent need of root and branch review.
  • Neylon, Cameron (2011). Impact has a bad name among many researchers, but thinking of impact as re-use could be key to uniting both funders and researchers.
  • Niepmann, Friederike, Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim (2011). For governments intervening to bail out banks, finding the right balance between efficiency gains, the preservation of national sovereignty, and optimal international cooperation remains a challenging task.
  • Noble-Rogers, James (2011). Universities play a key role in training and attracting and retaining the best teachers. This cannot be replaced by direct training in schools.
  • Norton, Philip (2011). Social democracy is not the ideology we need in an economic downturn: even if the Left can sell social democracy to the UK electorate, it will have a hard time selling it to global markets.
  • Nunn, Amanda (2011). Syria’s relaxation of internet controls – has it made any difference? (guest blog).
  • Nunn, Amanda (2011). The worst censor is the self (guest blog).
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  • O'Brien, Chris (2011). Universities need proactive and imaginative strategies to communicate their research and to achieve high impact scores.
  • O'Brien, Dave (2011). Book review: good and plenty: the creative success of American arts funding.
  • O'Brien, Dave (2011). Book review: the public value of the humanities.
  • O'Brien, Dave (2011). Book review: working for policy.
  • O'Brien, Wanda (2011). Connecting communities, connecting people: social media and humanitarian campaigns (guest blog).
  • O'Brien, Wanda (2011). What good is the BBC?
  • Olad, Awale (2011). Business leaders and politicians must promote a positive narrative of immigration if migrants are to play a role in re-building the UK economy.
  • Oliver, Adam (2011). How far did the UK government over-respond to the 2009 threat of swine flu?
  • Oliver, Adam (2011). It’s time to change the default for organ donation – people should have to opt out.
  • Oliver, Adam (2011). New policy experiments using nudges have the potential to make a significant contribution to energy conservation.
  • Oliver, Adam (2011). Nudge, behavioural economics and public policy: a new theme for British Politics and Policy at LSE.
  • Oliver, Adam (2011). Public and private decision makers should place due attention to the likelihood that high risk high reward options will fail.
  • Oliver, Adam (2011). The evidence shows that nudge effects disappear when incentives are short term; ‘deposit contracts’ may provide the answer to changing people’s behaviour.
  • Oliver, Dawn (2011). An independent Scrutiny Commission could take over the constitutionally valuable roles that the House of Lords presently performs, and at lower cost – whether we move to create an elected second chamber; or reform the unacceptable features of the current House of Lords; or just scrap a second chamber altogether.
  • Oliver, Tim (2011). Social democracy is the right path for the Labour Party, although Liberals should see fit to critique it: a return of ideology to political debates will make Liberal politics worth fighting for.
  • Orgad, Shani (2011). Why don’t people act when they know about suffering? (guest-blog).
  • Orlikowski, Wanda J., Scott, Susan V. (2011). How social media can disrupt your industry: a case study in the travel sector.
  • Oschmann, Felicia (2011). WikiLeaks: making life difficult (summer school guest blog).
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Abandoned streets.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Adapting to localism.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Beaches, sunshine and public sector pay.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Bins, LEPs, Mayors and growth.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Budget 2011: Enterprise zones: right diagnosis, wrong treatment?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Build absolute nothing anywhere near anybody.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Building on the green belt.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Business rate retention.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Business rate retention proposals (the X factor).
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Business rate retention: growth vs equity.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). CLASH.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). CLG select committee report on planning: the good, the bad, the ugly.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Cameron's brownfield plan.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Can cheap credit explain the housing boom?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Can local authorities close the gap between rich and poor?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Cash for planning permission.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). City life bad for the brain?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Council estates and the riots.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Crime maps.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Culture and regeneration.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). De-industrial revolution.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Displacement zones.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Disposable incomes.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Economic impacts of HS2.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Ed Miliband’s plans to reward ‘good firms’ sounds good in theory but will be very difficult to implement in practice.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Empty bedrooms and the housing crisis.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Empty homes and the housing crisis.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Encouraging home ownership.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). (English) heritage and cities.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Enterprise zones.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Enterprise zones: right diagnosis, wrong treatment?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Evidence on planning.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Family friendly hotspots.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Football stadiums.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Government proposals that local councils can retain business rates will give incentives for growth, but with some funding inequalities across councils.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Grim down South?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). High flying cities.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). High speed 2: latest opinion poll reveals ...
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). High speed fail.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). High speed rail delays.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). High speed rail: no fast track fix.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Higher local taxes a threat to jobs.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). House swaps to help the jobless?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Housing strategy.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Housing: starts up, completions down.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). How did London get away with it?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Immigration and the housing problem.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Immigration up, housing starts down.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Infrastructure options.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Innovation in cities.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Investing in London's affordable housing.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Is the new homes bonus working?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Is the new homes bonus working? (Part 2).
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Local government finance.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Local government finance and the Glencore IPO.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Local procurement and jobs for local people.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Localism and housing supply.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). London (still) getting away with it.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). London still getting away with it (cont).
