Repression, Religion, and Regime Loyalty in Nazi Germany
Lecture/seminar
Measuring regime support in closed autocracies is challenging due to preference falsification and censorship. Professor Alexander De Juan introduces a novel behavioral measure of regime loyalty based on expressions of allegiance in 600,000 soldier obituaries published in Nazi Germany (1939–1944).…
Ambition Without Revolution: The Global South Emerging Power’s Pursuit of Influence Inside the Liberal International Order (LIO)
Lecture/seminar
This presentation aims to investigate the motivation-behaviour-outcome dynamics of the Global South emerging powers’ approach toward the Liberal International Order (LIO). The rise of the Global South has a different connotational affiliation, such as ‘Rise of the Rest’ or ‘Revisionism’. Lately,…
Undergraduate Political Science Curriculum Design in Five Democracies
Lecture/seminar
Most published research on political science curriculum design focuses on the United States, leaving unclear whether findings generalise internationally. This paper analyses 218 programs at 140 universities across five English-speaking democracies: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the…
The Microfoundations of Global Public Opinion about Great Powers
Lecture/seminar
International opinion about the world’s great powers is increasingly framed as a central arena of soft-power competition. But we know relatively little about the global distribution and microfoundations of people’s attitudes towards great powers. In this paper, Professor Ben Goldsmith develops and…
Reimagining Public Institutions: From the National to the Global
Lecture/seminar
Public institutions worldwide face a crisis of legitimacy and effectiveness, yet they remain critical for addressing 21st-century challenges from energy transitions to AI governance. While most government structures have remained unchanged for decades, emerging innovations—from India's billion-…
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…