Revisiting ontology (and epistemology): Communicating with one’s methodological others (those who think about research in terms of variables) (Peregrine Schwartz-Shea)
Seminar
In a “new, updated version of KKV”—so says the blurb: “a classic text in guiding strong research design” presents “a unified approach to qualitative and quantitative research in political science” (https://gking.harvard.edu/kkv). The 1994 book, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in…
Brazil Update 2022: A conversation with experts on the brazilian elections and democracy
Webinar/Online
Please join the Australian Centre for Federalism for our inaugural Brazil Update! Co-sponsored by The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS), the Brazil Update will be a 60-minute live conversation with leading election and party experts on Brazil. We will present and…
Methods of Interpretive Policy Analysis: A Practice Perspective (Severine van Bommel)
Seminar
This chapter takes as its focus the actual practice, with respect to methods, of practitioners in Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA). In textbooks on interpretive methods, a lot of space and time are devoted to the differences in the scientific grounding that underpin the interpretive…
IACFS 2022 Conference “Fiscal Federalism and Territorial Inequalities” October 27-28, 2022, Bilbao, Spain
Conference
At this year’s International Association of Centres for Federal Studies Conference, fiscal federalism, territorial inequalities and the management of subnational public finances will be studied and debated. The Conference is open to the public with prior registration. Likewise, the event can be…
Taking ideology seriously: An interpretive account of ideological experience (Jason Blakely)
Seminar
This presentation begins by puzzling over various longstanding dilemmas in the study of ideology, attempting to briefly clarify why mainstream political science has mostly failed to offer an acceptable definition of ideology. In the second part, I draw on the work of those like Clifford Geertz,…
Democracy and Citizen Engagement: A panel discussion about Australia and Ireland
Panel discussion
Democracy is in danger. Not only are some political figures interested in dismantling democracy, but more and more citizens are dissatisfied with democracy, are sceptical about democracy’s value, and question whether it is the best way to run their country. How do citizens in Australia and Ireland…
Network Governance for Urban Resilience to Disasters
Seminar
Abstract: As the scale and intensity of disasters continue to increase, building and enhancing resilience to disasters has become a critical policy and governance issue. Of particular importance to this topic is urban infrastructure resilience because infrastructure systems support the continuity…