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). London's (shocking?) growth performance.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). London’s employment mix and the bank bailouts have helped it avoid the worst of the recession, but things do not look so rosy for the capital’s poor.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Made in Britain.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Made in Britain II.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Manchester: top of the (northern) league.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Margate and the Turner Contemporary.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Mary Portas’s review of the decline of the high street is set to reignite the debate on government intervention to prevent the spread of ‘clone towns’.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). MediaCityUK and the Manchester economy.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Millennium villages and the analysis of place-based policies.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Minister for cities.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). More city rankings.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). More housing please.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). More supermarket bashing.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Moving the poor out of London.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). National planning.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Nature and planning.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Nick Clegg’s speech on ‘Plan A plus’ shows that the government’s fiscal position is increasingly limiting its options to stimulate the economy.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Open evaluation and the future of evidence based policy making.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Open evaluation of new Enterprise Zones stands to increase understanding of the impact of urban policy at little cost.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Open evaluation: not just for enterprise zones.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Open government.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Planning an easy target?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Planning for people.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Planning hypocrisy.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Planning policy roundtable.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Planning reforms: a challenge for left and right.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Planning reforms: serious debate needed.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). (Planning) permission granted.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Planning: localism versus growth.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Plannning, nature and growth: unresolved conflicts.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The Portas review.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Promoting home ownership.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Protectionism and the high street.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Regional growth fund (round II).
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). (Return of) the North-South divide.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Rewarding good firms.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Riots: what next?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Rising rents.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Science parks.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Separating out whether individual or community factors drive rioting is difficult. We should be very wary about believing anyone who claims to know otherwise.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Should we "save the high street"?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Should we give greater powers to City Councils?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Silicon roundabout.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Smart growth failures.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Space rationing.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Spatial mismatch.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Sports stadiums and regeneration.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). (Super) city rankings.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Supermarkets and planning: be careful what you wish for.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Supermarkets in a different class?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Sustainable development and local plans.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Transport and the economy.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). Where to build?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The bank of Mum and Dad.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The campaign for high speed rail.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The chronic under-supply of housing in Britain may lead to rising rents and house prices. The government’s planning reforms may go some way to encouraging more development, but stronger incentives are needed.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The economics of rioting.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The empty homes scandal.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The government’s growth review shows the need for serious debate on planning reforms.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The government’s new draft national planning policy framework focuses the planning system on redevelopment too greatly rather than on new development.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The homes 'crisis'.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The road to recovery - what can government do?
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The triumph of the city.
  • Overman, Henry G. (2011). The true value of nature.
  • Vaagen, Nate, O'Neill, Liam (2011). How Open is Open Internet?
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  • Pacheco Pardo, Ramon (2011). China, the US and ADMM-Plus: Towards confidence building in Southeast Asia? picture_as_pdf
  • Packman, Carl (2011). Book review: British National Party: contemporary perspectives.
  • Packman, Carl (2011). Book review: Chavs: the demonization of the working class.
  • Packman, Carl (2011). Book review: Foucault on politics, security and war.
  • Packman, Carl (2011). Book review: explaining Cameron’s coalition: how it came about: an analysis of the 2010 British General Election.
  • Packman, Carl (2011). Book review: outside in by Peter Hain.
  • Packman, Carl (2011). Book review: political discourse and national identity in Scotland.
  • Packman, Carl (2011). Book review: the filter bubble: what the internet is hiding from you.
  • Packman, Carl (2011). Book review: the purple book: a progressive future for labour.
  • Packman, Carl (2011). Book review: the revival of British Liberalism: from Grimond to Clegg.
  • Palmer, Charles (2011). Kaza: is the largest wildlife park in the world a conservation challenge too far?
  • Panagiotidis, Theodore (2011). One wedding and two funerals.
  • Parkinson, John (2011). The current impact agenda could consider the impact of inspirational teaching, not just research.
  • Parry, Katy, Richardson, Kay (2011). Nick Clegg’s rise and fall as a celebrity politician highlights the Deputy Prime Minister as a victim of the increasing personification of British politics.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: British foreign policy: the new Labour years.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: Ed: the Milibands and the making of a Labour leader.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: In my time: a personal and political memoir.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: Osama Bin Laden.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: The Black Banners: inside the hunt for Al-Qaeda.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: University Challenge: the fight for HE in a profit-focused climate.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: a long goodbye: the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: from crisis to coalition: the Conservative party, 1997-2010.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: new British fascism: rise of the British National Party.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: political communication in Britain: the leader debates, the campaign and the media in the 2010 general election.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: pushing the reset button on Russia.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: terrorism, elections and democracy: political campaigns in the United States, Great Britain and Russia.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: the development of British defence policy: Blair, Brown and beyond.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: the force of obedience: the political economy of repression in Tunisia.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: the legacy of the crash: how the financial crisis changed America and Britain.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: the performance of politics: Obama’s victory and the struggle for democratic power.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: the struggle for Egypt: from Nasser to Tahrir Square.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Book review: the unfinished global revolution: the limits of nations and the pursuit of a new politics.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Budget 2011: As defence spending falls, British influence may be on the wane.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Cameron and Hague are wrong – drones and ‘cyber-warfare’ will not replace conventional forces.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). Counterfactual history suggests that the last ten years of American foreign policy has made us safer.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). E-book review: the labour tradition and the politics of paradox: the Oxford-London seminars 2010-11.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). With markets often outperforming more traditional forecasting approaches, bookmakers could be useful to policy makers in predicting global trends and events.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). The changes to the NHS reforms are cosmetic: the essential elements have been preserved.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). The government should resist calls for further press regulation in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. Further regulation would seriously hamper independent journalism.
