Global Citizenship and World Order? Educational Multilateralism and the History of IR
Lecture/seminar
Many new disciplinary histories of both Political Science and International Relations (IR) demonstrate their implications in empire and race science. At the same time, historical scholarship has recently turned its attention to the origins of liberal internationalism, fleshing out the political…
Managing Elections in a Changing World
Lecture/seminar
The field of electoral management is being reshaped, as many of the foundational assumptions crafted in the 1990s no longer apply as initially imagined. From the 1990s, the shaping of the professional norms of election management was shaped by democratisation practices introduced in one context and…
Democracy and Disadvantage: How economic and social disadvantage shapes, and is shaped by, political attitudes and behaviour
Lecture/seminar
It is close to a truism to say that democratic institutions and norms are under threat across established, high-income democracies. This is most obvious in the US, with an uptick in political violence, contested elections, and state-directed restrictions on free speech and expression (to name but a…
Revolutions are Back!
Lecture/seminar
Professor George Lawson works in the Department of International Relations (IR) at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs (ANU). His work is oriented around the relationship between history and theory, with a particular interest in global historical sociology.He applied…
PPE Special Lecture: Andrew Leigh MP and zero-sum thinking in policymaking
Lecture
Andrew Leigh is a former professor of economics at ANU and currently the Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury. In this talk, he will be discussing zero-sum thinking in policymaking. Andrew Leigh is the Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition,…
Independent guardrail institutions increase public trust
Lecture/seminar
Public trust is essential to democratic governance, yet many democracies face declining confidence in political institutions, driven by unmet expectations and perceived misconduct. Institutional ‘guardrails’, such as anti-corruption bodies, election commissions, and federal checks and balances, are…
Who should vote, who can vote, and who does vote? Democratic inclusion principles and the electoral participation of migrants
Lecture/seminar
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) defines the ‘basis of the authority of government’ as being ‘the will of the people’ (Art 21.1) and emphasises that ‘everyone has the right to take part in the government of his [sic.] country, directly or through freely chosen representatives’ (Art…