Professor Stasavage will be presenting work from his exciting new book project that explores the history of government by consent in a global setting, charting the long rise of democracy in Europe in comparison with China, the Middle East, and other world regions.

A sandwich lunch will be available at the session and is booked according to numbers. If you would like to order lunch for this session, please reply to aoife.dudley@politics.ox.ac.uk no later than noon on Friday 2nd June.

In addition, the speaker has very happily agreed to set aside time for one-to-one meetings on Monday. So if anyone (faculty or graduate student) would like to meet with him after the seminar, please sign up using the following link: doodle.com/poll/6nccbb6m9z8m7ied. One-to-one meetings will take place in Room 132 in the Manor Road building.