  • Partridge, Matthew (2011). The government’s plans to change the voter registration system will do little to prevent electoral fraud. They may even mean that fewer people vote.
  • Pearce, Nick (2011). The decline of the Conservative party in Scotland has more do to with its own failings than the rise of the SNP.
  • Pearce, Nick (2011). The government is against debt, but spending cuts and tax increases will mean squeezed households will have to take on more in the coming years.
  • Pearce, Oliver (2011). The UK could have led the way on rights for domestic workers: instead it has refused to sign a new international convention that promotes fair pay, health and safety, and labour rights.
  • Peckett, Nicola (2011). The Leveson inquiry should encourage more sensitive media coverage of suicides to help prevent copycat deaths.
  • Pepper, Alexander (2011). The Hutton review is unlikely to solve the “wicked” problem of executive pay in the public sector.
  • Petrongolo, Barbara (2011). At a time of persistent unemployment, Nobel Laureate Chris Pissarides’s search theory offers significant lessons for policy makers.
  • Petrongolo, Barbara, Van Reenen, John (2011). The level of youth unemployment is at a record high. Policy makers should focus on strengthening and refining welfare-to-work and education-to-work programmes and forget about caps on immigration or reductions in the minimum wage which would do nothing to help.
  • Pettiná, Vanni (2011). REVIEW: ‘Che’s Travels: The making of a revolutionary in 1950s Latin America’.
  • Pissarides, Christopher (2011). Europe is losing out in both employment and productivity by not making it easier to set up and operate business services.
  • Plunkett, James (2011). If the Chancellor is to avoid hailing a false dawn when growth does return, he needs to get beyond talk of ‘recovery’ in the abstract and look at the conditions that helped raise living standards during previous decades of growth.
  • Plunkett, James (2011). There is a growing need for a policy response to the ‘new inflation’.
  • Pollak, Sorcha (2011). The American dream vs. the British reality – are they really that different? (guest blog).
  • Postel-Vinay, Natacha (2011). Book review: bankers, blogs and bailouts.
  • Postel-Vinay, Natacha (2011). Book review: citizens, context and choice: how context shapes citizens’ electoral choices.
  • Powell, Alison (2011). Web Blocking Policy made behind closed doors?
  • Powell, Alison (2011). Will the Digital Economy Act protect consumers from ‘speculative invoicing’?
  • Power, Anne (2011). Fearing for the future.
  • Powers, Patrick (2011). A recipe ripe for success: why Google+ will work for HigherEducation.
  • Prasopoulou, Elpida (2011). On Greek public administration.
  • Prasopoulou, Elpida (2011). Zombie politics.
  • Priem, Jason (2011). As scholars undertake a great migration to online publishing, altmetrics stands to provide an academic measurement of twitter and other online activity.
  • Prins, Gwyn (2011). New conflicts across the Middle East mean that defence strategy making is more important than ever: history shows that we cannot afford to think of defence in solely monetary terms.
  • Puplett, Dave (2011). University libraries, repositories and Open Access should be seen as crucial tools in improving the impact of academic research.
  • Voth, Hans-Joachim, Ponticelli, Jacopo (2011). According to new research, once governments try to impose cuts above 2 per cent of GDP, a major surge in social instability can be expected.
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  • Quah, Danny (2011). Engaging young people in big ideas should be just as important as the REF in the eyes of academics.
  • Quah, Danny (2011). Our exports now go mostly to slow-growing countries. We must reboot the UK economy to focus on emerging economies, now the world’s engine of growth.
  • Quah, Danny (2011). The REF follows a model which ignores academic engagement with the public and is already being rejected by US researchers for being ‘outdated’.
  • Quinnell, Sarah-Louise (2011). Becoming a networked researcher: using social media for research and researcher development.
  • Quinnell, Sarah-Louise (2011). From academic blog to academic job: using scoop.it to showcase your work online shows others the value of digital communication skills.
  • Quinnell, Sarah-Louise (2011). From blogging to print: my journey to creating impact.
  • Quinnell, Sarah-Louise (2011). The use of social media in higher education can be a positive step towards bridging the digital divide, but it is not a fail-safe measure.
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  • Rabier, Christelle (2011). Capturing the cut.
  • Rainford, Paul, Tinkler, Jane (2011). New ‘big society’ providers could deliver better local services, but there are grave concerns surrounding funding, accountability and citizen redress.
  • Rainford, Paul, Tinkler, Jane (2011). Think before you nudge: the benefits and pitfalls of behavioural public policy.
  • Ralph, Jason (2011). The Awlaki killing and Nashiri’s prosecution should give the British government cause for concern on the direction of Obama’s war on terror.
  • Ralph, Jason (2011). Some lessons are being learnt from British policy in Iraq for Libya. But only in how to leave UN resolutions sufficiently ambiguous.
  • Redfern, Katrin (2011). Reproducing gendered violence through discourse: a comment on LSE Student Union’s newspaper, the Beaver.
