Doctoral Candidate

Department of Government

London School of Economics

Houghton Street

London WC2A 2AE

j.k.wong@lse.ac.uk

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Doctoral Research: Institutional Design and Environmental Decision-making

My project features an innovative experiment which breaks down the conventional segregation between formal-analytic and normative-interpretive political theories. It draws on both social-choice-theoretic models and environmental theories and discourses to analyse the possibility and design of democratic institutions for environmental decision-making. This research is also relevant from an empirical perspective, which offers insights into addressing on-going environmental problems under the liberal-democratic context.

My current research has great potential for developing into more inter-disciplinary and collaborative projects, including but not limited to the following:

• Operationalising environmental democracy in practice (with political science)

• Deliberative democracy and the cultivation of environmental citizenship (with education)

• Environmental psychology and democracy (with psychology)

• The role of (scientific) knowledge in environmental democracy (with philosophy)

I expect to submit my thesis for examination by July 2012. My supervisors are Professor Christian List, Dr. Katrin Flikschuh, and Dr. Kai Spiekermann.

More broadly, my research interests include environmental theory, politics, and policy; formal political theory (particularly judgment aggregation theory) and its applications; and democratic theory and innovations.