ON THE BLOG: What is constitutional monarchy, and what is its role in the UK?

Lisa James and Unit founder Robert Hazell explain the UK monarchy’s constitutional role, its impact, and the questions to pose should the UK ever decide to replace it.

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ON THE BLOG: Representation of parliament’s power in the national media: too weak or too strong?

Meg Russell & Lisa James summarise a new study showing that dominant right-leaning newspapers, in particular, often present negative views of parliament

constitution-unit.com/2024/04/18/rep…

LISTEN! Professor Mark Maslin 𝕏 🙄 & I discuss Artificial Intelligence & the climate crisis: what are businesses doing to reach net zero? We speak to Sims Witherspoon (@GoogleDeepMind), Buffy Price (@carbon_re) & Zoe Cokeliss Barsley (@OxUniPress) about action!

🎧 : ucl.ac.uk/climate-change…

Listen: BBC World Service ‘Weekend’ (from 11 min, 4 sec) Julie Norman discusses the influence of the United States on Israel and Iran as President Biden convenes the G7.
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Join us tomorrow as we will be running more Q&A sessions as part of our virtual #UCLOpenDays 👀

Speak to our staff & students and find out more about our taught programmes below⬇️

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Catch us this evening for what's sure to be an excellent discussion

What we learned about how to improve #peoplemanagement in government from asking 27,000 public servants in Chile (with Javier Fuenzalida Kim Sass Mikkelsen Jan Meyer-Sahling Better Govs): blogs.iadb.org/administracion…

“Despite a blizzard of front-page headlines suggesting the contrary, only 13% of English voters said they would describe the establishment as ‘woke’.”

Tom Baldwin on new polling from More in Common and UCL Policy Lab exploring English myths and identity. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In the news... Thomas Gift said: 'Many Americans have loose or malleable views on policy issues, even controversial ones like abortion … Consequently, they often look to party leaders to inform their perspective.'
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Have you booked your spot at the upcoming Maastricht Debate screening UCL?

Speakers include:

Susanne Oberhauser - Director, Europarl UK
Michal Ovádek - Lecturer UCLspp
Cecilia Jastrzembska - President, Young European Movement UK

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Thinking ahead to the EU elections? You can now watch our recent panel on 'what to expect' with Sara Hobolt Heather Grabbe and Tony Barber on YouTube. Chaired by Michal Ovádek. Thank you to our panel for such a wide ranging and interesting discussion! youtube.com/watch?v=JRkigo…

🚨New paper: The Impact of Private Hosting on the Integration of Ukrainian Refugees 🚨

w/ Mathis Herpell, Niklas Harder, Alexandra Orlova, Dominik Hangartner, Jens Hainmueller Immigration Policy Lab

osf.io/preprints/soca…

#polisciresearch #econtwitter An Economist

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Prof Lucy Barnes' inaugural lecture will explore how non-economists make sense of economic policy. Free to attend and open to all, please join us for this special event on 24 April 18:30-19:30. ucl.ac.uk/political-scie…

IT’S OFFER HOLDERS’ DAY 🎉

We are so excited to welcome all of you who have received offers to our undergraduate programmes! 🤩

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We were delighted to welcome a packed crowd to the Policy Lab from across all sides of politics and civil society to the launch of Tom Baldwin and our Director Marc Stears new book, England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country.

Order your copy now ➡️ bit.ly/3Jq0VG9

Congratulations to Fergus Green on his new publication 🌱

¿Alguna vez the has preguntado por qué hay tan pocas guerras en el Hemisferio Occidental? Échale un vistazo a esta explicación definitiva de la “Larga Paz Latinoamericana” por Luis L. Schenoni y coautores, recientemente publicada con International Studies Quarterly academic.oup.com/isq/article-ab…

Why does the region with the highest homicide rates also exhibit the lowest international conflict? Check out this take on the puzzle of interstate peace in the Americas by Luis L. Schenoni et al, published with International Studies Quarterly, the flagship journal of the ISA academic.oup.com/isq/article-ab…

Fab line up, feat our very own Jeff Howard! See below for more details and tickets for what looks to be a great discussion