  • Redford, Pete (2011). The EU Referendum rebellion has left David Cameron with little room to manoeuvre and is picking apart his liberal conservative project.
  • Redford, Pete (2011). Labour’s best chance for re-election lies in expressing support for an active state with social democratic values and avoiding the ideological vacuum of the Blue Labour movement and the Purple Book.
  • Reilly, Paul (2011). Social media didn’t start the fire: proposals for the temporary shutdown of social media during riots are unlikely to prevent further unrest.
  • Reilly, Paul (2011). The internet never forgets: government measures to protect privacy are unlikely to succeed in the social media age.
  • Richter, Barbara (2011). Book review: beyond mechanical markets: asset price swings, risk, and the role of the state.
  • Richter, Barbara (2011). Book review: greening aid?: understanding the environmental impact of development assistance.
  • Richter, Barbara (2011). Book review: how social movements are turning the world green.
  • Richter, Barbara (2011). Book review: networked: a contemporary history of news in transition.
  • Richter, Barbara (2011). Book review: wasters: the people who squander your taxes on white-elephant projects… and how they get away with it.
  • Ridge-Newman, Anthony (2011). Britain needs a more proactive academic culture in which we reach out to the next generation of scholars.
  • Ridge-Newman, Anthony (2011). Don’t swap the 'Ivory Tower' for a cyber one: public engagement and the internet.
  • Robbins, Chris (2011). Local partnerships are effective in preventing the spread of gangs and gang violence: the government can’t afford not to invest in them.
  • Roberts, Alasdair, Yochai, Benkler (2011). Wikileaks revisited: Is Julian Assange a straw man?
  • Robinson, Mary (2011). Time is ticking on climate change: we urgently need a new, legally binding agreement with concrete measures to reduce greenhouse gases.
  • Romany, Sara (2011). An Egyptian in London: watching revolution in my city through modern media (guest blog).
  • Roncevic, Aleksandar (2011). Serbia and regional stability.
  • Rowlingson, Karen (2011). Both inequality and poverty cause health and social problems – they are forces that need to be tackled together.
  • Rudolf, Philippine (2011). Book review: had your 5-a-day?: putting ‘globesity’ and its economic consequences on the policy map.
  • Rutter, Jill (2011). It’s time for academics to help shape not just individual policies, but a new system of policy-making that allows for a more effective feedback process and implementation of policy.
  • Rutter, Jill (2011). The academic community must be ready to respond to opportunities to engage with the issues that are preoccupying policy makers.
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  • Saffin, Kate (2011). Book review: free will.
  • Saffin, Kate (2011). Book review: the globalization paradox: why global markets, states, and democracy can’t coexist.
  • Sage, Daniel (2011). Book review: New Labour and the new world order: Britain’s role in the war on terror.
  • Sage, Daniel (2011). Book review: the Scottish National Party: transition to power by James Mitchell, Lynn Bennie and Rob Johns.
  • Sage, Daniel (2011). Book review: why some politicians are more dangerous than others.
  • Sage, Daniel (2011). Book review: work, worklessness and the political economy of health.
  • Sage, Daniel (2011). Book review: “there is no alternative”: why Margaret Thatcher matters.
  • Sage, Daniel (2011). The Darwin economy: liberty, competition and the common good.
  • Sandström, Linnéa (2011). Can we use emotions as an indicator for public decision-making?
  • Sandvig, Christian (2011). Debunking Internet Myths: slow, centralised and local reality.
  • Sarb, Cristina (2011). The move to individual electoral registration offers an unparalleled opportunity to take into account disabled people’s access needs and remove some of the systemic barriers they face in casting a vote.
  • Savage, Lee (2011). 5 million workers in the UK still earn less than the Living Wage. Now, more than ever, we need to find ways to help those at the bottom work their way up the earnings ladder.
  • Scalvini, Marco (2011). Europe’s double-standards on freedom for Libya (guest-blog).
  • Scalvini, Marco (2011). Humanitarian wars and rejected refugees.
  • Scalvini, Marco (2011). Italian Spring: the Berlusconi era may be nearing its end.
  • Scalvini, Marco (2011). Obama: the rhetoric of justice (guest blog).
  • Scanlon, Kathleen (2011). International comparisons can provide useful pointers towards a sustainable private rented sector in England.
  • Scanlon, Kathleen (2011). Non-EU migrants compete mostly with each other for housing: their impact on house prices is minimal.
  • Schelkle, Waltraud (2011). Greece vs. California – Comparing fiscal crises within the monetary Unions.
  • Schimmel, Noam (2011). Development agencies must reverse their neglect of Rwandan genocide survivors.
  • Schlesinger, Philip (2011). Local Television and the Scottish Digital Network.
  • Scott, Andrew (2011). The perceived breakdown in the legal regime of privacy protection can be addressed by certain amendments to the Human Rights Act.
  • Seal, Lizzie (2011). Historical views on the abolition of the death penalty can help to put the latest Sun campaign in context.
  • Sebba, Judy (2011). Getting research into policy: the role of think tanks and other mediators.
  • Secker, Jane (2011). Proving the value of digital and information literacy in higher education through Project DELILA.
  • Sennett, Richard (2011). A creditable left.
