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📢 Public event announcement! 📢 | 2nd November 2026, 6.30-8pm | Tickets in bio!
“How do capitalist economies change over time? And what political consequences follow?”
Get ready for the latest public event hosted by the department of government! Come and see Peter A Hall, professor of European Studies at Harvard University, discuss his new book: ‘Governing Growth: the postwar transformations of capitalism and democracy’.
In it, Peter Hall traces the interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years, identifying a series of profound shifts in the political economies of Europe and the United States.
To do so, Hall develops the twin concepts of growth and representation regimes. Here, each growth regime represents the successive result of public policies interacting with the strategies of private firms, where each growth regime is accompanied by a distinctive representation regime which determines whose voices have the most influence over public policy.
Then showing how these two regimes interact, Hall develops a new account of the processes through which political economies change over time. In doing so, Hall outlines three postwar growth regimes: an era of modernization, from 1945 to about 1975; an era of liberalisation, from 1980 to the late 1990s; and an era of knowledge-based growth, beginning at the turn of the century.
His sweeping analysis sheds new light not only on the relationship between capitalism and democracy, but also on the roots of our contemporary political dilemmas.
Get your tickets in bio!
#politics #lselife #london #publicevent #politicalscience #comparativepolitics #politicaleconomy #lse
“How do capitalist economies change over time? And what political consequences follow?”
Get ready for the latest public event hosted by the department of government! Come and see Peter A Hall, professor of European Studies at Harvard University, discuss his new book: ‘Governing Growth: the postwar transformations of capitalism and democracy’.
In it, Peter Hall traces the interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years, identifying a series of profound shifts in the political economies of Europe and the United States.
To do so, Hall develops the twin concepts of growth and representation regimes. Here, each growth regime represents the successive result of public policies interacting with the strategies of private firms, where each growth regime is accompanied by a distinctive representation regime which determines whose voices have the most influence over public policy.
Then showing how these two regimes interact, Hall develops a new account of the processes through which political economies change over time. In doing so, Hall outlines three postwar growth regimes: an era of modernization, from 1945 to about 1975; an era of liberalisation, from 1980 to the late 1990s; and an era of knowledge-based growth, beginning at the turn of the century.
His sweeping analysis sheds new light not only on the relationship between capitalism and democracy, but also on the roots of our contemporary political dilemmas.
Get your tickets in bio!
#politics #lselife #london #publicevent #politicalscience #comparativepolitics #politicaleconomy #lse
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