APSA 2020 SSW Event | Understanding Australia’s Crisis Coordination
Webinar/Online
Australia’s 2019-20 bushfires killed at least 33 people, more than a billion animals and resulted in the destruction of thousands of properties and millions of hectares of forest and bushland ecosystem. Federal government action during and after these events drew heavy criticism across the…
The Unsentimental Nation? Early Commemoration of the Australian Commonwealth
Seminar
Scholars have disagreed about the degree of sentiment that propelled the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Was Federation a cynical deal designed to further the economic interests of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the working classes, women, Indigneous people and…
ANU welcomes participants for International Federalism Conference
Conference
Dr Andrew Banfield, Head of the ANU School of Politics and International Relations, and Dr Tracy B Fenwick, Director of the Australian Centre for Federalism, have welcomed guests from around Australia and the world to the 2018 International Association of Centers for Federal Studies…
Power Sharing in the World's Largest Democracy: Informal Consociationalism in India (and Its Decline?)
Seminar
India is one of the most diverse countries of the world but operates with a majoritarian Westminster system and simple plurality, albeit also with a federal system. It was eventually coded as consociational by Arend Lijphart (1996) but this coding was questioned by authors such as Wilkinson (2000)…
Brexit and the (Possible) Break-up of the UK: A Study in Failed Federalism
Seminar
The Australian Centre for Federalism (ACF) and the ANU Centre for European Studies (CES) present: Brexit and the (Possible) Break-up of the UK: A Study in Failed Federalism The vote in the UK’s 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union was regionally diverse. London, Scotland, and Northern…
30 Years of Argentine Democratization: Consolidation or Recurrent Crisis?
Lecture
Public lecture presented by the Australian Centre for Federalism (ACF), the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) and the Embassy of the Argentine Republic. Wednesday 26 April, 6:30pm Speakers ACF and ANCLAS Visiting Fellow Dr Lucas González (UNSAM) Location The…
The Federalization of Immigration in Canada
Lecture
The Australian Centre for Federalism (ACF) presents: The Federalization of Immigration in Canada Public lecture by Mireille Paquet, Ph.D. Wednesday 20 July 6:30pm The Allan Barton Forum, 2nd floor, College of Business & Economics, Kingsley Place [Building 26C], ANU In Canada,…