  • Sewell, Bevan (2011). REVIEW: “The shadows of the Cold War over Latin America: the US reaction to Fidel Castro’s Nationalism, 1956-1959”.
  • Seymour, Richard (2011). Book review: controversies in drugs policy and practice.
  • Shaheen, Faiza (2011). Images of the ‘ivory tower’ do not portray the full story: it is more likely that UK universities generate billions of pounds in social value each year.
  • Shahi, Afshin (2011). The dictator is dead, God save the dictator!
  • Shalev, Sharon (2011). Solitary confinement. html
  • Sharif, Maher (2011). Part.2: What does it mean to be an Arab leftist today?
  • Sharif, Maher (2011). What does it mean to be an Arab leftist today?
  • Sheikh, Faiz (2011). Book review: the Ayatollahs’ democracy: an Iranian challenge. picture_as_pdf
  • Sheikh, Faiz (2011). Book review: the idea of world government: from ancient times to the twenty-first century.
  • Sheikh, Sanah (2011). The impact of hate crime against disabled people is far reaching: police responses need to be more consistent.
  • Shen, Yang (2011). Findings from the third survey on Chinese women’s social status.
  • Shepherd, Tamara (2011). Search and destroy: more antitrust allegations against Google.
  • Simpson, April (2011). It’s time to pay for newspapers and here’s how says New York Times boss (guest blog).
  • Simpson, April (2011). Should charities be allowed ‘political’ advertising on TV?
  • Simpson, April (2011). Time to pay for quality news online – New York Times’ Arthur Suzlberger at Polis (guest blog).
  • Sims, Sam (2011). Electing mayors for more English cities would increase local democratic accountability and widen political participation. But the government must grant them real power and freedom.
  • Sissons, Andrew (2011). The current jobs crisis is the result of a lack of business confidence and a shortage of consumers with money to spend: the government needs to create a long-term framework to drive innovation and raise productivity across the economy.
  • Smith, Anthony (2011). Investing in a new High Speed line will provide a once in a generation chance to improve rail services.
  • Smith, Sarah (2011). Not-for-profit organizations work well in caring services. But expectations of their playing an increased role in Big Society changes may not be well-founded.
  • Solhjell, Randi (2011). Crunch time in DR Congo elections.
  • Sommer, Peter (2011). Book review: cyber criminals on trial.
  • Sommer, Peter (2011). Senior politicians are beginning to see the importance of cyberspace governance, but current international treaties need updating.
  • Sonnenschein, Jan (2011). Anti-EU trend turning around in Croatia – While neighbours grow increasingly sceptical of the European Union.
  • Springford, John (2011). Vince Cable is right to tackle executive pay, but to do so, he has to build a coalition from within the financial sector to encourage more spartan pay awards. This won’t be easy.
  • Stamov, Gjorgii (2011). New meaning for an old relationship: Serbia’s arms deals during Gaddafi’s reign.
  • Stamov, Gjorgji (2011). Long road ahead: Skopje-Brussels, via Athens.
  • Steedman, Hilary (2011). The ‘NEET’ category emphasises participation regardless of its content or value: focusing on progression and achievement can help set clearer goals for school leavers.
  • Steer, Damien (2011). The research revealed Impact Tool.
  • Stepanova, Ekaterina (2011). Post-Bin Laden prospects for the peace process in Afghanistan.
  • Stephens, Mark (2011). Our property tax system is in dire need of reform: we need radical solutions such as automatic Council Tax revaluation or a national property tax based on property values.
  • Stephens, Mark (2011). The current volatility in house prices hurts the whole economy – we need solutions that will provide stability and affordability for home owners.
  • Stevens, Alex (2011). In Whitehall, academic research is far more likely to be used if it fits with the story already being told.
  • Stewart, Neil (2011). Book review: constructions of neoliberal reason.
  • Stoker, Gerry (2011). In the UK and across Europe, citizens are becoming more pessimistic about politics. But we can start to use social networks to drive political understanding and engagement, and to re-energize citizenship.
  • Stone, Emma (2011). The Dilnot Commission’s proposals will help prevent people with modest assets from losing most of their life’s savings to pay for care.
  • Sujon, Zoetanya (2011). Launching the LSE Media Policy Project Brief 1: Public responses.
  • Sujon, Zoetanya (2011). Peggy Valcke on EU Approaches to Monitoring Media Pluralism.
  • Suss, Joel (2011). Book review: politicians and rhetoric: the persuasive power of metaphor.
  • Tiffin, Richard, Salois, Matthew (2011). A fat tax is a double whammy for the poor – it will do little to prevent obesity in those on lower incomes, and will hurt them financially.
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  • The League of European Researchers (2011). What are universities for?
  • Talbot, Colin (2011). ‘GOD’s’ coming replacement with a civil service ‘Trinity’ is a further sign that policy making is becoming even more divorced from its implementation.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). BPI Asking Nicely for Web Blocking.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). City University ‘Media Plurality’ event – and Elstein’s ‘crikey’ moment.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). The Communication Review will not result in a definite plan of action, but it provides a good opportunity for the government to build a solid base for considered and informed policies on regulation, infrastructure and plurality.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). December Leveson Round-Up: The End of Press Freedom?
