Bungee jumping on election night - A conversation with Antony Green
Lecture
Australia’s electoral system has a level of complexity and results reporting unknown overseas. Election night is like leaping into the void with little safety equipment apart from a thin stream of data from the Electoral Commission. Tonight, we hear reflections from ABC Chief Election Analyst…
CANCELLED: Conceptualising a case, casing a concept? Two faces of global citizenship (April Biccum, ANU)
Seminar
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLEDThis talk addresses the insights to be gained through a comparison of the use of a politically constitutive concept that delineates unlike but connected ‘cases’ of a concept-in-use. Global Citizenship is a concept with increasing currency. The talk compares two different…
Illiberal language, illiberal trends: Political speech and democratic decline
Seminar
Political leaders signal their commitment to democratic or authoritarian values through public speeches. Such signals can constitute a breach of democratic norms and indicate intent to undermine democratic institutions.By listening to what leaders say, we are able to detect a crisis of democracy…
Quantitative Text Analysis in Political Science
Workshop
In a political environment increasingly defined by rapid information dissemination, digital communication, and data proliferation, Quantitative Text Analysis (QTA) has emerged as an essential tool for political scientists. By enabling robust and systematic analysis of political texts such as…
Historical ethnography and the study of elites (Rod Rhodes, Southampton)
Seminar
In principle, it is possible to observe British elites in action, but such access is rare. Therefore, Rhodes’s study of court politics is not ethnographic in the conventional sense as it does not rely on participant observation or deep immersion. However, it still seeks to understand the webs of…
The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes
Seminar
Why do nations actively publicise previously overlooked disputes, and why does domestic mobilisation sometimes fail to lead to aggressive policy?The Art of State Persuasion explores China’s strategic use of state propaganda during crises, revealing why certain disputes are amplified while others…
Hopes and disappointments: assessing institutional change in the federal parliament since the Jenkins Review
Seminar
In November 2021 the Human Rights Commission presented its report called the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces (known as the Jenkins Review). The Review was a response to reports of misconduct towards staff, which brought a new focus on the role of parliamentarians as…