Voting Advice Applications: combining outreach and political science research
Seminar
Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) are online tools designed to provide voters with information about parties and candidates at the time of elections. A VAA user typically answers a battery of 30-50 questions which parties and candidates themselves responded to earlier, or which were coded by…
International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament
Seminar
The 2014 European Parliament elections were hailed as a “populist earthquake”, with parties like UKIP, the French Front National and the Danish People’s Party topping the polls. But what happened afterwards? Which parliamentary groups did they form and why? Based on interviews conducted over three…
The possibility of pragmatic critique
Lecture
Presented by Interpretation, Method and Critique (IMC) Network and Research Cluster The word today is that critique is in crisis. Somehow critique has become an obstacle to the types of progressive political and social change with which it once had an affinity. Erstwhile critical scholars now urge…
Opportunistic election timing, a complement or substitute for economic manipulation?
Seminar
Parliamentary governments often use their powers opportunistically to enhance their re-election chances. Yet, how they combine the two most commonly available strategies -- economic manipulation prior to elections and opportunistic election timing -- remains poorly understood. Do incumbents employ…
The Cost of Doing Politics? Analysing Violence and Harassment against Female Politicians
Seminar
Women are entering politics in record numbers around the world, pointing to significant progress in the recognition of women as full and equal actors in the political realm. Yet recent years have also witnessed a troubling rise in reports of assault, intimidation, and abuse directed at female…
Restoring Rights, Restoring Trust: Evidence that Reversing Felon Disenfranchisement Penalties Increases Both Trust and Cooperation with Government
Seminar
Felon disenfranchisement laws restrict the voting rights of more than 6 million US Citizens. Beyond the effects on voter turnout and electoral outcomes, how do these laws affect individual-level attitudes and behaviors? This paper presents the results from two field experiments embedded within…
Global Comparative Research: Constructing and Using Large-N Datasets in Political Science
Workshop
HDR workshop The analysis of quantitative datasets forms the empirical core of many doctoral dissertations in contemporary political science. However, constructing a dataset for analysis is a challenging and sometimes daunting task, particularly when done for the first time. This seminar is…