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). ECJ Ruling Outlaws Monitoring of Internet, but not Site Blocking.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Evidence or political will? DEA, Hargreaves and the future of UK copyright regulation.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Freedom Abroad, Repression at Home: The Clinton Paradox.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Government inquiries into phone hacking and the media’s role must ensure a wide debate and lead to genuine reforms. The public must have fast, free and fair access to redress in cases of press intrusion.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Hunt Bold.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Jeremy Hunt announces plans for a new Communications Act and a new local news channel.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Local TV Debate Centres on MUX Co. or No.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Local TV Part 3: Don’t start linear.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Local TV: How Local, How Independent – and How ‘Beautiful’?
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Murdoch’s Impossible Situation.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Murphy Challenges to Define Creativity in Sports Coverage.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Net Neutrality: Threats in US, Cautious Optimism in EU.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Ofcom advice to Hunt published.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Online rights debate: A laughing matter?
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Post Revolutionary Media Policy In Egypt.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Should Hunt take Ofcom's advice and refer the BSkyB bid? (guest blog).
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Should We Trust the Sky News Trust?
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Spectrum & Skills key to UK Broadband Future.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). What can BSkyB offer to get the deal through?
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Where next for web blocking in the UK?
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Who is a journalist and why it matters – Hugh Tomlinson.
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Wikileaks – is this the big dump?
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Will Leveson Avoid Industry Capture?
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). Will there be a green paper?
  • Tambini, Damian (2011). The phone-hacking scandals indicate that industry self regulation has failed to safeguard standards and accountability in the news media. A Media Commission is needed.
  • Tambini, David (2011). By Des Freedman, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London.
  • Tambini, David (2011). Communications Preview.
  • Tambini, David (2011). Is Closing NOTW an Opening for BSkyB?
  • Tambini, David (2011). Kicking Off the Comms Review.
  • Tambini, David (2011). Lebedev intervention underlines call for Media Commission.
  • Tambini, David (2011). The Long View on Media Plurality: we need market reviews.
  • Tambini, David (2011). Phonehacking and Press Reforms: Beware Dangerous Blogs.
  • Tambini, David (2011). Retransmission Fees on the Agenda to Pay for PSB Plurality?
  • Tambini, David (2011). This phone-hacking inquiry must not lose sight of its goal.
  • Tambini, David (2011). Thoughts on phone hacking: yes we need urgency, but also caution and clear principles.
  • Tambini, David (2011). What about the Middle Men?
  • Tanner, Will (2011). In order to reform public services for the better, we must first tackle an outdated employment culture that is bad for both taxpayers and workers.
  • Tanner, Will (2011). Poorly targeted short term initiatives to revive the UK’s flagging growth rates are likely to make things worse: consistency in economic policy is key in delivering long-term growth.
  • Tartir, Alaa (2011). Opinion: Europe, are you ready to stand by Palestine?
  • Tartir, Alaa (2011). A Palestinian spring?
  • Tartir, Alaa (2011). Peace in the Middle East.
  • Tartir, Alaa (2011). Will the Palestinians keep silent?
  • Taylor, Nick (2011). Book review: casino capitalism: how the financial crisis came about and what needs to be done now.
  • Taylor, Nick (2011). Book review: the new capitalist manifesto: building a disruptively better business.
  • Taylor-Robinson, David (2011). Bigger cuts to local authority budgets in the most deprived areas are likely to widen health inequalities.
  • Teti, Andrea (2011). The politics of fearlessness: Egypt’s second January uprising.
  • Thomas, Amy (2011). Book review: living in the endless city.
  • Thomas, Sandy (2011). Global co-ordinated action is needed to ensure that the UK’s food future is sustainable.
  • Threlfall, Monica (2011). The Alternative Vote is not the answer to the problems of our current electoral system: it is confusing, does not increase proportionality and promotes centrist politics.
  • Tinkler, Jane (2011). Book review: the Ombudsman enterprise and administrative justice.
  • Tinkler, Jane (2011). First impressions of Google Scholar Citations are good: it’s easy to use and accurate.
  • Tinkler, Jane (2011). Slashing the welfare budget versus “we are all in this together”: the cumulative effect of cuts is more serious than has yet been admitted.
  • Tinkler, Jane (2011). Ten years after tax, social security departments in the USA and elsewhere are moving cautiously online. The UK is pioneering ‘digital by default’ services and the advent of a universal credit at DWP could be an opportunity for breakthrough progress.
  • Travers, Tony (2011). 99 per cent of London is not burning. We should not over-react to the weekend’s riots.
  • Travers, Tony (2011). The localism plans of Compassionate Conservatives, Red Tories and Blue Labour will struggle to succeed so long as Whitehall powers remain in the hands of Ministers.
  • Trenin, Dmitri (2011). Russia and the winter of revolutions in the Arab world.
  • Trygg, Sanna (2011). Everything in moderation: new Polis research project on online journalism (guest blog).
  • Trygg, Sanna (2011). Why do we moderate news websites? (new LSE research project).
  • Tsoukis, Christopher (2011). Towards a way out of the Greek crisis.
  • Tsui, Josephine (2011). Does the World Bank need an expanded notion of institutions to take gender into account?
