The Hillary Hypotheses: Testing Candidate Views of Loss
Seminar
The surprising election of Donald Trump to the Presidency calls for a comprehensive assessment of what motivated voters to opt for a controversial political novice rather than a provocative but experienced political veteran. Our study provides a novel exploration of the Trump victory through the…
New Kremlinology: The Challenge of Understanding and Studying the Russian Political Regime
Seminar
In a departure from accounts centred on the failure of democratisation in Russia, my argument begins from a basic assumption that the political regime of Vladimir Putin is a personalist regime in the making. How do regimes turn personalist? How do their rulers acquire and maintain personal…
How Preferences as Principles Explain Peace and Competition During Power Transitions
Seminar
Does crisis behaviour signal information about resolve or, aggressive long-term intentions, or is there too much uncertainty to signal anything at all? Studies of iterated crisis bargaining have found this question difficult to answer because they assume states draw their values for each issue…
Deliberating on a hot topic in the headlights: the Irish Citizens’ Assembly’s deliberations on abortion
Seminar
Empirical research on deliberative democracy has moved through a series of stages, the most recent of which has entailed the study of real-world deliberative mini-publics. Among the various forms of mini-publics citizens’ assemblies are seen as ‘democratically superior’, and as having potentially…
How do Political Decision-Making Processes Affect the Acceptability of Decisions? Results from an Experimental Scenario Survey
Seminar
This study examines what types of political decision-making processes affect the public’s acceptability of decisions by using the framework of procedural fairness theory. Procedural fairness theory has been studied in social psychology for more than 40 years. These studies show that people tend to…
Rethinking the security/politics relations via changing parliamentary practices on security’
Seminar
Based on his forthcoming book Security as Politics, Neal will argue that ‘security’ was once an anti-political ‘exception’ in liberal democracies - a ‘black box’ of secret intelligence and military decision making at the dark heart of the state - but has now become a normal part of professional…
Seminar on Gender-Sensitive Parliaments, European Parliament
Seminar
Johanna Kantola, together with MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen, has organised a seminar on gender-sensitive parliaments for the European Parliament in Brussels on 30 January 2019. It will bring leading academic experts, including GenParlNet's Sarah Childs and Josefina Erikson, into dialogue with the…