Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests
Seminar
This talk is based on a book, Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests, that is forthcoming later this year with Cambridge University Press. It develops and tests a unified theory of people’s participation in collective action in politics: why they turn out to vote and why…
The Genesis of Conditional Grant Programs in Health Care Policy in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Do Constituent Units have a Say?
Seminar
Do conditional grants really centralize power in the hands of the federal government as most federalism scholars claim? In federations such as Australia, Canada, and the United States, federal grants earmarked for specific purposes have been identified to be the main instruments used by federal…
Exploring the Political Logic of Urban Bias: Consumer Food Taxes and Contentious Mobilization in the Global South, 1960-2010
Seminar
A pervasive and pernicious feature of public policy in developing countries is its tendency to display urban bias: to favor cities over the countryside in redistribution and the provision of public goods. This has been found to be particularly true for agricultural pricing policy, where governments…
Area studies and the new agenda for interpretive social science
Workshop
Workshop proposed for the Asian Studies Association of Australia 2018 conference.Area studies are innately interpretive. In their concern for language and its uses, for the historical construction of categories, the production of insider meanings, and the constitution of ideas through human…
Exploring the Challenges of Super-Diverse Populations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region
Symposium
The Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University is organising a symposium, Exploring the Challenges of Super-Diverse Populations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region, to be held at The Deck at Regatta Point on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th June 2018. The aim is…
Exploring the Challenges of Super-Diverse Populations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region
Symposium
The Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University is organising a symposium, Exploring the Challenges of Super-Diverse Populations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region, to be held at The Deck at Regatta Point on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th June 2018. The aim is…
Designing Experiments for Political Research, Some Practical Guidelines
Seminar
Why has it become popular among political scientists to design and administer randomized experiments? What are the advantages of experiments? What are the new experimental tools used in political science? What are the problems and limitations in randomized experiments? This seminar will address…