  • Whitehead, Christine M. E., Travers, Tony (2011). The government needs to invest in affordable housing in London.
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  • Ulfelder, Jay (2011). Examining likelihoods in 2012: autocratic & democratic regime change.
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  • Vaganay, Arnaud (2011). Book review: exceptional people: how migration shaped our world and will define our future.
  • Vaganay, Arnaud (2011). Book review: poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty.
  • Vaganay, Arnaud (2011). Book review: the tyranny of utility: behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism.
  • Vaganay, Arnaud (2011). Le pari à haut risque des syndicats de l'Éducation Nationale.
  • Vaganay, Arnaud (2011). Pour une politique migratoire à l'épreuve des faits.
  • Valero, Anna, Van Reenen, John (2011). Slow growth does not have to be our ‘new normal’. Government needs to change the way it looks at the growth problem in the long term.
  • Van Criekinge, Tine (2011). The EU as an international actor.
  • Van Criekinge, Tine (2011). EU/ European migration policy.
  • Van Criekinge, Tine (2011). European security and defence policy.
  • Van Reenen, John (2011). From ‘Plan B’ to ‘Plan V’: what the UK economy needs to reboot and rebalance growth.
  • Van Reenen, John (2011). The success of the R&D tax credit shows that there can be a role for public policy in stimulating innovation and growth.
  • VanEvery, Jo (2011). The impact agenda in Canada: how researchers and research councils have found an impact measurement that nearly everyone is happy with.
  • Veale, Sarah (2011). As public sector cuts take effect, the gendered impact of the coalition’s deficit reduction strategy will become clear: as workers, as benefit claimants and as service users, women will be hit the hardest.
  • Veale, Sarah (2011). The government’s plans for employment law reform are a gift to bad employers and another smack in the face for employees.
  • Vibert, Frank (2011). The challenge for those who wish to codify the UK’s constitution is to make it relevant to voters who may have more pressing concerns.
  • Viitanen, Jenni (2011). Budget 2011: New Enterprise Zones have potential, but without more widespread economic growth they may be dead in the water.
  • Viitanen, Jenni (2011). The North is poorer and contributes far less to the national GDP than the South East, but compared to the national pay gap, it is fairer up North.
  • Vlandas, Tim (2011). Dissecting the unions: the differences between unions and Labour’s ‘third way’ agenda are not as great as they might seem.
  • Volintiru, Clara (2011). Book review: platform or personality?: the role of party leaders in elections.
  • Volintiru, Clara (2011). Book review: states and social movements.
  • Volintiru, Clara (2011). Book review: time to talk about terrorism.
  • Voller, Yaniv (2011). The Kingdom’s quandary: Saudi Arabia’s “Iran Complex”.
  • van der Linden, Sander (2011). Book review: nudge, nudge, think, think: experimenting with ways to change civic behaviour.
  • van der Linden, Sander (2011). Nudge is no magic fix. The potential consequences of behavioural interventions need to be weighed carefully based on an understanding of underlying behavioural processes.
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  • Wadi, Ramona (2011). Book review: dignity in adversity: human rights in troubled times.
  • Wadi, Ramona (2011). Book review: twilight of impunity: the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic.
  • Wallis, Richard (2011). Jeremy Hunt’s vision for media literacy.
  • Ward, Phil (2011). ‘Haldanegate’, the Big Society, and the elephant in the impact room.
  • Ward, Phil (2011). How long will it be until RCUK issues a call for proposals on the London riots?
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). America’s climate choice: put up or shut up.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Climate change education can still be part of a slimmed-down curriculum.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Climate pragmatism or climate illusion.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). The Daily Mail owners buy climate change, so why doesn’t the paper?
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Is climate science too trendy for school lessons?
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Lord Lawson’s incredible complacency on climate change.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). Why science is a vote winner.
  • Ward, Robert E. T. (2011). An echo chamber of climate change denial.
  • Wastell, David (2011). Public managers need to see their primary task as systems design and abandon magical thinking about technology.
  • Watson, Amy (2011). Book review: moving beyond ‘pale, male and stale’ in UK politics: the case for feminist institutionalism.
  • Watson, Amy (2011). The government’s economic policy ignores the gendered effects of its ‘competitive’ growth strategy.
  • Wehner, Joachim (2011). Budgeting in the UK is highly transparent: but that does not mean that budget decisions are carefully scrutinized, nor that the right policy judgements are made.
  • Wekesa, Eliud (2011). LSE Research: tracking the medication habits of HIV/AIDS-infected people among Kenya’s urban poor.
  • Weller, Martin (2011). Universities are increasingly moving towards recognising digital scholarship despite conflicting messages that favour traditional publishing in journals.
  • Weller, Martin (2011). The ghosts of Christmases past, present and future come bearing lessons of academic publishing.
  • Wells, Anthony (2011). Polling indicates support for curfews, water cannons, plastic bullets, and bringing in the army to deal with rioters.
  • Westad, Arne (2011). The Death of Kim Jong Il – a comment by Professor Arne Westad. picture_as_pdf
  • White, Anne (2011). The coalition government is facing criticism for its failure to keep the transparency agenda moving forward, but lessons can be learned by looking to Canada.
  • White, Jerry (2011). The history of riots in London shows that persistent inequality and injustice is always likely to breed periodic violent uprisings.
