Torun Dewan

Date
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Event Sponsor
Co-sponsored by the Europe Center
Location
Encina Hall West, Room 400 (GSL)
Speaker

Torun Dewan, Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics

 

 

Biography

Torun Dewan is a political scientist at the London School of Economics. His main research is in political economy and in the formal and empirical analysis of decisionmaking in political parties, legislatures and executives. Amongst other issues he has looked at how cabinets structure the incentives of ministers, how leadership acts as a coordinating focal point, how political parties aggregate dispersed information, and how elections provide incentives for policy experimentation.