CANCELLED - Defending Education: A Democratic Role for Courts in Education Policy
Seminar
Please note all seminars have been cancelled to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading among our community via public and social events. On January 11th, 2007, the McCleary family from Jefferson County and the Venema family from Snohomish Country filed a lawsuit on behalf of their…
Institutional Design and Attitudinal Expectations: Linking Models of Judicial Appointments to Voting Expectations on National Apex Courts
Seminar
The Impact of Ideology on Judicial Behaviour on the High Court of Australia It is widely accepted outside of Australia that the voting behaviour of justices on apex courts is affected by the justice’s political preferences (or ideology). In numerous countries—including the United States, Canada,…
Global Terrorism Index 2019 ANU launch
Symposium
IEP's 2019 Global Terrorism Index presentation at the Australian National University, Canberra About this Event The Institute for Economics and Peace invites you to attend the presentation of the 2019 Global Terrorism Index at the Australian National University in Canberra. Speakers…
Inaccurate politicians. Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Five Countries
Seminar
One of the ways in which democratic representation potentially comes about is politicians following up on their perceptions of what the people want. A precondition is, naturally, that their public opinion perceptions are accurate. But are they? We tackle this question in a comparative study…
More than Unigrams Can Say: Detecting Meaningful Multi-word Expressions from Political Texts
Seminar
Almost universal among existing approaches to text mining is the adoption of the bag of words approach, counting each word as a feature without regard to grammar or order. This approach remains extremely useful despite being an obviously inaccurate model of how observed words are generated in…
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…
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…