  • Whitehead, Christine M E (2011). The Government’s Housing Strategy is a step in the right direction, but the goal of constructing enough homes for the projected increase in households is slipping out of our grasp.
  • Whitehead, Christine M E (2011). Reviving the Right to Buy has garnered criticism, as it did in 1979, but 2 million households benefitted then and many will likely benefit now.
  • Whitley, Edgar A. (2011). Facebook’s ‘dirty tricks’ campaign against Google will have unexpected consequences in relation to the way that personal data is used and abused.
  • Wilkin, Joanna (2011). Beyond micro-credit: an evolving microfinance.
  • Wilkinson, Katy (2011). The best policy-making often comes out of crises, when different disciplines must work together to find solutions.
  • Wilks-Heeg, Stuart (2011). Talking sense on Lords reform: why the PSA’s new briefing fills a crucial gap.
  • Wilks-Heeg, Stuart (2011). What’s happening to our democracy?
  • Wilks-Heeg, Stuart (2011). Who governs Merseyside? The significance of Heseltine’s new report.
  • Wilks-Heeg, Stuart (2011). The coalition’s resurrection of Labour’s stalled constitutional reform agenda will do little to address widening social, economic, and political inequalities.
  • Wilks-Heeg, Stuart (2011). The rejection of AV is the fifth occasion in the last 100 years that a proposal to replace FPTP has failed. This history of failure to secure electoral reform hinges on the ever-changing political calculus between Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
  • Willcocks, Leslie P. (2011). Austerity will lead to further government outsourcing, but key lessons need to be learnt to avoid the mistakes of the past.
  • Williamson, Andy (2011). The gender imbalance online seems to be the result of wider political exclusion, not digital exclusion.
  • Williamson, Andy (2011). The think-tank model has passed its use by date. We need an alternative model for quality research to impact on evidence-based policy-making.
  • Willoughby, Syerramia (2011). Book review: Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state.
  • Wilson, Joan (2011). As tackling civil unrest remains pertinent to the Coalition’s political agenda, new research provides insights into the success of Labour’s social exclusion programme on disadvantaged families.
  • Wilson, Joan (2011). Book review: the economics of enough: how to run the economy as if the future matters.
  • Wilson, Joan (2011). By scrapping the Education Maintenance Allowance the Coalition government risks losing their opportunity to target entrenched problems of social mobility and educational disadvantage among pupils from deprived backgrounds in England.
  • Wilson, Joan (2011). Evidence from the latest BIS report indicates that international collaboration on articles boosts impact through citations and adds to the UK’s position as a ‘world-class’ research nation.
  • Winseck, Dwayne (2011). Should ISPs Enforce Copyright? Dwayne Winseck Interviews Robin Mansell.
  • Woolcock, Stephen (2011). European Union trade policy.
  • Worcester, Robert (2011). Worcester's Blog – boring election: a myth?
  • Worthy, Ben (2011). Despite the uphill battle in extending Freedom of Information to companies doing public work, the open data movement is already beginning to hold many of them to account.
  • Wright, Jonathan (2011). Public sector cuts have the potential to exacerbate growing geographical and generational divides in the UK.
  • Wyness, Gill (2011). Research suggests that higher education finance has had a limited role to play in participation. But given the substantial increase in tuition fees from 2012 this may not continue to be the case.
  • Wyness, Gill (2011). The government’s plans to place a levy on early student loan repayments will change little and add an unnecessary layer of complexity to the system.
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  • Yasin, Sara (2011). Book review: aggression, America and Al-Qaeda: framing the war on terror.
  • Yasin, Sara (2011). Special book review: theories of international politics and zombies.
  • Yu, Jie (2011). Why Does China want to have a stable North Korea after Kim Jong-Il’s demise? picture_as_pdf
  • Yujuico, Emmanuel (2011). ASEAN as a mediator of Burma rejoining the international community by Emmanuel Yujuico. picture_as_pdf
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  • Zahariadis, Nikolaos (2011). Do we need to kill higher education in Greece in order to save it?
  • Zahariadis, Nikolaos (2011). Does public service mean “ask what the country can do for you?”.
  • Zahariadis, Nikolaos (2011). Long live public employees!
  • Zahariadis, Nikolaos (2011). Of taxis and men….
  • Zahariadis, Nikolaos (2011). Tax evasion and self-flagellation in Greece.
  • Zalt Austwick, Martin (2011). Five minutes with Martin Zaltz Austwick: “Our Head of Department sees academic podcasting as a key component in our impact and communication strategy”.
  • Zarni, Maung (2011). Meritocracy: a myth?
  • Ziegert, Svenja (2011). After WikiLeaks: lessons for journalism (guest blog).
  • Zoetanya, Sujon (2011). Expert meeting on media literacy.
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  • Çubukçu, Ayça (2011). Killing in the name of: Libya, sovereignty, humanity.
  • Çubukçu, Ayça (2011). Turkey: the 'progressive' land of repression.
  • Çubukçu, Ayça (2011). The responsibility to protect: notes on Libya, sovereignty, and the UN security council.
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  • Šoštarić, Maja (2011). Kosovo-Serbia customs issue: A continuation of war by other means.